Monday, 28 March 2016

CUT TO THE HEART

PRAYER MOMENT


Easter Tuesday 29 March 2016   


CUT TO THE HEART


Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.


Reading: “Hearing this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the apostles, ‘What must we do brothers?’ ‘You must repent’, Peter answered.” (Acts 2:36-41)


Reflection. The word for ‘repent’ here, metanoesate, literally means ‘go beyond your present way of thinking.’ The resurrection, the third and final (after the incarnation and death) world transforming event, had utterly shaken the apostles and disciples. They had a completely new understanding and now it was time to proclaim this vision to the world. They had an immediate impact and, we are told, thousands took note and received baptism. We live in hard bitten times but we can try, these days, to relive what it must have been like then and discover anew where it leads us now.    


Prayer. Lord, may we too be ‘cut to the heart’ as we realise the impact on our world today of your rising from the dead. Amen





























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