SUBMITTED SO HUMBLY

PRAYER MOMENT  

Tuesday 15 September 2015, Our Lady of Sorrows

SUBMITTED SO HUMBLY

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “He submitted so humbly that his prayer was heard.” (Hebrews 5:7-9)

Reflection. The day after the Triumph of the Cross we remember the cost in suffering to Mary, the one who was closest to Jesus in his whole life on earth. The words ‘submission’ and ‘surrender’ sound like words of weakness and defeat in our everyday speech. Yet when we look into our emotional history we sense that to hold onto bitterness and resentment - to fail to accept a situation – can itself be a defeat. When we think of the promises made to her we see that Mary had good grounds for feeling ‘let down’ and she could have become bitter at her fate. But she went against such thoughts. She submitted, surrendered. “Your will be done.” This was her victory.

Prayer. Lord, give us the courage to accept the sorrows and ‘defeats’ of life as Mary did and to come through them to our victory.  Amen.