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| | 100 PERCENT “Which of these three, in your opinion, was neighbour to the robbers’ victim?... The one who treated him with mercy.” – Luke 10:36-37 In organizing events, I have acquired a deeper understanding of mercy. By many estimates, I am considered an efficient worker. To me, it’s just something I have to do within a deadline I have to meet. So you can imagine my impatience with a lackadaisical staff. But when I look at other people, I see that most of them work really hard to do what I ask. So I realized that my 100 percent is not necessarily another person’s 100 percent. Instead of getting frustrated, I am learning to accept people’s limitations. If I see that someone can take so much more, then I push. If not, I do the work myself or hand it over to someone who can do it. Mercy, I have realized, comes even before there is a need to forgive. It is accepting a person’s capacity and weakness, and maximizing to get the best out of the person. I still have a long way to go to learn this lesson but I pray that I will never let up on this road. For I, too, need mercy. 3 REFLECTION: “The quality of mercy is not strained; it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed — it blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.” (William Shakespeare) Help me to be merciful, Lord. Have mercy on me, too, a sinner. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Jonah, like a number of the prophets called by God to deliver His message, as a reluctant one. He did not want to go to Nineveh, the capital city of the Assyrian Empire, because they were the enemy of his people and he did not want them to repent and be forgiven by God. Jonah wanted God’s judgment to fall upon them instead. That is why he went in the way opposite to what God said. This story shows us the infinite nature of God’s mercy and His willingness to always forgive the repentant sinner. Jonah 1:1-2:2, 11 1 This is the word of the LORD that came to Jonah, son of Amittai: 2 “Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and preach against it; their wickedness has come up before me.” 3 But Jonah made ready to flee to Tarshish away from the LORD. He went down to Joppa, found a ship going to Tarshish, paid the fare, and went aboard to journey with them to Tarshish, away from the LORD. 4 The LORD, however, hurled a violent wind upon the sea, and in the furious tempest that arose the ship was on the point of breaking up. 5 Then the mariners became frightened and each one cried to his god. To lighten the ship for themselves, they threw its cargo into the sea. Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down into the hold of the ship, and lay there fast asleep. 6 The captain came to him and said, “What are you doing asleep? Rise up, call upon your God! Perhaps God will be mindful of us so that we may not perish.” 7 Then they said to one another, “Come, let us cast lots to find out on whose account we have met with this misfortune.” So they cast lots, and thus singled out Jonah. 8 “Tell us,” they said, “what is your business? Where do you come from? What is your country, and to what people do you belong?” 9 “I am a Hebrew,” Jonah answered them; “I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.” 10 Now the men were seized with great fear and said to him, “How could you do such a thing!” — They knew that he was fleeing from the LORD, because he had told them. — 11 “What shall we do with you,” they asked, “that the sea may quiet down for us?” For the sea was growing more and more turbulent. 12 Jonah said to them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea, that it may quiet down for you; since I know it is because of me that this violent storm has come upon you.” 13 Still the men rowed hard to regain the land, but they could not, for the sea grew ever more turbulent. 14 Then they cried to the LORD: “We beseech you, O LORD, let us not perish for taking this man’s life; do not charge us with shedding innocent blood, for you, LORD, have done as you saw fit.” 15 Then they took Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea’s raging abated. 16 Struck with great fear of the LORD, the men offered sacrifice and made vows to him. 2: 1 But the LORD sent a large fish, that swallowed Jonah; and he remained in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. 2 From the belly of the fish Jonah said this prayer to the LORD, his God. 11 Then the LORD commanded the fish to spew Jonah upon the shore. P S A L M Jonah 2: 3, 4, 5, 8 R: You will rescue my life from the pit, O Lord. 3 Out of my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me; From the midst of the nether world I cried for help, and you heard my voice. (R) 4 For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the sea, and the flood enveloped me; all your breakers and your billows passed over me. (R) 5 Then I said, “I am banished from your sight! yet would I again look upon your holy temple.” (R) 8 When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; My prayer reached you in your holy temple. (R) G O S P E L Our love for God, since He is invisible, is hard to see and to measure apart from how we love others. As St. John says, “How can we say we love God who is not seen when we do not love our brothers whom we do see?” In this parable, Jesus makes the teaching about loving our neighbor very practical. We must extend the hand of love and friendship to all we meet who may be, in any way, in need of our love and not judge them for their condition. ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia I give you a new commandment: love one another as I have loved you. R: Alleluia, alleluia Luke 10:25-37 25 There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test Jesus and said, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 Jesus said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” 27 He said in reply, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 He replied to him, “You have answered correctly; do this and you will live.” 29 But because he wished to justify himself, he said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” 30 Jesus replied, “A man fell victim to robbers as he went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. They stripped and beat him and went off leaving him half-dead. 31 A priest happened to be going down that road, but when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side. 32 Likewise a Levite came to the place, and when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side. 33 But a Samaritan traveler who came upon him was moved with compassion at the sight. 34 He approached the victim, poured oil and wine over his wounds and bandaged them. Then he lifted him up on his own animal, took him to an inn and cared for him. 35 The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper with the instruction, ‘Take care of him. If you spend more than what I have given you, I shall repay you on my way back.’ 36 Which of these three, in your opinion, was neighbor to the robbers’ victim?” 37 He answered, “The one who treated him with mercy.” Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.” my reflections t h i n k : Our love for God, since He is invisible, is hard to see and to measure apart from how we love others. 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 41-44 | |
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| | SABBATH | Whose Samaritan am I called to be? Traveling with a group of pilgrims down the ancient road from Jerusalem to Jericho, I understood much better the background of the parable of the Good Samaritan. My God, what a wilderness! Right and left, there was nothing but desolate desert, deep ravines, huge boulders at the roadside. One can imagine bandits lurking there to attack innocent travelers. To be left there after an attack would have meant certain death in the desert heat if no one comes along to take care of him. This parable is a very touching story of how a Samaritan man cared for the poor wounded man on the road. But I am sure that after Jesus told the parable, He had to go into hiding. It is one of the most explosive stories Jesus ever told. Imagine, a Levite, a Temple servant, passes by without helping. Then a priest on his way home from serving in the Temple ignores the man as well. Surely, they made excuses for not helping. And who helped? A Samaritan, hated by the Jews for not being pure Jewish and ritually clean! A despised person becomes the hero. In today’s world, it is like a priest and bishop would pass by an injured person at the roadside and a prostitute on her way home from her nightly business would take care of him, bringing him to the next hospital, paying for the wounded person from what she had earned during the night. Jesus really challenges us with this parable in an uncompromising way. In effect, He tells us: When a person, a child of God like you, is in need, don’t fall into the trap and rationalize away the need by using bad excuses. And your neighbour becomes anyone in need, even a person you do not know or a person whom you do not like, or a person who has hurt you. The needs vary. Many might need only a smile or a kind word. Can we not even give this because we are too busy or we have to go out of our way? Fr. Rudy Horst, SVD Reflection Question: What makes me ignore a person in need? Is it selfishness? Don’t I like to be disturbed? Do I forget that a person in need might be You? Lord, You have pricked my conscience. Too often do I pretend to have valid excuses for not helping. I am wrong. You, my “Good Samaritan,” help me to be one to anybody in need. St. Widradus, pray for us. | |
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