 | Daily Bible Reflections
for January 27, 2012 |
|  Dear Lordie,
This Friday, work with Him at your side.
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| | A TIME TO REAP And when it is ripe for harvesting they take the sickle for the cutting: the time for harvest has come. – Mark 4:29 I have a widow’s peak. Because there is a Chinese belief that it means I’d be working hard for the rest of my life, I accepted it as true. I graduated from a prestigious Chinese school and an equally renowned Catholic university. I was a consistent dean’s lister and even graduated with honors. I also inched my way to pursue higher education because of my love for knowledge. I managed to land a job even before I graduated from college. But because of my perfectionist nature, I found myself resigning whenever I found some form of injustice at work. I questioned why God allowed those things to happen. My puny mind couldn’t grasp how a diligent and conscientious worker could end up with meager remuneration. Looking back, I laugh at how God orchestrated the whole thing. All the while, He was preparing me for something bigger. It dawned upon me that there’s a time to plant and a time to reap. Now, I’m working for a few hours a day and being paid like a full-time worker. I also landed my dream job. REFLECTION: Experiencing a plateau in your career? God wants you to plant seeds of faith so that you’ll have a bountiful harvest in His perfect time. Lord, I want to trust You even when things don’t go my way. I know that harvest time is just around the corner. St. Angela Merici, virgin, pray for us. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING This is the worst moment in David’s life. He has a man murdered so that he can take his wife. This is total abuse of his power as a result of giving in to lust. It is important to remember that while we may not have murdered anyone, we are probably all guilty of having given in to disordered passion. David had greater power available to him than us to fulfill his passion. Sometimes it is a blessing to be weak and powerless to fulfill a disordered desire. 2 Samuel 11:1-4, 5-10, 13-17 1 At the turn of the year, when kings go out on campaign, David sent out Joab along with his officers and the army of Israel, and they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. David, however, remained in Jerusalem. 2 One evening David rose from his siesta and strolled about on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing, who was very beautiful. 3 David had inquiries made about the woman and was told, “She is Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam, and wife of Joab’s armor bearer Uriah the Hittite.” 4 Then David sent messengers and took her. When she came to him, he had relations with her. She then returned to her house. 5 But the woman had conceived, and sent the information to David, “I am with child.” 6 David therefore sent a message to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent Uriah to David. 7 When he came, David questioned him about Joab, the soldiers, and how the war was going, and Uriah answered that all was well. 8 David then said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and bathe your feet.” Uriah left the palace, and a portion was sent out after him from the king’s table. 9 But Uriah slept at the entrance of the royal palace with the other officers of his Lord, and did not go down to his own house. 10 David was told that Uriah had not gone home. 13 On the day following, David summoned him, and he ate and drank with David, who made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his bed among his Lord’s servants, and did not go down to his home. 14 The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab which he sent by Uriah. 15 In it he directed: “Place Uriah up front, where the fighting is fierce. Then pull back and leave him to be struck down dead.” 16 So while Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew the defenders were strong. 17 When the men of the city made a sortie against Joab, some officers of David’s army fell, and among them Uriah the Hittite died. P S A L M Psalm 51:3-4, 5-6, 6-7, 10-11 R: Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned. 1 [3] Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness; in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense. 2 [4] Thoroughly wash me from my guilt and of my sin cleanse me. (R) 3 [5] For I acknowledge my offense, and my sin is before me always: 4 [6] “Against you only have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight.” (R) I have done such evil in your sight that you are just in your sentence, blameless when you condemn. 5 [7] True, I was born guilty, a sinner, even as my mother conceived me. (R) 8 [10] Let me hear the sounds of joy and gladness; the bones you have crushed shall rejoice. 9 [11] Turn away your face from my sins, and blot out all my guilt. (R) GOSPEL Yes, it is God who gives the increase in any work we undertake for Him. We can never take the credit for ourselves; it always belongs to Him. Today is the Feast of St. Angela Merici, the founder of the Ursuline teaching order. It always amazes me when I read the history of religious orders how they grow into something far greater than the founder ever intended. This is the principle we see here in the Gospel. If we leave the growth up to God and surrender all to His will, then anything is possible. GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth; you have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the Kingdom. Mark 4:26-34 26 Jesus said to the crowds: “This is how it is with the kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land 27 and would sleep and rise night and day and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how. 28 Of its own accord the land yields fruit, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29 And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once, for the harvest has come.” 30 He said, “To what shall we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use for it? 31 It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth. 32 But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade.” 33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to understand it. 34 Without parables he did not speak to them, but to his own disciples he explained everything in private. 1st READING 2nd READING GOSPEL PSALM think: If we leave the growth up to God and surrender all to His will, then anything is possible. T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ God’s special verse/thought for me today________________ _________________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR John 16-18 John 19-21 | |
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| | SABBATH | Calling a Spade a Spade Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate. Instead of the usual pleasantries, this is what they heard: Heavenly Father, we come before You today to ask Your forgiveness and to seek Your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, “Woe to those who call evil good,” but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Many legislators in the room walked out in protest over the prayer. But many other Churches asked for copies of the prayer and utilized it for their own prayer worships. This is a reflection of our times. When confronted of the reality of sin, we protest, we walk out, we cry “hypocrisy.” Today’s Responsorial Psalm is King David’s heartfelt remorse over the sin of murder and adultery he has committed. He had his weaknesses, but he knows his strength as well: hope in the mercy of God. Read Psalm 51 which David composed after his sin. There is no watering down of his guilt. There is no sugarcoating of the malice of his actions: “For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight” (Psalm 51:3-4). Would that we have more King Davids — not the sinner but the contrite one!Fr. Joel Jason REFLECTION QUESTION: What area of your life do you justify with rationalizations and excuses? “Have mercy on me, O God, in Your kindness. In Your compassion blot out my offense. O wash me more and more from my guilt and cleanse me from my sin. Amen!” | |
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