PRAYER MOMENT
Friday
17 January 2014
AN INTERRUPTION
Pause. Imagine
the place: A house in Capernaum with a tiled roof.
Reading. The
stripped the roof over the place where Jesus was and lowered the stretcher on
which the paralytic lay (Mark 2:1-12)
Reflection. We speak
of Jesus coming into the world in our flesh as a “breaking in” of the reign of
God. Well, here we have another sort of breaking in; some men removing the roof
tiles of a house so as to get a paralysed man to Jesus. “Seeing their faith”
Jesus acts. It is a dramatic story. No wonder the people were “all astounded.” The
event shows beautifully the heightened action and response that filled the days
of Jesus’ mission. As we read such passages we are invited to live our life in the
same awareness of God’s action now in our time, his breaking into our world and
the invitation to us to “break in” to his.
Prayer. God, our
Father, you sent your Son to “interrupt” our world and call us to new life in Jesus.
Help us to welcome him in the people we meet and in all the events of our day.
Amen.
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