PRAYER PAUSE
Friday 18 August 2017, Alberto
Hurtado
THE LEAST OF
MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Just as you did it to one of these,
the least of my brothers and sisters, you did it to me” (Matthew 25:31-40)
Reflection. Alberto Hurtado was a Jesuit priest
who died in 1952, aged 51.What was extraordinary about him was his
“multi-tasking” and the integrity with which he approached those tasks: labour
issues, homeless people, retreats, guidance one to one, writing books and
editing a magazine. “Humility consists in inserting yourself in your right
place,” he wrote, “… and recognizing continually my absolute dependence on
Him…. The greater the task the smaller one feels. Better to have the humility to
begin great tasks with the danger of failing than to reduce one’s goal out of
pride in order to guarantee success.”
Prayer. Lord, give us the magnaminity of
St Alberto to insert ourselves in our right place and, without fear, do the
tasks you ask us to do. Amen.
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