25.02.2024
Reflection for the Second Sunday of Lent by Archbishop Michael Jackson
Archbishop Michael Jackson will share a reflection for each Sunday in Lent in connection with our Shine a Light appeal for Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, run by our partners in the Diocese of Jerusalem. Each short reflection takes the Gospel of the Sunday and links it to a range of international humanitarian needs, most especially in the context of the sufferings in Gaza and Israel and in the wider region encompassed by the Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem.
The Second Sunday in Lent February 25
St Mark 8.34: Anyone who wants to be a follower of mine must renounce self; he must take up his cross and follow me …
Jesus does not, nor can he, offer a comfortable place for any of us to land. He embodies the life of all of us in our squalor as in our beauty and its magnetic symbol is the cross.
We are called to a particular type of imitation – of service, of selflessness, of altruism, of agency – because we, like him, are human and because he has called us to an imitation of the divine.
Our calling is to find the new self in Christ and to find this self in enemy as in friend.
Followership is not an easy calling.
Let us pray for those in the wilderness of alienation today.
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