 | Daily Bible Reflections
for July 15, 2011 |
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| | WHAT GOD NEEDS “I desire mercy, not sacrifice...” – Matthew 12:7 Bong admits that he’s a bad person because of his illegal business. He says he can’t avoid it so to make amends he gives alms to his church and provides financial assistance for some friends. “The Lord is forgiving,” he would often think. Marco, meanwhile, is not rich, but he is a good and hardworking son. In his free time, he always drops by the hospital and gives to others what he has much of: Mercy. Because of the time he spends with the patients, they have come to know him and treat him like family. In the Gospel today, Jesus says, “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” What need does God have for anyone’s money if the whole universe is already His? What need does He have of anyone’s time or talent if He can bring rocks to life to do His bidding? Instead, for us more than for Himself, He desires our love, obedience and mercy. “That they may have life,” He says in John 10:10, “and have it more abundantly.” Rod Velez (rod.velez@gmail.com) REFLECTION: If you’re tired and weighed down, do you know how to be merciful to yourself? Teach us, Lord, to realize exactly how deep and how high Your mercy is for us. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Christ symbolizes the lamb sacrificed at the Passover and whose blood was shed to protect the families from the destroying angel. Just as the Passover lamb was killed and its blood shed to save the people from slavery in a far greater way, Christ, the Lamb of God, is sacrificed to set us free from sin. Exodus 11:10-12:14 10 Although Moses and Aaron performed these various wonders in Pharaoh’s presence, the LORD made Pharaoh obstinate, and he would not let the children of Israel leave his land. 12: 1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 “This month shall stand at the head of your calendar; you shall reckon it the first month of the year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel: On the tenth of this month every one of your families must procure for itself a lamb, one apiece for each household. 4 If a family is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join the nearest household in procuring one and shall share in the lamb in proportion to the number of persons who partake of it. 5 The lamb must be a year-old male and without blemish. You may take it from either the sheep or the goats. 6 You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then, with the whole assembly of Israel present, it shall be slaughtered during the evening twilight. 7 They shall take some of its blood and apply it to the two doorposts and the lintel of every house in which they partake of the lamb. 8 That same night they shall eat its roasted flesh with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 9 It shall not be eaten raw or boiled, but roasted whole, with its head and shanks and inner organs. 10 None of it must be kept beyond the next morning; whatever is left over in the morning shall be burned up. 11 This is how you are to eat it with your loins girt, sandals on your feet and your staff in hand, you shall eat like those who are in flight. It is the Passover of the LORD. 12 For on this same night I will go through Egypt, striking down every first-born of the land, both man and beast, and executing judgment on all the gods of Egypt — I, the LORD! 13 But the blood will mark the houses where you are. Seeing the blood, I will pass over you; thus, when I strike the land of Egypt, no destructive blow will come upon you. 14 This day shall be a memorial feast for you, which all your generations shall celebrate with pilgrimage to the LORD, as a perpetual institution.” P S A L M Psalms 116:12-13, 15-16, 17-18 R: I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord. 12 How shall I make a return to the LORD for all the good he has done for me? 13 The cup of salvation I will take up, and I will call upon the name of the LORD. (R) 15 Precious in the eyes of the LORD is the death of his faithful ones. 16 I am your servant, the son of your handmaid; you have loosed my bonds. (R) 17 To you will I offer sacrifice of thanksgiving, and I will call upon the name of the LORD. 18 My vows to the LORD I will pay in the presence of all his people. (R) G O S P E L The Pharisees exalted the Sabbath because for them, keeping the day sacred was their way to image God who rested on the Sabbath after six days of creation. Jesus overturned the Sabbath and put Himself as the new Sabbath. As St. Paul says, the law can never lead us to life, which can only be found in the Son. ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord; I know them, and they follow me. R: Alleluia, alleluia Matthew 12:1-8 1 Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath.” 3 He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry, 4 how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering, which neither he nor his companions but only the priests could lawfully eat? 5 Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests serving in the temple violate the sabbath and are innocent? 6 I say to you, something greater than the temple is here. 7 If you knew what this meant, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned these innocent men. 8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath.” my reflections think : The law can never lead us to life, which can only be found in the Son. 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 116-118 | |
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| | SABBATH | Pro-Life Nowadays we hear great debates about the true value of human life vis-a-vis the demands and challenges of modern living. First, there is the brewing debate about the need to regulate the geometric increase of human population to uphold quality of life and economic gains. Aggresive advocates espouse the promotion of all means, especially artificial means, of population control. Second, feminist movements the world over have also been lobbying for legal recognition of the rights of women to determine the birth or the non-birth of human lives developing in their womb! These feminists maintain that women are the owners of their bodies and hence, they have the inalienable right to decide what to do to care for their bodies and to further their career paths. Third, an increasing number of advocates for law and order in society advance that, for the sake of controlling crime and violence, harsh penal systems that include the imposition of death sentence for persons who commit heinous crimes should be reinstated. We have only to read and re-read the Gospel to hear what the divine bias is. From the very words of Jesus, we deduce how God values each and every human life even above the demands of religious rites and traditions. God is best honored by honoring the most important element of His work of creation — the communication of life to each and every living creature. Not only does Jesus underline respect for human life, but for every kind of created life that came from God. Even animals are entitled to kindness and to life. Listen to Jesus saying, “It is kindness that I want, not animal sacrifices.” In fact, after Jesus’ bloody offering of His life in Calvary, there is no need to slaughter animals at the Temple as worship to God. The Temple for animal sacrifices is historically no more! Fr. Domie Guzman, SSP Reflection Question: Are you a person of kind and gentle ways? What situations trigger your violent tendencies in action as well as in thought? Are you likewise kind and caring to animals and nature? Make me a channel of Your peace, Lord. St. Donald, pray for us. | |
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