Saturday 6th February, 2010
Ss Paul Miki and companions. 1 Kings 3:4-13. Lord, teach me your decrees—Ps 118(119):9-14. Mark 6:30-34.

  
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‘Come away and rest for a while.’

After their mission away, the apostles needed rest for their bodies and refreshment for their souls, a recharging of the spirit through association with Jesus. He recognised that they needed rest and quiet. This is a reminder to many of us that rest is not an indulgence we may allow ourselve only in extreme circumstances but part of the necessary rhythm of our lives.

And there should be a corresponding rhythm in our spiritual lives. Like the apostles, we are at the service of our sisters and brothers, from which we too must turn to take rest. We turn to God for the recharging and renewal of our spirit, for God’s work cannot be done by human means alone.