Thursday, 19 February 2015

TO BREAK UNJUST FETTERS

PRAYER MOMENT 


Friday 20 February 2015


 RTO BREAK UNJUST FETTES


Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.


Reading: “Fasting like yours will never make your voice heard … what pleases me is to break unjust fetters and undo the thongs of the yoke.” (Isaiah 58:1-9)


Reflection. The outward performance of religion produces the opposite effect from what true religion is all about. God invites us into an intimate bond with himself but men and women have often invented ways of paying lip service to this relationship. Even in Isaiah’s day people would go to the temple but then go home and oppress their workmen. In Christian times the same takes place. People go to church but treat oppressively those they have responsibility for. Our readings call us to harmony between what we believe and what we do in practice. There is a hypocrite lurking in all of us and it often shows itself. We believe one thing and do another. We say we love one another but in practice our love is restricted to those we choose to associate with.   


Prayer. Lord, teach us to be true to the gospel and to ‘the least of these brothers and sisters’  of yours. Help us undo the knots that hold us from reaching out to others. Amen.  
David Harold-Barry SJ











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