MY SOUL’S DELIGHT

PRAYER PAUSE

Monday 10 April 2017

MY SOUL’S DELIGHT

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom my soul delights.” (Isaiah 42 1-7)

Reflection. The “servant” songs in Isaiah, such as this one, speak of Israel, weak and broken as it was. The songs will narrow down in their interpretation to Jesus himself: the suffering servant. Then they will widen out again to include all the people of God who strive to bring “true justice” to the nations, who do not “waver” in their pursuit of truth for all people for whom they are a “covenant” and who “open the eyes of all. It is the mission of the Church Jesus founded and it is our mssion, each one of us in our own way.

Prayer. Lord, help us, this Holy Week, to enter ever more deeply into the mission you give to each of us to bring true justice to the nation.  Amen.