PRAYER MOMENT
Saturday 14 September 2013
LIFTED UP
Pause. In our
families, is there a moment when we can take ten minutes amidst the cooking and
eating in the evening, the TV and the home work, when we can gather and be still
in the presence of our God?
Reading. “The Son
of Man must be lifted up … for God sent his Son into the world not to condemn
the world, but so that through him the world might be saved.” (John 3:13-17)
Reflection. Stat crux dum volvitur orbis. So goes
the motto of the Carthusians, “The cross stands (firm and immovable) while the earth
revolves on its axis (evolving, blundering and progressing). Forty days after
the church celebrates the Transfiguration, the momentary revelation of glory on
the mountain, she now celebrates the lifting up of the cross on another
mountain, Calvary. This day calls us to remember the solid eternal purpose of
God, reaching through the ages, to crown the long evolution of humankind from its
earliest origins to its final glorious purpose in Christ. We call it “salvation.”
It is a source of endless gratitude: we could – and people have – so easily
taken a wrong turn.
Prayer. God our Lord,
as we look up to the Cross of Jesus on this day, a cross which hangs in our
homes and in our hearts, teach us to be filled with thanks for the way you have
intervened in each of our lives to save us. Amen
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