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|  Dear Lordie,
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| | ordinary days “He is not God of the dead, but of the living...” – Luke 20:38 Yesterday I was struck by an article on the Sunday Missalette entitled “Finding Grace in Ordinary Days.” After Pentecost and before Advent are ordinary days in the Catholic liturgical calendar. We always aim for and reward the extraordinary. We pray for miracles, expect great things to happen and rejoice in the overwhelming grace or blessings we receive. But yes, there is grace and blessing in the ordinary. When we overlook the ordinary — and we often do — we miss the grace and blessing that the everyday “normal” brings. But if you think about it, that’s where most of our blessings abound. That every ordinary breath of ours brings life. That we can do the things normal people do. That the sun rises every morning. That the daily tasks and routines get done. After all, ordinary isn’t so commonplace when a disruption happens. Like when you lose a yaya. Or you get sick. Or you lose your job. No, nothing is ordinary or normal in a Christian’s life. Everything is a miracle and a grace. Rissa Singson-Kawpeng (justbreatherissa@gmail.com) 19 REFLECTION: It takes an exceptional soul in an ordinary Christian to see God’s blessings in the daily grind. Lord, thank You for everything that is “ordinary” and “normal” in my life. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING This story gives the account of the last period of the life of King Antiochus who had tried to make the Jews worship the pagan gods. Now, all that he had tried to build was falling into ruin. His evil schemes and plans were coming to nothing. So will it be for those who oppose God and His plans. No matter how great the earthly kingdoms man erects in defiance of God, they will eventually be brought to ruin and destruction. Let us not be daunted when evil seems to prevail for it is guaranteed to be brought to ruin in due time. 1 Maccabees 6:1-13 1 As King Antiochus was traversing the inland provinces, he heard that in Persia there was a city called Elymais, famous for its wealth in silver and gold, 2 and that its temple was very rich, containing gold helmets, breastplates, and weapons left there by Alexander, son of Philip, king of Macedon, the first king of the Greeks. 3 He went therefore and tried to capture and pillage the city. But he could not do so, because his plan became known to the people of the city 4 who rose up in battle against him. So he retreated and in great dismay withdrew from there to return to Babylon. 5 While he was in Persia, a messenger brought him news that the armies sent into the land of Judah had been put to flight; 6 that Lysias had gone at first with a strong army and been driven back by the children of Israel; that they had grown strong by reason of the arms, men, and abundant possessions taken from the armies they had destroyed; 7 that they had pulled down the Abomination which he had built upon the altar in Jerusalem; and that they had surrounded with high walls both the sanctuary, as it had been before, and his city of Beth-zur. 8 When the king heard this news, he was struck with fear and very much shaken. Sick with grief because his designs had failed, he took to his bed. 9 There he remained many days, overwhelmed with sorrow, for he knew he was going to die. 10 So he called in all his Friends and said to them: “Sleep has departed from my eyes, for my heart is sinking with anxiety. 11 I said to myself: ‘Into what tribulation have I come, and in what floods of sorrow am I now! 12 Yet I was kindly and beloved in my rule.’ But I now recall the evils I did in Jerusalem, when I carried away all the vessels of gold and silver that were in it, and for no cause gave orders that the inhabitants of Judah be destroyed. 13 I know that this is why these evils have overtaken me; and now I am dying, in bitter grief, in a foreign land.” P S A L M Psalms 9:2-3, 4, 6, 16, 19 R: I will rejoice in your salvation, O Lord. 1 [2] I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart; I will declare all your wondrous deeds. 2 [3] I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, Most High. (R) 3 [4] Because my enemies are turned back, overthrown and destroyed before you. 5 [6] You rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; their name you blotted out forever and ever. (R) 15 [16] The nations are sunk in the pit they have made; in the snare they set, their foot is caught. 18 [19] For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor shall the hope of the afflicted forever perish. (R) G O S P E L The Sadducees were the ones who controlled the Temple and its affairs. As such, they had to work with the Roman officials to ensure order on the temple mount. They wanted to ensure that the enterprises they had established in the Temple are profitable. Unlike the Pharisees, they did not accept all the Old Testament books as inspired, only those written by Moses. Jesus exposes their misunderstanding of God and His power and that they were not truly following the God of Abraham whom they revered. Let Jesus’ answer to the Sadducees lead me to trust in God’s infinite wisdom on anything and everything. ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia Our Savior Jesus Christ has destroyed death and brought life to light through the Gospel. R: Alleluia, alleluia Luke 20:27-40 27 Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to Jesus, 28 saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.’ 29 Now there were seven brothers; the first married a woman but died childless. 30 Then the second 31 and the third married her, and likewise all the seven died childless. 32 Finally the woman also died. 33 Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be? For all seven had been married to her.” 34 Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry and remarry; 35 but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. 36 They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise. 37 That the dead will rise even Moses made known in the passage about the bush, when he called ‘Lord’ the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; 38 and he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.” 39 Some of the scribes said in reply, “Teacher, you have answered well.” 40 And they no longer dared to ask him anything. my reflections t h i n k : Let us not be daunted when evil seems to prevail for it is guaranteed to be brought to ruin in due time. 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 Luke 21-24 | |
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| | SABBATH | LIFE FOREVER I once heard a joke: The Sadducees do not believe in the resurrection so they are “sad, you see” (Sadd...u... cees). Get it? The Sadducees were a dominant religious group that originated during the times of the Maccabees dynasty. Their name meant “righteous ones.” They were the society’s aristocrats, rich descendants of high priests. In their many belief systems, they denied the concept of life after death and the resurrection of the body. The Sadducees opposed Jesus because He accepted more than the teachings of the Torah, the authoritative tool for the Sadducees. They also opposed Jesus out of fear of losing their powerful wealth and influence with the ruling power of the day, the Romans. They came to pose their problem to Jesus, hoping to ridicule His belief in the resurrection. They began by citing the Law of Moses, the chief authority on such matters of life and religion. Jesus was intelligent in His reply as He stated the obvious: there is no marriage in heaven. Marriage is an earthly reality, instituted by God for man and woman on earth. They are no longer united in heaven as if married, but all become sons and daughters of God in the Kingdom. He was able to turn the issue on their head by citing Moses. The famous burning bush account clearly suggested that God is the Lord of the living. All are alive in God. Jesus has given us access to the Father of life. It is the will of the Father that none be lost. While we live on earth, there are certain realities and states of life that are good and holy in living out God’s will. Our time on earth is short so we are to make the most of it. There is a resurrection of the dead. There is life eternal and there is life after death. Eternal life awaits those who have put their trust in the Lord. Fr. Brian Steele, MGL Reflection Question: What are you waiting for? I believe in the resurrection of the body and the life of the world to come. Amen. (Profession of Faith) St. Crispin, pray for us. | |
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