PRAYER MOMENT
Saturday 6
February 2016, Paul Miki & Co (Japan), Martin Thomas & Co (Musami)
A HEART TO
UNDERSTAND
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Give your servant a heart to
understand how to discern between good and evil.” (I Kings 3:4-13)
Reflection. Solomon prays for wisdom and in today’s
gospel (Mark 6 30ff) “large crowds” seek Jesus in their thirst for
understanding. The best of our writers and filmmakers mirror back to us this search
and the joy of life is to seek true wisdom. I knew the Jesuits who, with the sisters,
were lined up on this day in 1977 at Musami in Zimbabwe and shot. You would not
notice much that was extra special about them. They were ordinary like the rest
of us but on that day their search for wisdom found them at the end of the
barrel of a gun. As with Paul Miki and Co, in 1597 Japan, their lives suddenly exploded
into eternity.
Prayer. Teach us, Lord, the wisdom that
leads us to give our lives for others.. Amen.
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