 | Daily Bible Reflections
for May 17, 2012 |
|  Dear Lordie,
Be blessed by His Creative Word this Thursday!
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Bo Sanchez
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| | ‘USELESS’ TRANSFORMATION “In just a little while I will be gone, and you won’t see me anymore. Then just a little while after that, you will see me again.” – John 16:16 Our dental convention had just finished. I had no need for the ID with the nice thick ribbon that we had to wear to gain entry into the venue. You know how the hoarder in us always rears its ugly head when we’re about to throw away something? Well, this time I decided to be a creative hoarder. Such a useful, sturdy thing should not be put to waste! So I snipped this and sewed that. I inverted the ribbon so only the unlabeled side would be exposed. I put this and I glued that and tah-dah! I made a ribbon lock for my yoga mat so that it wouldn’t unroll when I wasn’t using it. Now I could stop obsessing about buying the branded mat that comes with its own lock. I guess that’s how God is with us. He never gives up on us no matter how useless we have become, or may have become a liability. To Him, no one is beyond help. And that’s what grace is all about. We should have been thrown away and burned. But God said, “Wait — I can still transform that and make her useful.” Ronna Ledesma (ronnaledesma@email.com) 17 REFLECTION: Even if the whole world gives up on us, God never will. Thank You for Your mercy, thank You for Your grace. Thank You for Your Cross that’s made a way. St. Paschal Baylon, pray for us. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1ST READING Paul liked to use connections to proclaim the Gospel. It is a very sensible and effective way to present a message to people who have never heard it before. Having an introduction from a mutual friend helps to overcome doubt and suspicion even before a word has been spoken. Let us learn from the tactics and wisdom of Paul as we seek to proclaim the Good News in our own situations. Acts 18:1-8 1 Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. He went to visit them 3 and, because he practiced the same trade, stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade. 4 Every sabbath, he entered into discussions in the synagogue, attempting to convince both Jews and Greeks. 5 When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began to occupy himself totally with preaching the word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus. 6 When they opposed him and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your heads! I am clear of responsibility. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.” 7 So he left there and went to a house belonging to a man named Titus Justus, a worshiper of God; his house was next to a synagogue. 8 Crispus, the synagogue official, came to believe in the Lord along with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard believed and were baptized. P S A L M Psalm 98:1, 2-3, 3-4 R: The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power. 1 Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done wondrous deeds; his right hand has won victory for him, his holy arm. (R) 2 The Lord has made his salvation known in the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice. 3 He has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. (R) All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation by our God. 4 Sing joyfully to the Lord, all you lands; break into song; sing praise. (R) GOSPEL Jesus hints that there will be some difficult times ahead for Him and His disciples. Maybe He hints about it because He is not fully aware of all the details Himself. Maybe He simply does not want to scare His disciples too much before the time of His passion and death occurs. It is a theologically open discussion as to what precise knowledge Jesus had of His own passion and death. There is no doubt He knew He had a mission; exactly how it would unfold is something we are not sure that Jesus had full knowledge of. Judges 1-4 GOSPEL ACCLAMATION I will not leave you orphans, says the Lord; I will come back to you, and your hearts will rejoice. John 16:16-20 16 Jesus said to his disciples: “A little while and you will no longer see me, and again a little while later and you will see me.” 17 So some of his disciples said to one another, “What does this mean that he is saying to us, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?” 18 So they said, “What is this ‘little while’ of which he speaks? We do not know what he means.” 19 Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Are you discussing with one another what I said, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’? 20 Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.” think: Let us learn from the tactics and wisdom of Paul as we seek to proclaim the Good News in our own situations. 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 Judges 1-4 | |
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| | SABBATH | NO TRICKS FOR US “A little while and you will no longer see me, and again a little while later and you will see me.” Jesus couldn’t be more enigmatic. We cannot but react in the same way as His disciples, who simply couldn’t figure out what He meant with His words. His reply to their murmuring only added even more to their perplexity. He prophesied how the disciples’ grief over His departure will be so countercultural and paradoxical. As it often happens with Jesus’ teachings, however, confusion and perplexity can only engender greater trust in Him. Our Lord is not up to playing tricks with us anyway, engaging us as though in a hide-and-seek game. He meant His words quite literally in fact. His departure or loss was to be only temporary, a perfectly replaceable situation wherein His Spirit will come and deepen further what He started. Besides, it was to be only His physical presence which was to disappear. It would level up to a higher and greater kind of presence — the spiritual. And so we need not be anxious and afraid. Even thorny situations, like in the case of the early Christian community in the First Reading, can still result in something good. St. Paul would never have been the Apostle to the Gentiles that he is, if it were not for his dismay in preaching to the Jews. Even in the midst of adversity and difficulty, “the Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power” (Responsorial Psalm). The Lord’s wondrous deeds are not magic tricks, of course. And He will never perform a disappearing act on us. No, He loves us too much that He will never leave us. Fr. Martin Macasaet, SDB REFLECTION QUESTIONS: Do you believe in God’s presence through the Holy Spirit? How much do you rely on His Spirit in your daily life? Thank You, Lord, for sending us the Holy Spirit to be Your presence in our lives. | |
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