 | Daily Bible Reflections
for February 25, 2012 |
|  Dear Lordie,
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| | COMMUNITY OF SINNERS Jesus said to them in reply, “Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do.” – Luke 5:31 Roland was flushed with anger. He was in the middle of an out-of-town meeting when he received texts from Ritz ordering him to help out with an event. The content of the messages had urgency and aggression. He was loaded with many things assigned to him in his ministries and the concerns of Ritz were not part of it. It was hard enough to serve excellently with all the tasks at hand, more so, have someone tell him to prioritize something else. He managed to pray and reply objectively. Then, an inspiration came to Roland to bow, obey and apologize to Ritz. It was insane, he thought. But maybe it was from the Holy Spirit. He did it even if it seemed unfair on his part. Months later, Roland learned that Ritz was being corrected left and right. She was hurting and disappointing people around her. She didn’t need another scolding, but she needed gentle love: something she received and learned from Roland. There is no perfect community. We embrace and welcome sinners. Just as doctors serve to heal the sick not the healthy. Jesus is our doctor. His gentle love heals. Carlo Lorenzo (carloflorenzo@yahoo.com) 25 REFLECTION: How do I respond to what I perceive as unlovable acts by others? Do I respond with logic, emotional impulse or loving-kindness? God of love, mercy and gentleness, help me in fun and loving ways to reflect Your love, mercy and gentleness. Fill me with wisdom to know how to respond even if it seems unfair to me. Blessed Sebastian of Aparicio, pray for us. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING It is usually the poor who suffer most from the injustices of society for two main reasons. The first is that they are the least able to weather storms of adversity as they do not have ready access to the resources they need to do so. Secondly, they are least able to fight an injustice. The Church and all people of faith have a duty to fight for those least able to defend and support themselves. Let us seek to live just lives, helping others along the way to a better life themselves. Isaiah 58:9-14 9 Thus says the Lord: If you remove from your midst oppression, false accusation and malicious speech; 10 If you bestow your bread on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted; then light shall rise for you in the darkness, and the gloom shall become for you like midday; 11 then the Lord will guide you always and give you plenty even on the parched land. He will renew your strength, and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring whose water never fails. 12 The ancient ruins shall be rebuilt for your sake, and the foundations from ages past you shall raise up; “Repairer of the breach,” they shall call you, “Restorer of ruined homesteads.” 13 If you hold back your foot on the sabbath from following your own pursuits on my holy day; if you call the sabbath a delight, and the Lord’s holy day honorable; if you honor it by not following your ways, seeking your own interests, or speaking with malice — 14 Then you shall delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will nourish you with the heritage of Jacob, your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken. P S A L M Psalm 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6 R: Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth. 1 Incline your ear, O Lord; answer me, for I am afflicted and poor. 2 Keep my life, for I am devoted to you; save your servant who trusts in you. 3 You are my God. (R) Have mercy on me, O Lord, for to you I call all the day. 4 Gladden the soul of your servant, for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. (R) 5 For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in kindness to all who call upon you. 6 Hearken, O Lord, to my prayer and attend to the sound of my pleading. (R) GOSPEL Jesus calls everyone to follow Him, even the outcasts of society and its sinners. Tax collectors were considered traitors by the Jews because they enforced Roman oppression upon Jews. The taxes levied were quite onerous. This does not stop Jesus from naming a tax collector among the Twelve. This indicates quite clearly that we are not to judge anyone by their past life. What is important is whether or not we are presently responding to the grace of God. GOSPEL ACCLAMATION I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, says the Lord, but rather in his conversion, that he may live. Luke 5:27-32 27 Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post. He said to him, “Follow me.” 28 And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him. 29 Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were at table with them. 30 The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” 31 Jesus said to them in reply, “Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do. 32 I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners.” think: Jesus calls everyone to follow Him, even the outcasts of society and its sinners. 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 Timothy 4-6nd READING | |
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| | SABBATH | PLENTY EVEN ON THE PARCHED LAND I was a young priest when the economy took a turn for the worse in the months and years following the assassination of Ninoy Aquino. I remember very well the many ways by which the Filipino people coped with much less, how we managed to stretch what little we had. Interesting new “recipes” that we now enjoy and take for granted were actually attempts at extending the lesser meat supply that people could afford — tokwa’t baboy, lugaw (which actually became a craze and a fad), along with many types of street food that now are part and parcel of our daily experience. In many ways, less became more. The little that people had propelled them to work for more and actually achieve more with far less. But that more depended on a list of conditions. People had to be creative. They had to learn to improvise. With government coffers empty, imported goods were out of the question for many people. We learned to make do with local ingredients, local parts, and whatever we could craft on our own. The whole country looked like a picture of political, economic and cultural desolation. The land was more than just parched, literally and figuratively, most especially when El Niño ravaged the country in 1985. But out of this parched land came plenty! The four fateful and faith-filled days of February were the summation of everything good that happened despite, and maybe because of, the utter lack of so many things. The First Reading today is a reminder of what sort of “plenty” awaits those who are willing to live with many “ifs” in real life: if we remove oppression; if we bestow bread on the hungry; if we observe the Sabbath; if we honor it instead of seeking our own interests, and so on. There was precious little back then but so much treasure to speak of. At EDSA in those four days, there were miracles galore. Food and everything else flowed in abundance, proving what Isaiah spoke of — plenty even on the parched land! Fr. Chito Dimaranan, SDB REFLECTION QUESTION: What blessings do you see in your present need? Lord, help me to see Your love and providence even when times are hard. | |
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