 | Daily Bible Reflections
for November 1, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
You Are One Of Them. Better get comfortable with that title. Happy All Saints Day! You really are a saint because Jesus calls you to live for love each day.
Be God?s blessing to the world this Monday!
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | Solemnity of All Saints THE YOKE OF PURITY “Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God.” – Matthew 5:8 On the second day of the Kerygma Conference 2008, God woke me up early and told me to totally change my talk. I didn’t have much time to prepare. On stage, I opened the Bible to Matthew 11:28: “Come to me all of you who are weary and tired and I will give you rest.” That passage is so familiar but the verse that follows is a bit hard to understand. It says, “Take my yoke upon you.” A yoke is a wooden beam that you put on an animal so it can pull a plow or a wagon. Not very restful, I assure you. So what did Jesus want me to talk about? Many people are tired either because of their trials or their sins. And people carry either the yoke of God or the yoke of sin — the yoke of purity or the yoke of impurity. As I spoke, the crowd was more silent than usual. Then I led all over 6,000 people to kneel down. We repented of our sins and received God’s forgiveness. We made a solemn commitment to live a life of purity. Many were set free that day. Friends, I invite you to make the same commitment today. Take the yoke of purity. Jesus wants to set you free.Bo Sanchez (bosanchez@kerygmafamily.com) REFLECTION: What yoke am I carrying now? Is it leading me to Jesus or away from Him? Today, Jesus, I make a solemn commitment to let go of the yoke of impurity and instead take on Your yoke. I am tired of the yoke of sin and I want to rest in You. | |
Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top
| | COMPANION | 1st READING Just thinking about the Communion of the Saints ought to bring great joy to our hearts. Why? Because we have so many friends in heaven interceding for us. What more can you ask for? If we cannot manage to live our Christian lives with all that help, what hope is there for us? We have everything to live for because Jesus has poured His love into our hearts (Romans 5:5). Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14 2 I, John, saw another angel come up from the East, holding the seal of the living God. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who were given power to damage the land and the sea, 3 “Do not damage the land or the sea or the trees until we put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” 4 I heard the number of those who had been marked with the seal, one hundred and forty-four thousand marked from every tribe of the Israelites: 9 After this I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and tongue. They stood before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands. 10 They cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation comes from our God, who is seated on the throne, and from the Lamb.” 11 All the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They prostrated themselves before the throne, worshipped God, 12 and exclaimed: “Amen. Blessing and glory, wisdom and thanksgiving, honor, power, and might be to our God forever and ever. Amen.” 13 Then one of the elders spoke up and said to me, “Who are these wearing white robes, and where did they come from?” 14 I said to him, “My lord, you are the one who knows.” He said to me, “These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” P S A L M Psalm 24:1b-2, 3-4ab, 5-6 R: Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face. 1 The LORD’s are the earth and its fullness; the world and those who dwell in it. 2 For he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. (R) 3 Who can ascend the mountain of the LORD? Or who may stand in his holy place? 4 He whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean, who desires not what is vain. (R) 5 He shall receive a blessing from the LORD, a reward from God his savior. 6 Such is the race that seeks for him, that seeks the face of the God of Jacob. (R) 2nd READING God’s love makes us His children. Therefore, all the people in heaven interceding for us are family. We do not yet fully understand what that means. However, we can begin to live this truth by participating as fully as we can in our own faith communities. The way we love our blood brothers and sisters should be the model of our love for our brothers and sisters in faith. 1 John 3:1-3 1 Beloved: See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure, as he is pure. G O S P E L The beatitudes describe what our Christian character should be like. It might be a good idea if each of us writes out a copy of the beatitudes and puts it in a place where we can read it each day. In this way, we will be reminded of how we should be living our lives. Sometimes we need to be able to see the goal clearly before us in order to be inspired by it. Matthew 5:1-12a 1 When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. 2 He began to teach them, saying: 3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted. 5 Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land. 6 Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied. 7 Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. 8 Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God. 9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. 10 Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you falsely because of me. 12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven.” my reflections t h i n k : L et the beatitudes remind us how we should lives our lives. _________________________________________________________
God’s special verse/thought for me today________________
_________________________________________________________
T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Isaiah 37-40 | |
Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top
| | SABBATH | The Defects of the Saints Many pious souls may find shocking the above title of a book by Fr. Jesus Urteaga (Sinag-Tala Publishers, Inc. Manila). Defects of the saints? Are saints not all-holy and without defects, you may ask. With all our weaknesses, failures, sins and shortcomings, becoming saints seem impossible for us. Fr. Urteaga writes in the introduction to his book, “Those saints on the altars are not made of wax and plaster, but are mortals like us.” Saints were not born with a halo. St. Peter was a coward when he denied the Lord, St. Paul persecuted the Church. St. Augustine was a playboy who seemingly mocked heaven when he called his illegitimate son Adeodatus (Given by God). St. Therese of the Child Jesus was a very stubborn kid. Blessed Mother Teresa lived for decades without feeling God near her…. And so we could go on. What then made them saints? Their struggle! When they sinned, they went to Confession, seriously determined not to commit the same sin again. When they fell, they stood up without giving up. Like those known saints, we cannot avoid to struggle and like them conquer our weaknesses in the end. “For every fall, God leaves us a basketful of hope,” Fr. Urteaga writes. That’s good news for us. St. Paul wrote, “God wants everybody to become holy.” When God wants something we have no right to say, “Impossible.” He provides the means to reach this goal: Confession, the Eucharist, reading the Bible, praying regularly, and avoiding persons, places and things that cause us easily to sin. Today, we honor all those unknown saints who were never canonized but reached the joys of heaven because they never gave up in their struggle but tried to live out Christ’s values in daily life. May November 1 also become your feastday and mine! Fr. Rudy Horst,SVD Reflection Question: Am I easily discouraged by my weaknesses and sins? Do I trust the Lord enough to get up and go on like the saints did? Lord, in my weaknesses I feel often discouraged. When I fall, I lack the courage to stand up and go on struggling. Lord, when You fell under the weight of the Cross, You got up and went on. Help me to follow Your example when I fall under the weight of my weaknesses and sins and so reach the goal: heaven. Blessed Paul Navarro, pray for us. | |
Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top
| | Find one near you!
PICC Sunday (2 sessions) 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. 10:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. PICC, Roxas Blvd. Feast Builder: Bo Sanchez Pasig Sunday (2 sessions) 10:00 a.m. - 12 noon 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Valle Verde Country Club (beside The ULTRA) Feast Builders: George Gabriel and Obet Cabrillas Quezon City Sunday 9:00 a.m. - 12 n.n. Convention Hall, Bureau of Soils, Visayas Ave., Q.C. Feast Builder: Eng Si Alabang Sunday (3 sessions) 11:00 a.m - 1:00 p.m. 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. 2/L X-site Entrance, Festival Mall, Alabang Tel. No. 659-8299
Feast Builder: Arun Gogna
Laguna 9:00 a.m. - 12 n.n. SM Sta. Rosa, Laguna Feast Builders: Hermie Morelos & Jon Escoto Rizal Sunday 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Valley Fair Arcade, Ortigas Ext. Taytay, Rizal Feast Builder: Pio Espanol
Bustos Sunday 2:30 p.m - 5:30 p.m. San isidro labrador Parish, Liciada, Bustos Feast Builder: Chito Manaois Valenzuela Sunday 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Cinema 1, SM Valenzuela Feast Builder: Eng Si Contact no. 09175789554 Ortigas Monday 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Roofdeck, Prestige Tower, F. Ortigas Ave., Pasig City
Feast Builder: Vic Espanol Makati Thursday, 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. AIM Conference Center, Benavidez cor Paseo de Roxas Feast Builder: Randy Borromeo Manila Friday, 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Cinema 4, SM Manila (near City Hall), Manila Feast Builder: Obet Cabrillas Angeles 1st & 3rd Friday, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Angeles City Library, Angeles City Feast Builder: Marvin Tan Marilao (2 sessions) Saturday, 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Cinema 2, SM Marilao, Bulacan Feast Builder: Alvin Barcelona Baliuag Saturday 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Cinema 1, Baliuag, Bulacan Feast Builder: Chito Manaois Contact no. 09174358746/09228190198 Cardona Saturday 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Queen Mary Help of Christians Hospital, National Road, Calahan, Cardona CEBU 1st & 3rd Sunday of each month
9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. University of San Carlos North Campus, Mango Ave., Cebu City Feast Builder: Oscar Alino Contact nos. 4128142/09212413801/09232908009 DAVAO Sunday 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Labrecque Hall, San Pedro College, C. de Guzman St.,Davao City Feast Builder: Jing Sto. Domingo Contact nos. 0822865081/0922251822
2. Wake up to the new KERYGMA TV! on TV5! On a new time slot - Sundays 6-7 a.m. PLUS... MUSTARD (for kids) Saturdays 6-7 a.m FISHBOWL (for the youth) Saturdays 7-8 a.m. 3. Need Counseling? Call a friend for counseling at 09228407031, 7266728, 7264709, and 7259999 Mon-Fri 24-hrs, Sat 6am-5pm, Sun 6am-10am. 4. Free Kerygma Magazine (the one on paper) from Bo. If you're a KerygmaFamily member who regularly supports this ministry with at least P300 or US$20 a month - you'll be receiving a one-year subscription of the KerygmaMagazine in the mail-automatically! If you haven't signed up for KerygmaFamily, join now!
http://www.kerygmafamily.com 5. Its now easy to DONATE using the new GlobeTelecom GCASH at http://kerygmafamily.com.
6. DONATE using SMART MONEY - type KFAM_amount and send to 270 7. Put Preacher in Blue Jeans in your Blog or Friendster! Just copy the text in under next to the EMBED keyword under the video. Just like YOUTUBE! 8. Did you receive this email from someone else? To get Bo Sanchez to send it to you personally, log-on to http://kerygmafamily.com.
Lots of surprises await. 9. To change your KerygmaFamily member/email settings. Please click here 10. To enter the Audio & Video Teachings, Please click here 11. Forward these to your friends - so they too can read God's Word and be invited to join the KerygmaFamily. They'll Thank you for opening this mountain of blessings to them! 12. Contact Person: Tina (+632) 9312711 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (+632) 9312711 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or + 639178424101 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting + 639178424101 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or support@kerygmafamily.com
|
No response to “Lordie, God's Message For You Today, November 1, 2010”
Post a Comment