PRAYER MOMENT
Thursday
11 June 2015, St Barnabas
HE
WAS A GOOD MAN
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Barnabas could see for
hmself that God had given them grace, and this pleased hum, and he urged them
all to remain faithful to the Lord with heartfelt devotion; for he was a good
man, filled with with the Holy Spirit and with faith.” (Acts 11;21-26, 13;1-3)
Reflection. Oscar Romero has now been
officially recognised as a “good man” by the Church and is now “blessed.” From
Barnabas in the small island of Cyprus in the first century to Romero in the
small country of El Salvador (The Saviour) in the last, we celebrate this
continual line of good men and women who have “remained faithful” even to dying
for the faith. “God gave them grace” and we constantly read how the Lord opened
the hearts of the early Christians to receive the message of the apostles. The
Lord is ever wanting to reach out to his people but he needs that spark that
comes from the witness of our lives and words to get the process going.
Prayer. Lord, you filled Barnabas
and Oscar Romero with faith and the Holy Spirit; help us today to witness to
you by our lives and words. Amen.
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