PRAYER MOMENT
Saturday 14 November
2015
WHEN
PEACEFUL SILENCE LAY
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “When peaceful silence lay over all,
and night had run half of her swift course, down from the heavens, from the
royal throne, leapt your all powerful word; into the heart of a doomed land the
stern warrior came.” (Wisdom 18:14-16)
Reflection. This is an astonishing prediction on
the threshold of the New Testament. “The all-powerful word” is the description
John uses as he opens his gospel, “the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.”
How the author of Wisdom could come up with such a statement is amazing. It
simply shows how charged creation has always been with expectations of divine intervention
to bring it to fulfilment. This continues today: God is active among us
everywhere and the “Joy of the Gospel” (Pope Francis) is to let that word flow
through us.
Prayer. Lord, may your all-powerful word be
welcomed by men and women everywhere as we strive to build a new earth. Amen.
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