Wednesday, 30 September 2015

LIKE LITTLE CHILDREN

PRAYER MOMENT  


Thursday 1 October 2015, St Theresa of the Child Jesus


LIKE LITTLE CHILDREN


Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.


Reading: “I tell you solemnly, unless you change and become like little children … .” (Matthew 18:1-4)


Reflection. Perhaps we have got used to this phrase of Jesus about becoming “like little children” and it begins to lose its bite for us. Perhaps the person of Theresa of Lisieux loses her attraction for us. After all she spent her whole life in a convent behind walls, never going out and meeting people.. Yet her battle to be faithful to what it was to be human was as real, and more real, than that of anyone in the busy world. In her early years she felt God was close. Later she felt a great wall separated her from him. Everything was dark for her. Her complete trust in God at that time made her great so much so that a few years after her death she was honoured by the Church with title of Saint.


Prayer. Lord, help us to have that quality of trust at a deep level which Theresa of Lisieux lived in her short life. Amen.




















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