Monday, 14 May 2018

THE HOUR HAS COME


PRAYER PAUSE


Tuesday 15 May 2018


THE HOUR HAS COME


Enter into the stillness of God within.


Reading:  “Father, the hour has come: glorify your Son so that your Son may glorify you.” (John 17:1-12)



Reflection. Jesus used to speak about “his hour” and he would say “it has not yet come.”  But now there is a finality about his words; “the hour has come.”  John Bradburne, the servant of the people living with leprosy at Mutemwa in Zimbabwe, used, as a child, to hate going to school. At the end of the holidays “the hour had come”!  Decisive momenmts – big and small – come on us in life: starting a profession, a new job, married life, a new continent, etc,.  They are moemnts that challenge us and define us.  The defining moment for Jesus and for the world was his death and resurrection.  Death we are familiar with.  We have seen it often enough.  But resurrection?   We have no idea.  But we can have a sense that it is a breakthrough, an overcoming of all those limitations that cling to us each day.


Prayer. Lord, give us a lively hope in your victory over death and limitation.  May we share your joy in “overcoming” all that holds us down.  Amen 



































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