Tuesday, 25 July 2017

IN PRAISE OF ILLUSTRIOUS ANCESTORS

PRAYER PAUSE        


Wednesday, 26 July 2017, Joachim and Anna


IN PRAISE OF ILLUSTRIOUS ANCESTORS


Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.


Reading: “Let us praise illustrious men, our ancestors in their successive generations.” (Ben Sirah 44:1…15)



Reflection. It is natural for grateful people to want to know more of the people they wish to celebrate. So, in honouring Mary, we wish to know her parents. We know nothing of them so we suggest the names they mght have had. After all they are the grand parents of Jesus. We celebrate our own grandparents and all they meant to us. They represent the rich tradition of our families and all the influences that formed us. While we have made our own decisons we also know we did not make them on a blank page. We drew on who we are as a result of generations before us. So we look back. But we do so to better look forward. All the efforts of our ancestors were made, consciously or unconsciously, to fulfil the great plan of God for us and all his people.


Prayer. Lord Jesus, we thank you for our ancestors. May we  be ever conscious of your will for the world; that we may fulfil the purpose written in our genes. Amen.
































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