 | Daily Bible Reflections
for February 5, 2011 |
|  Dear Lordie,
This Saturday, let God give you rest in His Spirit.
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | REST He said to them, “Come away to a deserted place and rest a while.” – Mark 6: 31 In 1999, Jesus advised me to slow down in my efforts to evangelize through a mistaken finding of a past heart attack. I asked Him why. The answer came from a homily of a priest who said Mass at the Department of Foreign Affairs. “God says, ‘If you are too tired for yourself, then you are too tired for me.’” Jesus’ loving advice above was addressed to the Apostles after they came back from their missions. The group reported all they had done and taught. The Teacher must have seen and felt how tired they were from walking and preaching. Still, more people were coming and going in great numbers to them. Unable to eat, they had to go off on a boat in order to do so. We who try to follow the greatest commission of bringing the Good News to the ends of the earth are the modern-day apostles. Then and now, be sure that Jesus is telling us, “Hey guys! I know you love me and you sure are trying to follow my request to bring others to the Father. Remember, though, you are only human. Please take care of yourselves so you can bring more souls to me.”Grace Princesa (grprincesa@yahoo.com) REFLECTION: Do you give as much importance to rest as you do to your work? Dear Lord, may I always remember that homily. You don’t want me to burn out in a quick burst of fire but be a steady flame ready for my pilgrimage to the ends of the earth as Ambassador for Christ and country. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Sharing is essential to the life of any community. If people refuse to share their blessings with one another, the community, as well as the individuals in it, will be impoverished. Let us never fall into this sort of a trap. Let us err on the side of generosity and choose to experience personal deprivation to a small degree rather than fall into the sin of selfishness and greed. Hebrews 13:15-17, 20-21 15 Brothers and sisters: Through Jesus, let us continually offer God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name. 16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have; God is pleased by sacrifices of that kind. 17 Obey your leaders and defer to them, for they keep watch over you and will have to give an account, that they may fulfill their task with joy and not with sorrow, for that would be of no advantage to you. 20 May the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep by the blood of the eternal covenant, Jesus our Lord, 21 furnish you with all that is good, that you may do his will. May he carry out in you what is pleasing to him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. P S A L M Psalm 23:1-3, 3-4, 5, 6 R: The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want. 1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 In verdant pastures he gives me repose. Beside restful waters he leads me; 3 he refreshes my soul. (R) He guides me in right paths for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk in the dark valley I fear no evil; for you are at my side with your rod and your staff that give me courage. (R) 5 You spread the table before me in the sight of my foes; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. (R) 6 Only goodness and kindness follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD for years to come. (R) G O S P E L Jesus specifically calls His apostles away from the crowds to rest. Some people are truly energized by crowds, yet even they need time to stop, rest and reflect. Busyness is the greatest enemy of effective ministry. If we are always too busy to pray, where is our spiritual strength coming from? Wherever it is, it will not take too long to exhaust oneself. Reflection and rest not only give our physical bodies time to recuperate, they will also help to reveal to us the reason why we give ourselves to the work of the Gospel. ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord; I know them, and they follow me. R: Alleluia, alleluia Mark 6:30-34 30 The apostles gathered together with Jesus and reported all they had done and taught. 31 He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” People were coming and going in great numbers, and they had no opportunity even to eat. 32 So they went off in the boat by themselves to a deserted place. 33 People saw them leaving and many came to know about it. They hastened there on foot from all the towns and arrived at the place before them. 34 When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things. my reflections t h i n k : Reflection and rest not only give our physical bodies time to recuperate, they will also help to reveal to us the reason why we give ourselves to the work of the Gospel. 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 Leviticus 16-18 Leviticus 16-18 | |
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| | SABBATH | TEARS FOR A MARTYR, A LIFE WORTH THE TEAR We do not know exactly when St. Agatha was born. But we know that she was martyred in Catania (the present-day Sicily in Italy) in the year 251 A.D., probably under the rule of the Emperor Decius. We also know very little about her life. We know, however, that Agatha was a Roman citizen who belonged to the early Christian community. The pagans, whose sexual advances she refused, severed her breasts from her body. St. Agatha is a virgin martyr. We know little about the lives of countless martyrs of the Church. Many of them are remembered in places where they were born, where they lived and died as martyrs. Still some of them are known only to their descendants. But most of them, we know only by name individually or as a group. These countless martyrs shed their blood for the Lord and, today, we enjoy the faith they preserved by their martyrdom. When one stands inside a catacomb, he cannot help but be overwhelmed by the remains of the Christian martyrs venerated there. The feeling of awe can move one to tears for both gratitude and shame: gratitude for the martyrs who planted the seeds of faith in our hearts, and shame for the lukewarm and mediocrity that may infect the faith of a present-day Christian. We, too, are called to martyrdom. Unlike St. Agatha’s, our martyrdom may not be about dying but about living. After all, martyrion, the Greek origin of the English word “martyrdom” simply means “witness.” Living speaks as loud as dying when witnessing is called for. One does not simply die a martyr; rather, one dies a martyr’s death because the martyr has first lived a martyr’s life. When we die, people may cry. But when they cry, may their tears be tears of gratitude for the kind of lives we lived, and not tears of shame for how we have lived. We are martyrs. Some of us are gifted with dying for the faith. But all of us are called to live for it. Fr. Bobby Titco Reflection Question: What kind of a martyr am I? Jesus, I love you. Make me a martyr for You even now as I live my daily life. Make me a shining witness to You in the world. And when the call of death arrives, let my response to it be my final act of giving witness to You as well. Amen. St. Avitus of Vienne, pray for us. | |
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