 | Daily Bible Reflections
for October 1, 2011 |
|  Dear Lordie,
This Saturday, let God give you rest in His Spirit.
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
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| | Memorial of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church LIKE A MAGIC SKETCHPAD As your hearts have been disposed to stray from God, turn now ten times the more to seek him… – Baruch 4:28 I’m a legendary artist. (Ahem.) I’ve produced legendary artwork. So legendary, in fact, that no one remembers them. Michelangelo used paint. Leonardo da Vinci used charcoal. Me? I use my sons’ magic sketchpad. I love this toy. My boys and I would sit on the couch and doodle for hours. Together, we’ve drawn thousands of sketches. Here’s why I love this toy. When I make a mistake, I don’t get angry. I don’t curse myself. I don’t condemn myself. I simply pull the eraser button and draw again. Which is what we’re supposed to do in life. I’ve met some people who think that just because they’ve made mistakes, God won’t bless them anymore. Hey, we’ve all made mistakes. Perhaps you gave yourself to addictions. Perhaps you married the wrong person. Perhaps you made poor financial decisions. Friend, your future is brighter than your past. How do I know? Because God’s plan is bigger than your mistakes. He has a giant magic sketchpad. All He has to do is pull the eraser button and draw new plans again! Bo Sanchez (bosanchez@kerygmafamily.com) 1 REFLECTION: Feeling hopeless because you made big mistakes in your life? God has better plans for you. Seek Him again. Lord, strengthen my hope in You. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING God the Father here reveals His maternal love for us, His children, as He says that He will comfort us as a mother comforts her son. St. Therese had great confidence in the love of the Heavenly Father and imagined herself as a little child reaching out her little arms to be caught by Him. Let us follow St. Therese’s example and throw ourselves every day into the caring and merciful arms of our loving God. Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29 5 Fear not, my people! Remember, Israel, 6 you were sold to the nations not for your destruction; it was because you angered God that you were handed over to your foes. 7 For you provoked your Maker with sacrifices to demons, to no-gods; 8 you forsook the Eternal God who nourished you, and you grieved Jerusalem who fostered you. 9 She indeed saw coming upon you the anger of God; and she said: “Hear, you neighbors of Zion! God has brought great mourning upon me, 10 for I have seen the captivity that the Eternal God has brought upon my sons and daughters. 11 With joy I fostered them; but with mourning and lament I let them go. 12 Let no one gloat over me, a widow, bereft of many: For the sins of my children I am left desolate, because they turned from the law of God. 27 Fear not, my children; call out to God! He who brought this upon you will remember you. 28 As your hearts have been disposed to stray from God, turn now ten times the more to seek him; 29 for he who has brought disaster upon you will, in saving you, bring you back enduring joy.” P S A L M Psalms 69:33-35, 36-37 R: The Lord listens to the poor. 32 [33] “See, you lowly ones, and be glad; you who seek God, may your hearts revive! 33 [34] For the LORD hears the poor, and his own who are in bonds he spurns not. 34 [35] Let the heavens and the earth praise him, the seas and whatever moves in them!” (R) 35 [36] For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah. They shall dwell in the land and own it, 36 [37] and the descendants of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall inhabit it. (R) G O S P E L St. Therese had tried to imitate the penances of the great saints and found it all too much for her fragile constitution. Instead of becoming greater, she decided to become little like a small infant and to place all her confidence in the overflowing mercy and love of God. She tries to follow the teaching of Jesus who told His disciples that they needed to become like a little child if they want to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, you have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the Kingdom. R: Alleluia, alleluia Luke 10:17-24 17 The seventy-two disciples returned rejoicing, and said to Jesus, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us because of your name.” 18 Jesus said, “I have observed Satan fall like lightning from the sky. 19 Behold, I have given you the power ‘to tread upon serpents’ and scorpions and upon the full force of the enemy and nothing will harm you. 20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice because the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written in heaven.” 21 At that very moment he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. 22 All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.” 23 Turning to the disciples in private he said, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. 24 For I say to you, many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.” my reflections think: Let us follow St. Therese’s example and throw ourselves every day into the caring and merciful arms of our loving God. 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 Ezekiel 33-36 | |
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| | SABBATH | Knowing God As a teacher of Holy Scriptures for many years, I often witness students who struggle with the idea of God. They ask, “Who is God? How can we know God? Is God cruel and vengeful, a God of wars, as some Old Testament passages seemingly portray Him?” Human history is not all about wars and conquests or about politics and treaties. Beneath this surface, we can detect that human history is an endless search for a supernatural Being — a Being we call God. From the beginning of the human race, people of so-called primitive tribes, as well as those of highly developed ancient civilizations, have tried to reach beyond the physical world with its imperfections, struggles and sufferings, and the inevitable experience of death. Why? Because they sensed that there must be something better than this. This world must have its origin from powerful beings. Who and where are they? How can one reach and experience them? Often, people projected their ideas, even their weaknesses, on the divinity and from the way people imagined their gods, we learn something about these people. The gods of the Greeks reflected the promiscuous, war-loving character of the Greeks. Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto must have shocked viewers by the blood-thirsty Aztec gods who only reflect how bloodthirsty these people were. Do we really know God? Even the greatest theologians and saints admit that we do not have anything close to an adequate idea of God. “No one knows the Father,” Jesus exclaims in today’s Gospel passage, seemingly agreeing with all great religious thinkers. But then He adds, “…except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.” In other words, Jesus is the answer to the question. Through Him we can know God. The more we know Jesus through prayer and reading about Him in the Bible and spiritual books, the more we know about God, who is a loving God. Fr. Rudy Horst, SVD Reflection Question: Who is God for me? Do I know God as the loving God whom Jesus revealed to us? Lord, thank You for revealing the Father to us. With the help of the Holy Spirit, help me to know the Father better by knowing You more intimately. St. Ralph Crockett, pray for us. | |
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