PRAYER MOMENT
Wednesday
22 July 2015, Mary Magdalene
HIM
WHOM MY HEART LOVES
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: The watchmen came upon me
on my rounds in the city: “Have you seen him whom my heart loves?” Scarely had
I passed them than I found him whom my heart loves. (Song of Songs 3:1-4)
Reflection. We have one picture of Mary
of Magdala: a broken woman who met Jesus and was not just healed but became a
passionate lover who seeks him, against all the odds, even in an empty tomb.
Mary embodies the longing of the wonderful Song of Songs and calls us to love
with that same longing and passion. Mention of passionate loving suggests the
sexual embrace but, can we say, it is that - but goes beyond it to something even
deeper in a human being: the desire for union which even sexual union does not
satisfy. Mary’s love, if we are to follow the meagre hints scripture gives us,
was for a union which goes beyond any words we can find but which is still
human, because this is our human capacity for the divine, The fully human
person is divine.
Prayer. Lord, make us eager with
longing and passion to reach out to your people in their suffering. Amen.
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