 | Daily Bible Reflections
for June 16, 2011 |
|  Dear Lordie,
This Thursday, remember that He knows you and loves you.
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| | help from above “Do not be like them. Your Father already knows what you need before you ask him.” – Matthew 6:8 I scheduled the cleaning of our front yard floor tiles on Saturday since it didn’t rain for the past few days. Our front yard is not covered so cleaning it with the possibility of rain would just be a waste of effort. Saturday came and the sun was out. I was preparing my cleaning gear when it started to drizzle. The sun was still out but light rain started to dampen the tiles and also my plans. Now what? My reaction was to say a short prayer. “Lord, I’ll proceed with cleaning the yard but I will need a little help.” I ignored the rain and sprinkled the powdered soap on the tiles. Then I started to brush the floor. I noticed that the rain was helpful in washing off the soap suds. The rains stopped after I brushed off the foam on most of the tiles. All I had to do was pour out one more bucket of clean water and mop the floor dry! The rain turned out to be helpful than harmful. I believe God wanted to help me even before I said my prayer. Isn’t it great to have a God who knows what you need in every situation?Alvin Fabella (alvinfabella@yahoo.com) 16 REFLECTION: “You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God.”(Unknown) Lord, thank You for always being there to provide what I need even before I ask. Amen. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Paul tells the Corinthians, the venture capitalists of their day, that he has gained no monetary reward from preaching the Gospel. The nature of the Gospel is such that he has been inspired to seek nothing in return for giving his time in telling them the Good News. This is a pretty effective argument – there are not many people who are willing to just give up their time for no compensation. 2 Corinthians 11:1-11 1 Brothers and sisters: If only you would put up with a little foolishness from me! Please put up with me. 2 For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God, since I betrothed you to one husband to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts may be corrupted from a sincere and pure commitment to Christ. 4 For if someone comes and preaches another Jesus than the one we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it well enough. 5 For I think that I am not in any way inferior to these “super apostles.” 6 Even if I am untrained in speaking, I am not so in knowledge; in every way we have made this plain to you in all things. 7 Did I make a mistake when I humbled myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge? 8 I plundered other churches by accepting from them in order to minister to you. 9 And when I was with you and in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way. 10 By the truth of Christ in me, this boast of mine shall not be silenced in the regions of Achaia. 11 And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do! P S A L M Psalms 111:1-2, 3-4, 7-8 R: Your works, O Lord, are justice and truth. 1 I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart in the company and assembly of the just. 2 Great are the works of the LORD, exquisite in all their delights. (R) 3 Majesty and glory are his work, and his justice endures forever. 4 He has won renown for his wondrous deeds; gracious and merciful is the LORD. (R) 7 The works of his hands are faithful and just; sure are all his precepts, 8 reliable forever and ever, wrought in truth and equity. (R) G O S P E L The Lord’s prayer is both a prayer of intercession and a call to action. We cannot pray this prayer with integrity unless we are willing to commit our lives to fulfilling it as well. There can be a tendency to think that the essence of a spiritual life is in the prayers that we pray. I do not think this is the case! Equally important are the actions that come from our prayer. Prayer may be the foundation of the Christian life but good deeds and a life of faith are its crowning glory in this life. ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia You have received a spirit of adoption as sons through which we cry: Abba! Father! R: Alleluia, alleluia Matthew 6:7-15 7 Jesus said to his disciples: “In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 This is how you are to pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, 10 your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. 11 Give us today our daily bread; 12 and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; 13 and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 14 “If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.” my reflections t h i n k : Prayer may be the foundation of Christian life but good deeds and a life of faith are its crowning glory in this life. 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 Job 18-21 Job 18-21 | |
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| | SABBATH | THE PRIVILEGE OF PRAYING THE “OUR FATHER” Filipino singer Basil Valdez has a Tagalog song version of the Lord’s Prayer (entitled “Ama,” from his 1993 album Sundin Ang LoobMo). Thanks to composer George Canseco’s magnificent music and lyrics — a re-working actually of the Lord’s Prayer — Basil’s song does reveal for us the continuous freshness of this timeless prayer featured in today’s Gospel reading. We need but approach it with new eyes and see its ever relevant value. After all, we’re talking here of the greatest prayer ever, coming from the mouth of no less than Jesus Christ Himself. St. Cyprian once asked, “What more effective prayer could we make in the name of Christ than in the words of His own prayer?” St. Augustine recognized and pointed out, moreover, the “completeness” of the Our Father. He wrote, “If you study every word of the petitions of Scripture, you will find, I think, nothing that is not contained and included in the Lord’s Prayer. Finally, it is also “the most daring prayer of all” (to quote American Catholic writer Bert Ghezzi). Why daring? The priest in the Mass invites us just before we pray it in the Holy Mass, “Jesus taught us to call God our Father, and so we have the courage to say...” Yes, unworthy as we are, perhaps we would never have the right nor the guts to call God our Father, if it were not for Jesus. He deigned to include us in His innermost circle of God’s family with our being granted “adoptive status” as God’s sons and daughters. And we have Jesus as our brother and friend. So with this, we have all the rights and privileges — including the possibility of addressing God as “our Father.” Fr. Martin Macasaet, SDB Reflection Question: At this point in your life, which part of the Lord’s Prayer speaks more of what’s in your heart? Thank You, Father, for giving us the privilege to call you our Father. St. Tychon, pray for us. | |
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