TO CALL SINNERS

PRAYER PAUSE

Saturday 13 January 2018

TO CALL SINNERS

Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “It is not the healthy who need a doctor , but rthe sick. I did not come to call the virtuous, but sinners.” (Mark2:13-17)

Reflection. Leaven and the sword, unity and division: Jesus did not hesitate to use many images – even those that contradicted each other – to explain his mission. In calling his followers he chose respectable fishermen, a notorious zealot and a corrupt tax collector. The scribes and Phanisees complained that he was disrupted the established order by all this cutting across boundaries. He even wanted to bresak the boundary between the “virtuous” and “sinners”. There are no boundaries. We are both saints and sinners at the same time.

Prayer. Lord, help us to be confident and joyful, knowing that we are sinners but sinners on the way to salvation.  Amen