 | Daily Bible Reflections
for April 9, 2011 |
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| | REVENGE LIST “But, O Lord Almighty, you who judge righteously and test the heart and mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you I have committed my cause.” – Jeremiah 11:20 It was an old episode of The Simpsons that I watched when I was a kid that gave me an idea to write my own revenge list. I didn’t really know much about revenge, but I thought it was cool, so I took my diary and wrote down names of people I wanted vengeance from. After I made my list, I started thinking of ways to exact revenge from them. I never got to do anything because my mom found my list and I got an earful from her about how revenge is bad and all that. I didn’t understand it then, because I thought that what I did wasn’t wrong. In fact, I thought it was just right — the people I listed wronged me first, and I thought they deserved to get something from me as payback. How immature that thinking was. Now that I’m older and know better, I’ve learned to keep a prayer list instead. It’s not my place to plan on payback, but it is my place to pray for the ones who wrong me and ask God to help me forgive them. Tina Matanguihan (tina.matanguihan@gmail.com) 9 REFLECTION: “There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.” (Josh Billings) Father, I lift up all those who persecute me. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Jeremiah’s life as a prophet was not an easy one. He had many people working against him as they did not appreciate his honesty in calling them to repentance and conversion to a life of holiness. It seems to me that we need a few more Jeremiahs today. We know deep in our own hearts that there is a reluctance to repent of our sins and conversion to a life of holiness is not a very convenient road to walk, as it is a lot of work! Yet, this is the call at the heart of the Gospel and we must respond to it. Jeremiah 11:18-20 18 I knew their plot because the LORD informed me; at that time you, O LORD, showed me their doings. 19 Yet, I, like a trusting lamb led to slaughter, had not realized that they were hatching plots against me: “Let us destroy the tree in its vigor; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will be spoken no more.” 20 But you, O Lord of hosts, O just Judge, searcher of mind and heart, let me witness the vengeance you take on them, for to you I have entrusted my cause! P S A L M Psalms 7:2-3, 9-10, 11-12 R: O Lord, my God, in you I take refuge. 1 [2] O LORD, my God, in you I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and rescue me, 2 [3] lest I become like the lion’s prey, to be torn to pieces, with no one to rescue me. (R) 8 [9] Do me justice, O LORD, because I am just, and because of the innocence that is mine. 9 [10] Let the malice of the wicked come to an end, but sustain the just, O searcher of heart and soul, O just God. (R) 10 [11] A shield before me is God, who saves the upright of heart; 11 [12] a just judge is God, a God who punishes day by day. (R) G O S P E L Powerful people often have a disregard for the processes of the law as they think they are above it. In other words, they think they are no better than the law as it is written or that it does not apply to them because of their position in society. Maybe people can get away with such an attitude depending on their connections to the corridors of power, but there is one thing most certain. They will have to give an account of their abuses on Judgment Day. VERSE BEFORE THE GOSPEL Blessed are they who have kept the word with a generous heart and yield a harvest through perseverance. John 7:40-53 40 Some in the crowd who heard these words of Jesus said, “This is truly the Prophet.” 41 Others said, “This is the Christ.” But others said, “The Christ will not come from Galilee, will he? 42 Does not scripture say that the Christ will be of David’s family and come from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?” 43 So a division occurred in the crowd because of him. 44 Some of them even wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him. 45 So the guards went to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why did you not bring him?” 46 The guards answered, “Never before has anyone spoken like this one.” 47 So the Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived? 48 Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? 49 But this crowd, which does not know the law, is accursed.” 50 Nicodemus, one of their members who had come to him earlier, said to them, 51 “Does our law condemn a person before it first hears him and finds out what he is doing?” 52 They answered and said to him, “You are not from Galilee also, are you? Look and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.” 53 Then each went to his own house. my reflections t h i n k : A life of holiness is not a very convenient road to walk, as it is a lot of work! Yet, this is the call at the heart of the Gospel and we must respond to it. 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 2 Kings 21-25 | |
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| | SABBATH | THE OBEDIENT SERVANT Jeremiah tends to be a pitiful character in the Old Testament. He is always in trouble with his fellowmen, mainly because they grow weary of the prophet’s call to repentance and how destruction awaits their beloved nation if they do not come clean. This weeping prophet was summoned by God to call the people to repentance in the event of an attack of higher and mightier forces of power, namely Assyria and Babylonia. The three short verses we have in today’s first reading are full of similarities in the life of Jesus, particularly His Passion. First, there is revelation and insight. God reveals to Jeremiah the plot that the wicked men are planning to do with his life. He is given insight and revelation by the Lord that this is their doing. Jesus, too, was aware of His fate as the prophet. Second, there is sacrifice. Jeremiah, similar to Jesus, is considered the lamb to be slaughtered. He was to be cut off from the land of the living so his name will be remembered no more. Jesus is the lamb that was led to the slaughterhouse. In fact, as tradition tells us, when Jesus carried the cross, it was the same time that the lambs were led to the slaughterhouse to be killed for the sacred offerings. Third, there is trust. Jeremiah, in the face of his death, places his whole trust in the Lord. He commits his cause to the Lord, fully trusting and loving the Lord in all his days. His heart and mind are at rest because he believes that the Lord is the righteous one. Jesus, as He dies on the cross, also commends His life to God in His dying hours: “Into Your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit.” He has acted righteously in all His ways and entrusted everything into the hands of the Lord. In just a few short verses, we have quite a comprehensive meditation as we continue to journey through the Lenten period with our eyes on the Lord.Fr. Brian Steele, MGL Reflection Question: When people are up against me or circumstances test my faith, do I willingly place my trust in the Lord? Lord, I place my trust in You. Reveal to me Your will and help me to be obedient as Jesus and Jeremiah were in their lives. Amen. St. Hedda, pray for us. | |
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