Monday, 16 February 2015

THE SOUND OF BLOOD

PRAYER MOMENT 


Monday 16 February 2015


 THE SOUND OF BLOOD


Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.


Reading: “Listen to the sound of your brother’s blood, crying out to me from the ground.” (Genesis 4:1-15)


Reflection. What a metaphor! The sound of blood. It reverberates through Macbeth. You sense and ‘hear’ the evil of taking another  person’s life. The great commandment of Jesus was ‘love one another as I have loved you.’ And here is the great refusal to love which leads to murder. It begins in jealousy, a feeling that rises up in us from our earliet years when we perceive our sibling is treated better than we are. We know these feelings and hopefully we learn to deal with them. But history and today’s media is full of accounts where people do not deal with them. Drugs, religious fundamentalism, migration and trafficking – all give rise to treating human life as though it were nothing. The sounds of death reach to heaven.


Prayer. Lord, inspire all those who work to build respect for human rights, especially the right to life. Help us to be people of peace so that the ‘sound’ of our peace may confront the sound of blood. Amen.  
David Harold-Barry SJ











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