 | Daily Bible Reflections
for June 24, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
Be blessed by His Creative Word this Thursday!
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | Solemnity of the Nativity of John the Baptist unique genius “What, then, will this child be?” – Luke 1: 66 A teacher once told Michael’s mother that he’d never be able to focus on anything in his life because of his difficulty in focusing on the lessons in the classroom. As a boy, he was diagnosed with ADHD. He’d often stand up and can’t stay quiet. It was very hard for him to concentrate. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Michael Fred Phelps won eight gold medals in various swimming events — the most gold reaped by anyone in a single Olympics. That’s aside from the various awards and records he still holds. Often, we hold biases and beliefs about how a child would grow up based on what they are now and what they do. We tend to box a child (or other people for that matter) with what we see or of our impression of what they do. We relegate them to the sidelines. The cruelest thing we do is give up on them. God made us great with our own unique genius. We should treat others and ourselves as such.Jun Asis (mabuting.balita@gmail.com) REFLECTION: There is a gem in each person. Look for it in others and in your self. Lord, let me look beyond my sight and recognize Your divine presence in other people and in myself. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING John the Baptist is born to prepare the way for Jesus. This is his calling in life, one that he will perform faithfully unto death. Today we celebrate his birth and recognize the blessing he is — not just to his family but to us all in that he was obedient to God’s call. Similarly, we celebrate the lives of all the saints who illuminate for us the Christian life of discipleship. Our lives can be the same if we are willing to surrender all to God’s will. Isaiah 49:1-6 1 Hear me, O coastlands, listen, O distant peoples. The LORD called me from birth, from my mother’s womb he gave me my name. 2 He made of me a sharp-edged sword and concealed me in the shadow of his arm. He made me a polished arrow, in his quiver he hid me. 3 You are my servant, he said to me, Israel, through whom I show my glory. 4 Though I thought I had toiled in vain, and for nothing, uselessly, spent my strength, yet my reward is with the LORD, my recompense is with my God. 5 For now the LORD has spoken who formed me as his servant from the womb, that Jacob may be brought back to him and Israel gathered to him; and I am made glorious in the sight of the LORD, and my God is now my strength! 6 It is too little, he says, for you to be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and restore the survivors of Israel; I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth. P S A L M Psalm 139:1b-3, 13-14ab, 14c-15 R: I praise you for I am wonderfully made. 1 O LORD, you have probed me and you know me: 2 you know when I sit and when I stand; you understand my thoughts from afar. 3 My journeys and my rest you scrutinize, with all my ways you are familiar. (R) 13 Truly you have formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother’s womb. 14 I give you thanks that I am fearfully, wonderfully made; wonderful are your works. (R) My soul also you knew full well; 15 nor was my frame unknown to you when I was made in secret, when I was fashioned in the depths of the earth. (R) 2nd READING In describing the preparation for the coming of Jesus, Paul mentions the names of Samuel, Saul and David in order to establish the fact of the David Kingdom. He also mentions John the Baptist as the precursor to Jesus. John stands in great company as one who links the Old and New Covenants. We, too, have the opportunity to be remembered in this company — if we are willing to follow their example. Acts 13:22-26 22 In those days, Paul said: “God raised up David as king; of him God testified, ‘I have found David, son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will carry out my every wish.’ 23 From this man’s descendants God, according to his promise, has brought to Israel a savior, Jesus. 24 John heralded his coming by proclaiming a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel; 25 and as John was completing his course, he would say, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. Behold, one is coming after me; I am not worthy to unfasten the sandals of his feet.’ 26 “My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those others among you who are God-fearing, to us this word of salvation has been sent.” G O S P E L John is filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born. What a grace and blessing. If we carefully read the first two chapters of Luke’s Gospel we will find that all of the characters are influenced in one way or another by the grace of the Holy Spirit. I wonder what role the Holy Spirit plays in each of our lives? Let us not supress it and allow Him to fulfill it. Luke 1:57-66, 80 57 When the time arrived for Elizabeth to have her child she gave birth to a son. 58 Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her. 59 When they came on the eighth day to circumcise the child, they were going to call him Zechariah after his father, 60 but his mother said in reply, “No. He will be called John.” 61 But they answered her, “There is no one among your relatives who has this name.” 62 So they made signs, asking his father what he wished him to be called. 63 He asked for a tablet and wrote, “John is his name,” and all were amazed. 64 Immediately his mouth was opened, his tongue freed, and he spoke blessing God. 65 Then fear came upon all their neighbors, and all these matters were discussed throughout the hill country of Judea. 66 All who heard these things took them to heart, saying, “What, then, will this child be?” For surely the hand of the Lord was with him. 80 The child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the desert until the day of his manifestation to Israel. my reflections t h i n k: What role does the Holy Spirit play in your life? _________________________________________________________
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T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR 1Chronicles 23-24 | |
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| | SABBATH | BEYOND LIMITS John the Baptist’s mother was barren. His father was mute. He was born in circumstances that may be described as nothing short of miraculous. He came to the scene as quickly as he receded from it. He did a meteoric rise of sorts, but just as precipitously went down to self-imposed oblivion: “He must increase; I must decrease.” He died a violent death at the hands of someone who danced her way to curry the favor of a king who was as superficial in his vision as he was shallow in character. He had made a hasty, not-so-well-thought-out promise to the vicious but voluptuous young girl, a daughter of an even more vicious and voraciously ambitious woman. John the Baptist, a man who stood as a sign of contradiction, “greater than whom, no man ever born of woman had ever lived,” is our man of the hour. Though born of a barren womb, John showed remarkable fecundity even in his hidden, humble life. Though sired by an old and mute man Zechariah, John boomed a powerful voice of prophecy that shook his little world then. We are in an hour of human history when we have effectively been rendered mute and barren. We cannot raise our voices in protest about so many things, silenced as we are by human respect and political correctness. We cannot make known our true feelings about God and His Kingdom on earth, because we fear to offend those who would hear nothing of religion and its place in our lives. We are mute before the powers-that-be who railroad their self-serving plans because perhaps we also benefit from them in some way. We have become barren in more ways than one, unable to “bear fruit in charity for the life of the world.” All we do often end in disappointment — our own and that of others. We need to do a John the Baptist, not with power, prestige, position and privilege, but with humility, hiddenness and honest-to-goodness dedication to God’s cause. John pulled it off. Beyond expectations. Beyond limits. Are we ready to follow him?Fr. Chito Dimaranan, SDB Reflection Question: Am I ready to do a John the Baptist in my own millieu? Lord God, grant me the courage and wisdom of John the Baptist so that I could speak out when there is a need to. St. Barthlomew of Fame, pray for us. | |
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