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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