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for June 28, 2011 |
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| | 28 NO THING CAN BE TOO SMALL “It’s only a small place.” – Genesis 19:20 I chose a small school to do part-time counseling work. I didn’t have much expectation then. I only knew I can offer just a part of my time because of my hectic parish work. Didn’t they say that big things come in small packages? It’s true. The Lord was able to do some beautiful overhaul in me in that small school. For one, the school stands on the lot where my family lived a long time ago. I recall I was still in grade school at the time. The memories of the place were both refreshing and healing. My work was also nostalgic because I left school counseling for community counseling about 15 years ago. Just as languages learned will always stay with us, I realized that experiences we gain will never be lost in us, too. And the joy of working with children again reminded me of the 10 years I spent as a counselor in another school. I left that school with some painful memories. But working here reminded me of the 95 percent happy times there that I had forgotten. I marvel how the Lord uses experiences He gives us to refine His work in us. Nothing can be too small for Him.Cristy Galang (cristy_cc@yahoo. com) REFLECTION: Am I sensitive to the Lord’s work in me from my everyday experiences? My Lord, my God and my wonderful Counselor, bless You for Your beautiful handiwork in my life. Please never tire of molding me until I become pleasing to You. Amen. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Abraham obviously could not find the necessary 10 righteous men to present the Lord’s destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. It seems crazy that in such a large city it was impossible to find just 10 holy men. However, it must have been the case. Let us ensure that our own lives would have counted as part of the 10 righteous men and women if we had been living then, so that even if destruction comes to our city we know we will be saved for eternal life because we have lived the Gospel. Genesis 19:15-29 15 As dawn was breaking, the angels urged Lot on, saying, “On your way! Take with you your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of Sodom.” 16 When he hesitated, the men, by the LORD’s mercy, seized his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters and led them to safety outside the city. 17 As soon as they had been brought outside, he was told: “Flee for your life! Don’t look back or stop anywhere on the Plain. Get off to the hills at once, or you will be swept away.” 18 “Oh, no, my lord!” replied Lot. 19 “You have already thought enough of your servant to do me the great kindness of intervening to save my life. But I cannot flee to the hills to keep the disaster from overtaking me, and so I shall die. 20 Look, this town ahead is near enough to escape to. It’s only a small place. Let me flee there — it’s a small place, isn’t it? — that my life may be saved.” 21 “Well, then,” he replied, “I will also grant you the favour you now ask. I will not overthrow the town you speak of. 22 Hurry, escape there! I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” That is why the town is called Zoar. 23 The sun was just rising over the earth as Lot arrived in Zoar; 24 at the same time the LORD rained down sulfurous fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah [from the LORD out of heaven]. 25 He overthrew those cities and the whole Plain, together with the inhabitants of the cities and the produce of the soil. 26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she was turned into a pillar of salt. 27 Early the next morning Abraham went to the place where he had stood in the LORD’S presence. 28 As he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and the whole region of the Plain, he saw dense smoke over the land rising like fumes from a furnace. 29 Thus it came to pass: when God destroyed the Cities of the Plain, he was mindful of Abraham by sending Lot away from the upheaval by which God overthrew the cities where Lot had been living. P S A L M Psalms 26:2-3, 9-10, 11-12 R: O Lord, your mercy is before my eyes. 2 Search me, O LORD, and try me; test my soul and my heart. 3 For your mercy is before my eyes, and I walk in your truth. (R) 9 Gather not my soul with those of sinners, nor with men of blood my life. 10 On their hands are crimes, and their right hands are full of bribes. (R) 11 But I walk in integrity; redeem me, and have mercy on me. 12 My foot stands on level ground; in the assemblies I will bless the LORD. (R) G O S P E L The ability of Jesus to calm the waves and the wind is a demonstration of His power over natural elements, something that has always been traditionally associated with divinity – only the gods had the capacity to command nature to do their bidding. Thus it becomes a little clearer to the Apostles that Jesus is the Son of God. This is all part of the evidence that Matthew presents to the reader to demonstrate the divinity of Jesus. ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia I trust in the Lord; my soul trusts in his word. R: Alleluia, alleluia Matthew 8:23-27 23 As Jesus got into a boat, his disciples followed him. 24 Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by waves; but he was asleep. 25 They came and woke him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!” 26 He said to them, “Why are you terrified, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was great calm. 27 The men were amazed and said, “What sort of man is this, whom even the winds and the sea obey?” Psalm 31-35 my reflections think: The ability of Jesus to calm the waves and the wind is a demonstration of His power over natural elements. 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 Psalm 31-35 | |
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| | SABBATH | IN THE STORMS OF LIFE: FEAR OR FAITH? The setting of today’s Gospel episode should be quite easy to identify with. Not all of us may have actually experienced being in the middle of the sea during a terrifying storm, but we can easily imagine what it is. Human life is far from being in a luxury cruise on a placid sea. In the storms of life, we are sometimes violently tossed to and fro; the waves of discouragement assail us, the horizon is not visible at all and we fear we would all sink. Two temptations are before us. One is to conclude that such an inhuman world is absurd, and that the only adequate response is to harden ourselves in a kind of stoic pride. The other is to escape from reality into the make-believe world of fun and fantasy. Jesus, instead, proposes an alternative: quite simply, to trust Him. The two temptations before us now morph into the crucial question: which of the two F’s will it be for us? Fear or Faith? We can take a cue from Jesus Himself. The Gospel states that at the height of the storm, Jesus was “sleeping soundly.” Whether or not this was literally true is not so much the point. It is simply a gesture of a childlike, total trust on God, knowing that He takes care of us and will never abandon us, most especially when we are in the midst of trials and difficulties. A story goes that a little boy was simply enjoying his time, frolicking and playing on the deck of a luxury cruise ship — as a storm was beginning to form in the middle of the ocean. In the midst of the panic as life jackets began to be passed around, a man noticed the boy. He asked him, “Are you not afraid, my boy?” To which the young boy replied, “No, I’m not. My father is the captain of the ship.” Fr. Martin Macasaet, SDB Reflection Question: Which feeling dominates you more when you are faced with life’s storms: fear or faith? “When the oceans rise and thunders roar, I will soar with you above the storm. Father, You are King over the flood. I will be still, know You are God.” St. Vincenza Gerosa, pray for us. | |
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