Stations
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Station 6 -
Veronica wipes the face of Jesus |
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| The Scripture Reading | |
| 1 Kings 17: 10 - 16 10: So he arose and went to Zar'ephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks; and he called to her and said, "Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink." 11: And as she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, "Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand." 12: And she said, "As the LORD your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a cruse; and now, I am gathering a couple of sticks, that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die." 13: And Eli'jah said to her, "Fear not; go and do as you have said; but first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterward make for yourself and your son. 14: For thus says the LORD the God of Israel, `The jar of meal shall not be spent, and the cruse of oil shall not fail, until the day that the LORD sends rain upon the earth.'" 15: And she went and did as Eli'jah said; and she, and he, and her household ate for many days. 16: The jar of meal was not spent, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD which he spoke by Eli'jah |
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| The Mediation & Prayer | |
| Have we never seen an angel?
The angels knock on our doors looking for help; they stand at street
corners unsure of the way; they demand our attention when we are busy;
they disrupt our church services with their crying; they ask silly
questions when we are concentrating; they fill the television screens
with guilt inducing images of their suffering; they ruin our days
out by latching on to us for company; they interrupt our lives with
their manifold calls for help, attention and hospitality.
Veronica saw an angel: more than an angel she saw the one whom the angels worship: and she saw in Him what we see in them: she saw His need. She knew she could not remove suffering from the world: only God could do that; she knew she could not eradicate poverty; only the One who has all riches in his hands can do that; she knew she could not give homes to the homeless or comfort the bereaved or end wars; or destroy the power of death. But she could do one small thing. And instead of pretending that because of her inability to sort out the big things she was freed of her responsibility to do the small thing, she reached out and wiped His face. And He gave her His image on a cloth as a sign that He was sorting out all the big stuff, and renewing the image and likeness of God in her soul and in ours. Let us look out for the angels: for they give us opportunity in small things to receive from Jesus the really big things that actually matter. Father may we entertain your angels often, so that Jesus
might restore His image in us.
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