 | Daily Bible Reflections
for January 19, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
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| | SUNDAY STRUGGLE “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.” – Mark 2:27 There are very few “big things” that my wife and I quarrel about. One is attending Sunday Mass first thing in the morning and being on time. That’s the least that I can do as my way of giving my Sunday to the Lord. So I demand that of myself… and my wife. After all, isn’t He supposed to be number 1? However, my beloved has a problem waking up early on Sundays. This is where the struggle begins. I persuade her to get up and give her a series of short, powerful lectures on putting God first as we get ready for Mass. The result? We make it there alright but you can sense the tension between us. We do make peace as the Mass progresses but I’ve already missed the whole point of the Lord’s Sabbath — to worship and love God with delight as a couple and be renewed by Him on His special day. When I think about it, my wife and I work at our business six days a week and sometimes it even takes us out of town. I forget that my wife’s physical well-being is more important than the “rules” I impose on myself. After all, there are Sunday Masses from morning to evening. More than manmade guidelines, it’s being an instrument of God’s love that counts. Ariel Driz (adriz77@yahoo.com) REFLECTION: Do I impose stern rules on the people around me and forget to love? Lord Jesus, loving people with Your love is more important than sacrifice. Please remind me of this always. Amen. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING God prepares Samuel to look for Saul’s replacement, a none too enviable task for the prophet. Here again we encounter the wisdom of God being so different from worldly wisdom. David seems to be the least likely candidate for kingship yet he is the one chosen by God for the task. We will never be able to understand how God’s mind works but we do need to learn to trust His judgment as it will become an issue in our own lives from time to time. 1 Samuel 16:1-13 1 The LORD said to Samuel: “How long will you grieve for Saul, whom I have rejected as king of Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and be on your way. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have chosen my king from among his sons.” 2 But Samuel replied: “How can I go? Saul will hear of it and kill me.” To this the LORD answered: “Take a heifer along and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’ 3 Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I myself will tell you what to do; you are to anoint for me the one I point out to you.” 4 Samuel did as the LORD had commanded him. When he entered Bethlehem, the elders of the city came trembling to meet him and inquired, “Is your visit peaceful, O seer?” 5 He replied: “Yes! I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. So cleanse yourselves and join me today for the banquet.” He also had Jesse and his sons cleanse themselves and invited them to the sacrifice. 6 As they came, he looked at Eliab and thought, “Surely the LORD’s anointed is here before him.” 7 But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not judge from his appearance or from his lofty stature, because I have rejected him. Not as man sees does God see, because man sees the appearance but the LORD looks into the heart.” 8 Then Jesse called Abinadab and presented him before Samuel, who said, “The Lord has not chosen him.” 9 Next Jesse presented Shammah, but Samuel said, “The LORD has not chosen this one either.” 10 In the same way Jesse presented seven sons before Samuel, but Samuel said to Jesse, “The LORD has not chosen any one of these.” 11 Then Samuel asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?” Jesse replied, “There is still the youngest, who is tending the sheep.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send for him; we will not begin the sacrificial banquet until he arrives here.” 12 Jesse sent and had the young man brought to them. He was ruddy, a youth handsome to behold and making a splendid appearance. The LORD said, “There — anoint him, for this is he!” 13 Then Samuel, with the horn of oil in hand, anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and from that day on, the spirit of the LORD rushed upon David. When Samuel took his leave, he went to Ramah. P S A L M Psalm 89:20, 21-22, 27-28 R: I have found David, my servant. 19 [20] Once you spoke in a vision, and to your faithful ones you said: “On a champion I have placed a crown; over the people I have set a youth.” (R) 20 [21] “I have found David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him, 21 [22] that my hand may be always with him, and that my arm may make him strong.” (R) 26 [27] “He shall say of me, ‘You are my father, my God, the Rock, my savior.’ 27 [28] And I will make him the first-born, highest of the kings of the earth.” (R) G O S P E L Jesus gives a particular example of how the Law must be placed in the service of the people and not the other way around. The Sabbath laws are meant as a reminder to us of the importance of setting aside time for our relationship with God. For some, it is next to impossible to rest on Sundays, priests included. Such people must find other times when they can rest and reflect upon their relationship with God. Mark 2:23-28 23 As Jesus was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath, his disciples began to make a path while picking the heads of grain. 24 At this the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?” 25 He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry? 26 How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the bread of offering that only the priests could lawfully eat, and shared it with his companions?” 27 Then he said to them, “The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath. 28 That is why the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.” my reflections t h i n k : We will never be able to understand how God’s mind works but we do need to learn to trust His judgment as it will become an issue in our own lives from time to time. _________________________________________________________
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| | SABBATH | LET US BE FOCUSED ON THE THINGS THAT MATTER One of the first tactics of the devil is to try to distract us from the things that should be the foci of our life. If he can achieve this goal, he will have succeeded in neutralizing our impact in bringing the Gospel to others. This means that the Church’s mission will be blunted and bringing back humanity to its proper place of submission to the will of God will be delayed. There is an urgency to proclaim the Gospel and to proclaim it in truth without any accretions that take away from its power to save. The Gospel stands in judgment over the world and its various cultures. The Gospel does not have to adapt its truths to the cultures in which it is being proclaimed. It must be proclaimed in truth and all that is in a particular culture that is not in conformity to that truth must go. Yes, we adapt the manner of proclaiming the Gospel to the individual culture, but never the content of the Gospel. Sociologists, anthropologists and many others will defend the primacy of culture over and against the Gospel, but they are wrong. The truth of the Gospel is not open to debate; it is not open to alteration in the name of cultural sensitivity. If we fail to be clear about the truth of the Gospel when we proclaim it, we do a disservice to those who hear it and we become at least partially responsible for their errors. I’m sure none of us want to be responsible for the errors of others so we had better heed the call to both live and proclaim the Gospel faithfully in response to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Yes, we must always seek to understand different cultures, but we must also be willing to call to conversion various aspects of the cultures in which we work. Otherwise, we will condemn ourselves to an exercise in futility because unless the Gospel is proclaimed in its fullness, it will not be able to establish itself in the lives of those who hear it. Our task of proclaiming the Gospel to the ends of the earth will never be completed. Fr. Steve Tynan, MGL Reflection Question: Do I tend to let slide certain culturally accepted aspects of my life even though I know they are contrary to the Gospel? If so, it is time I did something about it. Jesus, You proclaimed the truth whether it made You popular or not. Help me to do the same and so be faithful to You. St. Branwallader, pray for us. | |
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