TERROR FROM EVERY SIDE

PRAYER MOMENT

Friday 18 March 2016   

TERROR FROM EVERY SIDE

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “’Terror from every side!’ Denounce him! Let us denounce him”!’ All those who used to be my friends watch for my downfall.” (Jeremiah 20:10-13)

Reflection. Mark’s account of Gethsemane describes the terror Jesus felt as he approached his passion. We try to enter into what it must have been like. And there was the betrayal, the flight of friends, too to contend with. As we approach Holy Week we take time to enter deeply into what it must have been like. At the same time it is the suffering of people today. The cries of women in Syria as their children die and their husbands disappear. The ache of the homeless in our cities. The trafficked and those enslaved by drugs. The loneliness of the handicapped and the old. There is so much pain.  

Prayer. Lord, may we enter deeply into your pain which is also our pain. Let us weep for ourselves and for our children. May we find healing in you! Amen