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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