16 January 2019
HE WENT TO A LONELY PLACE AND PRAYED THERE. (Mark 1:29-39)
Can we have any idea of what must have happened when Jesus went
off to a quiet place and prayed? All we
can say is there was deep communion with the Father in which Jesus learnt how
to fulfil his mission. In the fourteenth century Julian of Norwich, probably a disabled
person of Jewish origin, withdrew to a cell near the Cathedral and spent her
life in prayer. She shares with us what
she was shown and the overwhelming message is of comfort and consolation for
her “even Christians.” This comfort
includes meditations on the Passion as the source of our confidence. Jesus learnt that he had to confront evil at
its root and it would cost him great suffering.
This confrontation and suffering continues each day on our screens and
in our papers. There is no escaping it
but in the end, Julian says, “all will be well, and all manner of thing will be
well.”
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