Friday, 22 May 2015

FOLLOW ME?

PRAYER MOMENT 


Saturday 23 May 2015


FOLLOW ME?


Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.


Reading: “Jesus answered, ‘If I want him to stay behind until I come, what does it matter to you? You are to follow me.’” (John 21:20-25)


Reflection. Eastertide ends with Jesus in Jerusalem about to undergo his passiona and Paul in Rome about to endur his. I have just been reading of the North American martyrs of the seventeenth century and the torments they endured before their deaths.We end Easter time on a high but we remind ourselves that it always means that journey to the cross. There is always this weight on our shoulders as followers of Jesus and I am thinking of one who is day in day out caring for her invalided husband who constantly suffers. When Isaac Jogues was sent back to the land of the Iroquoi, who had already tortured him, he went with dread but he knew deep down this was what he “wished for and should have prized above all else.”

     
Prayer. Lord, as we leave Eastertide, strengthen us for our journey and help us know that our difficulties and trials are our following of you. Amen.
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