TREADING ON ONE ANOTHER

PRAYER PAUSE

Friday 19 October 2018, The North American Martyrs

TREADING ON ONE ANOTHER

Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading ”The people were gathering in their thousands so that they were treading on one another.’” (Luke 12:1-7)

Reflection. The people were attracted to Jesus and came in large numbers to see him and hear him.  But he was not impressed.  He warns them sharply about the leaven of the Pharisees who enjoyed the honour of the people and wanted an external conformity to law and custom.  The Pharisees wanted a quiet world order where everything would go along nicely and their comfort would not be disturbed.  But Jesus had come to harrow the world and shake it up so that it attains its real purpose.  It would involve contradiction, suffering and death. The Pharisees wated none of this.  The North American martyrs, and every follower of jesus who triesd to live in his spirit, does,

Prayer. Lord, may we understand the fruitfulness hidden in our sufferings and willingly accept them when we have done all we can do to avoid them. Amen.