Lordie, God's Message For You Today, April 19, 2012

Daily Bible Reflections for April 19, 2012 Dear Lordie, This Thursday, remember that He knows you and loves you. Praying for you, Bo Sanchez PS. Do you live in the Philippines? Sign up for Bo's weekly  cellphone message. This is FREE. (That is why you have to live in the Philippines to sign up for this service.) Text:   BOSEZ_<your full name>_ <your email address> and send to any of the following numbers: Globe (09178494444); Smart (09088949999); Sun (09228945555) And you'll start receiving Bo's inspiring message to encourage you, guide you, and bless your week.   19 April Thursday TODAY'S READINGS: DIDACHE | COMPANION | SABBATH DIDACHE   WOE TO UNBELIEVERS   “But the wrath of God rests upon him.” – John 3:36   She was a victim of an agency that runs a prostitution syndicate. She thought she was going to work as a domestic helper in Manila. Trapped in a whorehouse for almost a year, she was three months pregnant when she managed to get away from the evil men who guarded her and several other women. She ended up in a church. A nun learned of her story and brought her to a welfare agency. My blood boiled with rage at the perpetrators when she narrated how she was recruited in the province and how her poor parents were fooled into believing that their daughter was headed for greener pastures. I was outraged at how they threatened to harm her if she didn’t put up with the work of a prostitute. It is of people like this that Mark 9:42 rightly says, “It would be better for [them] if a great millstone were hung around [their] necks and... thrown into the sea.” So much evil is done in this world because there are people who refuse to see the Light. May our lives combat their darkness as we seek to share Jesus to the world.Cristy Galang (cristy_cc@yahoo.com) 19 REFLECTION: Am I aware of the evil happening in this world? How have I responded?   Help them, Jesus, help them. We pray for people who have refused to see Your Light while they still have a chance to turn around. Strike them with the spirit of repentance and save their souls. Amen.   Blessed Luchesio and Buonadonna, pray for us.   Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top COMPANION Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top SABBATH   HEAVENLINESS AND EARTHLINESS   There are people who are highly specialized and who know all there is to know in one specific field of inquiry. They can talk for hours on their chosen field. The depth of their knowledge is nothing short of encyclopedic. And there are individuals who love to talk of one and only one topic. They can rant on and on and bore you to death about their “single-issue” expertise. The first is remarkable and interesting. The latter, however, soon becomes uninteresting and boring. I have met people who talk of nothing else but business. Their whole lives are characterized by purely earthly concerns. And then there are those whose main preoccupation is simply so heavenly. They talk endlessly about Latin Tridentine Masses, for example, or pontificate flawlessly on dogma. The former is too earthly to a fault; the latter, too heavenly for comfort. The Gospel passage today refers to being earthly and being heavenly. It makes no secret about the order of importance between the two. “The one who comes from above is above all. The one who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of earthly things.” Heavenliness and earthliness are not meant to be two opposing and irreconcilable poles. They don’t mutually cancel each other. No, they complement one another. Classical spiritual writers speak of the twin poles of nature and grace, the natural and the supernatural, the spiritual and the corporeal. They both come into play in the composite being called the human person, called to spiritual heights but with two feet firmly planted on the ground, at least for the time being. Don Bosco, the man and the saint, is a good representation of this. He is described as “profondamente uomo; profondamente santo” (deeply human; deeply divine). So is Blessed John Paul II — human to the core but with heaven as his final goal. In both men, nature and grace, the earthly and the heavenly, were molded into one. Fr. Chito Dimaranan, SDB   REFLECTION QUESTIONS: Are you interested only in earthly things? How can you make yourself both fully human and spiritual?   Lord Jesus, may I learn to be both fully human yet spiritual, too. May my eyes be fixed on You as I live out my purpose in life.   Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top

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