PRAYER PAUSE
Monday 30 October 2017
SHE
STRAIGHTENED UP
Pause. Enter into the stillness
of God within.
Reading: “’Woman, you are rid of
your infirmity’, and he laid his hands on her. And at once she straightened up,
and she glorified God.” (Luke 13:10-17)
Reflection. “The synagogue official was
indignant” that Jesus healed the woman on the Sabbath. He makes the ludicrous comment,“There
are six days when you can be healed. Come on one of them!” Jesus cuts through
all this hypocrisy and heals – as he has come to do everywhere and in all time.
What is striking is the sheer authority with which he speaks and acts. It is a
revelation of who he is. And people recognised it – beginnngh with woman who
had been “held bound these eighteen years.” The people were overjoyed but were
they able to carry that joy into their lives in an on-going conversion that
would change the world?
Prayer. Lord, as we rejoice in
recalling your words and deeds as described in the gospels, help us in our turn
to heal our world in the ways available to us. Amen.
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