 | Daily Bible Reflections
for April 8, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
This Thursday, remember that He knows you and loves you.
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | GOD BLESS “… and that the Lord may grant you times of refreshment and send you the Messiah already appointed for you, Jesus….” – Acts 3:20 For several years now, “God bless!” has become my usual parting words to people I communicate with. In e-mails, verbal greetings, either face-to-face or phone conversations, text messages or even in some talks I have given, I end with “God bless.” A priest friend of mine joked that my wish for blessing upon him is already “baduy!” (corny). But just the same, I chose not to omit it from my habit. For me, part of following the command to love one another is to wish others well. “May a season of refreshment be granted you by the Lord when He sends you Jesus” are encouraging words especially for people who were just rebuked for bad behavior. We owe each other kind words to help build up the church.Cristy Galang (cristy_cc@yahoo.com) REFLECTION: Do I offer kind words to people I relate with? Thank You, Lord, for reminding me to offer a blessing or good wishes to all I meet. Please guide me to be a life-giving person to others. Amen. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Peter realizes that the Gospel of Jesus stands in succession to the ministry of the Patriarchs and Prophets of the Old Testament. This is an important fact to be able to explain to the Jews as they will better understand the roots of the Gospel than the Gentiles. However, it is the Gentiles who more readily accept the Gospel. I wonder why this is the case? Acts 3:11-26 11 As the crippled man who had been cured clung to Peter and John, all the people hurried in amazement toward them in the portico called “Solomon’s Portico.” 12 When Peter saw this, he addressed the people, “You Israelites, why are you amazed at this, and why do you look so intently at us as if we had made him walk by our own power or piety? 13 The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has glorified his servant Jesus whom you handed over and denied in Pilate’s presence, when he had decided to release him. 14 You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you. 15 The author of life you put to death, but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses. 16 And by faith in his name, this man, whom you see and know, his name has made strong, and the faith that comes through it has given him this perfect health, in the presence of all of you. 17 Now I know, brothers, that you acted out of ignorance, just as your leaders did; 18 but God has thus brought to fulfillment what he had announced beforehand through the mouth of all the prophets, that his Messiah would suffer. 19 Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away, 20 and that the Lord may grant you times of refreshment and send you the Messiah already appointed for you, Jesus, 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of universal restoration of which God spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from of old. 22 For Moses said: ‘A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you from among your own kinsmen; to him you shall listen in all that he may say to you. 23 Everyone who does not listen to that prophet will be cut off from the people.’ 24 Moreover, all the prophets who spoke, from Samuel and those afterwards, also announced these days. 25 You are the children of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors when he said to Abraham, ‘In your offspring all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’ 26 For you first, God raised up his servant and sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.” P S A L M Psalm 8:2ab, 5, 6-7, 8-9 R: O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth! 1 [2] O LORD, our Lord, how glorious is your name over all the earth! 4 [5] What is man that you should be mindful of him, or the son of man that you should care for him? (R) 5 [6] You have made him little less than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor. 6 [7] You have given him rule over the works of your hands, putting all things under his feet. (R) 7 [8] All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field, 8 [9] the birds of the air, the fishes of the sea, and whatever swims the paths of the seas. (R) G O S P E L Jesus eats with His disciples to demonstrate that He is truly the same person who they talked and dined with for the past three years. Let us recognize the continuity of the pre- and post-resurrection Jesus; but there is also a discontinuity. Jesus is somehow different than before. This becomes the basis of our hope for eternal life — namely, that we, too, will share in the transforming power of the resurrection. Luke 24:35-48 35 The disciples of Jesus recounted what had taken place on the way and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread. 36 While they were still speaking about this, he stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 37 But they were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost. 38 Then he said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts? 39 Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.” 40 And as he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. 41 While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed, he asked them, “Have you anything here to eat?” 42 They gave him a piece of baked fish; 43 he took it and ate it in front of them. 44 He said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.” 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures. 46 And he said to them, “Thus it is written that the Messiah would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day 47 and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things.” my reflections t h i n k : W e, too, will share in the transforming power of the resurrection. _________________________________________________________
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T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Leviticus 11-13 | |
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| | SABBATH | THE POWER OF THE RESURRECTION Peter and John are quite clear about the fact that the power to heal comes from God and not them. This is true but God also needs willing people through which to course His love, mercy, forgiveness and healing. It is important to remain humble and not appropriate to ourselves the glory that belongs solely to the Lord, but it is also important to realize that we all have our part to play in bringing the Good News to the ends of the earth. Peter goes on to explain how it is that the Gospel he preaches as a believer in Christ is still rooted in the Jewish faith. There is no discontinuity between his faith in Jesus and the revelation given first by God to Abraham. St. Paul will give a far more extensive reflection upon the role of Abraham in the history of God’s revelation of Himself to His people (see Romans 4), but for the time being Peter tells the people that his faith and that of all followers of Christ builds upon that of the Jews. It is important for us today to realize this as we can learn much from the Jewish faith that is applicable to our own. The love that the Jews have for the Law or Torah is something that we need to learn from and emulate in Christianity. The Jewish respect for their elders in the faith is carried over into the cult of the saints in the Catholic Church. And there are many other things we could mention here. Let us all seek to be faithful to the call God places on our lives by doing our bit in the work of the Church, the work of bringing the Good News of salvation to all people. It does not matter who we are or what we do, God has a role for us to play — it is just a matter of finding it. Let us seek to know the power of the resurrection in our own lives so that we can live it and apply it to the lives of others. This is what it means to be a disciple of Jesus. Fr. Steve Tynan, MGL Reflection Question: Do I know the power of the resurrection in my life? Am I aware of the grace that is available to me for conversion? Jesus, help me to know and experience both the power of the cross and the power of the resurrection — the former to overcome sin and the latter to grow in holiness. St. Walter of Pontoise, pray for us. | |
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