PRAYER MOMENT
Monday
22 December 2014
MY
SPIRIT EXULTS
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “My soul proclaims the
greatness of the Lord and my spirit exults in God my Saviour.” (Luke 1:46-56)
Reflection. We take a moment to exult in
what is happening. There are songs and psalms of joy in the Old Testament, as
when Hannah gives birth to Samuel. And here in the New there are similar
canticles in the mouths of Mary Zechariah and Simeon. They are moments when we
stand back and realise what is really happening; the actual narrative ceases
for a moment, the film freezes, and we stop to say, ‘What is happening is
wonderful. This is great!’ God is intervening and opening the door for men and women
so that they can achieve what they are striving for all this time. Justice and
peace are on their way, not as miraculous acts of God which have no
realationship with human effort but as the fruit and harvest of all the longing
and striving of people everywhere. This is what we are living each day and this
is why we take a moment to rejoice.
Prayer. My soul proclaims the
greatness of the Lord and my spirit exults in God my Saviour. Amen.
David Harold-Barry SJ
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