PRAYER PAUSE
Thursday 4 October 2018, Francis
f Assissi
VERY
NEAR.
Enter
into the stillness of God within.
Reading ”Cure those in it who are
sick and say, ‘the kingdom of God is very mear to you’”(Luke 10:-12)
Reflection. Francis of Assissi made a
huge impact on his contemporaries as shocked them into realising the force of these
words of Jesus we read today. John Bradburne did something similar in our own
time.. Francis did not tell the people of his time something new. It was all there already in the revelation of
the gospels. But he lived it in such a
vivid way that they sat up and connected the words they had often heard with
the experience of seeing someone living these words. It amazed them. And today’s celebration of Francis invites us
to share that amazement and to live that nearness of the kingdom.
Prayer. Lord, may we have a deep sense of
the nearness of the kingdom. Amen.
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