Marist Association Daily Prayer

Let us always remember that

we are in the holy presence of God

May God continue to live in our hearts

In the name of the Father,

Son and Holy Spirit

Amen

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  • Intention of the Day
  • Today's Gospel
  • Breaking Open the Word
  • Marist Source
  • Reflection
  • Meditation
  • Call to Action
  • Closing Prayer

Intention of the Day

For Brothers in leadership positions.
Marists at John Therry Catholic College, Rosemeadow, NSW

For Brothers in leadership positions.
Marists at John Therry Catholic College, Rosemeadow, NSW

Today's Gospel

Immediately the man became well.

John 5:1-3,5-16
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John 5:1-3,5-16

There was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now at the Sheep Pool in Jerusalem there is a building, called Bethzatha in Hebrew, consisting of five porticos; and under these were crowds of sick people – blind, lame, paralysed – waiting for the water to move. One man there had an illness which had lasted thirty-eight years, and when Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had been in this condition for a long time, he said, ‘Do you want to be well again?’ ‘Sir,’ replied the sick man ‘I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is disturbed; and while I am still on the way, someone else gets there before me.’ Jesus said, ‘Get up, pick up your sleeping-mat and walk.’ The man was cured at once, and he picked up his mat and walked away.
Now that day happened to be the sabbath, so the Jews said to the man who had been cured, ‘It is the sabbath; you are not allowed to carry your sleeping-mat.’ He replied, ‘But the man who cured me told me, “Pick up your mat and walk.”’ They asked, ‘Who is the man who said to you, “Pick up your mat and walk”?’ The man had no idea who it was, since Jesus had disappeared into the crowd that filled the place. After a while Jesus met him in the Temple and said, ‘Now you are well again, be sure not to sin any more, or something worse may happen to you.’ The man went back and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured him. It was because he did things like this on the sabbath that the Jews began to persecute Jesus.

The Gospel of the Lord.

Breaking Open The Word

More Questions Than Answers

Taken from: Give Us This Day
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Taken from: Give Us This Day

Ours are unstable times. Ours is a world full of questions.
What changes will artificial intelligence bring to our biological lives? Can we be cured of our addiction to fossil fuels in time to soothe our strained planet? What balm can still the frenzy bursting forth in our political life? Why are we so often so afraid?
Ours are unstable times, full of questions. Nothing seems able to stand still, grow solid, provide footing. It is difficult to stand in a world so full of questions. So, it’s no wonder, in such a quicksand world, that what we want from Jesus is not more questions. Anything but more questions. Give us answers, we beg. Give us some stable ground upon which to stand.
But then there he is, the stubborn one, standing before us as we lie in the portico near the Sheep Gate, not so far from the not-yet-stirred-up waters of the pool. There he is asking us another question. Do you want to be well?
In the Gospel of John, every encounter is revelatory; that is, it reveals where we stand regarding Jesus. And often it does so with a question: What do you seek? Do you believe in the Son of Man? Simon, son of John, do you love me?
It’s understandable that, in times like ours, what we want are answers. But Jesus, the great and just and merciful judge of all creation, remains the questioner. And just as it was with the man ill for thirty-eight years, so it is for us today: it is with our lives that we must answer his questions.

Fr. Paddy Gilger

Patrick Gilger, SJ, is assistant professor of sociology at Loyola University Chicago and contributing editor for culture at America Media.

For Brothers in leadership positions.
Marists at John Therry Catholic College, Rosemeadow, NSW

Marist Source

We embrace the most confronting questions of our culture and age, written as they are so poignantly in the lives of the outcasts and the hopeless young people we meet in our ministry.

#IFMC 209

For Brothers in leadership positions.
Marists at John Therry Catholic College, Rosemeadow, NSW

To Ponder

The man went back and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured him....

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Closing Prayer

All Loving God

Cultivate in us a spirituality that flows out of Marian simplicity, humility and modesty.

Release in us wellsprings of refreshment, inspiration and excitement for your work in which we share.

Help us set our gaze on those people and places most in need of Christlife,

Impel us to respond together,

And lead us to be in communion with one another, and with you.

Like Mary, we listen for your invitation,

Like Mary, we set out joyfully and in haste to the hill country of the lives of young people,

Like Mary, we build communities in ways that are Christ-centred.

All Loving God, come and live in our hearts.

 

 Amen