 | Daily Bible Reflections
for May 13, 2011 |
|  Dear Lordie,
This Friday, work with Him at your side.
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| | YOU TUBE & YOU-CHARIST “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.” – John 6:54 My dad just passed away. After all the good words from everyone, it was my turn to honor him. “My Catholic teachers and the Bible taught me that there is life after death. I believe them. But my father’s witness of his life taught me that there is life before death. And I believe him. He lived his life in full,” I said. While some others just exist, some people actually live. How different from the funeral service of Charles Bradlaugh, a belligerent British atheist. Writer Arthur Porritt recalls, “No prayer was said at the grave.... The remains, placed in a light coffin, were lowered into the earth in a quite unceremonious fashion as if carrion were being hustled out of sight.... It only then dawned on me that loss of faith in the continuity of human personality after death gives death an appalling victory.” What kind of life is this: counting blessings amidst suffering, experiencing joy amidst terminal sickness, singing praise amidst seemingly cursed circumstances, believing in victory amidst hopeless problems? Friend, this is the life of the Eucharist — full and full length, in the now, and the hereafter. Jon Escoto (faithatworkjon@gmail.com) 13 REFLECTION: Do you see life as youtube — short and incomplete? It’s time to return to the Eucharist. Father, as I receive You in the Eucharist in the coming days, visit my life like never before. Let me experience Your miracle in a special and powerful way. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING I think we can all understand the reluctance of Ananias to present himself before Paul as a believer. He knows Paul persecutes the Church and so he is right in being a little wary of this instruction. However, because it is the Holy Spirit who is speaking to him, he does as he is instructed. This story goes to show that a small act of obedience can be instrumental in bringing about a mighty shift in power as regards the proclamation of the Gospel. Acts 9:1-20 1 Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, that, if he should find any men or women who belonged to the Way, he might bring them back to Jerusalem in chains. 3 On his journey, as he was nearing Damascus, a light from the sky suddenly flashed around him. 4 He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” 5 He said, “Who are you, sir?” The reply came, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. 6 Now get up and go into the city and you will be told what you must do.” 7 The men who were travelling with him stood speechless, for they heard the voice but could see no one. 8 Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing; so they led him by the hand and brought him to Damascus. 9 For three days he was unable to see, and he neither ate nor drank. 10 There was a disciple in Damascus named Ananias, and the Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias.” He answered, “Here I am, Lord.” 11 The Lord said to him, “Get up and go to the street called Straight and ask at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus named Saul. He is there praying, 12 and [in a vision] he has seen a man named Ananias come in and lay [his] hands on him, that he may regain his sight.” 13 But Ananias replied, “Lord, I have heard from many sources about this man, what evil things he has done to your holy ones in Jerusalem. 14 And here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison all who call upon your name.” 15 But the Lord said to him, “Go, for this man is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before Gentiles, kings, and Israelites, 16 and I will show him what he will have to suffer for my name.” 17 So Ananias went and entered the house; laying his hands on him, he said, “Saul, my brother, the Lord has sent me, Jesus who appeared to you on the way by which you came, that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” 18 Immediately things like scales fell from his eyes and he regained his sight. He got up and was baptized, 19 and when he had eaten, he recovered his strength. He stayed some days with the disciples in Damascus, 20 and he began at once to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God. P S A L M Psalms 117:1, 2 R: Go out to all the world and tell the Good News. 1 Praise the LORD, all you nations; glorify him, all you peoples! (R) 2 For steadfast is his kindness toward us, and the fidelity of the LORD endures forever. (R) G O S P E L Jesus speaks quite specifically here about eating His flesh and drinking His blood. If one wants to take the Scriptures literally then the Catholic and Orthodox Churches’ positions on the Sacrament of the Eucharist are the only logical and tenable interpretations of this text. The Eucharist is more than a symbol; it is the real food that Christ has left us to sustain us on our journey of faith. ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia Whoever eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood, remains in me and I in him, says the Lord. R: Alleluia, alleluia John 6:52-59 52 The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat?” 53 Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.” 59 These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. my reflections t h i n k : The Eucharist is more than a symbol; it is the real food that Christ has left us to sustain us on our journey of faith. 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 Ezra 6-10 | |
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| | SABBATH | LIFE BECAUSE OF THE FATHER; LIFE BECAUSE OF CHRIST One of the cardinal tenets of our Catholic faith has to do with the nature of God as God Himself has revealed. From Scripture we learn that God is one nature but three persons in the Trinity. One corollary to our belief in the Triune God is that by virtue of our baptism we have been incorporated into Christ, and thus made to be sharers in the divine life. By grace we become, analogically speaking, Godlike and participants in the mystery of the Trinitarian life.What that basically means is that we, baptized believers, enjoy a life of intimacy with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, for we were baptized in the name of the Trinity. I don’t know if you have seen that touching short film clip about a father and his quadruplegic son who decided to join a triathlon together. The father strapped his disabled, almost helpless adult son to a wheelchair, ran so many miles while pushing his son’s wheelchair, swam as he dragged his son afloat a rubber dinghy, and did other feats just to show his son how much he loved him despite his infirmities. They may not have made it ahead of everybody else but they made it. And their feat was proof positive that intimacy knows no bounds for people who really know how to love. This is exactly what our readings today speak of. Paul, the erstwhile persecutor of the Church, was cut to the quick by the love of God, and turned 180 degrees to become a zealous apostle. The Gospel passage, in its turn, is a testament to what the intimacy between the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit resulted to — more love and, ultimately, life, not only for Christ, but ours, too, for we have been incorporated into Him. We are all worse than quadruplegics on account of sin. But as Christ has life because of the Father, so, too, do we have life because of Christ. Fr. Chito Dimaranan, SDB Reflection Question: What binds me and prevents me from living a full life in Christ? Lord, set me free from my bondage. Heal me with Your love. Amen. St. Glyceria, pray for us. | |
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