PRAYER PAUSE
Monday 3 October 2016
MOVED WITH
COMPASSION
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “But a Samaritan traveller who came
upon him was moved with compassion when he saw him.” (Luke10:25-37)
Reflection. Pope Francis hopes that declaring a
Year of Mercy will stir our hearts to compassion. It is much needed. Yesterday
I visited a crowded jail where inmates cannot even lie down to sleep at night
for lack of room. Yet the government spends vast sums on “priorities.” A
scripture scholar once told me the Greek word for compassion means a turning
upside down of our insides so that we reach out to a person in pain. “Strategic
plans” inoculate us from seeing the institutional suffering at our door and
kicks it down the road for another day.
Prayer. Lord, where
is our compassion in the midst of so much suffering? Help us to let our hearts
be moved so that we reach out to those in pain. Amen
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