Friday, 20 April 2018

ONE PLACE AFTER ANOTHER


PRAYER PAUSE


Saturday 21 April 2018, Anselm


ONE PLACE AFTER ANOTHER  


Enter into the stillness of God within.


Reading: “Peter visited one place after another and eventually came to the saints living down in Lydda.” (Acts 9:31-42)



Reflection. Luke in Acts is intent on mirroring the life of Jesus in the life of the early Church. Jesus travelled everywhere and now Peter is doing the same.  Jesus preached and backed up his teaching with signs, healing people and even raising them from the dead.  Peter here heals Aeneas and raises Dorcas from the dead.  It is Luke’s way of saying Jesus trusted his work to his followers.  They were to do what he did.  Yet it comes with a price.  In our gospel today (John 6:60-69) many of Jesus’ followers left him and Jesus turns to Peter and the eleven and says “will you also go?”  It must have been a testing moment. But Peter was able to to it with a huge act of trust: “To whom shall we go?”



Prayer. Lord, in moments of testing give us the strength to rise above ourselves. Amen 

































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