Saturday 8 February 2025

Welcome to the Saturday Examen. Today is an opportunity to reflect on our time with the Lord during the past week. In some of the readings this week, we’ve imagined that we’ve been following Jesus as one of his disciples. We might also remember that during the week, Jesus has also been near to us, perhaps following us as a close friend. Try to picture the Lord with you now, as you begin to recall the week that has passed. What do you most want to share with him about your week? Imagine now, that you sit and listen together to a reminder of the readings from each day of the week. Notice what you remember naturally, and which words most move you today. Yet all these, though they were commended for their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had provided something better so that they would not, without us, be made perfect. She said, ‘If I but touch his clothes, I will be made well.’ ‘Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?’ And they took offence at him. ‘Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place. If any place will not welcome you and they refuse to hear you, as you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.’ Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have; for he has said, ‘I will never leave you or forsake you.’ Continuing to remain in the presence of Jesus, share the thoughts and feelings that are around for you, as one friend with another. Now simply sit together in quietness, waiting to see what comfort or words of encouragement the Lord has for you today. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.