 | Daily Bible Reflections
for April 28, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
See Him beside you this whole Wednesday!
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
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| | MY LIFE’S WORK The Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” – Acts 13:2 Can you do this exercise? Substitute your name in the passage above. How does it sound to you? And the “work” — are you doing that which God has called you to do? Do you even know what it is? Looking deeply into my own life, I can say that it was only in the last 15 years (I’m now in my early 50s) that I began to seek God’s purpose for my life. And no matter how late, it has been an exciting journey. I now know that the Lord has set me apart to do some work for His kingdom. He has given me talents that, as I use them now, are blessing other people. He has even used my weaknesses, such as my being a quiet person and my preference for small groups rather than big ones, as building blocks for His purpose for my life. Writing, counseling, small group facilitating — these are among the means by which God wants me to help inspire and heal other people. Knowing this has made a lot of difference in the way I live my life now.Tess V. Atienza (svp_ tvatienza@yahoo.com) REFLECTION: Do you know God’s purpose for your life? Take the time to discover it. Lead me to my life’s work, Lord, and grant me the courage to walk into it. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Each member of the Body of Christ has a gift they must use for the proclamation of the Gospel. The Spirit reveals these gifts to us and forms us in them. The priests and bishops are to form the laity in their service of the Kingdom of God. Let us pray that the ordained ministers of the Church find time to form their flock in the ways and mind of Christ. Only then will we become the community of faith we should be. Acts 12:24-13:5a 24 The word of God continued to spread and grow. 25 After Barnabas and Saul completed their relief mission, they returned to Jerusalem, taking with them John, who is called Mark. 13: 1 Now there were in the Church at Antioch prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Symeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen who was a close friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. 2 While they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” 3 Then, completing their fasting and prayer, they laid hands on them and sent them off. 4 So they, sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and from there sailed to Cyprus. 5 When they arrived in Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. P S A L M Psalm 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8 R: O God, let all the nations praise you! 1 [2] May God have pity on us and bless us; may he let his face shine upon us. 2 [3] So may your way be known upon earth; among all nations, your salvation. (R) 4 [5] May the nations be glad and exult because you rule the peoples in equity; the nations on the earth you guide. (R) 5 [6] May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you! 7 [8] May God bless us, and may all the ends of the earth fear him! (R) G O S P E L As a seminarian, for two years I prayed in a very small chapel dedicated to St. Peter Chanel, a martyr, whose feast we celebrate today. To one corner of the altar there was a reliquary containing one of his ribs. Looking at the relic during prayer reminded me of the many men and women who have preceded me in the walk of faith and who are now in heaven interceding for the Church. May their example inspire us to give our lives in the service of the Church as they did. John 12:44-50 44 Jesus cried out and said: “Whoever believes in me believes not only in me but also in the one who sent me, 45 and whoever sees me sees the one who sent me. 46 I came into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me might not remain in darkness. 47 And if anyone hears my words and does not observe them, I do not condemn him, for I did not come to condemn the world but to save the world. 48 Whoever rejects me and does not accept my words has something to judge him: the word that I spoke, it will condemn him on the last day, 49 because I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So what I say, I say as the Father told me.” my reflections t h i n k : Each member of the Body of Christ has a gift they must use for the proclamation of the Gospel. _________________________________________________________
God’s special verse/thought for me today________________
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T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Deuteronomy 8-11 | |
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| | SABBATH | THE TRUE LIGHT OF THE WORLD Discovering the light that will guide us is a great challenge because if we happen to choose the wrong light, we will obviously be walking on the wrong path. Jesus makes a claim that no other person has done: that He is the light of the world. He can truly say this as it is through Him that all things have been created. He is the Word of God through which the Father brought order out of chaos (Genesis 1) and through whose word the Church speaks and lives her life. What does this mean for you and me? There are a number of consequences of all this for us: the first being that we ought to listen to the Word of God for our lives as it is the way to eternal life; and secondly, which is closely related to the first, is that when we make difficult moral decisions, we need to seek the enlightenment of Church’s teachings. Jesus has not given the authority to the bishops to teach and interpret the Scriptures for nothing. The Magisterium of the Church is the authoritative guide on matters of faith and morals. We can act under our own guidance if we so desire but this would be a foolish choice similar to driving at night in the countryside without the benefit of headlights. We are talking here about matters of life and death that should never be taken lightly. The world is fond of avoiding the defining issues of life by dealing with the peripheralones to avoid controversy. This is a mistake as the world’s financial system discovered in 2008. The regulators took an “it’s too hard attitude” to the irresponsibility of the bankers and their advisers, and the world of finance experienced a great thud when the “house of cards” built on debt and impossible to pay back financial commitments came tumbling down in spectacular fashion. Let us not make a similar mistake with our spiritual lives. Let us build on a firm foundation that is illumined by the Light of the World, Jesus Christ.Fr. Steve Tynan, MGL Reflection Question: Do I tend to avoid the difficult questions in my life and thus create a disaster just waiting to happen sometime in the future? Holy Spirit, grant me the grace to face the challenges of my life when they arise and grant me the wisdom to know how to confront and overcome them. St. Valerie, pray for us. | |
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