 | Daily Bible Reflections
for June 17, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
Never lose sight of Jesus this Thursday.
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | WORLD PEACE “In praying, do not babble like the pagans…” – Matthew 6:7 One time, after visiting a friend from the hospital, my friends and I passed by St. Joseph Church in Cubao to pray for a while. My friend knew it was my first time there so she told me to make a wish. I closed my eyes and asked something for myself… and then I realized how selfish I must be for making that wish when there were so many people suffering out there, not to mention our friend who was still in the hospital. I took my wish back and asked for something for the good of all mankind. Like world peace. I carried that same attitude when I started having a regular prayer time. I would pray more for “world peace” than for the things that concerned me. Yes, those things are noble and I do believe that God wants us to pray for them. But I believe that God also wants to hear from us — our concerns, our joys, the things we want, the things we worry about. Just like a parent listening to his child, I believe it brings God great joy when we bring our cares to Him. Tina Matanguihan (tina.matanguihan@gmail.com) REFLECTION: “It is a revelation of pure joyousness in which the child of God pours into the Father’s bosom the cares which give pain and anxiety that He may solve the difficulties.” (Oswald Chambers) Lord, help me to remember that You care for me as much as You care for the world. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Chapter 48 of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) lists a number of the great figures of the Old Testament, similar to Hebrews 11. We need to reflect on the lives of the holy men and women of our faith in order to discover models of faith for our lives. We need to reject the models that reject the Law of God and focus on those who really know and live with the correct priorities in life. Sirach 48:1-14 1 Like a fire there appeared the prophet Elijah whose words were as a flaming furnace. 2 Their staff of bread he shattered, in his zeal he reduced them to straits; 3 by Lord’s word he shut up the heavens and three times brought down fire. 4 How awesome are you, Elijah, in your wondrous deeds! Whose glory is equal to yours? 5 You brought a dead man back to life from the nether world, by the will of the LORD. 6 You sent kings down to destruction, and nobles, from their beds of sickness. 7 You heard threats at Sinai, at Horeb avenging judgments. 8 You anointed kings who should inflict vengeance, and a prophet as your successor. 9 You were taken aloft in a whirlwind, in a chariot with fiery horses. 10 You are destined, it is written, in time to come to put an end to wrath before the day of the LORD, to turn back the hearts of fathers toward their sons, and to reestablish the tribes of Jacob. 11 Blessed is he who shall have seen you before he dies, 12 O Elijah, enveloped in the whirlwind! Then Elisha, filled with a twofold portion of his spirit, wrought many marvels by his mere word. During his lifetime he feared no one, nor was any man able to intimidate his will. 13 Nothing was beyond his power; beneath him flesh was brought back into life. 14 In life he performed wonders, and after death, marvelous deeds. P S A L M Psalm 97:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7 R: Rejoice in the Lord, you just. 1 The LORD is king; let the earth rejoice; let the many isles be glad. 2 Clouds and darkness are round about him, justice and judgment are the foundation of his throne. (R) 3 Fire goes before him and consumes his foes round about. 4 His lightnings illumine the world; the earth sees and trembles. (R) 5 The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth. 6 The heavens proclaim his justice, and all peoples see his glory. (R) 7 All who worship graven things are put to shame, who glory in the things of nought; all gods are prostrate before him. (R) G O S P E L The Lord’s Prayer is the foundation of a life of prayer. Its many aspects describe the components of what our prayer life should consist of. For example, we should always be ready to give praise and glory to God as we do in the opening line of this prayer. We have a duty to praise Him and give Him worship and glory for who He is and what He has done for us. Matthew 6:7-15 7 Jesus said to his disciples: “In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them. Your Father knows what youneed before you ask him. 9 “This is how you are to pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, 10 your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. 11 Give us today our daily bread; 12 and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; 13 and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil.’ 14 “If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.” 1 Chronicles 9-10 my reflections t h i n k : The Lord’s Prayer is the foundation of a life of prayer. _________________________________________________________
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T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR 1Chronicles 9-10 | |
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| | SABBATH | TURNING THE HEARTS OF FATHERS TO THEIR SONS David Blankenhorn wrote 15 years ago that America (and the rest of the world) runs the risk of being a fatherless generation. At the rate marriages end in divorce all over, at the pace at which relationships are established and just as quickly broken, we are indeed witnessing much more than just a crisis of paternity or a crisis of authority. We see this in the Philippine society’s loss of trust for leaders, both on the local and national levels. With so many fathers and mothers distant or away, mainly for reasons of survival, as they have to eke out a living abroad, parental authority is minimally felt if not totally non-existent. In its place is the feeble mode of leadership filled in for by aged grandparents or well-meaning relatives who have their own life hurdles to worry about. Today’s readings both speak of paternity — the kind that we all must work and aim for. Jesus teaches us the best model of prayer, addressed to God as Father. Sirach (first reading) speaks glowingly about the father figure of Elijah, whose greatness is unequaled by anyone else and who was destined “to turn the hearts of fathers toward their sons, and to re-establish the tribes of Jacob.” There is something worth our while to consider in these two readings that converge on the same basic idea: the need for a deep and warm relationship between leader and follower, father and child, ruler and subject. It is no rocket science for us to realize that communication runs smooth between two parties if, in the first place, there is a deep affective bond between the two parties. Prayer, an act of communing and communicating with God, can only take place in the context of a deep interpersonal relationship. One cannot go through the motions of praying for long, unless one has the corresponding emotions that ought to give prayer form and color, if not content. And what, you might ask, is that bond all about? It has to do with seeing God as Father, exactly as Jesus would have us call on Him.Fr. Chito Dimaranan, SDB Reflection Question: How is your relationship with your biological father? How is your relationship with our heavenly Father? Do you see a semblance there? Heavenly Father, help me to trust in your fatherly love for me. Heal and restore my relationship with my biological father. Amen. St. Emily de Vialar, pray for us. | |
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