 | Daily Bible Reflections
for February 7, 2011 |
|  Dear Lordie,
Carry the Lord in your heart this Monday!
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | our words, our reality “Then God said, ‘Let there be light’ – and light appeared.” – Genesis 1: 3 God created the universe using words. He says it and it happens. Do you know that God shared this awesome power to us human beings? Yes, our words become our reality. Dr. Masaru Emoto, a Japanese author and scientist, did experiments on the power of words on water. He would talk to water droplets and the resulting frozen crystals reacted. Positive words resulted to beautiful crystal formations. Negative words caused ugly crystal images. He even did the same thing to rice — even using written words. I’m sure you must have heard of gardeners talking to plants and getting similar results. If words could do this to things, imagine what it can do to people you speak to and to you who speak them! Imagine how your mind, emotions, body and spirit would react to a bombardment of negative and depressing thoughts and words every day. It will create an ugly world — an ugly you! Now try to declare and proclaim positive and great things in your life every day. Then see how wonderful your world and you become! Say it!Alvin Barcelona (kpreacheralvin@gmail.com) REFLECTION: What words have you been telling yourself and others in the past days, weeks, months or years? Are they life-giving? Are they creating a wonderful world for you and for others? This is the day that the Lord has made! Blessing and miracles await me. Amen. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING God creates out of nothing. One of the questions the scientists will never be able to answer is how in fact there is matter in the first place. Where did all the matter come from? By faith we believe that God created all things through His Word and this is the basis of our belief in the power of the Word of God to bring change to our lives. If God speaks, then it will happen according to His Word. Genesis 1:1-19 1 In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, 2 the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters. 3 Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw how good the light was. God then separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” Thus evening came, and morning followed — the first day. 6 Then God said, “Let there be a dome in the middle of the waters, to separate one body of water from the other.” And so it happened: 7 God made the dome, and it separated the water above the dome from the water below it. 8 God called the dome “the sky.” Evening came, and morning followed — the second day. 9 Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into a single basin, so that the dry land may appear.” And so it happened: the water under the sky was gathered into its basin, and the dry land appeared. 10 God called the dry land “the earth,” and the basin of the water he called “the sea.” God saw how good it was. 11 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: every kind of plant that bears seed and every kind of fruit tree on earth that bears fruit with its seed in it.” And so it happened: 12 the earth brought forth every kind of plant that bears seed and every kind of fruit tree on earth that bears fruit with its seed in it. God saw how good it was. 13 Evening came, and morning followed — the third day. 14 Then God said: “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky, to separate day from night. Let them mark the fixed times, the days and the years, 15 and serve as luminaries in the dome of the sky, to shed light upon the earth.” And so it happened: 16 God made the two great lights, the greater one to govern the day, and the lesser one to govern the night; and he made the stars. 17 God set them in the dome of the sky, to shed light upon the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw how good it was. 19 Evening came, and morning followed — the fourth day. P S A L M Psalm 104:1-2, 5-6, 10, 12, 24, 35 R: May the Lord be glad in his works. 1 Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD, my God, you are great indeed! You are clothed with majesty and glory, 2 robed in light as with a cloak. (R) 5 You fixed the earth upon its foundation, not to be moved forever; 6 with the ocean, as with a garment, you covered it; above the mountains the waters stood. (R) 10 You sent forth springs into the watercourses that wind among the mountains. 12 Beside them the birds of heaven dwell; from among the branches they send forth their song. (R) 24 How manifold are your works, O LORD! In wisdom you have wrought them all — the earth is full of your creatures. 35 Bless the LORD, O my soul! Alleluia. (R) G O S P E L We are told that Jesus has become a household name through the region because of His ministry. There were usually plenty of prophets and preachers around Israel so that one who stands out as Jesus did must have been truly different. We know why – He is the Son of God, the Messiah for whom Israel has been waiting nearly 2,000 years. Let us believe in the miracles of Jesus as they speak to us of His divinity. As such let us entrust our lives to Him who exercises the power of God so benevolently. ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia Jesus preached the Gospel of the Kingdom and cured every disease among the people. R: Alleluia, alleluia Mark 6:53-56 53 After making the crossing to the other side of the sea, Jesus and his disciples came to land at Gennesaret and tied up there. 54 As they were leaving the boat, people immediately recognized him. 55 They scurried about the surrounding country and began to bring in the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. 56 Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak; and as many as touched it were healed. my reflections t h i n k : Let us entrust our lives to Him who exercises the power of God so benevolently. God’s special verse/thought for me today________________ _________________________________________________________
T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN Leviticus 22-24 | |
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| | SABBATH | TOUCH ME — YES! Touch is one of our basic human faculties — too basic that we need not be taught how to use it. We need, however, to learn what and what not to touch, whom and whom we should set our hands on. I remember a story from my childhood days, about a moth that disobeyed its mother. Despite its mother’s warning, the young moth simply could not resist the alluring light from the burning lamp so that it went too close to the flame. Too late for the young moth to learn its lesson: it burned itself to death. The people in the Gospel today wanted to touch even just the end of Jesus’ cloak. They learned whom to touch: Jesus. They learned how to touch Him: with faith. And many of them were healed. Clearly, Jesus heals not only by touching people but also by allowing people to touch Him, even just the end of His garment. To touch someone is easier for me than to allow someone to touch me. When I touch someone, I am in control; I can choose whom to touch. When I allow anyone to touch me, however, I lose control; I am no longer in command. To touch is power. To be touched is vulnerability. Jesus allowed Himself to be vulnerable. That is precisely how He saved us: “By His wounds we have been healed” (1 Peter 2:24). He did not only touch us. He allowed us to touch Him. And by touching Him with real faith we are healed. After celebrating a Mass, especially on Sundays, people would crowd around me to kiss my hand or to simply touch it. I confess, many times I feel harassed but I never send anyone away. I have accepted that part of my ministry as an alter Christus(another Christ) is to allow people to touch me with the faith that, unworthy though I am, I may bring upon them the healing they pray for. One Sunday, when the crowd thinned, I saw a little girl run toward me. She was not contented with kissing or touching my hand. She hugged me, saying, “Father!” I was close to tears. Fr. Bobby Titco Reflection Question: Do I allow others to touch me? Why? Why not? Father God, You allow us to touch You through Jesus Your Son. He emptied Himself and became one like us in all things but sin. In our desire to be like Jesus, grant us the grace to allow others to touch us and the privilege of becoming instruments of Your healing power. Amen. Blessed Rizzerio, pray for us. | |
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