 | Daily Bible Reflections
for October 27, 2011 |
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| | | What is Your Objective? He replied, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and I perform healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I accomplish my purpose.’” – Luke 13:32 We met for our college project and started discussing the details.We were going nowhere, arguing back and forth. Suddenly, one classmate blurted, “Wait. What is the objective of this meeting?” We all looked at one another: We did not know why we were meeting. We backtracked and set our objective. Things flowed smoothly after that. I took that lesson with me ever since. Now, I always start a meeting (and almost anything I do) by stating the objective. Jesus knew His purpose and was so focused on it that not even pain, suffering, friends, enemies or even death stopped Him from reaching it. Many people go through life aimlessly, without a clear goal. They try to find happiness in new clothes, gadgets, trends and they fail. Then they go for vices and addictions, finding out that these will never make them happy. If only they knew their purpose — to know, love and serve God. Only when they set their hearts and mind on this will they find true and lasting happiness. Is this your purpose now?Jun Asis (mabuting.balita@gmail.com)
REFLECTION: Am I doing the hings I do to satisfy my desires and selfish interests? Or are they to know, love and serve God? Lord, You are my life, You are my desire. For You alone I live. Amen. | |
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| | COMPANION | | 1st READING Here, Paul again asserts the wonderful truth of God’s eternal love for us, His children. God the Father loves us so much that nothing in heaven or on earth can separate us from His love. This is a wonderful and consoling truth that really needs to sink deeply into our hearts. At times we may not feel that God loves us, but our feelings are not what matters. What matters is the truth that God loves us and will never abandon us. Romans 8:31-39 31 Brothers and sisters: If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him? 33 Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who acquits us. 34 Who will condemn?It is Christ Jesus who died, rather, was raised, who also is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. 35 What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? 36 As it is written: “For your sake we are being slain all the day; we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. P S A L M Psalms 109:21-22, 26-27, 30-31 R: Save me, O Lord, in your mercy. 21 Do you, O GOD, my Lord, deal kindly with me for your name’s sake; in your generous mercy rescue me; 22 for I am wretched and poor, and my heart is pierced within me. (R) 26 Help me, O LORD, my God; save me, in your mercy, 27 and let them know that this is your hand; that you, O LORD, have done this. (R) 30 I will speak my thanks earnestly to the LORD, and in the midst of the throng I will praise him, 31 for he stood at the right hand of the poor man, to save him from those who would condemn his soul. (R) G O S P E L Have the Pharisees suddenly become concerned for Jesus that they are warning Him to leave because Herod is seeking to kill Him? This is doubtful. In fact, it was not Herod who wanted to kill Jesus, but the Scribes and Pharisees. They wanted to put fear into the heart of Jesus, but He is not intimidated by this threat. He knows that His life is in the Father’s hands and that nothing can happen to Him until His time has come. Let us also have this confidence in God’s love and care for us and not allow fear to dominate our lives. ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord. Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests. R: Alleluia, alleluia Luke 13:31-35 31 Some Pharisees came to Jesus and said, “Go away, leave this area because Herod wants to kill you.” 32 He replied, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and I perform healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I accomplish my purpose. 33 Yet I must continue on my way today, tomorrow, and the following day, for it is impossible that a prophet should die outside of Jerusalem.’ 34 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how many times I yearned to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were unwilling! 35 Behold, your house will be abandoned. But I tell you, you will not see me until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’ ” my reflections t h i n k : God the Father loves us so much that nothing in heaven or on earth can separate us from His love. 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 Zechariah 12-14 Zechariah 12-14 | |
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| | SABBATH | | Jesus’ Lament The first part of today’s Gospel corrects some wrong images. First of all, we usually imagine the Pharisees to be enemies of Jesus. Most of them were, but there were also others who were worried about the safety of Jesus. They came to warn Him. Then we usually imagine Jesus as very meek and soft. Today we hear how He uses bad words when He called Herod Antipas, the powerful ruler of Galilee, a fox, an expression of slyness, of cunning. Jesus’ mood then changes. From anger and defiance, it turns to sadness. As a pious Jew, Jesus must have loved Jerusalem, the holy city, the place where the Temple, the House of His Father, stood. From history He knew only too well that Jerusalem never lived up to its reputation as “holy city.” How many prophets had come and warned them to repent but were persecuted like Jeremiah, and even killed like other prophets? Jerusalem and the Temple had been destroyed already once, more than 500 years ago, a punishment for the sins of idolatry, injustice, corruption and oppression of the poor, as the prophets interpreted the catastrophe. Jesus remembers the time He, like the prophets of old, had preached in Jerusalem and tried to turn the people from evil to a God-pleasing life — in vain! The image of the mother hen protecting her chicks under her wings is touching. What a pity that artists have never developed this beautiful picture. Before we shake our heads at the stubbornness of Jerusalem’s people, I wonder what Jesus would say if He would speak about us. How many times have we been told to change our lives, to repent? How many times have we been told that just saying prayers and outward signs of piety will not save us? How many times have we been told that it is not enough to love God but that we love God most when we love our neighbor in need? Jesus’ lament over Jerusalem could be a lament over His followers in the 21st century. Fr. Rudy Horst, SVD Reflection Question: Have I changed my life when I read in the Bible or heard in a homily that repentance and turning away from sin is what You want from me? Lord, I feel guilty for my stubbornness. So many times You have given me a chance to change, but I live as if You had told me nothing. May the fate of Jerusalem not be my fate! St. Namatius, pray for us. | |
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