PRAYER MOMENT
Friday
4 September 2015
THE
IMAGE OF THE UNSEEN GOD
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Christ Jesus is the image
of the unseen God and the first born of all creation, for in him were created
all things in heaven and on earth.” (Colossins 1:15-20)
Reflection. This is an astonishing
statement for a community only a few decades old. It was not so long since they
were saying, “Who is this?” “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” The gospels
had described his humiliation and death as a criminal. And now he is seen as
the centre, the pivot, the head, of all creation in the heavens – and we know a
good deal more about them today – and the earth. For Fr Pedro Arrupe, Jesus meant
“everything” and over the centuries Christian writers have seen him as the
indispensable way to life. It is good to pause for a moment in wonder at the
expansion of Paul’s thought about the place of Jesus of Nazareth in the whole
evolution of the cosmos.
Prayer. Lord, may we see you in all
things and all things in you, for you are the source and goal of all. Amen.
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