 | Daily Bible Reflections
for January 31, 2011 |
|  Dear Lordie,
Carry the Lord in your heart this Monday!
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | BLESSING EXPERT “Go home to your family and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” – Mark 5:19 Are you a blessing expert or a problem expert? A blessing expert highlights the positive things that happens throughout the day and even finds something encouraging about the not-so-positive events. A problem expert focuses more on things that didn’t turn out so well, the complaints and the mishaps. I used to be a problem expert. But the Bible says I should tell people about the things the Lord has done for me. So I decided to list down daily five things I was thankful for that day. Oh boy, the feeling of gratitude was overwhelming. It kept my spirits up. Before I knew it, I was infecting the people around me, sharing with them the great and simple things happening to me on a daily basis. I kept deciding every day to count my blessings, enumerate and describe them in detail, and feel God’s presence with gratitude and delight. I list them down in my “Victory Updates,” my gratitude journal. Emphasizing the blessings regularly over the problems is not automatic. It’s a daily decision I have to make. Know what I realized? Being a blessing expert made me a happier person. Carlo Lorenzo (carloflorenzo@yahoo.com) REFLECTION: Decide today to be a blessing expert. Open my eyes, heart and mind to the wonderful things all around me, Lord. Holy Spirit, fill me with courage and enthusiasm to recognize and be truly grateful for the blessings all around me every day. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING We continue the litany of heroes of faith. Let us never forget that we do not stand alone – we stand side by side with these men and women of the Old Testament and all the saints of the Church. As this is true we should not worry about doing what God calls us to as we know that all the saints are interceding for us. We have friends who are seated with God in glory – apart from being there ourselves, could we possibly ask for more? Hebrews 11:32-40 32 Brothers and sisters: What more shall I say? I have not time to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets, 33 who by faith conquered kingdoms, did what was righteous, obtained the promises; they closed the mouths of lions, 34 put out raging fires, escaped the devouring sword; out of weakness they were made powerful, became strong in battle, and turned back foreign invaders. 35 Women received back their dead through resurrection. Some were tortured and would not accept deliverance, in order to obtain a better resurrection. 36 Others endured mockery, scourging, even chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, sawed in two, put to death at sword’s point; they went about in skins of sheep or goats, needy, afflicted, tormented. 38 The world was not worthy of them. They wandered about in deserts and on mountains, in caves and in crevices in the earth. 39 Yet all these, though approved because of their faith, did not receive what had been promised. 40 God had foreseen something better for us, so that without us they should not be made perfect. P S A L M Psalm 31:20, 21, 22, 23, 24 R: Let your hearts take comfort, all who hope in the Lord. 19 [20] How great is the goodness, O LORD, which you have in store for those who fear you, and which, toward those who take refuge in you, you show in the sight of the children of men. (R) 20 [21] You hide them in the shelter of your presence from the plottings of men; you screen them within your abode from the strife of tongues. (R) 21 [22] Blessed be the LORD whose wondrous mercy he has shown me in a fortified city. (R) 22 [23] Once I said in my anguish, “I am cut off from your sight”; yet you heard the sound of my pleading when I cried out to you. (R) 23 [24] Love the LORD, all you his faithful ones! The LORD keeps those who are constant, but more than requites those who act proudly. (R) G O S P E L Jesus is willing to take on the unclean spirits and He is never defeated in battle. Jesus knows that He has the victory because He knows He is a Son of the Father. This is true of us as well and thus we need never fear the battle with the devil as we have victory in Christ. Sometimes it might be prudent to flee a battle that looks overwhelming so that we can live to fight another day, but most of the time if we stand firm in faith, Satan will flee as he is a coward and a thief. ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia A great prophet has arisen in our midst and God has visited his people. R: Alleluia, alleluia Mark 5:1-20 1 Jesus and his disciples came to the other side of the sea, to the territory of the Gerasenes. 2 When he got out of the boat, at once a man from the tombs who had an unclean spirit met him. 3 The man had been dwelling among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, even with a chain. 4 In fact, he had frequently been bound with shackles and chains, but the chains had been pulled apart by him and the shackles smashed, and no one was strong enough to subdue him. 5 Night and day among the tombs and on the hillsides he was always crying out and bruising himself with stones. 6 Catching sight of Jesus from a distance, he ran up and prostrated himself before him, 7 crying out in a loud voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me!” 8 (He had been saying to him, “Unclean spirit, come out of the man!”) 9 He asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “Legion is my name. There are many of us.” 10 And he pleaded earnestly with him not to drive them away from that territory. 11 Now a large herd of swine was feeding there on the hillside. 12 And they pleaded with him, “Send us into the swine. Let us enter them.” 13 And he let them, and the unclean spirits came out and entered the swine. The herd of about two thousand rushed down a steep bank into the sea, where they were drowned. 14 The swineherds ran away and reported the incident in the town and throughout the countryside. And people came out to see what had happened. 15 As they approached Jesus, they caught sight of the man who had been possessed by Legion, sitting there clothed and in his right mind. And they were seized with fear. 16 Those who witnessed the incident explained to them what had happened to the possessed man and to the swine. 17 Then they began to beg him to leave their district. 18 As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed pleaded to remain with him. 19 But he would not permit him but told him instead, “Go home to your family and announce to them all that the Lord in his pity has done for you.” 20 Then the man went off and began to proclaim in the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him; and all were amazed. my reflections t h i n k : We need never fear the battle with the devil as we have victory in Christ. God’s special verse/thought for me today________________ _________________________________________________________
T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN Leviticus 4-5 | |
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| | SABBATH | What’s my Mission? Again and again, we read in the Gospels that Jesus invites people to follow Him, or that people who were healed by Him decided to follow Him and join His band of disciples, even women — something unheard of in the society and culture in His time. In today’s Gospel, we read the unique event that the healed man wants nothing more than to follow Jesus, yet He does not allow him. He sends him home to share what he has experienced in the presence of the Lord. In today’s language, we would say: The healed man got a different vocation from that of the other disciples. We discover here a very profound message for us. Each of us has a different vocation and we should be content with it, make the best out of it, and never envy other Christians who got a different vocation. Last September, Pope Benedict beatified in England the convert from the Anglican Church, Cardinal John Henry Newman. In one of his homilies, the Cardinal said, “Everyone who breathes, high and low, educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman, has a mission, has a work. We are not sent into this world for nothing; we are not born at random… God sees everyone of us; He creates every soul, He lodges it in a body, one by one, for a purpose. He needs, He deigns to need, everyone of us.” It would be wrong to think that if you are neither a nun, a priest, a catechist, a lector nor commentator during Mass, you are good for nothing in the church and only a member. Nobody baptized into the Body of Christ is “only a member.” St. Paul makes us aware that in a body, each member has a different and important function. Anyone who belongs to the Church, the mystical Body of Christ, has a function. The sending away of the healed man on a special mission makes us reflect on our own distinct vocation in the Church — be it in the family, among friends or wherever God has placed us. Jesus tells us, too, “Go to your home… and tell all that the Lord has done for you!” Fr. Rudy Horst, SVD Reflection Question: Do I feel useless in the Church? What could be my special mission? Lord, You made me aware that I have a mission, different from that of others. Help me to discover it and do it well. St. Julius of Novara, pray for us. | |
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