PRAYER MOMENT
Friday
12 June 2015, The Sacred Heart
WHO
LIFTS AN INFANT CLOSE AGAINST HIS CHEEK
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “I am like someone who lifts
an infant close against his cheek; stooping down to him I gave him his food.” (Hosea
11:1-9)
Reflection. This feast is comparatively
young (seventeenth century) and is a moment when we focus on the simple
experience of God’s love. His love for each person has been revealed fully in
the gospels, particularly in the account of the Passion, but it was indicated
long before in such passages as we have today from Hosea: the love of a parent
for their infant child. Paul’s prayer is that we can respond in some way to
this love and we may know “the breadth and the length, the height and the depth;
until, knowing the love of Christ, which is beyond all knowledge, you are filled
with the utter fullness of God.” (Eph 3;14-19). These stretching words describe
nothing and everything at the same time.
Prayer. Lord, help us to know your
love for each of us and for all your people so that we may grow together in
your love. Amen.
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