 | Daily Bible Reflections
for January 4, 2011 |
|  Dear Lordie,
This Tuesday, never forget how important you are to God.
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | A SHEPHERD ’S HEART As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd… – Mark 6:34 Have you met an emotional vampire? Have you been told to avoid them, lest you become zapped of your energy and much worse, become like them? Weren’t you advised to give verbiage to those creatures, similar to a call center agent who handles an irate caller, just to send them on their way? True. Emotional vampires suck up energy from you and we need to guard ourselves from them. After all, this co-dependency can spell the death of a relationship. So how are we to regard them in our hearts? Jesus tells us how: with compassion. Too often we get so engrossed in our performance spirituality, in worship, in preaching, in leading, that we forget why we do it in the first place. We should minister not only to those who exhibit the promise of being energetic, talented, sugar-overdosed Christians, but more especially to the lost sheep as well. To those who are searching for healing, for courage, for forgiveness, for love. For God. Reden Cerrer (redcer@yahoo.com) REFLECTION: We are not only seen through our actions but we are felt through our intentions. Father, let me be Your heart today. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING It is simple to realize that we are all called to love God and our neighbor; it is a far more difficult thing to actually fulfill such a call. Yet, this is at the heart of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus. Let us not only pray for the grace to recognize our neighbor but also the grace to love him or her no matter what our experience of them might be. Love is a decision we can all make no matter what our situation in life may be. Love can overcome all things. Sometimes we cannot love through our own strength; it is at these times that we really need to surrender all to the Holy Spirit and invite Him to help us to love. 1 John 4:7-10 7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. 8 Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. 10 In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins. P S A L M Psalm 72:1-2, 3-4, 7-8 R: Lord, every nation on earth will adore you. 1 O God, with your judgment endow the king, and with your justice, the king’s son; 2 he shall govern your people with justice and your afflicted ones with judgment. (R) 3 The mountains shall yield peace for the people, and the hills justice. 4 He shall defend the afflicted among the people, save the children of the poor. (R) 7 Justice shall flower in his days, and profound peace, till the moon be no more. 8 May he rule from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth. (R) G O S P E L If you want to be a pastor or leader in the Church get ready to be tired most of the time. The heart of a true pastor will always struggle to know when to rest and say that I have done all I can for now. The true pastor will see the needs of his flock and desire to meet them. The truth is, it is not possible for one person to meet all the needs of a large flock, and probably not even a small one. This is why we all must pitch in and help where we can in the care of our parishes and communities. Let us not make problems for our leaders but at least be a part of the solution to their problems. ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia The Lord has sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor and to proclaim liberty to captives. R: Alleluia, alleluia Mark 6:34-44 34 When Jesus saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things. 35 By now it was already late and his disciples approached him and said, “This is a deserted place and it is already very late. 36 Dismiss them so that they can go to the surrounding farms and villages and buy themselves something to eat.” 37 He said to them in reply, “Give them some food yourselves.” But they said to him, “Are we to buy two hundred days’ wages worth of food and give it to them to eat?” 38 He asked them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out they said, “Five loaves and two fish.” 39 So he gave orders to have them sit down in groups on the green grass. 40 The people took their places in rows by hundreds and by fifties. 41 Then, taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing, broke the loaves, and gave them to [his] disciples to set before the people; he also divided the two fish among them all. 42 They all ate and were satisfied. 43 And they picked up twelve wicker baskets full of fragments and what was left of the fish. 44 Those who ate of the loaves were five thousand men. my reflections think: Let us not make problems for our leaders but at least be part of the solution to their problems. God’s special verse/thought for me today________________ _________________________________________________________
T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN Genesis 10-12 | |
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| | SABBATH | His Heart Today At the Chapel of the Eucharistic Lord at Megamall, one can see at the hallway leading to the chapel a unique crucifix with Christ bearing no hands and no feet. It is a crucifix which has become a popular religious fixture in many religious edifices. There is an interesting story behind that image. During World War II, when many churches were leveled by the constant bombings, a parish priest with some of his parishioners sifted through the rubbles of the church. A parishioner found the crucifix but the hands and the feet have been burned away. They wanted to throw it away but the priest decided to use the same crucifix as it was found. The next Sunday at Mass, people were surprised to see the same crucifix with the dismembered Christ. It had an inscription below that read, “You are my hands and feet.” In today’s Gospel, Jesus manifested the compassionate heart of a shepherd. Mark simply puts it, “Jesus saw the vast crowd. He pitied them for they were like sheep without a shepherd.” Jesus taught the people at great length. But He felt they needed to be fed as well. The apostles wanted to dismiss the crowd. Jesus said instead, “You give them something to eat.” Notice here that Jesus did not say, “I will give them something to eat” even though it was He who will do the miraculous feeding. He said, “You give them something to eat.” He invited the apostles to be His partners, His collaborators. He invited them to be His hands and His feet. Sometimes we can be like the apostles, overwhelmed and discouraged by the task at hand, overcome by disappointments. We ask questions like, “With all the evil and suffering all around, how can you find goodness?” Friend, as men and women who bear the name of Christ, we don’t actually wait to find goodness. We find goodness by creating goodness. If goodness is hard to find, then be the source of goodness, and that can be the start. Be the hands and feet of Christ today! Fr. Joel O. Jason Reflection Question: When did you extend Christ’s hands and feet to another? Have you shied away from the challenge to “give them something to eat yourselves”? Reflect on the lines of this song: “And when I’ve done all that I could, yet there are hearts I cannot move, Lord, grant me hope that I may be Your heart today.” St. Hermes, pray for us. | |
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