Friday, 16 February 2018

YOUR LIGHT WILL RISE


PRAYER PAUSE  


Saturday 17 February 2018


YOUR LIGHT WILL RISE


Enter into the stillness of God within.


Reading: “If you give your bread to the hungry and relief to the appressed, your light will rse in the darkness and your shadows become like noon.” (Isaiah 58:9-14)




Reflection. The following of Jesus is not a series of techniques and rules and we should never wrap up Lent simply in a list of dos and don’ts. Lent is about the heart. The gospel reading today is the calling of Matthew (Luke 5:27-32). In Caravaggio’s picture, painted in 1600, Peter is on the right trying to dissuade Jesus from calling him. But Jesus’s hand passes by Peter and his finger points straight at Matthew who is astonished. Light shoots across the picure from Jesus and illuminates Matthew. It is as though Jesus cuts through all the money grabbing squalid world of Matthew and his friends and goes straight to his heart. We know Matthew’s response: he rises from his tax table, leaves everything and devotes all his being to the following of the Lord. His “shadows become like noon.”     


Prayer. Lord, help us this Lent to go to the heart of the matter. Help us to turn our whole being towards you. Amen.





































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