Opening Prayer:
Come Lord Jesus Christ, fill our hearts with the light of your Spirit, so that by following you on your final journey, we may come to know the price of our Redemption and share in the fruits of your Passion, Death and Resurrection. For the glory of you who lives and reigns for ever and ever we pray. Amen.
Luke 23: 27-31
A large crowd of people followed Jesus, including many women who mourned and lamented him. Jesus turned to them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep instead for yourselves and for your children, for indeed, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed.' At that time, people will say to the mountains, ‘Fall upon us!' and to the hills, ‘Cover us!' for if these things are done when the wood is green what will happen when it is dry?"
Find a quiet space. . . One with no one around; a space where the gravity of this text can speak to you in the places that you fill on Maundy Thursday. . . Now sit in silence with this text in your heart. Where does your attention rest?
Reflection Question
What does the traumatic grief expressed in this passage say to you?
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