Thursday, 11 June 2015

WHO LIFTS AN INFANT CLOSE AGAINST HIS CHEEK

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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