 | Daily Bible Reflections
for May 8, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
This Saturday, follow the Spirit of God leading you.
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | ONLY GOD’S INSTRUMENT “They kept my word, they will also keep yours.” – John 15:20b Virgie called to remind me that there was a bukluran at Mars-Polaris. They meet every Tuesday night for a Bible sharing session. As the coordinator of these small cell groups in the parish (we have 13 areas as of this writing), what I do is attend for the first few months or even up to a year of their cell gathering until they are able to run it among themselves. Here at Mars-Polaris, they’ve been meeting for almost two years and I’m trying to wean them little by little by not attending every week. Yet, they would call or even come to my house to pick me up because they prefer that I be there. By virtue of being the representative of the Church, they give me this recognition. And I’m aware that it is His Spirit in me that draws them to me. We need to be God’s instrument of His presence in our world.Cristy Galang (cristy_cc@yahoo.com) REFLECTION: In what you do and say, do others see you as an instrument of the Lord? How can you make your “image” more fitting as God’s ambassador? Make me a faithful and effective servant, Lord. One that people will trust and respect because they can feel You in me. Amen. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Paul can be very inconsistent in his actions. He first argues at the Council in Jerusalem that it is not necessary for Gentile converts to come under the Jewish Law, but now he has Timothy circumcised. Paul will do whatever is necessary to successfully proclaim the Gospel. Let us hope he gave Timothy the choice. We can learn from this that we need to have flexibility in the way we address the call to preach the Gospel; as long as it is not sinful, then we are free to use whatever means are at our disposal to get the message across to the people. Acts 16:1-10 1 Paul reached also Derbe and Lystra where there was a disciple named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. 2 The brothers in Lystra and Iconium spoke highly of him, 3 and Paul wanted him to come along with him. On account of the Jews of that region, Paul had him circumcised, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. 4 As they traveled from city to city, they handed on to the people for observance the decisions reached by the apostles and presbyters in Jerusalem. 5 Day after day the churches grew stronger in faith and increased in number. 6 They traveled through the Phrygian and Galatian territory because they had been prevented by the Holy Spirit from preaching the message in the province of Asia. 7 When they came to Mysia, they tried to go on into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them, 8 so they crossed through Mysia and came down to Troas. 9 During the night Paul had a vision. A Macedonian stood before him and implored him with these words, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” 10 When he had seen the vision, we sought passage to Macedonia at once, concluding that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them. P S A L M Psalm 100:1b-2, 3, 5 R: Let all the earth cry out to God with joy. 1 Sing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands; 2 serve the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful song. (R) 3 Know that the LORD is God; he made us, his we are; his people, the flock he tends. (R) 5 The LORD is good: his kindness endures forever, and his faithfulness, to all generations. (R) G O S P E L Choosing to follow Christ will inevitably alienate us from some people. This is one of the costs of discipleship that we have to be willing to pay if we are going to follow Him. Even with this reality, discipleship is a privilege and blessing — something we must always be thankful for and choose to embrace with everything we have. I guarantee this will be the best decision we can ever make. John 15:18-21 18 Jesus said to his disciples: “If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you. 20 Remember the word I spoke to you, ‘No slave is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. 21 And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.” my reflections t h i n k : C hoosing to follow Christ will inevitably alienate us from some people. _________________________________________________________
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T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Joshua 13-16 | |
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| | SABBATH | CRUX CUM CORPUS, CRUX CUM CHRISTUS There is a devotion of some well-meaning Catholics that disturb me. It is the devotion to the holy cross without a corpus (body). The body is, of course, the body of Christ. When I was assigned pastor of the Holy Cross Parish in Makati, I had to endure persecution when I started implementing a directive I received from the Archdiocese of Manila concerning the community’s center of devotion. The cross enshrined at the altar of the parish church was a Christ-less cross! I was instructed to correct that. I needed so much patience, courage and determination to accomplish the task. It was sad because many of those who objected to correcting the Christ-less cross were the so-called lay church leaders. By the grace of God, the Holy Cross Parish now has a life-size image of the Crucified Christ. Their devotion to the Holy Cross remains, but no longer to a Christ-less cross. I am assigned now to a chapel named after the holy cross, too. And I am happy to note upon my arrival that theirs is a cross with the Crucified Christ. Why do some people focus more on the cross at the expense of Christ? Why do they devote themselves to the cross but not to the Crucified instead? Why is there so much fanaticism surrounding the cross? Yet, when we talk about the cross in the form of problems, sickness, persecutions and the like, people run away at first sight. Who wants such a cross anyway? We do not want a cross without Jesus. We want the cross of Jesus instead. And certainly, that means more than just affixing a body on the cross. It means carrying our cross the way Jesus carried His and, if needed, being crucified on our cross for the same reasons Jesus was crucified on His. Uniting our sufferings with that of Christ’s is one way of accomplishing this. Enduring persecutions on account of the Gospel of Jesus with great love and sincere humility fulfills this at its best. The One who was crucified on the cross at Calvary always tells the truth: persecution knocking on the door of His followers is not only a normal thing, but must likewise be expected. When they knock, may we be found faithful to the One Crucified. Fr. Bobby Titco Reflection Question: A Christ-less cross is incorrect but a cross-less Christ is a lie. Lord Jesus, the glorious Crucified One, I adore You, for by Your holy cross You have redeemed the world. Amen. St. Wiro, pray for us. | |
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