 | Daily Bible Reflections
for September 29, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
God will never leave you. This Wednesday is no different.
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | Feast of Sts. Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, archangels Do you believe in angels? Then war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels battled against the dragon. – Revelation 12:7 This was exactly what Jaime, the man who delivered my Wheeler’s Club membership card, asked me. This is his story. Jaime dreamed of a barefoot creature with wings beckoning to him. This image never left his mind so he wondered what his dream meant. Until one day, as he was about to cross the street, he was almost hit by a speeding car. He could not explain it but he felt a hand holding the back of his shirt and abruptly pulling him back to the sidewalk. The image of the creature in his dream flashed in his mind. A few weeks later, while working in a construction site, he lost his balance and fell off the building. He could not understand how he landed in a wooden plank just a few feet from where he fell off, which certainly saved him from hitting the steel bars underneath. It then dawned on him that it was his guardian angel, protecting him from harm. Jaime believes that God has sent us angels, not only to protect us from harm but also to guide us to the right path that leads to Him.Bay Cabrera (baycabrera@yahoo.com) REFLECTION: God has entrusted us to our guardian angels to guide and guard us. Our fellow human beings may also stand as our guardian angels. Do we see God’s guiding hands in the people we meet? Lord, help us to see Your guiding hands in our daily encounter with our fellowmen, who give flesh to our guardian angels here on earth. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING The angels, not even the Archangels, would want the focus to be shifted off the Lord and onto them. They are God’s messengers and are quite happy performing their tasks. Let us respect this and call upon their intercession and aid in the battle to be free of sin and to serve God. This is how they can help us best. Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 (or Revelation 12:7-12a) 9 As I watched, Thrones were set up and the Ancient One took his throne. His clothing was bright as snow, and the hair on his head as white as wool; His throne was flames of fire, with wheels of burning fire. 10 A surging stream of fire flowed out from where he sat; Thousands upon thousands were ministering to him, and myriads upon myriads attended him. The court was convened, and the books were opened. 13 As the visions during the night continued, I saw One like a son of man coming, on the clouds of heaven; When he reached the Ancient One and was presented before him, 14 He received dominion, glory, and kingship; nations and peoples of every language serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not be taken away, his kingship shall not be destroyed. P S A L M Psalm 138:1-2ab, 2cde-3, 4-5 R: In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord. 1 I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart, for you have heard the words of my mouth; in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise; 2 I will worship at your holy temple and give thanks to your name. (R) Because of your kindness and your truth; for you have made great above all things your name and your promise. 3 When I called, you answered me; you built up strength within me. (R) 4 All the kings of the earth shall give thanks to you, O LORD, when they hear the words of your mouth; 5 and they shall sing of the ways of the LORD: “Great is the glory of the LORD.” (R) G O S P E L The realm of the spiritual is very mysterious. Exactly how God gives directions to His servants is not really known. These words of Jesus serve only to assure us that God is in control and that nothing will escape His attention. Let us ask Him for a deeper trust in His provident care of us. Let us be like the apostles by following wherever Jesus leads us. John 1:47-51 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Here is a true child of Israel. There is no duplicity in him.” 48 Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.” 49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.” 50 Jesus answered and said to him, “Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this.” 51 And he said to him, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you will see the sky opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” my reflections t h in k : Let us be like the apostles by following wherever Jesus leads us. _________________________________________________________
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| | SABBATH | To believe is to See At Mass we usually recite the Apostles’ Creed. There is another version of the same creed and it is called the Nicene Creed. This is much longer and much more precise. At the beginning of that Creed we say, “We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, of all things seen and unseen.” We know that man enjoys a unique place within the sphere of creation: with his body he belongs to the visible world, to what is seen. To the unseen, according to the Creed which the Church professes in the light of Revelation, belong other beings, purely spiritual, therefore not proper to the visible world even though present and working therein. The Catechism teaches us that the angels belong to such sphere. Today, I would like to dwell not so much on the reality of angels as on the tendency of modern man to deny, ignore and consider irrelevant things that are unseen. The existence of spiritual beings, which Sacred Scripture usually calls “angels,” was denied already in Christ’s time by the Sadducees (see Acts 23:8). Today it is denied by materialists and rationalists but, as a modern theologian rightly observes, “if one wishes to get rid of the angels, one must radically revise Sacred Scripture itself, and with it the whole history of salvation.” We will miss out on a lot of things if we become too visually-oriented. A wise spiritual writer puts it, “Not all things that can be counted truly count. And the things that truly count cannot be counted.” Well said. To this may I add: the best things in life are not things. Enough said. Fr. Joel O. Jason Reflection Question: “From infancy to death human life is surrounded by their (the angels) watchful care and intercession. Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life. Already here on earth the Christian life shares by faith in the blessed company of angels and men united to God.” — Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 336. How would you characterize your basic approach in life? Are you missing out on the things that truly count because you search only for those things that can be counted? Let us pray that the angels may guide us to value the unseen dimensions of our life as we say, “Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God’s love commits me here. Ever this day, be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen. St. Gabriella, pray for us. | |
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