 | Daily Bible Reflections
for February 24, 2012 |
|  Dear Lordie,
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| | FASTING = LOVE “Do you call this a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord?” – Isaiah 58:5 For the prophet Isaiah, the right fasting is all about giving justice. To what do we equate the fasting that we do? Some people have this formula: Fasting = Diet. For others, it’s Fasting = More Savings. Some who have not prepared properly for fasting get ill-tempered and lash at others around them. Personally, I’ve experienced a certain feeling of pity for myself when I fast because I’ve been deprived of “luxuries.” We are reminded today to have the right motives and goals in the practice of fasting. Ultimately, it is love. Love of others in prayer and selflessness. Love of self as we answer to our highest purpose in life — holiness. Love of Jesus because He loved us so much to give the utmost sacrifice of His life, that we in turn, may live. Lallaine Gogna (lallygogna@ yahoo.com) REFLECTION: Have you already decided what you will fast from? In this holy season of Lent, teach me how I can open myself more and more to You Lord. Blessed Luke Belludi, pray for us. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING The type of fasting that most pleases the Lord is when we are obedient to His will, that is, when we fast from placing our own wills in precedence to His will. Practicing this discipline takes a lot of sacrifice because it often means letting go of the things we enjoy and would rather do, and embrace a life that is focused on growing in holiness and obedience to God.
Isaiah 58:1-9 1 Thus says the Lord God: Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, lift up your voice like a trumpet blast; tell my people their wickedness, and the house of Jacob their sins. 2 They seek me day after day, and desire to know my ways, like a nation that has done what is just and not abandoned the law of their God; they ask me to declare what is due them, pleased to gain access to God. 3 “Why do we fast, and you do not see it? Afflict ourselves, and you take no note of it?” Lo, on your fast day you carry out your own pursuits, and drive all your laborers. 4 Yes, your fast ends in quarreling and fighting, striking with wicked claw. Would that today you might fast so as to make your voice heard on high! 5 Is this the manner of fasting I wish, of keeping a day of penance that a man bow his head like a reed, and lie in sackcloth and ashes? Do you call this a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord? 6 This, rather, is the fasting that I wish releasing those bound unjustly, untying the thongs of the yoke; setting free the oppressed, breaking every yoke; 7 sharing your bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the homeless; clothing the naked when you see them, and not turning your back on your own. 8 Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your wound shall quickly be healed; yourvindication shall go before you, and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. 9 Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer, you shall cry for help, and he will say: Here I am! P S A L M Psalm 51:3-4, 5-6, 18-19 R: A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn. 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) 16 [18] For you are not pleased with sacrifices; should I offer a burnt offering, you would not accept it. 17 [19] My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit; a heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn. (R) GOSPEL The most important aspect of fasting is the intention we have behind performing this act of penance. Fasting may be a useful thing in living a healthier way of life, but the spiritual gain from fasting has a lot to do with our intention when we fast. Motivation can be a tricky thing to measure so let us pray for the grace of the Spirit to purify our motivations in all that we do, and thus, help us keep our lives on the true path to eternal life. GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Seek good and not evil so that you may live, and the Lord will be with you. Matthew 9:14-15 14 The disciples of John approached Jesus and said, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but your disciples do not fast?” 15 Jesus answered them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.” 1st READING 2nd READING GOSPEL PSALM TODAY’S think: The type of fasting that most pleases the Lord is when we are obedient to His will.NG 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 1-3nd READING TODAY’S BLESSING LIST | |
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| | SABBATH | CALL AND THE LORD WILL ANSWER! As I write, I can’t help but think about my brand new cell phone, the first “smart phone” I ever had since cell phones became de rigueur everywhere. Funny, but cell phones have become anything but “phones” — a word that literally has to do with sounds. Nowadays, we don’t “call” people anymore by phone. We text. We “miss call” them. We PM or SMS them. When we call people, hardly anyone readily answers. One first looks at who is calling and “ignores,” “rejects,” or takes the call. The call-response continuum has been restructured. All this has belied the passage that has become my title for this reflection. But this is precisely good news for us to consider today. Despite all the gizmos and gadgets designed to foster communication, there is really less and less personal interaction between individuals, when one can “delete” “friends” at will any time for the flimsiest of reasons. We need to re-appropriate this piece of good news. It is good news for us, now that we are inundated by noise that masquerades as news. All sorts of dastardly acts that reflect man’s inhumanity to man, do leave us battered, if not tattered, as far as the “hope that is in us” is concerned. Add to that all the shallow showbiz intrigues, the inanities espoused by primetime shows, and the natural tragedies that take place everywhere in the world — and hope flies out the window. But the communication that the postmodern world now understands is, for the most part, unidirectional. It is sad to note that most postings in Facebook and other social networking accounts go unanswered, maybe unnoticed, but people simply go on broadcasting in cyberspace. But the prayer that the readings speak of today is anything but unidirectional. “You shall call, and the Lord will answer!” Fr. Chito Dimaranan, SDB REFLECTION QUESTION: This Lent, what questions about your life do you want to ask the Lord? Call on Him now. Lord Jesus, help me to always remember that You do answer my every question in the way that’s best for me, in Your own time. | |
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