 | Daily Bible Reflections
for July 23, 2011 |
|  Dear Lordie,
This Saturday, follow the Spirit of God leading you.
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| | PROMISES, PROMISES They said, “We will obey the Lord and do everything that he has commanded.” – Exodus 24:7 “I accept the call, and I will serve the Lord in this ministry.” This is the general response of every person elected to serve in the ministry that looks after the charismatic affairs of the archdiocese here in one of the South Pacific countries. It was my response, too, when I was elected to head the Evangelization Ministry. I left that electoral meeting happy and thankful, not only because I was the only foreigner to be elected, but more because it was an answered prayer for me to serve the Lord in this foreign land. When the leadership called its first meeting, I was excited to come. But only a few officers came. To make matters worse, the next weekend gathering yielded only some 20 people, the following weekend just 10, with only a few leaders attending. “Where are those who said they would serve the Lord?” I asked myself. It is so easy for us to say, “Yes, I will, Lord!” but when reality hits, the result is negative. Ecclesiastes 5:4 says, “When you make a promise to God, keep it as quickly as possible.... Do what you promise to do.” Danny Tariman (danny@ dtariman.com) 23 REFLECTION: Are you among those who say, “We will obey the Lord and do everything that he has commanded”? Lord, I am sorry for saying things but not doing them. I resolve to do Your will from now on. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING When Moses returns to the people from Mt. Sinai, he conveys to them God’s commandments and they promise to keep God’s law. He then makes an altar and, sacrificing an animal, seals their promises with its blood. We, too, have made a covenant with God through the blood of Jesus and are called to be faithful to those promises. Exodus 24:3-8 3 When Moses came to the people and related all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all answered with one voice, “We will do everything that the LORD has told us.” 4 Moses then wrote down all the words of the LORD and, rising early the next day, he erected at the foot of the mountain an altar and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 Then, having sent certain young men of the Israelites to offer holocausts and sacrifice young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD, 6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in large bowls; the other half he splashed on the altar. 7 Taking the book of the covenant, he read it aloud to the people, who answered, “All that the LORD has said, we will heed and do.” 8 Then he took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words of his.” P S A L M Psalms 50:1-2, 5-6, 14-15 R: Offer to God a sacrifice of praise. 1 God the LORD has spoken and summoned the earth, from the rising of the sun to its setting. 2 From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth. (R) 5 “Gather my faithful ones before me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.” 6 And for the heavens proclaim his justice; for God himself is the judge. (R) 14 “Offer to God praise as your sacrifice and fulfill your vows to the Most High; 15 then call upon me in time of distress; I will rescue you, and you shall glorify me.” (R) G O S P E L Many times we see in the history of the Church how leaders have broken away from the one church to create another one, hoping that it will be more like the primitive church of the Apostles. Yet this is not what Jesus is telling us to do in this parable. There will never be a perfect church on earth. Rather, we should not judge others but seek instead to live the truth ourselves (as St. Francis of Assisi did) and bring renewal and life to that which is dying. ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia Humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you and is able to save your souls. R: Alleluia, alleluia Matthew 13:24-30 24 Jesus proposed another parable to the crowds. “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25 While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off. 26 When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well. 27 The slaves of the householder came to him and said, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where have the weeds come from?’ 28 He answered, ‘An enemy has done this.’ His slaves said to him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ 29 He replied, ‘No, if you pull up the weeds you might uproot the wheat along with them. 30 Let them grow together until harvest; then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters, “First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’” Proverbs 1-4 my reflections t h i n k : There will never be a perfect church on earth. 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 Proverbs 1-4 | |
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| | SABBATH | TO BE GODLY, BE COOL In today’s Gospel, we read about the wonderful disposition of the owner of the field. Even if he realized that the culprit behind the growth of weeds among his wheat crops was “an enemy,” he did not react as I would have reacted. Had I been the owner, I would have immediately instructed my tenants to pull out the weeds and called in mercenaries to do something against the “enemy” who maliciously planted the weeds. Beyond the great message about God’s mercy and magnanimity, today’s Gospel teaches us a lesson for day-to-day living. That is, one way to make the best of the life given us is to remain cool in good and bad times. Reactionary ways, even in situations when one is clearly disadvantaged, lead to: 1 . Waste of our time: Instead of moving on and accomplishing more important tasks, our efforts to avenge the wrong done to us eat up our time. 2. Waste of our energies: Bent on punishing the enemy who did us wrong, we spend our intellectual abilities and even our material resources negatively. 3. Waste of our emotional drives: We need passion to do good and to pursue our plans. Instead it is spent on planning and pursuing our revenge. The option of the owner of the field to just let things be until harvest time, when wheat and weeds will be pulled out anyway, is not just symbolic of God’s magnanimity. It is wisdom. The owner refuses to be enslaved by negativity. Without trying to be a political analyst, I feel that what actually pulled us down as a nation during the post-Marcos era was because we were so bent on pursuing justice for all the supposed transgressions of the previous leaders. We regressed into past pains and hurts, and we failed to follow the path of transcendence. Late did we find out that justice is always imperfect in this life anyway! Fr. Domie Guzman, SSP Reflection Question: How do you take oppositions and attacks in your life? Do you spend so much time trying to get even with those who do you wrong? What is today’s Gospel personally challenging you to do? Lord, give me a magnanimous heart to be able to accept criticisms. St. John Cassian, pray for us. | |
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