PRAYER PAUSE
Monday 14 August 2017, Maxamilian
Kolbe
A GREAT
SADNESS
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “And a great sadness came over them.”
(Matthew 17:22-27)
Reflection. Our first reading today is from
Deuteronomy 10:12-22, where Moses is hammering home his message to the people
that they are a chosen race called by God to nurture the message that would one
day save the whole world. He coaxes them and sweetens the message. Then in the
gospel, Jesus, the new Moses, also has a message but it is to tell his
disciples for the third time that the Son of Man will suffer. They begin to
grasp something of what this means and a “great sadness comes over them.” Both
the promise and the cost hold true still for us today. Joyfully we try to
integrate the two into our daily lives.
Prayer. Lord Jesus, console us with your
promises and strengthen us in our struggles. Amen.
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