 | Daily Bible Reflections
for June 2, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
His light is shining on you this Wednesday.
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | REFUSING TO BE MISLED “Are you not misled because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.” – Mark 12:24 One of her pains is the conversion of her son to a cult — Jehovah’s Witness. But even more painful is her son’s repeated attempt to bring her to that sect. “That’s why I keep attending our weekly Bible sharing session as well as other opportunities to understand the Scripture from the Catholic point of view,” she often says. In several of our cell meetings, she would narrate the most recent verbal battle she had with her son, who grabs every opportunity to interpret a verse to her. And little by little, she is learning to identify how different it is from how she was taught as a Catholic. Unlike her son, this God-fearing woman refused to be misled in her faith. Not even her own son could sway her away from the truth. How contrary to the witnessing of the Pharisees who failed to understand what Scripture teaches because of their impure motives. Cristy Galang (cristy_cc@yahoo.com) REFLECTION: Do I read Scriptures? Do I call on the Holy Spirit to guide me so that I will understand accurately what the Lord is telling me from His Word? Speak to my heart, Lord, especially through Your Word. Shield any deceit of the enemy that I may hear You and obey You. Amen. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Our faith can wane over time. Thus, Paul’s reminder to Timothy to fire up his faith is a wake-up call for us as well. May we never allow our faith to fade to an ember in danger of snuffing out. Let us keep it burning brightly at all times. 2 Timothy 1:1-3, 6-12 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God for the promise of life in Christ Jesus, 2 to Timothy, my dear child: grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 3 I am grateful to God, whom I worship with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, as I remember you constantly in my prayers, night and day. 6 For this reason, I remind you to stir into flame the gift of God that you have through the imposition of my hands. 7 For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control. 8 So do not be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord, nor of me, a prisoner for his sake; but bear your share of hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God. 9 He saved us and called us to a holy life, not according to our works but according to his own design and the grace bestowed on us in Christ Jesus before time began, 10 but now made manifest through the appearance of our savior Christ Jesus, who destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 11 for which I was appointed preacher and apostle and teacher. 12 On this account I am suffering these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know him in whom I have believed and am confident that he is able to guard what has been entrusted to me until that day. P S A L M Psalm 123:1b-2ab, 2cdef R: To you, O Lord, I lift up my eyes. 1 To you I lift up my eyes who are enthroned in heaven. 2 Behold, as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters. (R) As the eyes of a maid are on the hands of her mistress, so are our eyes on the LORD, our God, till he have pity on us. (R) G O S P E L The life of the resurrection is not defined by the same limitations and structures on earth. Our existence will be solely focused on our love of God. It will only be through that love that we are in relationship with others. We will be totally fulfilled by our love for and from God and our friendships with other human beings will be a part of this reality — they will no longer be exclusive but all inclusive in nature. Mark 12:18-27 18 Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and put this question to him, 19 saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If someone’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.’ 20 Now there were seven brothers. The first married a woman and died, leaving no descendants. 21 So the second married her and died, leaving no descendants, and the third likewise. 22 And the seven left no descendants. Last of all the woman also died. 23 At the resurrection when they arise whose wife will she be? For all seven had been married to her.” 24 Jesus said to them, “Are you not misled because you do not know the scriptures or the power of God? 25 When they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are like the angels in heaven. 26 As for the dead being raised, have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? 27 He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are greatly misled.” my reflections think: May we never allow our faith to fade to an ember in danger of snuffing out. _________________________________________________________
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| | SABBATH | CALLED TO A HOLY LIFE All of us who have gone through college in the Philippines would know what “Mi Ultimo Adios” stands for. It has always amused me to see wide-eyed college freshmen feverishly copying Rizal’s “My Last Farewell” wherever it is found — in Luneta, in museums and in libraries. We, Filipinos, wax either poetic or melodramatic in parting moments. Rizal waxed poetic and left us a legacy of a fervent devotion and attachment to the “fatherland” which he poignantly referred to as “nuestro perdido Eden” (our Paradise lost). Paul’s letter to Timothy is his own version of “Mi Ultimo Adios.” Writing from a Roman jail, he wanes in age but waxes in fervor, love and devotion to his beloved flock, headed now by Timothy, whom he has “laid hands on” at some earlier time. He turns both poetic and passionate as he gives parting words of instruction and exhortation “to stir into flame the gift of God bestowed when [his] hands were laid on [him].” Not all of us were laid hands on for ordained ministry. But all of us have been “saved” and “called to a holy life,” “according to [God’s] own design.” Rizal, our national hero, had his own contribution towards our being molded into becoming one people, by being the hero that we now extol him to be. Lorenzo Ruiz, the migrant saint, born of migrant parents, was not laid hands on either. And neither was the youthful Pedro Calungsod. Both were in the prime of their short lives when they underwent hardships that led to their martyrdom. Even Timothy was in the prime of youth when he was commissioned to do service for the Gospel. Parting words are always powerful especially if we look up to the person who utters them. The words of Rizal are definitely moving. And so, too, are the words of Paul to Timothy. Today, we are not just moved but convicted by Paul. He reminds us that we are “called to a holy life” — no more, no less. Fr. Chito Dimaranan, SDB Reflection Question: What keeps me from responding to Paul’s call to live a holy life? Lord Jesus, move me each day to live a holy life. May the lives of saints and martyrs show me that it is possible for an ordinary mortal like me to be holy. St. Eugene, pray for us. | |
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