A Moment to Pause: Short Daily Reflection Thursday February 5th 2026 #podcast #prayer#catholic

Good morning and thank you for joining our Oblate short time to pause, reflect and pray together on  Thursday February 5th 2026. Thanks to Caroline Shevelan for today’s reflection:  In the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen The opening question of today’s Gospel, is maybe one we are asking ourselves. Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say? Father save me from this hour My soul has certainly been troubled over recent years. Troubled by injustice, cruelty and the disregard for the dignity of life in all its forms. Should we ask to be spared these times? Ini this passage Jesus shows us that we do not know why we might have been given these times to live in. Maybe, like Esther it is ‘for just such a time as this’ that we are called to live out our faith in ways we had hoped never to experience. Jesus goes on to say, ‘the light is in you…walk while you have the light so the darkness will not overtake you’ Jesus, light of the world, Jesus whom Simeon and Anna acknowledged and proclaimed as the light of the world, Jesus tells us today that the light is in us, that we are to believe in the light in us. That even when we walk in darkness we are to hold onto the light. We pray Lord may we see and cling to the light, even where no light seems possible. May we be like you Lord as you foretold your death, knowing that even here the darkness has only the power we give it. Thank you for joining us this morning.