 | Daily Bible Reflections
for April 10, 2012 |
|  Dear Lordie,
This Tuesday, never forget how important you are to God.
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
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| | The Best EX-Deals Mary of Magdala announced … “I have seen the Lord!” – John 20:18 I’ve entrusted my time, talent and treasure to God. In return, I’ve seen the Lord give it back to me in measures I couldn’t have imagined. He has done it in small and big ways. I gave a used television set to somebody whose unit broke and I won a brand new TV at a raffle. I gave a hotel coupon to a couple to use after their wedding; I got free accommodations at two five-star resorts plus room upgrades. I use my car to serve other people; He gives me more cars and free parking spaces. I give time to serve in different ministries and He gives me a business that has earned me millions of pesos. If you think about it, God’s equation is mathematically wrong. He puts bigger values on our side always. We sin and He sends His only Son to redeem us. His love is beyond measure.Rolly España (rnespana@nwineskin.com) REFLECTION: Do you realize how much God loves you? Do you thank Him enough for that love? Who am I that You give me so much attention? I pray that the love You give me will overflow to others through me. St. Magdalen of Canossa, pray for us. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1ST READING This reading is one of the earliest constructions of the Gospel message. Having looked at this one, go and look at a few other examples in the Acts of the Apostles, the Gospels and the writings of St. Paul, and examine how the Church’s understanding of the Gospel developed. It is important that we realize that our understanding of faith is something that undergoes constant change in terms of the way we think and speak about it. The truth is the same but the way we express it can and will be different. Acts 2:36-41 36 On the day of Pentecost, Peter said to the Jewish people, “Let the whole house of Israel know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.” 37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they asked Peter and the other apostles, “What are we to do, my brothers?” 38 Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far off, whomever the Lord our God will call.” 40 He testified with many other arguments, and was exhorting them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” 41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand persons were added that day. P S A L M Psalm 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22 R: The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. 4 Upright is the word of the Lord, and all his works are trustworthy. 5 He loves justice and right; of the kindness of the Lord the earth is full. (R) 18 See, the eyes of the Lord are upon those who fear him, upon those who hope for his kindness, 19 to deliver them from death and preserve them in spite of famine. (R) 20 Our soul waits for the Lord, who is our help and our shield. 22 May your kindness, O Lord, be upon us who have put our hope in you. (R) GOSPEL Jesus does not want Mary to cling to her old understanding of who He is. Jesus is now the Risen Lord and she needs to take this into account in her relationship with Him. She is one of the few who knew Jesus both before and after His resurrection. This makes it difficult for her to know how to relate to Him. We only have to deal with the Risen Lord. Let us be sure that we live victorious lives with Him. GOSPEL ACCLAMATION This is the day the Lord has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it. John 20:11-18 11 Mary Magdalene stayed outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been. 13 And they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken my Lord, and I don’t know where they laid him.” 14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” She thought it was the gardener and said to him, “Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni,” which means Teacher. 17 Jesus said to her, “Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” 18 Mary went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and then reported what he had told her. LIST think: Our understanding of faith is something that undergoes constant change in terms of the way we think and speak about it. The truth is the same but the way we express it can and will be different. 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 Exodus 38-40 1-3 40 GOSPEL PSALM TODAY’S BLESSING LIST 1st READING 2nd READING GOSPEL PSALM TODAY’S BLESSING LIST | |
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| | SABBATH | THE OTHER SIDE OF A PROBLEM We are all too familiar with sob stories such as this: A wife loses a husband and decides to live as a depressed woman. She resolves not to live anymore but simply exist in total disregard of the children left to her care. Desolation gets the better of her and she fails to see that not everything is lost, and that her children are supposed to be seen as blessings left for her to nourish and care for as a shining remembrance of the husband she lost. As a pastor, I have always been approached by people who feel like they have the whole world on their shoulders. In all those situations, my advice is almost always the same: Never let your sorrow drown whatever blessings you still have, no matter how meager they may be. While the event in today’s Gospel is known to most as the “Great Recognition,” we cannot miss the fact that Mary failed considerably in recognizing the Risen Christ. Seeing Christ just in front of her, she thought He was the gardener who took away her Master’s body. She even heard Him speak but failed to recognize the tone of the voice that she has heard consistently in the past three years. So, what brought about her initial failure to recognize Him? She looked intently on the tomb — where Jesus was, that dark corner where she saw His lifeless body. And so she had her back against the Risen Christ. That much is true for most of us. We miss seeing the glory because of too much attention on the shame. We don’t see the blessings because we dwell much on the curse. Tears are inevitable but they should not blind us in seeing the glory before us.Fr. Sandy V. Enhaynes REFLECTION QUESTION: Are you experiencing some problems right now? Try shifting your focus — from your problems to the blessings before you. Remind me always, dear Jesus, that everything happens for a reason, that every trial has a blessing. | |
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