 | Daily Bible Reflections
for December 28, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
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| | Feast of the Holy Innocents HIS FRIEND? If we say, “We have fellowship with him,” while we continue to walk in darkness, we lie and do not act in truth. – 1 John 1:6 The phone rang and the woman on the other end said hello. I answered back thinking she was someone I knew. After a few minutes of conversation where I naively dropped some facts, she explained why she was in the Philippines and asked to be excused that her voice was different because she had some problems with her throat. She then asked me if I could give her a cell phone load as she couldn’t go out of the house and her maid was out. I didn’t understand why it was difficult because I knew my friend’s house was near everything. I wasn’t sure where to buy load myself so I told her I’d just pass on some to her. After I did, we planned to meet each other the next day. I waited for her at our meeting place. She never showed up. It was only later that I realized I had been duped by a stranger who claimed to be my friend. I was pretty naïve, I agree. But it makes me realize now that we humans have played my so-called “friend” in our relationship with God. We say we are His friends but many times, we actually act like His enemies by betraying Him through our actions. REFLECTION: “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” (Proverbs 17:17) Dear Lord, protect me from my own tendency to betray You. Enable me to be faithful. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING John’s epistles and Gospel have an almost mystical flavor to them. In order to fully understand them, we need to allow the Spirit of God to permeate our hearts and minds so that we will be open to a deeper meaning of the words. Let us pray that we will never tire in opening our understanding of God’s Word through the power of the Holy Spirit. 1 John 1:1-4 1 Beloved: What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked upon and touched with our hands concerns the Word of life — 2 for the life was made visible; we have seen it and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was made visible to us — 3 what we have seen and heard we proclaim now to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; for our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 4 We are writing this so that our joy may be complete. P S A L M Psalm 97:1-2, 5-6, 11-12 R: Rejoice in the Lord, you just! 1 The LORD is king; let the earth rejoice; let the many isles be glad. 2 Clouds and darkness are around him, justice and judgment are the foundation of his throne. (R) 5 The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth. 6 The heavens proclaim his justice, and all peoples see his glory. (R) 11 Light dawns for the just; and gladness, for the upright of heart. 12 Be glad in the LORD, you just, and give thanks to his holy name. (R) G O S P E L Peter’s leadership role among the apostles shows us that it is not necessarily learning and understanding that make a good leader; God looks to other qualities as well when developing leaders. We need to be aware of this as we disciple and form the leaders of tomorrow in the Church. John 20:1a, 2-8 1 On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene 2 ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.” 3 So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. 4 They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; 5 he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in. 6 When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, 7 and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. 8 Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed. my reflections t h i n k : In order to fully understand the Word of God, we need to allow the Spirit of God to permeate our hearts and minds. God’s special verse/thought for me today________________ _________________________________________________________
T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN Zechariah 5-8 Zechariah 1-4 | |
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| | SABBATH | A DIFFERENT KIND OF DEATH, THANKS TO THE HOLY INNOCENTS Today we commemorate the sacrifice of the Holy Innocents in shedding their blood for the sake of Jesus. But it is also worth shifting the focus to another death — more precisely, another kind of death. British poet T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) is the one who speaks of this: a kind of death, in fact, on the part of the Magi. In his poem, “Journey of the Magi,” we read: “Were we all led that way for / Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly, / We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death, / But had thought they were different; this Birth was / Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death. / We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, / But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation, / With an alien people clutching their gods. / I should be glad of another death.” Jesus’ birth at the stable in Bethlehem was that different kind of birth — one that fuses with or “crosses over” unto death (“this Birth was / Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.”) The entire “Christ-Event” upsets our whole outlook on birth and death, our entire worldview on life, in fact. This exactly is what Christ eventually preached in His lifetime: “Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit,” culminating, of course, in his own death on Calvary. This was the death that gave rise to eternal life. That is now the other kind of death that we “should be glad of,” the other kind of death that the Holy Innocents enjoyed, the death that gives way to heavenly bliss and eternal joy. It was surely a gruesome death; but we see now that it was also a glorious death. We, therefore, are no longer at ease in our own earthly kingdoms, with all our worldly values and alien gods. “We should be glad of another death.” Thanks to the Holy Innocents for leading the way for us, and for helping us realize this more deeply.Fr. Martin Macasaet,SDB Reflection Question: Holiness need not be achieved after one dies. While living, are you willing to die to yourself for Jesus, that He may be glorified? Holy Innocents, pray for us. St. Troadius, pray for us. | |
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