Daily Retreat 01/10/07
2007 Jan 10 Wed
Heb 2: 14-18/ Ps 104(105): 1-2. 3-4. 6-7. 8-9/ Mk 1: 29-39
From today’s readings: “Because He Himself was tested through what He suffered, He is able to help those who are being tested.... The Lord remembers His covenant for ever.... Rising very early before dawn, He left and went off to a deserted place, where He prayed.”
Prayer On-the-Go
Particularly in Mark’s Gospel, Jesus is depicted as constantly on-the-go. His activity confirms Him, fittingly, as the truest “man with a mission.” And so, without a doubt, we Christians, in following Jesus, are to be animated by His divine sense of urgency, for every moment in our lives counts either for or against eternal salvation.
Yet the Lord’s frenzied pace was never untethered from the deepest commitment to prayer and meditation, which made it necessary for Him to rise very early before dawn in order to slip away to a place of solitude. Consequently, all of us Christians must personally commit to a similar priority of prayer, no matter what sacrifice that entails - even if that means, as it did for Jesus, getting up early to get the job done!
Heb 2: 14-18/ Ps 104(105): 1-2. 3-4. 6-7. 8-9/ Mk 1: 29-39
From today’s readings: “Because He Himself was tested through what He suffered, He is able to help those who are being tested.... The Lord remembers His covenant for ever.... Rising very early before dawn, He left and went off to a deserted place, where He prayed.”
Prayer On-the-Go
Particularly in Mark’s Gospel, Jesus is depicted as constantly on-the-go. His activity confirms Him, fittingly, as the truest “man with a mission.” And so, without a doubt, we Christians, in following Jesus, are to be animated by His divine sense of urgency, for every moment in our lives counts either for or against eternal salvation.
Yet the Lord’s frenzied pace was never untethered from the deepest commitment to prayer and meditation, which made it necessary for Him to rise very early before dawn in order to slip away to a place of solitude. Consequently, all of us Christians must personally commit to a similar priority of prayer, no matter what sacrifice that entails - even if that means, as it did for Jesus, getting up early to get the job done!
posted by FrPitstick | 1/09/2007
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