 | Daily Bible Reflections
for June 7, 2011 |
|  Dear Lordie,
This Tuesday, never forget how important you are to God.
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| | MISSION “I only want to complete my mission… to declare the Good News about the grace of God.” – Acts 20:24 Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, confessor and retreat master to the papal household for 30 years, addressed thousands of laity at the Araneta Coliseum in January 2010. I was amazed and deeply blessed by this soft-spoken Franciscan priest with a very simple yet moving message. He said that the mission of the laity and the religious are the same: evangelization. Spreading the Good News! We just differ in our ways of expression and application, he explained. Very true. I am a preacher. I directly preach God’s Word. But you — an office worker, a bank teller, a businessman, a teacher, a student, a full-time mother — whoever you are, equally share in this mission. In fact, I believe that I “preach God’s Word more loudly” in my life as a husband, a father, a friend and a school administrator. We declare the Good News in words and/ or in our deeds — in the way we live our lives. In living a life of truth, honesty, compassion, understanding, service and love, we are living witnesses to the grace of God. This is not just the mission of the apostles, bishops, priests and nuns. It is our mission — and by God’s grace we shall complete it.Alvin Barcelona (kpreacheralvin@gmail.com) REFLECTION: Am I “declaring the Good News” in the way I live my life — in my family, in my profession, in everything that I do? By Your pure grace, O God, I will complete my mission of spreading Your love to others. In Jesus’ name. Amen. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Paul is truly unafraid. He does not care if there is persecution awaiting him or imprisonment or anything else. Why? Maybe because he has seen and experienced it all before. He has already cheated death many times and so I am sure he has a profound knowledge of his own immortality. He knows that he has been busy with the will of God and he has done the best he could with it. Maybe he wishes he had done some things differently, but there is something of that in us all. He is content to know that his life is in God’s hands. Let men do what they will – they can never change that truth. Acts 20:17-27 17 From Miletus Paul had the presbyters of the church at Ephesus summoned. 18 When they came to him, he addressed them, “You know how I lived among you the whole time from the day I first came to the province of Asia. 19 I served the Lord with all humility and with the tears and trials that came to me because of the plots of the Jews, 20 and I did not at all shrink from telling you what was for your benefit, or from teaching you in public or in your homes. 21 I earnestly bore witness for both Jews and Greeks to repentance before God and to faith in our Lord Jesus. 22 But now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem. What will happen to me there I do not know, 23 except that in one city after another the holy Spirit has been warning me that imprisonment and hardships await me. 24 Yet I consider life of no importance to me, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear witness to the gospel of God’s grace. 25 “But now I know that none of you to whom I preached the kingdom during my travels will ever see my face again. 26 And so I solemnly declare to you this day that I am not responsible for the blood of any of you, 27 forI did not shrink from proclaiming to you the entire plan of God.” P S A L M Psalms 68:10-11, 20-21 R: Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth. 9 [10] A bountiful rain you showered down, O God, upon your inheritance; you restored the land when it languished; 10 [11] your flock settled in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided it for the needy. (R) 19 [20] Blessed day by day be the Lord, who bears our burdens; God, who is our salvation. 20 [21] God is a saving God for us; the LORD, my Lord, controls the passageways of death. (R) G O S P E L Jesus knows that all is in the hands of His Father. Jesus knows that it will be the Father who vindicates His life by raising Him from the dead. Jesus knows that His resurrection will be the crowning glory of His life. I wonder how well we know our own lives and missions? If we are unsure, it is time that we did something about discovering them before our life is finished. ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia I will ask the Father and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always. R: Alleluia, alleluia John 17:1-11 1 Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you, 2 just as you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to all you gave him. 3 Now this is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ. 4 I glorified you on earth by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do. 5 Now glorify me, Father, with you, with the glory that I had with you before the world began. 6 “I revealed your name to those whom you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything you gave me is from you, 8 because the words you gave to me I have given to them, and they accepted them and truly understood that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me. 9 I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for the ones you have given me, because they are yours, 10 and everything of mine is yours and everything of yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them. 11 And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you.” my reflections think: Paul is content to know that his life is in God’s hands. Let his persecutors do what they will -– they can never change that truth. 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 Maccabees 5-6 | |
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| | SABBATH | JESUS PRAYS FOR US For the next three days, we have for our Gospel passage three instalments of the so-called High-Priestly Prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ. His words to His disciples are over; He now addresses no other than God the Father Himself, His own beloved Father, in a heartfelt, solemn and sublime prayer. After a prelude of imploring the Father to bestow upon Himself the glory as of a Son, He shifts to His disciples. He intercedes for them. This alone is already worth some thought: the plain and simple fact that Jesus, our Lord and Master, prayed for His disciples. We all know what that is, in a way. Especially in our time of need, we do not hesitate to ask for prayers from our favorite priest, our friends, relatives, loved ones and so on. We email them, we text them. “Please pray for me, pray for my intentions,” we tell them. And we draw strength and consolation from the intercessory prayers of others for us. Now imagine that we have no less than Jesus Christ Himself praying for us! “It is in them that I have been glorified,” Jesus says, referring to His disciples. Yes, He gives credit to them: “I entrusted to them the message you entrusted to me, and they received it. They have known that in truth I came from you, they have believed it was you who sent me.” It only goes to show how much Jesus loves us, how much He thinks of us and remembers us, how much He cares for us. As He ended His assignment on earth and was about to return to the Father in glory, He prayed for us. How consoling, how encouraging!Fr. Martin Macasaet, SDB Reflection Question: How quick am I in responding to a request for prayer? And how much do I trust in the power of intercessory prayer? Remind me, Lord, to pray for those who need most my prayers, especially the poor souls in purgatory. St. Anthony Mary Gianelli, pray for us. | |
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