 | Daily Bible Reflections
for March 12, 2011 |
|  Dear Lordie,
This Saturday, follow the Spirit of God leading you.
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
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| | Jesus ’ Mini-Me “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” – Luke 5:30 “Tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are.” These words of warning kept ringing in my ears as I considered a business proposal. I knew the colleague offering the deal as someone who verbally abuses people of lesser stature when displeased. I was afraid this trait might rub off on me if I was in constant association with this person. Sin, like a disease, can be infectious if one does not have a strong resistance. The venture, if successful, would bring great material rewards. But I have walked with the Lord too long that I was not willing to give up His company for this gain. I prayed that if this would change me negatively then may this be taken from me. This verse made me realize that Jesus also mingled with wayward characters. He did that to show them His love and that there was still a way back for them. Maybe, I am being given this opportunity to become Jesus’ Mini-Me. Just like the character in Austin Powers, I have to faithfully copy everything that Jesus did: hate the sin, love the sinner. Lella Santiago (mirellasantiago@yahoo.com) REFLECTION: Are there toxic people in my life that need my help? Should I avoid them or try to show them what Jesus would do? Lord, grant me the wisdom to know when to hang on and when to let go of a harmful relationship. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING The Scriptures leave us in no doubt about our responsibility to do whatever we can to help less fortunate people. None of us has the moral right to absolve our selves of this humanitarian duty. Let us always seek to share with others whatever blessings we may have received and thus affirm that we have embraced the call to love both God and our neighbor. Love is an interesting reality once we get to learn its nature as it assumes and demands nothing – it simply seeks to reach out to others no matter what the situation is. Isaiah 58:9-14 9 Thus says the LORD: If you remove from your midst oppression, false accusation and malicious speech; 10 if you bestow your bread on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted; then light shall rise for you in the darkness, and the gloom shall become for you like midday; 11 then the LORD will guide you always and give you plenty even on the parched land. He will renew your strength, and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring whose water never fails. 12 The ancient ruins shall be rebuilt for your sake, and the foundations from ages past you shall raise up; “Repairer of the breach,” they shall call you, “Restorer of ruined homesteads.” 13 If you hold back your foot on the sabbath from following your own pursuits on my holy day; if you call the sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable; if you honor it by not following your ways, seeking your own interests, or speaking with malice — 14 Then you shall delight in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will nourish you with the heritage of Jacob, your father, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken. P S A L M Psalms 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6 R: Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth. 1 Incline your ear, O LORD; answer me, for I am afflicted and poor. 2 Keep my life, for I am devoted to you; save your servant who trusts in you. 3 You are my God. (R) Have mercy on me, O Lord, for to you I call all the day. 4 Gladden the soul of your servant, for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. (R) 5 For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in kindness to all who call upon you. 6 Hearken, O LORD, to my prayer and attend to the sound of my pleading. (R) G O S P E L Love is never interested in the benefits or returns for loving. This is a very difficult attitude to develop. The world is motivated by ‘investment return benefits’ and very little else. Even donations to disaster funds can depend upon whether there is tax deductibility for the donation or not. God’s love demands nothing and gives everything freely. This is what we must seek to imitate. If enough of us are successful, the world will never be the same again. VERSE BEFORE THE GOSPEL I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, says the Lord, but rather in his conversion, that he may live. Luke 5:27-32 27 Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post. He said to him, “Follow me.” 28 And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him. 29 Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were at table with them. 30 The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” 31 Jesus said to them in reply, “Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do. 32 I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners.” my reflections t h i n k : Love assumes and demands nothing – it simply seeks to reach out to others no matter what the situation is. 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 Judges 17-21 | |
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| | SABBATH | ASSOCIATING WITH OUTCASTS AND THE POOR Jesus did not hesitate in associating with the lowly and those whom society and the religious leadership had rejected. How well do we follow Jesus’ example? It is rarely easy to go against the trend in society, but generally speaking, in matters regarding the poor and the outcast, this would seem to be the Christian’s duty. If we go back a few centuries in European history we will discover that the Church did the vast majority of social service welfare. Even today it is not much different in many countries. I know, for example, that more than 90 percent of palliative care is provided through Catholic institutions, as are about 30 percent of the hospital beds and schools. If the Catholic Church was to forego its ministry in these situations, the cost for the government of Australia would be enormous. This is one of the reasons why the government is willing to subsidize these Catholic social works. But what about each of us as individuals? How are we reaching out to those less fortunate than we are? How are we drawing the outcasts back into our society so that they can be cared for? These are questions we each have to answer, challenges that we each have to face. There is a strong tradition in Catholic thought that it is the poor who will welcome the rich into heaven. If this is the case, and it is definitely true in spirit if not in reality, then one of the priorities of the rich must be to cultivate good relationships with the poor. The parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus ought to be required material for reflection for everyone so that we can understand the imperative nature of this calling. We only get one chance at life, so we had better make the best of it. The saints give witness to the multitude of ways in which we can place our lives in the service of our brothers and sisters. Let us study their lives and motives and learn from them as we seek to put in place the right balance of activities in our lives.Fr. Steve Tynan, MGL Reflection Question: How can I better reach out to those in need in my neighborhood? I know I cannot solve all the problems of all the people but I think I can help with some of them. Father, give me the strength to incorporate in my life all the different aspects of a healthy and wholesome spirituality that will serve those who most need my help. St. Bernard of Carinola, pray for us. | |
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