 | Daily Bible Reflections
for February 13, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
Be inspired with His message to you this Saturday!
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | more than enough Everybody ate and had enough — there were about 4,000 people. – Mark 8: 8-9 After our prayer gathering, The Feast, at St. Paul the Apostle Parish in Timog Avenue, Quezon City, we usually serve snacks. Normally, we just prepare sandwiches or muffins and juice. But one time, those in charge of the Food Ministry couldn’t make it to The Feast because they had another service elsewhere. We thought we wouldn’t have snacks that night. But one of our attendees, Edel Nantes, was celebrating her birthday at The Feast. So instead of just snacks, we really had a feast! Just like the miracle of the bread and fish in today’s reading, everybody ate and was satisfied. In fact, there was more than enough that we were able to share with some bystanders outside the church. It’s surprising what God can do through us when we offer to Him what we have. In His hands, the little we have can become the food that can feed the multitudes.Cynthia Santiago (boses2go@yahoo.com) REFLECTION: What can you share with others today? Lord, give us this day our daily bread. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Jeroboam sets up alternative places of worship for his half of the kingdom. This is not pleasing to the Lord, just as the splitting of the Church into various denominations, Roman Catholic, Orthodox and the various Protestant sects, is not pleasing to the Lord either. Jesus sets in place one Church and the divisions in Christianity today are a huge scandal and hindrance to the proclamation of the Gospel. It is time for unity — for all men and women to seriously and honestly search their hearts to see what God is truly saying to us about this situation. 1 Kings 12:26-32; 13:33-34 26 Jeroboam thought to himself: “The kingdom will return to David’s house. 27 If now this people go up to offer sacrifices in the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem, the hearts of this people will return to their master, Rehoboam, xking of Judah, and they will kill me.” 28 After taking counsel, the king made two calves of gold and said to the people, “You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough. Here is your God, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.” 29 And he put one in Bethel, the other in Dan. 30 This led to sin, because the people frequented these calves in Bethel and in Dan. 31 He also built temples on the high places and made priests from among the people who were not Levites. 32 Jeroboam established a feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month to duplicate in Bethel the pilgrimage feast of Judah, with sacrifices to the calves he had made; and he stationed in Bethel priests of the high places he had built. 13: 33 Jeroboam did not give up his evil ways after this event, but again made priests for the high places from among the common people. Whoever desired it was consecrated and became a priest of the high places. 34 This was a sin on the part of the house of Jeroboam for which it was to be cut off and destroyed from the earth. P S A L M Psalm 106:6-7ab, 19-20, 21-22 R: Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people. 6 We have sinned, we and our fathers; we have committed crimes; we have done wrong. 7 Our fathers in Egypt considered not your wonders. (R) 19 They made a calf in Horeb and adored a molten image; 20 they exchanged their glory for the image of a grass-eating bullock. (R) 21 They forgot the God who had saved them, who had done great deeds in Egypt, 22 wondrous deeds in the land of Ham, terrible things at the Red Sea. (R) G O S P E L The food that Jesus miraculously multiplies represents the natural talents and aspects of our lives. It is upon the natural that the grace of God builds. Without our response to the Gospel, the Holy Spirit is not able to transform our lives. God will not act against our free will. The challenge we face is to present what we have for God to use for His purposes and then watch Him transform it into something far greater than we could imagine. Mark 8:1-10 1 In those days when there again was a great crowd without anything to eat, he summoned the disciples and said, 2 “My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat. 3 If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a greatdistance.” 4 His disciples answered him, “Where can anyone get enough bread to satisfy them here in this deserted place?” 5 Still he asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” “Seven,” they replied. 6 He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then, taking the seven loaves he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to distribute, and they distributed them to the crowd. 7 They also had a few fish. He said the blessing over them and ordered them distributed also. 8 They ate and were satisfied. They picked up the fragments left over — seven baskets. 9 There were about four thousand people. He dismissed them 10 and got into the boat with his disciples and came to the region of Dalmanutha. my reflections t h i n k : The food that Jesus miraculously multiplies represents the natural talents and aspects of our lives. It is upon the natural that the grace of God builds. _________________________________________________________
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| | SABBATH | Am I really “CATHOLIC?” Let’s do some Bible study today. Take a piece of paper and a pen. Draw a line in the middle of your paper, straight from the top to the bottom so that you get two columns. Next, open your Bible and search for the Gospel according to Mark. Now write on top of the left column: “Mark 6:35-44” and above the right column “Mark 8:1-10.” After reading both passages, write down the differences you found in the very similar stories. Why did Mark include the same story twice but with different details? Whoever has studied the Bible closely immediately focuses on the numbers. How did they come up with such round numbers, 5,000 and exactly 4,000? In the Bible, numbers often have symbolic meaning. Five reflects the Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament, while four was the symbolic number for the Gentiles. Again, 12 is the number of the 12 tribes of Israel, while seven is the number of perfection and universality. Now look where Jesus performed the two miracles: the first one on Jewish territory, the second on Gentile territory. And here we come to the message the evangelist wants to give. He rounded up the numbers a bit to tell His readers that Jesus came for Jews and Gentiles alike, that He has compassion for both, that He nourishes all. This is really Good News! Jesus loves all people. He does not care only for those who follow Him but also for those who do not know Him yet. His attitude is 100 percent Catholic, which means “all-embracing.” That message was not only important for Mark’s community but is equally challenging to us. For even though we are grateful to belong to the Catholic Church, we are unfortunately not always “allembracing.” Nobody was excluded from Jesus’ compassion, from His care, from His love and sharing what He had. He was really Catholic. And so He poses to each one of us the valid question: “Are you really Catholic?”Fr. Rudy Horst, SVD Reflection Question: Am I too close and comfortable with certain people and so exclude others? Who would need my attention among those I meet in daily life? Ouch, Lord, the enjoyable Bible study turned out to become a stinging question I have difficulty answering. Please open my heart more that I may become really all-embracing without ignoring or even rejecting anybody. St. Benignus, pray for us. | |
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