 | Daily Bible Reflections
for February 9, 2012 |
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| | 10,000 ISN’T TOO MUCH! She went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon gone. – Mark 7:30 When Thomas Alba Edison finally perfected and launched his incandescent lamp after 10,000 failures, a reporter asked, “How does it feel to have failed 10,000 times until you finally got it?” Edison replied, “I didn’t fail 10,000 times. I just discovered 10,000 ways that don’t work!” The desperate woman in the Gospel had no hope for her daughter — except Jesus. She cried out to Him even though she was surrounded with obstacles — her race, religious background, gender, not to mention the disciples, Satan, and seemingly, even Jesus. Jesus’ words to the woman seemed to say: “Stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Your choice!” She chose. Obstacles are not meant to stop you from fulfilling your dreams. They are meant to test how badly you want them. If you quit, maybe you don’t want it enough. If you don’t, it’s just a matter of time to making it real. The result of her bold persistence through the dark corridors of difficulty and rejection? Jesus commended her for her faith and healed her daughter. Friend, if you keep asking, seeking, knocking and working, we will find grace and mercy in our time of need. Jon Escoto (faithatworkjon@gmail.com) 9 REFLECTION: Have you shelved a dream since it has become too difficult, even impossible? Can it be that your stumbling blocks are stepping stones? Jesus, give me courage to keep on asking, seeking, knocking and working. I believe it’s never over until You say it’s over. Amen. St. Jerome Emiliani, pray for us.
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING No matter how small the first compromise may be, it is still a compromise. Solomon wanted to please his wives and so allowed the compromise of worship of other gods, not just one but many. It started with one, but it ended with many and it became an influence on the whole nation. The challenge for us is to keep our own lives clean of compromise so that the essence and the truth of the arguments can shine. 1 Kings 11:4-13 4 When Solomon was old his wives had turned his heart to strange Gods, and his heart was not entirely with the Lord, his God, as the heart of his father David had been. 5 By adoring Astarte, the Goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom, the idol of the Ammonites, 6 Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not follow him unreservedly as his father David had done. 7 Solomon then built a high place to Chemosh, the idol of Moab, and to Molech, the idol of the Ammonites, on the hill opposite Jerusalem. 8 He did the same for all his foreign wives who burned incense and sacrificed to their Gods. 9 The Lord, therefore, became angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice 10 (for though the Lord had forbidden him this very act of following strange Gods, Solomon had not obeyed him). 11 So the Lord said to Solomon: “Since this is what you want, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes which I enjoined on you, I will deprive you of the kingdom and give it to your servant. 12 I will not do this during your lifetime, however, for the sake of your father David; it is your son whom I will deprive. 13 Nor will I take away the whole kingdom. I will leave your son one tribe for the sake of my servant David and of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.” P S A L M Psalm 106:3-4, 35-36, 37, 40 R: Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people. 3 Blessed are they who observe what is right, who do always what is just. 4 Remember me, O Lord, as you favor your people; visit me with your saving help. (R) 35 But they mingled with the nations and learned their works. 36 They served their idols, which became a snare for them. (R) 37 They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. 40 And the Lord grew angry with his people, and abhorred his inheritance. (R) GOSPEL Jesus eventually listens to a woman who is not even a Jew. What does this tell us about Him, and consequently the Gospel? It tells us that the scope of the Gospel will ultimately reach all men and women and not just a select few – a single nation. This act of mercy screams out loud to us to broaden our horizons beyond the limited scope we have at the moment and reach out for the world. Let us take the Lord at His word and dream big for the Gospel. GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you and is able to save your souls. Mark 7:24-30 24 Jesus went to the district of Tyre. He entered a house and wanted no one to know about it, but he could not escape notice. 25 Soon a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him. She came and fell at his feet. 26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter. 27 He said to her, “Let the children be fed first. For it is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs.” 28 She replied and said to him, “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps.” 29 Then he said to her, “For saying this, you may go. The demon has gone out of your daughter.” 30When the woman went home, she found the child lying in bed and the demon gone. think: Let us take the Lord at His word and dream big for the Gospel. 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 1 Corinthians 1-4 1-4 | |
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| | SABBATH | LOOKING AFTER ONE’S OWN There is a simple principle that tells us that if we cannot look after those who are closest to us, why would we be concerned about people who are far from us? Yes, we do need to have a concern for all people, but let us be practical about things and concentrate first on the people who are close to us — the things we can do something about rather than those that are far from us and much more difficult to do anything about. Jesus eventually responds to the request for healing from a foreigner because of her insistence and her faith. It seems somewhat extraordinary that a non-Jew has more faith than the Jews. She uses an interesting analogy in her argument but it gets Jesus’ attention because it is very convincing. We should think about it once in a while because the same could be true of our situations. How deep is our own faith? How well do we respond to the graces God has given us to work with in our lives? Faith is not just about adherence to creeds and so on. It is all about how we live our lives — how faith affects the choices we make, and thus, provide a living witness of faith to the world. Preaching the Gospel is important, but living it is more important. This is where the focus of our lives must be — ensuring we give an evangelistic, true and uncompromised witness to the gift of salvation that God gave us. The Church, or the community of faith, exists for this purpose. We come together to support one another, but this support always goes beyond our individual selves to a shared witness to the Gospel. Jesus recognized something of this level of faith in the Syrophoenician woman’s faith and responded accordingly. How stronger the witness of our faith would be if we had faith as deep as hers? This is something not only worth reflecting on, but acting on as well. Fr. Steve Tynan, MGL REFLECTION QUESTIONS: Are you willing to surrender you life to the will of the Lord? What holds you back from giving a deeper and more powerful witness of faith? Jesus, You offer me the gift of faith every day. Help me to open my heart to a deeper trust and belief in You, in what You have done, and in what You will do in and through me. | |
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