A Moment To Pause: Saturday May 23rd 2026 #jesus #peter #faith

Good morning and welcome to the Oblate time of prayer and reflection today written by Mary Tyrrell. What a really interesting passage this is. I was struck by the last few lines. In this gospel of St John Chapter 20 verse 25 reads, ”But there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.”Of course, it must be true, there probably were  millions of encounters Jesus had that we don’t know about because books weren’t written or were lost or people looked on their encounter as being personal.  And more importantly there was no television news broadcasts twenty four hours a day every day and definitely no internet. However did people find out about anything?  Of course, they talked to each other, they shared stories or some would have written letters to friends. Then during the week I came across this fact  each bible has blank pages at the end for us to write our own gospel stories. When we can write down our own encounters with Jesus in prayer. Times when Jesus was so close, so active, saving us, calling us or challenging us into discipleship. And we have all had those moments. Now where did I put my pen? Thanks for joining us today.