PRAYER PAUSE
Good Friday, 30 March 2018
HE WENT OUT CARRYING HIS OWN
CROSS
Enter
into the stillness of God within.
Reading: “carrying his own cross he
went out to the place of the skull…” (John 19:17)
Reflection. Luke tells us Simon of
Cyrene helped carry the cross and this has its meaning. But John sees Jesus alone
carrying the burden of humankind. War in
Damascus, migrants drowning at sea, people killed and displaced in the search
for minerals in the Congo and land in the Amazon; whereever there are suffering lonely and
oppressed people Jesus is there among them carrying his cross. That simple sign
– two crossed pieces of wood from the earth – stands as the emblem that recapitulates
the whole struggle of humanity. Today,
we take time to ponder and wonder. We
try to let this one event - in the whole
history of humanity – sink into our consciousness. God has visited his people
and lifted the weight of their sorrow and placed in on his own shoulders.
Prayer. Lord, we come before your
cross today in wonder and awe. Help us
to have some idea of your love for us.
And help us to reach out is response.
Aman
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