PRAYER PAUSE
Tuesday 15 August 2017,The Assumption
of Mary
BLESSED IS
SHE WHO BELIEVED
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Blessed is she who believed that
the promise made to her by the Lord would be fulflled.” (Luke 1:39-56)
Reflection. Our readings today from Revelations (11:19,
12:1-6,10) and 1 Corinthians (15:20-26) are in sharp contrast to the gospel.
They give an exalted picture of “a woman clothed in the sun” who “gives birth
to one who will rule the nations” and will be “the first fruits” after Christ.”
The gospel on the other hand speaks of Mary settting out in haste to the hill
country to meet her cousin - an ordinary
human event any of us might do. And yet the two sides of the contrast are
intimately linked. The latter flows into the former. Our lives look to what “the
eye has not seen nor has it entered into the heart of man to conceive what God
has prepared for those who love him.”
Prayer. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord
is with you … pray for us now and at the hour... Amen.
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