REMAIN IN MY LOVE

PRAYER MOMENT 

Thursday 7 May 2015

REMAIN IN MY LOVE

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. If you keep my commandments  you will remain in my love.” (John 15:9-11)

Reflection. The word ‘remain’ here is the same word as is used in John chapter one when the disciples ask Jesus, “where do you live (remain, stay)?” And he says, “come and see.” We have ‘come and seen’ through our following of the gospel and we come to the point where we realise that living, or remaining or staying, are all words trying to express the union with God that Jesus is offering his disciples and us. When Francis Xavier was off the coast of Cape Comorin in the “worst storm I have ever experienced” he commended himself to God, to Mary and all the saints, and felt “happier in the thick of the storm than afterwards when delivered from it.” That is a key experience: deep consolation in the experience of “living in God” in the midst of our journey – with all its storms - in this life.

Prayer. Lord, you invite us to “remain in me.” Help us to do that by keeping your commands, especially your command to “love one another.” Amen.

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