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| | Feast of the Holy Family HONOR THY AGING PARENTS “If you obey the Lord by honoring your father and making your mother happy, you will live a long life.” – Sirach 3:6 My friend works as a caregiver in a Canadian nursing home. Daily, she would attend to the needs of parents not her own. In Western countries, nurses like her have replaced children in caring for aging parents. The children have grown up and have become too busy living their lives. In the Philippines, some old people are being left to the streets when children find it difficult to take care of them. This is a sad reality of our times. Thankfully, Anawim takes care of the abandonded elderly. Now that I’m getting older and my parents’ strength is failing, the Lord’s command to “respect your father and mother” has grown closer to my heart. I believe it is when they are old that we can best honor them. It is in this time when they need our understanding and love the most. Marjorie Duterte (marjorie.travels@gmail.com) REFLECTION: “My child, take care of your father when he grows old; give him no cause for worry as long as he lives. Be sympathetic even if his mind fails him; don’t look down on him just because you are strong and healthy.” (Sirach 3:13) Father, our parents are Your gift to us. Grant us the grace to love them even more as they grow older. Amen. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING The fourth commandment says that we should honor our father and our mother so that we shall live long in the land that the Lord gives us. In the Book of Sirach, we see this commandment and its promises explained. Many illnesses and emotional problems are created when people do not honor their father and mother. Of course, no parents are perfect, but we should be willing to forgive them whatever wrong they may have done and always respect and pray for them. Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14 2 God sets a father in honor over his children; a mother’s authority he confirms over her sons. 3 Whoever honors his father atones for sins and preserves himself from them; 4 When he prays, he is heard; he stores up riches who reveres his mother. 5 Whoever honors his father is gladdened by children, and when he prays he is heard. 6 Whoever reveres his father will live a long life; he obeys the LORD who brings comfort to his mother. 12 My son, take care of your father when he is old; grieve him not as long as he lives. 13 Even if his mind fail, be considerate with him; revile him not all the days of his life; 14 kindness to a father will not be forgotten, firmly planted against the debt of your sins — a house raise in justice to you. P S A L M Psalms 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9 R: The Lord remembers his covenant for ever. 1 Give thanks to the LORD, invoke his name; make known among the nations his deeds. 2 Sing to him, sing his praise, proclaim all his wondrous deeds. (R) 3 Glory in his holy name; rejoice, O hearts that seek the LORD! 4 Look to the LORD in his strength; constantly seek your face. (R) 6 You descendants of Abraham, his servants, sons of Jacob, his chosen ones! 7 He, the LORD, is our God; throughout the earth his judgments prevail. (R) 8 He remembers forever his covenant which he made binding for a thousand generations 9 which he entered into with Abraham and by his oath to Isaac. (R) 2nd READING The family is the domestic church. As such, it is meant to be a place where the children are nurtured and their faith developed. One of the key things we need to learn in families is forgiveness. So many families are torn apart by unresolved conflicts that go back to several generations. People are unwilling to forgive the wrongs that have been done unto them. How can one expect the peace and blessing of God to dwell where there is hatred and malice? Let us be instruments of peace and begin today to forgive our family members who may have done us wrong. Colossians 3:12-21 12 Brothers and sisters: Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against another; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do. 14 And over all these put on love, that is, the bond of perfection. 15 And let the peace of Christ control your hearts, the peace into which you were also called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, as in all wisdom you teach and admonish one another, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. 18 Wives, be subordinate to your husbands, as is proper in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and avoid any bitterness toward them. 20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord. 21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they may not become discouraged. G O S P E L Even though Mary was the Mother of God, sinless and lived in total union with God, it was not to her that God revealed His plans for the Holy Family. Since God had ordained that the man should be the spiritual head of the family, it was to Joseph that God sent His angel to tell him to take Mary and the child and to flee to Egypt. We see a beautiful image of a family ordered according to the plan of God. The challenge is for men to take up this spiritual leadership and not to abrogate it to their wives. ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets; in these last days, he has spoken to us through the Son. R: Alleluia, alleluia Luke 2:22-40 22 When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, 23 just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord,” 24 and to offer the sacrifice of “a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons,” in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord. 25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, awaiting the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. 26 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Messiah of the Lord. 27 He came in the Spirit into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to perform the custom of the law in regard to him, 28 he took him into his arms and blessed God, saying: 29 “Now, Master, you may let your servant go in peace, according to your word, 30 for my eyes have seen your salvation, 31 which you prepared in sight of all the peoples, 32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and glory for your people Israel.” 33 The child’s father and mother were amazed at what was said about him; 34 and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be contradicted 35 — and you yourself a sword will pierce — so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.” 36 There was also a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived seven years with her husband after her marriage, 37 and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshipped night and day with fasting and prayer. 38 And coming forward at that very time, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were awaiting the redemption of Jerusalem. 39 When they had fulfilled all the prescriptions of the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. 40 The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him. my reflections t h i n k : The challenge is for men to take up the spiritual leadership in their families and not to abrogate it to their wives. 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 Revelations 15-18 | |
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| | SABBATH | The Family of God The following are stuff for Believe It or Not. In the year 2007, I read of a woman in England named Sharon who married a dolphin named Cindy. They applied for a marriage license and were given one. In 2009, a man in Japan married the lady character of his favorite computer game. The same year, a couple in Japan was married by a robot minister. In 2010, in the US, I read the story of two dogs married in civil rites. To say that the character of marriage and the family nowadays is undergoing radical attack is an understatement. Today’s feast is the Feast of the Holy Family. The liturgy continues to invite us to savor the mystery of the Incarnation, the Word becoming flesh. But more than that, our feast invites us to a reverential awe over the fact that in becoming flesh, Jesus deigned to be born within a family. Let not this fact skip our attention. Without intending to be disrespectful, Jesus actually had no need of Mary, or of Joseph, or of being in a family. He could have just appeared without being born into a family. And yet, this is precisely one of the richness of the mystery of the Incarnation — Jesus chose to be born and to grow up in a family. Jesus is telling us something here. He became like us so that He may teach us how to live out our humanity. God Himself respects the structure of the family because He Himself created the notion of it. The family is not just any group or mixture of people. It is a communion of life and love between man and woman, committed to each other for life, for their and their offsprings’ well-being. Society has no right to change the meaning of the family because the family is over and above society. It is not without reason that we call the family the basic unit of society. It is the family that creates society, not the other way around. Fr. Joel O. Jason Reflection Question: If God Himself “respected” the reality of the family by being born into one, who gives us the right to disrespect it? Lord Jesus, take away the “hardness of our hearts.” The wounds of our disrespect for the family have gone deep and stare us in the face. Grant us the healing that can only come from acceptance of Your will. Mary, our mother and Joseph, guardian of the family, pray for us! Amen. St. Sabinus, pray for us. | |
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