 | Daily Bible Reflections
for April 25, 2011 |
|  Dear Lordie,
It's Summer! Schedule A Family Vacation! Better get out your calendar and look for a Family Vacation! Invest in your family. Invest in your relationships. See how you can have fun, fun, and more fun. But try to also include perhaps, "sharing" and "prayer" into the schedule.
Conquer this new week with God's Word in your heart!
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
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| | Willing To Endure for the Gospel? “Do not be afraid. Go tell my brother to Galilee...”– Matthew 28:10 Lord, how do I love Thee? Let me count the ways. During my early ministry life, this is the purgatory I endured here on earth: • I walked under the hot summer sun from Balintawak to Novaliches to give a talk. • I preached in a province. Their generous love offering? A basket of vegetables. • I was handed an envelope (praise God, my fare!). I later found out that it was just a prayer request. • I was about to tell the conductor that I had no fare money. Somebody recognized me — a wealthy member of the community who paid for my fare and treated me to a delicious dinner. • In my original youth community I was in charge of inviting people, preparing the equipment and facility, leading joyful songs, playing the guitar, leading worship, sharing, giving talks, feeding them (if I have money), and cleaning the place after everybody leaves. These are just few of the many things that I endured in love for the ministry. Yet deep within, I cannot explain the satisfaction I feel! Obet Cabrillas (kpreacherobet@gmail.com) 25 REFLECTION: “Preach the word, be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage with great patience and careful instruction.” (2 Timothy 4:2) Lord, send me to bring Your Gospel to the ends of the earth. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READINGin one year Peter firmly and clearly places the choice of faith in the hands of the individual. No one can make an enduring faith response for another person. Yes, we can support and encourage the faith of others – we can even bring the gift of faith to someone who has never heard the Gospel – but we cannot choose for them! It is also essential to recognize that the act of faith is one by which we have to own our past, however sordid it may be, and take responsibility for it in order to move on to the life of faith in Christ. Acts 2:14, 22-33 14 On the day of Pentecost, Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice, and proclaimed to them, “You who are Jews, indeed all of you staying in Jerusalem. Let this be known to you, and listen to my words. 22 “You who are the children of Israel, hear these words. Jesus the Nazorean was a man commended to you by God with mighty deeds, wonders, and signs, which God worked through him in your midst, as you yourselves know. 23 This man, delivered up by the set plan and foreknowledge of God, you killed, using lawless men to crucify him. 24 But God raised him up, releasing him from the throes of death, because it was impossible for him to be held by it. 25 For David says of him: ‘I saw the Lord ever before me, with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed. 26 Therefore my heart has been glad and my tongue has exulted; my flesh, too, will dwell in hope, 27 because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld, nor will you suffer your holy one to see corruption. 28 You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence.’ 29 My brothers, one can confidently say to you about the patriarch David that he died and was buried, and his tomb is in our midst to this day. 30 But since he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants upon his throne, 31 he foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that neither was he abandoned to the netherworld nor did his flesh see corruption. 32 God raised this Jesus; of this we are all witnesses. 33 Exalted at the right hand of God, he received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father and poured it forth, as you both see and hear.” P S A L M Psalms 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11 R: Keep me safe, O God; you are my hope. 1 Keep me, O God, for in you I take refuge; 2 I say to the LORD, “My Lord are you.” 5 O LORD, my allotted portion and my cup, you it is who hold fast my lot. (R) 7 I bless the LORD who counsels me; even in the night my heart exhorts me. 8 I set the LORD ever before me; with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed. (R) 9 Therefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices, my body, too, abides in confidence; 10 because you will not abandon my soul to the nether world, nor will you suffer your faithful one to undergo corruption. (R) 11 You will show me the path to life, fullness of joys in your presence, the delights at your right hand forever. (R) G O S P E L Even the Jewish authorities recognize that the Christian faith will rise or fall upon the ability of the disciples to convince people that Jesus has risen from the dead. If they can sow doubts in the minds of the people by setting up an alternative explanation for the empty tomb, then perhaps the Gospel of the Christians will die a quick death. The resurrection appearances of Jesus are essential to the Christian understanding of the empty tomb precisely because they are a factual denial of the story being told by the Jewish authorities that the body of Jesus was taken away in the night by His followers. ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia This is the day the LORD has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it. R: Alleluia, alleluia Matthew 28:8-15 8 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went away quickly from the tomb, fearful yet overjoyed, and ran to announce this to his disciples. 9 And behold, Jesus met them on their way and greeted them. They approached, embraced his feet, and did him homage. 10 Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.” 11 While they were going, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had happened. 12 The chief priests assembled with the elders and took counsel; then they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers, 13 telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him while we were asleep.’ 14 And if this gets to the ears of the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.” 15 The soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has circulated among the Jews to the present day. my reflections t h i n k : The act of faith is one by which we have to own our past, however sordid it may be, and take responsibility for it in order to move on to the life of faith in Christ. 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 Chronicles 3-4 | |
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| | SABBATH | HE IS RISEN The Gospel account can make us realize the evil intent of the chief priests. We already know that they had a very strong influence on the people to have Jesus crucified. Repeatedly, throughout Jesus’ life, they were always harassing Him and seeking to do away with this “upstart” from Galilee. Now even the guards cannot convince the chief priests that Jesus has truly risen. Nothing was going to convince them; they had already closed their minds to the truth. Can you imagine the guards stuttering their message to the chief priests? Earthquake. Angel. Lightning. No body. They were like dead men as they saw the angel move the stone from the tomb. They saw and they heard everything. Dumbfounded and utterly amazed, they were the first to evangelize the authorities. The chief priests, in their ignorance, bribe them with the use of money to cover up this so-called nonsense of a dead man risen. The bribe was taken and they, too, joined the chief priests in their wickedness. Matthew adds his comment to the reader that the story of the stolen body is circulated among the Jews to this day. It is a terrible thing to close one’s mind to the truth. Nothing will convince one who has already made friends with ignorance. However, the fact is that Jesus has risen and, in this Easter Octave, we, too, have an opportunity to meet the risen Lord. He had not been stolen. He is truly risen! I am sure that as the women blurted out the story of the resurrection, there may have been closed minds. Women were a minority group in the Jewish society. They were often unnoticed and poorly attended. It is no wonder that Jesus’ kindness and openness caused many women to become His disciples. As the women came back that day to report all that had happened, I am sure their testimony fell on deaf ears. How can a dead man rise again? How can an angel roll away the large stone from a tomb? Had they, too, been bewitched? Had they been hallucinating? Was it only a figment of their imagination? Fr. Brian Steele, MGL Reflection Question: Do you feel like the women or the guards in today’s Gospel? I rejoice in the wonder of Your resurrection. Help me, Lord, to live with this truth in my life. Amen. St. Mella, pray for us. | |
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