And Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you for hearing me. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the dead man’s sister, said to him, “Lord, by now there will be a stench he has been dead for four days.” Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?” So they took away the stone. It was a cave, and a stone lay across it. So Jesus, perturbed again, came to the tomb. Have done something so that this man would not have died?” So the Jews said, “See how he loved him.” But some of them said, “Could not the one who opened the eyes of the blind man He became perturbed and deeply troubled, and said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Sir, come and see.” And Jesus wept. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world.”
Do you believe this?” She said to him, “Yes, Lord. “I know he will rise, in the resurrection on the last day.” Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.īut even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.” Jesus said to her, Your brother will rise.” Martha said, She went to meet him but Mary sat at home. When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. Then after this he said to his disciples, "Let us go back to Judea.” So when he heard that he was ill, he remained for two days in the place where he was. The sisters of Lazarus sent word to Jesus, saying, “Master, the one you love is ill.” When Jesus heard this he said, “This illness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. Read it twice if that helps you to visualize it. Read the passage slowly, savoring the words and beginning to imagine the scene. In that case you might want to stop reading and continue on your own. If at any point your imagination comes to life in such a way that God invites to you stay with a particular moment, follow the invitation that you sense, rather than move on to where the written contemplation is going. There are a few movements in this contemplation – from conversation with Martha, to Jesus own tears, to the scene at the tomb. If you find yourself distracted during your prayer, very gently bring yourself back to the scripture text or your imaginative contemplation. Try not to worry about what you are “supposed to” be doing.
If this way of praying is new – simply relax and try to become engaged in the scene. You can do this on your own, or use the text below as a guide. Perhaps you may sense an invitation to be one of the individuals in the scene and engage in a conversation with one of them. As Ignatius suggests, notice the people, listen to them, watch what they do. You are invited to use your imagination to enter the scene, to take part, to let the scene unfold. Ignatius proposes quite frequently in his Spiritual Exercises. Gospel Contemplation is a way of praying that St.
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