YOU WILL ALL BE SCATTERED

PRAYER PAUSE

Monday 14 May 2018, Matthias the apostle

YOU WILL ALL BE SCATTERED

Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading:  “Listen; the time will come – in fact it has already come - when you will all be scattered, each going his own way and leaving me alone.” (John 16:29-33)

Reflection. This is not the official reading for St Matthias but is for Monday of week seven of Easter.  Just at the moment when things were coming together and the disciples were beginning to understand, Jesus tells them they will be scattered.  It is as though there is a time for prepration for war  and then the war begins.  And many people enjoy a honeymoon, both in their married life or religious life or just their life generally, and suddenly things fall apart.  We are “scattered” – maybe physically but more often interiorly.  We find our solidity shaken, our assurance threatened and our concentration falters.  This notion of “scattering” comes up in the Jewish scriptures – the wandering in the desert and the exile in Babylon, but it also come in the Acts when the honeymoon at Jereusalem is over.  So it can be with us.

Prayer. Lord, give us the steadiness of the Holy Spirit to “gather us” when we feel scattered.  Amen