 | Daily Bible Reflections
for May 13, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
This Thursday, remember that He knows you and loves you.
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | WITNESSING Many of the Corinthians who heard believed and were baptized. – Acts 18: 8 Agnes, our housekeeper, was baptized, confirmed and had her first communion during Easter 2008. My wife and I stood as her godparents, together with a brother in Ligaya ng Panginoon, Jodean, who headed her Bible study group in our kids’ school. She had been with us for a few years. Though we knew she was not a Catholic, we didn’t try to convert her. What she saw and heard from us and from the people around her was more convincing than any preaching we could do. She went with us during our community gatherings and saw how we lived our lives for God. She would catch conversations on how God has been blessing a brother. She would hear how a sister went through the pain of losing a loved one and yet still clung to the Lord. She observed how we prayed. She appreciated how we treated her. Her Bible study group gave her opportunities to learn more about God’s Word. These acted as the seed. God’s grace did the rest. It is how we live that others would hear, believe and be baptized. Jun Asis (mabuting.balita@gmail.com) REFLECTION: Our life is our witnessing. Do others see God’s Word in us? Lord, let my life be a living testament to Your Good News. Amen. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING It seems that Paul always went to the synagogue of the city first and proclaimed the Gospel to the Jews. If they rejected him and his message, he turned to the Gentiles. This does not mean that the Pauline communities are solely made up of Gentiles. Here we see that the ruler of the synagogue believed and was baptized. One presumes that he would have initially been a Jew. Acts 18:1-8 1 Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. He went to visit them 3 and, because he practiced the same trade, stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade. 4 Every sabbath, he entered into discussions in the synagogue, attempting to convince both Jews and Greeks. 5 When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began to occupy himself totally with preaching the word, testifying to the Jews that the Messiah was Jesus. 6 When they opposed him and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your heads! I am clear of responsibility. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.” 7 So he left there and went to a house belonging to a man named Titus Justus, a worshiper of God; his house was next to a synagogue. 8 Crispus, the synagogue official, came to believe in the Lord along with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard believed and were baptized. P S A L M Psalm 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4 R: The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power. 1 Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done wondrous deeds; his right hand has won victory for him, his holy arm. (R) 2 The LORD has made his salvation known in the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice. 3 He has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. (R) All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation by our God. 4 Sing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands; break into song; sing praise. (R) G O S P E L Today we celebrate the appearance of Mary to three children in Fatima, Portugal, nearly 100 years ago. Mary called for prayers for the end of war and the end of communism. War remains very much a part of human life; communism is seemingly a dying reality. Let us keep praying for the end of war and ask Mary to bring this intention before her Son, Jesus. John 16:16-20 16 Jesus said to his disciples: “A little while and you will no longer see me, and again a little while later and you will see me.” 17 So some of his disciples said to one another, “What does this mean that he is saying to us, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?” 18 So they said, “What is this ‘little while’ of which he speaks? We do not know what he means.” 19 Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Are you discussing with one another what I said, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’? 20 Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.” my reflections t h i n k : Let us keep praying for the end of war and ask Mary to bring this intention before her Son, Jesus. _________________________________________________________
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| | SABBATH | FROM SORROW TO JOY There are two kinds of sorrow: the sorrow that imprisons and the sorrow that sets free. The sorrow that imprisons leads nowhere except to a sustained or an even greater sorrow. We experience or suffer this sorrow when we surrender ourselves to sorrow itself. When we allow ourselves to be tied down by the mistakes or sins of the past, we experience this sorrow. When we let some unfortunate circumstances in our lives rob us of our belief in grace and our hope for a better tomorrow, we suffer this kind of sorrow. When we refuse to let go of our hurts and thereby deprive ourselves of growing into full maturity, we are enslaved by this kind of sorrow. The sorrow that sets free is the kind of sorrow that is only a prelude to joy. This sorrow is like the discomfort a mother may experience in delivering a new bundle of joy into the world. This sorrow is like the anxiety of a parent that has to let go of their child at the proper time so that the child may start a life on his or her own. It is also like the struggles of a student before reaching graduation day. This sorrow is like the remorse of a penitent that leads to contrition and forgiveness. This sorrow is like dying to one’s self, like the grain of wheat that falls to the earth and dies, so that it may bear abundant fruit. This sorrow is like physical death in itself that is the birth into eternal life. While there is no life on earth without sorrows, we can choose which of the two kinds of sorrow we wish to endure. Most importantly, we can choose for whom and to whom we want to offer our sorrows in life. The departure of Jesus from their sight caused the disciples great sorrow. Theirs was the sorrow of letting go. But it was the kind of sorrow that set them free. After the Ascension, the disciples were challenged not to be dependent on the physical presence of the Lord. They had to live by faith. And it is that faith that turned their sorrow into joy and sustained it even unto martyrdom. May we have that same faith, the kind that turns sorrow into joy. Fr. Bobby Titco Reflection Question: There is no life on earth without sorrows. But we can choose what kind of sorrow we wish to endure, and to whom and for whom we want to offer it. Lord Jesus Christ, I unite my sorrows in this life with Your most sacred passion. Let Your paschal mystery shine through mine. Amen. St. Abban, pray for us. | |
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