Faith Solidarity Day

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The aim of Faith Solidarity Day is that in Faith we show our Solidarity for the world and ourselves by having some time during a day once a week set aside to pray and reflect.

To show solidarity with each other by having a common prayer/reflection once a week on a Tuesday.
To show solidarity with those with whom we work and live in our common struggle in life, celebrating the good things, asking for help with the difficult things.
To celebrate the unity and diversity that is Viatores Christi, at all times remembering the family of the association.
To show in a practical way our concern for the world in which we live.schristi.com

Prayers & Reflections for

July - August 2010

Choice of Readings/Reflections

Thanks to Angela Temple for this issue of Faith Solidarity. Please send your own suggestions to the VC office or e-mail them to Colette@viatoreschristi.com

Tuesday 27th July 2010

Luke 4:16-20
When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, as was his custom.. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written; ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour’.

And he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.

In this reading Luke is telling his people what evangelisation is about - (remember this is the year of evangelization) It might help us to understand the meaning of Jesus mission – it is surely a message for our time.

Tuesday 3rd August 2010

Luke Ch 19: 4 – 10

“So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way. When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, ‘Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today. So he hurried down and was happy to welcome Him. All who saw it began to grumble and said, ‘He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner’. Zaccheaus stood there and said to the Lord, Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much’. Then Jesus said to him. ‘Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.”

Zacchaeus was an independent tax collector and could charge what he liked and he did overcharge, but today Jesus is offering him a hand. He is offering him salvation. This passage is about salvation, liberation. It is there for us too. Can we help to offer salvation, liberation to someone, they do not have to be up a tree, perhaps it is a friend, neighbour, relation, who is just waiting for that helping hand, that kind word.

Tuesday 10th August 2010

Luke Ch. 9: 57-62

As they were going along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go” and Jesus said to him, ‘Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head’. To another he said, ‘Follow me’. But he said, Lord, first let me go and bury my father’. But Jesus said to him, ‘Let the dead bury their own dead, but as for you, go and proclaim the Kingdom of God’……..

Jesus is thinking of the poor who need help – ‘the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head’. Is Jesus referring to the needs of the poor? Let us remember to pray each day for those who are spiritually poor.

Tuesday 17th August 2010

Luke Ch. 8: 16-18

‘No one after lighting a lamp hides it under a jar, or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lamp stand, so that those who enter may see the light. For nothing is hidden that will not be disclosed, nor is anything secret that will not become known and come to light…’

We all have talents that have never come out because we are too fond of saying ‘I couldn’t do that’. Should we not be saying, well now, did God give me any talent which I have never used and which might enable me to do this particular thing. Maybe I could have given that talk, organised that workshop, but I did not really try out my talents. Examine them now.