PRAYER MOMENT
Saturday
20 December 2014
NO
END
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “The Lord God will give him
the throne of his ancestor David; he will rule over the House of Jacob for ever
and his reign will have no end.” (Luke 1:26-38)
Reflection. The angel Gariel’s message
to Mary describes the reign of the Messiah as ‘for ever,’ which raises our mind
above the time frames we can handle. But the phrase ‘no end’ can also do the
same for our space frame. It is not simply that the Lord knows and is with us
in every moment of our day but he is present in every place. I was thinking of
this yesterday in the doctor’ waiting room. Each person moving in and out, each
nurse and all the files and computers – all are part of the ‘reign’ of God.
Everything is charged with ‘God’s grandeur’ as the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins
wrote. People may not advert to it but God is present there in our surgeries
and hospitals, schools and universities, in every place, everywhere. He has
come to ‘be with us.’ Everywher is ‘a sacred place.’
Prayer. Lord, Emmanuel, God with us,
raise our minds and hearts to know your presence everwhere and to find you n
all things. Amen.
David Harold-Barry SJ
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