Friday, 5 February 2016

A HEART TO UNDERSTAND

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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