 | Daily Bible Reflections
for February 3, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
His light is shining on you this Wednesday.
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | FAITH LIKE A CHILD He was amazed at their lack of faith. …. – Mark 6:6 Teena lost her husband to leukemia in 2008. When his body was about to be cremated, she told this story to her five-year-old son: “Daddy will now go to heaven. His body will be placed in that box which will be his ride. Once the box is closed, it will enter that chamber where it will stay until we hear the bells ring. You should clap when you hear the bells because that means that the angels already took Daddy to heaven.” When the bells rang, a complete silence descended on the crowd. The hush was broken by an applause of one. Following his mom’s instruction, the young boy celebrated the special moment. A child’s faith is always admirable. Once they believe something, they will hang on to that idea with full conviction. Let’s pray that we may have a child’s faith as we grow in our Christian life.Alvin Fabella (alvinfabella@yahoo.com) REFLECTION: “The childlike faith that asks not sight, waits not for wonder or for sign, believes, because it loves, aright, shall see things greater, things divine.” (John Keble) Lord, I pray that I may have faith like a child, for You have said that I need a child’s heart to enter Your kingdom. Amen. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING This story probably repels us in that it seems that God is doling out punishment on all the people because of the sin of David alone. However, we must remember that the ancient understanding of morality and punishment is very different from the one we have today. We have received far more revelation of the mercy and love of God than David or any of his contemporaries have known. What we learn today is that the decision of David to place his and Israel’s fate in the hands of God was indeed vindicated when God spares Jerusalem from destruction. 2 Samuel 24:2, 9-17 2 King David said to Joab and the leaders of the army who were with him, “Tour all the tribes in Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba and register the people, that I may know their number.” 9 Joab then reported to the king the number of people registered in Israel, eight hundred thousand men fit for military service; in Judah, five hundred thousand. 10 Afterward, however, David regretted having numbered the people, and said to the LORD, “I have sinned grievously in what I have done. But now, LORD, forgive the guilt of your servant, for I have been very foolish.” 11 When David rose in the morning, the LORD had spoken to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying, 12 “Go and say to David, ‘This is what the LORD says, I offer you three alternatives; choose one of them, and I will inflict it on you.’ ” 13 Gad then went to David to inform him. He asked, “Do you want a three years’ famine to come upon your land, or to flee from your enemy three months while he pursues you, or to have a three days’ pestilence in your land? Now consider and decide what I must reply to him who sent me.” 14 David answered Gad, “I am in very serious difficulty. Let us fall by the hand of God, for he is most merciful; but let me not fall by the hand of man.” 15 Thus David chose the pestilence. Now it was the time of the wheat harvest when the plague broke out among the people. The LORD then sent a pestilence over Israel from morning until the time appointed, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beer-sheba died. 16 But when the angel stretched forth his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD regretted the calamity and said to the angel causing the destruction among the people, “Enough now! Stay your hand.” The angel of the LORD was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. 17 When David saw the angel who was striking the people, he said to the LORD, “It is I who have sinned; it is I, the shepherd, who have done wrong. But these are sheep; what have they done? Punish me and my kindred.” P S A L M Psalm 32:1-2, 5, 6, 7 R: Lord, forgive the wrong I have done. 1 Blessed is he whose fault is taken away, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed the man to whom the LORD imputes not guilt, in whose spirit there is no guile. (R) 5 Then I acknowledged my sin to you, my guilt I covered not. I said, “I confess my faults to the LORD,” and you took away the guilt of my sin. (R) 6 For this shall every faithful man pray to you in time of stress. Though deep waters overflow, they shall not reach him. (R) 7 You are my shelter; from distress you will preserve me; with glad cries of freedom you will ring me round. (R) G O S P E L We choose what we focus upon when we look at the person of Jesus. If we do not want to be challenged, we will avoid looking at the demonstrations of His power and miracles so that they will not call us to a deeper allegiance and surrender to His will and grace. It would be foolish to do this, but that does not stop many from doing so. Let us meditate today on our faith in Christ and His power to change us. Mark 6:1-6 1 Jesus departed from there and came to his native place, accompanied by his disciples. 2 When the sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. They said, “Where did this man get all this? What kind of wisdom has been given him? What mighty deeds are wrought by his hands! 3 Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. 4 Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house.” 5 So he was not able to perform any mighty deed there, apart from curing a few sick people by laying his hands on them. 6 He was amazed at their lack of faith. He went around to the villages in the vicinity teaching. my reflections t h i n k : Let us meditate today on our faith in Christ and His power to change us. _________________________________________________________
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| | SABBATH | Wrong Atmosphere Jesus had it coming. He had grown up in Nazareth. He had eaten with His neighbors the same simple bread and drank with them wine. He was one of them, so much so that the people could not take it that He now moved around as a revered teacher, sometimes telling things that hurt and that people did not like to hear. I think you know very well that most people want to hear how good they are, that God is so good and merciful that He will easily forgive when they do something wrong. “God is good — always good,” they love to shout. Nothing wrong with this. God is good, but it can easily lead to ignore the harsh words of Christ. The great British convert and writer G. K. Chesterton once wrote, “I don’t want a church that tells me when I am right. I want a church that tells me when I am wrong.” Unfortunately, there are not enough “Chestertons” in our Christian communities who want a prophetic church, who want preachers to make them face their wrong ways. In such an atmosphere, the truth cannot prosper — as in Nazareth where prejudice had put Jesus into a certain frame: He is nothing but one of us, a simple craftsman, who now plays the prophet. In a wrong atmosphere no preaching will be successful. Maybe we can ask ourselves: What’s my attitude when I go to church on Sunday? Am I expecting that the Word of God will hit me? Or am I indifferent? If we come to Mass and refuse to understand, we will misunderstand everything. If we select a preacher because of his jokes only, we have already created a wrong atmosphere because we will remember the jokes but not the message. Then we have created a wrong atmosphere for the Word of God to penetrate us, to change us or even to give us guidance for the next days and weeks. Only when we create an atmosphere of openness, of expectancy in ourselves, that even the poorest sermon can put us on fire.Fr. Rudy Horst, SVD Reflection Question: Am I open during homilies even when the preacher hits me with the truth? Or do I just want to hear how good I am — when actually I am not that good? Lord, give me more openness toward Your Word and toward those who proclaim it. Save me from being selective when it comes to preachers. Let me not become so insensitive that I cannot accept a word that confronts me with my weakness and failure. St. Laurentinus, pray for us. | |
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