PRAYER MOMENT
Friday
31 July 2015, St Ignatius of Loyola
THE
GLORY OF GOD
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Whatever you eat, then, or
drink, and whatever ekse you do, do it all for the glory of God.” (1 Cor. 10:31-11:1)
Reflection. I remember a phrase of a
fellow Jesuit about Ignatius, the founder of our Society of Jesus, that “he was
so total.” He was talking about the Spiritual Exercises that Ignatius wrote to
help people find their way through the whirl of experinces life presents to us,
but he also meant it as a comment on the whole of Ignatius’ own life. Ignatius
often spoke of “finding God in all things.” It is a constant attitude we take
to life, nourished by prayer, which comes to view literaly everything – work,
rest, sickness, health, wealth, poverty, relationships, solitude – in the light
of God and seeing him present and calling to us in the midst of all these
things.
Prayer. Lord, help us to pause and find
you both in the beauty of what attracts us and also in the obstacle that repels
us. Amen
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