PRAYER PAUSE
Saturday 7
May 2016
ASK AND YOU
WILL RECEIVE
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Ask and you will receive, and so
your joy will be complete.” (John 16:23-28)
Reflection. We learn to express our needs early.
There is an ache that prompts us to reach out for what we want. It never stops.
We ask questions at school and, like Oliver Twist, we ask for more. Bartimaeus
asked for his sight insistently. Sometimes we don’t know what we want. It’s a blur.
Ignatius of Loyola insists we get in touch with our real desires. “What do you
want? What are you looking for?” It is Jesus’ question to Mary Magdalene in the
garden. She is looking for a dead body. And what does she find/ “Your joy will
be complete.”
Prayer. Lord, we do ask for what we want;
what is deepest within us. May we know you and come to you now and always. Amen
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