 | Daily Bible Reflections
for February 4, 2011 |
|  Dear Lordie,
May you be guided by His directions this Friday!
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | just like me Let mutual love continue. – Hebrews 13:1 Paulo Coehlo, a famous Brazilian author, wrote about love in his book, The Zahir. Suppose there are two firemen who went into a forest to put out a small fire. Afterward, when they emerge and go over to a stream, the face of one is all smeared with black, while the other man’s face is completely clean. Which of the two will wash his face? Normally, we would say: the one with the dirty face. Coehlo disagrees. He thinks the one with the dirty face will look at the other man and assume that he is looking at him. Oddly enough, the man with the clean face will see his colleague covered in grime and will think his face is dirty, too, and will need a wash. Too often we mistake our loved ones to be an extension of ourselves. We fail to recognize them for who and what they are. Remember the scripts? You are my refuge. You have a beautiful soul. And when we find out that the other is just as flawed as we are, we leave them and the relationship crashes.Red Cerrer (redcer@yahoo.com) REFLECTION: True love happens when we have found our life purpose. Only then can we love others enough to allow them to live theirs. Father, teach us how to love. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING God is present to us in every person we meet. It is certain, then, that when we entertain anyone, we are entertaining not just angels but God Himself. This should be a sobering thought as we reflect upon the way we speak about one another and treat one another! Let us seek to recognize the face of Jesus in all whom we meet so that we will never be guilty of rejecting God or failing to respect His presence in our lives through the ministry of our neighbor. Hebrews 13:1-8 1 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Do not neglect hospitality, for through it some have unknowingly entertained angels. 3 Be mindful of prisoners as if sharing their imprisonment, and of the ill-treated as of yourselves, for you also are in the body. 4 Let marriage be honored among all and the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the immoral and adulterers. 5 Let your life be free from love of money but be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never forsake you or abandon you.” 6 Thus we may say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper, [and] I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?” 7 Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. P S A L M Psalm 27:1, 3, 5, 8-9 R: The Lord is my light and my salvation. 1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear? The LORD is my life’s refuge; of whom should I be afraid? (R) 3 Though an army encamp against me, my heart will not fear; though war be waged upon me, even then will I trust. (R) 5 For he will hide me in his abode in the day of trouble; he will conceal me in the shelter of his tent, he will set me high upon a rock. (R) 8 Your presence, O LORD, I seek. 9 Hide not your face from me; do not in anger repel your servant. You are my helper: cast me not off. (R) G O S P E L This story goes to show how jealousy can lead to very evil actions. Herodias’ actions have nothing redemptive in them – they are purely evil. This reminds us to be careful of tolerating sin in our lives. The problem here began with lust – Herodias transferring her affections from Philip to Herod. In tolerating her first affection for Herod she has been led by the devil down a path from where it is very difficult to turn – namely murder! Let us never allow this to happen to us. ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia Blessed are they who have kept the word with a generous heart, and yield a harvest through perseverance. R: Alleluia, alleluia Mark 6:14-29 14 King Herod heard about Jesus, for his fame had become widespread, and people were saying, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead; that is why mighty powers are at work in him.” 15 Others were saying, “He is Elijah”; still others, “He is a prophet like any of the prophets.” 16 But when Herod learned of it, he said, “It is John whom I beheaded. He has been raised up.” 17 Herod was the one who had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, whom he had married. 18 John had said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” 19 Herodias harbored a grudge against him and wanted to kill him but was unable to do so. 20 Herod feared John, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man, and kept him in custody. When he heard him speak he was very much perplexed, yet he liked to listen to him. 21 She had an opportunity one day when Herod, on his birthday, gave a banquet for his courtiers, his military officers, and the leading men of Galilee. 22 Herodias’s own daughter came in and performed a dance that delighted Herod and his guests. The king said to the girl, “Ask of me whatever you wish and I will grant it to you.” 23 He even swore many things to her, “I will grant you whatever you ask of me, even to half of my kingdom.” 24 She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?” She replied, “The head of John the Baptist.” 25 The girl hurried back to the king’s presence and made her request, “I want you to give me at once on a platter the head of John the Baptist.” 26 The king was deeply distressed, but because of his oaths and the guests he did not wish to break his word to her. 27 So he promptly dispatched an executioner with orders to bring back his head. He went off and beheaded him in the prison. 28 He brought in the head on a platter and gave it to the girl. The girl in turn gave it to her mother. 29 When his disciples heard about it, they came and took his body and laid it in a tomb. my reflections t h i n k : God is present to us in every person we meet. God’s special verse/thought for me today________________ _________________________________________________________
T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Leviticus 14-15 | |
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| | SABBATH | GHOST I believe in ghosts but I still have to see one. Ghosts are spirits. I believe in the existence of spirits; therefore, I believe in ghosts. But, again, I have yet to see one. In today’s Gospel, King Herod saw his ghost in the person of John the Baptist. Victim of his own foolish pride — for he did not want to take back the oath he swore to Herodias’s daughter — Herod could not do any better than have the Baptist beheaded in prison. He did it even if he was convinced that John was a holy man of God. We have ghosts, too. We commit mistakes. We blunder. We sin. We are too often victims of our own foolishness and pride. We create our own ghosts. And they are very real. Some people say they are not afraid of ghosts, but all people are disturbed by their ghosts. What is the antidote? First, acknowledge your mistake. Accepting guilt is the first step to courageously facing your ghost. Refusal to do so only makes your ghost run after you. Second, be sincerely sorry for your foolishness and pride that led you to commit such a blunder or sin. Befriending your ghost begins with the humility of saying sorry and meaning it well. Accepting your guilt without contrition only makes a monster out of your ghost. Third, amend and restitute. Resolve not to do again the wrong you have done, but this is never enough. You have to make it right. We all have ghosts in life. Many of them come from our past. They are parts of who we are. But there is much reason to befriend them and grow unto the person we are meant to be: sinners yet loved. Charles Dickenson’s A Christmas Story tells about three ghosts: the ghost of the distant past, of the present, and of the future. The main character of the story went through a lot of shuddering experiences, but in the end befriended his ghosts. When the story closes, he was a very much different man — the best he could ever be. Fr. Bobby Titco Reflection Question: What are my ghosts? How should I befriend them? O God, no one is perfect but You alone. I confess my guilt: I sin, I make mistakes, I commit blunders. I can be too foolish and proud that I myself create the ghosts I ran away from in fear. Forgive me and heal me. Help me amend my life and set aright whatever and whoever I have wronged. Amen. St. Rembert, pray for us. | |
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