HE SAW AND HE BELIEVED

PRAYER MOMENT

Friday 27 December 2013

 HE SAW AND HE BELIEVED

Pause. “Be silent, be still, alone, empty before your God. Say nothing, ask nothing. Be silent. Be still, just wanting him with your whole being. Let his face shine on you – that is all.”

Reading. “(They) saw the linen cloths on the ground, and also the cloth that had been over his head … (John) saw and he believed.” (John 20:2-8)  

Reflection.  In the twelve days of Christmas (up to the Epiphany) we are given a whirl of bible texts. Today, the feast of St John, we have a post resurrection scene where John and Peter enter the tomb and see no body but just the cloths in which Jesus’ body was wrapped. We are told it was enough to lead John to belief. In a companion passage, from John’s letters (1 John 1:1-4) we read “we have seen with our own eyes … we have touched … the Word, who is life..” The disciples had an experience of Jesus while he was with them and, in John’s case, that was enough to arouse faith when they did not see him. We live our life without “seeing and touching” Jesus, but we believe.

Prayer. Father, as we celebrate these days of revelation when your Son came among us in the flesh, help us to have a deep faith and joy in his presence with us now, even when we do not see and touch him.. Amen.