PRAYER PAUSE
Wednesday of Holy Week, 28
March 2018
ONE
OF YOU IS ABOUT TO BETRAY ME
Enter
into the stillness of God within.
Reading: “When evening came he was
at table with the twelve disciples. And while they were eating he said, ‘I tell
you solemnly, one of you is about to betray me.’ They were greatly distressed
...” (Matthw 26:14-25)
Reflection. When we think of the
passion, we think of the physical torture and the suffering it brought. We also
ponder the mental anguish of suffering alone with almost no one having an idea
what is going on. The reading today
describes Judas’ betrayal. He was “one
of the twelve,” the closest followers, and he turns on Jesus. Peter’s denials
were not so deliberately planned but they too hurt Jesus immensely. In the end
they all fled. He stood alone. We had a Passion Play yesterday and the one
who played Jesus stood for some moments alone surrounded by hostility. Our accompanying Isaiah reading speaks of him
“setting his face like flint.”
Prayer. Lord, we want to accompany
you on this awful journey. We want to
enter into your physical and mental anguish.
We want to do this through the way we live. We believe this is the way - the way to life.
Amen
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