 | Daily Bible Reflections
for May 18, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
Reflect God?s love to every person you meet this Tuesday.
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | CORRECTION “And I did not at all shrink from telling you what was for your benefit.” – Acts 20:20 I was practicing for a presentation and asked my wife for her opinion. She gave me high marks on the content and praised me for the delivery. She added, “I have a suggestion. Observe your pauses, your “ahhs” and “uhms.” When you are thinking of the next thing to say, just stop. It’s not that bad but it can improve your delivery.” Getting that feedback was a little painful at first. After all, I’ve been doing this for 20 years. But in the end, I knew it was done out of love and for my benefit. I decided to pause during lulls and minimized my “uhms.” I have not totally gotten rid of it yet but I’m a whole lot better now. When a brotherly or sisterly correction is given to you, you have two choices. Dismiss it entirely using your pride or look at it as a gracious gift from God to make you a better person.Jun Asis (mabuting.balita@gmail.com) REFLECTION: Corrections done with love and logic will help you improve your relationship with God. Lord, may I be able to accept my limitations and work toward improving myself and not be blinded by pride. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Paul does not abandon the communities he starts. He stays in touch and continues to watch over them from afar. He sends emissaries with his messages for them; he writes letters to them. He is a true shepherd of his flock. Let us pray that our leaders in the Church today, both lay and clerical, will be as serious and as committed to the welfare of their flocks as possible. Also, let us help them as best we can by making available our gifts and resources for the work of the Kingdom of God. Acts 20:17-27 17 From Miletus Paul had the presbyters of the church at Ephesus summoned. 18 When they came to him, he addressed them, “You know how I lived among you the whole time from the day I first came to the province of Asia. 19 I served the Lord with all humility and with the tears and trials that came to me because of the plots of the Jews, 20 and I did not at all shrink from telling you what was for your benefit, or from teaching you in public or in your homes. 21 I earnestly bore witness for both Jews and Greeks to repentance before God and to faith in our Lord Jesus. 22 But now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem. What will happen to me there I do not know, 23 except that in one city after another the holy Spirit has been warning me that imprisonment and hardships await me. 24 Yet I consider life of no importance to me, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear witness to the gospel of God’s grace. 25 “But now I know that none of you to whom I preached the kingdom during my travels will ever see my face again. 26 And so I solemnly declare to you this day that I am not responsible for the blood of any of you, 27 for I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the entire plan of God.” P S A L M Psalm 68:10-11, 20-21 R: Sing to God, O kingdom of the earth. 9 [10] A bountiful rain you showered down, O God, upon your inheritance; you restored the land when it languished; 10 [11] your flock settled in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided it for the needy. (R) 19 [20] Blessed day by day be the Lord, who bears our burdens; God, who is our salvation. 20 [21] God is a saving God for us; the LORD, my Lord, controls the passageways of death. (R) GOSPEL Jesus intercedes for us to the Father before His suffering and death. He continues to intercede for us today — notice how all of the formal prayers of the Church are addressed to the Father in the name of His Son, Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit. This is the pattern of Church life that we should reflect in our own, recognizing at all times that Jesus stands with us commending us to the mercy and love of the Father. Let us always remember this! amuel 5-8 John 17:1-11a 1 Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you, 2 just as you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to all you gave him. 3 Now this is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ. 4 I glorified you on earth by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do. 5 Now glorify me, Father, with you, with the glory that I had with you before the world began. 6 “I revealed your name to those whom you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything you gave me is from you, 8 because the words you gave to me I have given to them, and they accepted them and truly understood that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me. 9 I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for the ones you have given me, because they are yours, 10 and everything of mine is yours and everything of yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them. 11 And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you.” my reflections t h i n k : At all times, Jesus stands with us commending us to the mercy and love of the Father. _________________________________________________________
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T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR 1Samuel 5-8 | |
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| | SABBATH | GRANT HIS PRAYER, PLEASE The most famous after-dinner address in history is our Gospel today. The place was the Upper Room in Jerusalem. The occasion was the meal that annually commemorates the Exodus, the Israelites’ way of thanking Yahweh for delivering them from the bondage of slavery in Egypt. Jesus delivered this most famous after-dinner address and 11 of His disciples comprise His audience. One was missing: Judas Iscariot who, earlier that evening, scooted off on some clandestine business. His after-dinner address was a farewell to the men He loved, lived and worked with. He did not only teach them God’s message; He also trained them how to relay the same message to the world after His departure from their sight. The future of God’s message was placed in their hands. But even as He spoke, Jesus knew that one already failed: Judas Iscariot who betrayed Him. This gave more significance to His words. With betrayal and certain death, all He cared for was the 11 to whom He entrusted His Gospel. His “hour” had come; His days were over. This after-dinner speech was unique in the sense that it was not even addressed to His audience. Jesus, with eyes raised to heaven, spoke to His Father. This specific chapter of John’s Gospel is called the “high priestly prayer” of Jesus. But while not addressed to His audience, Jesus wanted them to hear His prayer, for it was for their benefit that He prayed. And we have the blessed chance to eavesdrop because in praying for His disciples, Jesus prayed also for us. There is nothing that Jesus asks from the Father that the Father will not grant. However, the answer to Jesus’ “high priestly prayer” depends not only on the Father. It also depends on us. When we cooperate with the grace that comes from the Father, the fulfillment of Jesus’ great priestly prayer happens. What we become upon the action of the Father’s grace and our cooperation with it is our answer to Jesus’ prayer. While we hope that Jesus answers every prayer of our heart, can we be the answers to His prayer to the Father? Please, grant His prayer. Fr. Bobby Titco Reflection Question: Can I be the answer to Jesus’ prayer to the Father? Amen, Jesus. Amen. St. Venantius, pray for us. | |
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