 | Daily Bible Reflections
for May 25, 2011 |
|  Dear Lordie,
This Wednesday, may you hear His voice in your heart!
Praying for you,
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| | THE TRUTH “You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you”. – John 15: 3 How do I lie to Thee? Let me count the ways: • As a five-year-old, I convinced my playmate to plant coins on the soil because they will grow into a money tree with lots of paper-bill leaves. • I told Tatayit was “fun” living in my aunt’s house during my elementary days when it was very difficult! My grades plummeted and I became one of the untidiest pupils. • In one mountain climb, I denied that I threw a big rock downhill that almost killed a fellow hiker if he didn’t duck. • I fooled my family that I was vice-free and was studying well. Truth: I was a drunkard, smoker, addict, a pusher and a war freak. • I denied the subpoena declaring that I was charged with “illegal possession of a deadly weapon.” It was telling half the truth though, because it said that I was caught with 10 Molotov bombs. Wrong! I had 20 Molotov bombs, the others weren’t confiscated. Then I encountered the one who said that He is Truth. I embraced the Truth and He changed me: I now live and proclaim the Truth! I am set free! So shall you be! Obet Cabrillas (kpreacherobet@gmail.com) 25 REFLECTION: What lies have you told in the past that affected people? Lord Jesus, You have set me free and I am free indeed! | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING This disagreement and its solution demonstrate to us what should happen when we come across similar struggles in our own communities. Splitting to form another community when there is a disagreement seems to me to be antithetical to the work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has been sent to us to bring unity. This does not mean that all Christians have to be “cut from the same cookie cutter” so to speak, but it does mean that we should be one in proclaiming the Good News. Acts 15:1-6 1 Some who had come down from Judea were instructing the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the Mosaic practice, you cannot be saved.” 2 Because there arose no little dissension and debate by Paul and Barnabas with them, it was decided that Paul, Barnabas, and some of the others should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and presbyters about this question. 3 They were sent on their journey by the church, and passed through Phoenicia and Samaria telling of the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers. 4 When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, as well as by the apostles and the presbyters, and they reported what God had done with them. 5 But some from the party of the Pharisees who had become believers stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and direct them to observe the Mosaic law.” 6 The apostles and the presbyters met together to see about this matter. P S A L M Psalms 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5 R: Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord. 1 I rejoiced because they said to me, “We will go up to the house of the LORD.” 2 And now we have set foot within your gates, O Jerusalem. (R) 3 Jerusalem, built as a city with compact unity. 4 To it the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD. (R) According to the decree for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD. 5 In it are set up judgment seats, seats for the house of David. (R) G O S P E L Venerable Bede, whose feast it is today, and his companions thought up some spectacular feats of penance and then performed them. One was to stand in the middle of the North Sea in the middle of winter for as long as they possibly could! Today we would immediately call the psychologist if we caught someone doing this. Tradition has it that the monks of England would compete with those on the Continent in devising penances and then see who could endure them the longest. This was for them a measure of who was holier. ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia Remain in me, as I remain in you, says the Lord; whoever remains in me will bear much fruit. R: Alleluia, alleluia John 15:1-8 1 Jesus said to his disciples: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower. 2 He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and everyone that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit. 3 You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you. 4 Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. 6 Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you. 8 By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.” my reflections think: The Holy Spirit has been sent to us to bring unity. 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 Ester A-4 | |
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| | SABBATH | EVERY BRANCH THAT DOES NOT BEAR FRUIT More than two decades ago, a beautiful movie entitled Dead Poets Society capitalized a whole lot on Henri David Thoreau’s extended essay “Walden Pond,” which reports his love affair with nature and his extended retreat to the countryside. A memorable and quotable line still rings clear in my ears: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front the essential facts of life… and to put to rout all that is not life.” All of us have things in our closet that we need to get rid of. All of us have bad habits to shed off and new habits to learn. Some of those items or habits drag or weigh us down, like smoking, drinking or the propensity to stock up on things that we really do not need. On the spiritual plane, all of us have what spiritual writers of old used to call the “predominant tendency” or the sin that we often fall into, repeatedly, predictably. My father, who was a farmer by interest and vocation, but an accountant by necessity, introduced me long ago to the idea of pruning. Back when coffee cultivation was still lucrative in my hometown, I learned early on that unless one knows how to prune the coffee trees, they could not be expected to bear much fruit. One needed to “take away every branch that does not bear fruit.” One needed to do away with what does not lead to life, to wholeness. If this is true of plant life and our earthly physical life, all the more so is this true with regard to our spiritual life. One curious thing in the world of nature is the fact that one sees no birds flying when it rains. Their wings get wet and soggy, and therefore heavy. They cannot afford to carry all that extra weight. They cannot soar when bogged down with all that weight. Pruning, giving up, cutting down, denying oneself… they all have to do with the same thing — putting to rout all that is not life and cutting away “every branch that does not bear fruit.” Fr. Chito Dimaranan, SDB Reflection Question: What habits or things weigh me down? Lord, help me to cut off the habits, things and relationships that bog me down in my journey to You. Amen. St. Madeline Sophie Barat, pray for us. | |
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