PRAYER PAUSE
Friday 22 June 2018, Sts
John Fisher and Thomas More
WHERE
YOUR TREASURE IS
Enter
into the stillness of God within.
Reading: “For where your treasure is, there will your
heart be also.” (Matthew 6:19-23)
Reflection. Today we have two sayings
of Jesus: this one and the one about the lamp of the body. They both speak of the basic orientation of
my life which he calls my treasure. This is what I operate out of. It provides me with my spontaneous
reactions. It is where my heart is. We
celebrate Thomas More today, the English prime minister whose “teasure” was his
own conscience. For most of his
contemporaries, faced with the dilemma created by King Henry’s demands, their “treasure”
was a quiet life and they went along with the king to secure this. But More valued a quiet conscience above a
quiet life and was prepared to take the consequence, which in his and Fisher’s
case led to the scaffold.
Prayer. Lord, help us listen to our
deepest self, the desires of our heart that give us true peace and joy. Amen
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