 | Daily Bible Reflections
for November 2, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
God has a great plan for your life?including this Tuesday.
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | Solemnity of All Souls BEGGARS CAN’T BE CHOOSERS “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” – Matthew 5:3 We worked so hard that we missed lunch. It was hot, we were at camp and we were starving. We all agreed that the food was great. I’m sure it was but my friend said, “When you’re up on the mountains, anything tastes great.” How true. When we are in need, hungry or in lack, we take what we can get and we are grateful. Beggars can’t be choosers. Spiritual poverty is a concept I never understood until my wise priest friend, Fr. Mimo Perez, explained it to me. He said, “To be poor in spirit means you empty yourself of all your knowledge and standards of spirituality and allow God to give you whatever He has in store for you.” Sometimes it’s hard for me to live out this principle because I feel I know God so much. I tend to take the spiritual highway when sometimes He may be offering me a simpler alternative. I’m so full, so I can say “no” when He offers me something. I choose. But when we are spiritually poor, we’ll take whatever answer He has for us. Whatever blessing He chooses to bestow on us. However way He wills to work out our situation.George Tolentino Gabriel (george.svp@gmail.com) REFLECTION: Has God offered me an answer that I’ve refused? Lord, help me to accept whatever Your will is for me. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Today we remember our departed brothers and sisters in a special way. We recognize that people who die still undergo purification in purgatory. Today we pray for the dead — that the fullness of the resurrection might be theirs. We can also ask those who have already passed into eternal glory to pray and intercede for us. 2 Maccabees 12:43-46 43 Judas, the ruler of Israel, took up a collection among all his soldiers, amounting to two thousand silver drachmas, which he sent to Jerusalem to provide for an expiatory sacrifice. In doing this he acted in a very excellent and noble way, inasmuch as he had the resurrection of the dead in view; 44 for if he were not expecting the fallen to rise again, it would have been useless and foolish to pray for them in death. 45 But if he did this with a view to the splendid reward that awaits those who had gone to rest in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought. 46 Thus he made atonement for the dead that they might be freed from this sin. P S A L M Psalm 42:2, 3, 5; 43:3, 4, 5 R: My soul is thirsting for the living God: when shall I see him face to face? 1 [2] As the hind longs for the running waters, so my soul longs for you, O God. 2 [3] Athirst is my soul for God, the living God. When shall I go and behold the face of God? 4 [5] I went with the throng and led them in procession to the house of God, amid loud cries of joy and thanksgiving, with the multitude keeping festival. 43: 3 Send forth your light and your fidelity; they shall lead me on and bring me to your holy mountain, to your dwelling-place. 4 Then will I go in to the altar of God, the God of my gladness and joy; then will I give you thanks upon the harp, O God, my God! 5 Why are you so downcast, O my soul? Why do you sigh within me? Hope in God! For I shall again be thanking him, in the presence of my savior and my God. 2nd READING Baptism is entering into the death of Christ in order that we might rise with Him to new life. It is the resurrection of Jesus that gives us hope in our own resurrection. His victory over death gives us the hope to believe in the promise of a new and eternal life after death. It is by faith that we receive such a gift; it is by faith that we begin living it now. It is by faith that it will be finally achieved on the Last Day. Romans 6:3-4, 8-9 3 Brothers and sisters: Are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were indeed buried with him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in newness of life. 8 If, then, we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. 9 We know that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has power over him. G O S P E L Jesus, grant us the grace to believe the way Martha did. So often we allow doubts and fears about death to overwhelm us. Help us to know and believe that death is a part of our journey to the Kingdom of God where there will be no more death, tears or sorrow. Jesus, teach us to trust more deeply in You. John 11:21-27 21 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.” 23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise.” 24 Martha said to him, “I know he will rise, in the resurrection on the last day.” 25 Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” 27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world.” my reflections t hink: His victory over death gives us the hope to believe in the promise of a new and eternal life after death. _________________________________________________________
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T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Isaiah 41-44 | |
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| | SABBATH | Purgatory: a Cosmic Concentration Camp? Today, we pray for our brothers and sisters still undergoing purification and spiritual maturation in Purgatory. In 2 Maccabees 12:38-46, Judas Maccabee discovered that the soldiers killed in the battle were hiding pagan amulets and so had violated the Law of Moses by trusting more in amulets than in God. Judas then ordered that prayers and sacrifices be offered for their souls that “they might be freed from this sin.” In other words, Judas and his people strongly believed that prayers and sacrifices can help those who died in sin. And neither Jesus nor the apostles contradicted or corrected this belief. Due to popular belief and fantasy, nourished by Dante’s Purgatorioand paintings of some medieval artists, a horrible picture of purgatory sticks to the mind of many Catholics. Therefore, it is necessary to first of all “purge” the image. “Holy souls in Purgatory” actually refer to the souls assured of heaven but are in a temporary state of purification, a kind of “remedial class” for heaven-bound souls. St. Catherine of Genoa once wrote, “I believe no happiness can be found worthy to be compared with that of a soul in Purgatory…and day by day this happiness grows as God flows into these souls more and more, as the hindrance to His entrance is consumed. Sin’s rust is the hindrance, and the fire burns the rust away, so that more and more of the soul opens itself up to the divine inflowing… As the rust lessens and the soul is opened up to the divine ray, happiness grows…” And the fire? Here St. Augustine gives us consoling information when he writes, “Many faithful have to undergo a purifying suffering by being subjected to a symbolic or metaphorical fire, probably at the moment of death.” The Feast of All Souls, therefore, should not cause us worry and anxiety but encourage us to assist our brothers and sisters in their process of purification and maturation so that they may soon join the saints in their eternal joy. And we also should not be afraid of Purgatory because it will help us one day to be made ready to join the Lord in heaven. Fr. Rudy Horst, SVD Reflection Question: Do I pray for the souls of the departed, not only on All Souls Day but regularly? Lord, thank You for taking away those frightful, man-made ideas about Purgatory. Listen to my prayers for my loved ones who have left this world that they will soon be with You forever. St. Maura, pray for us. | |
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