 | Daily Bible Reflections
for January 5, 2012 |
|  Dear Lordie,
Never lose sight of Jesus this Thursday.
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| | LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Nathanael asked. “Come and see,” answered Philip. – John 1:46 Claire just got home when she received a phone call from her mother. “Claire, your father is dead!” She rushed back to her parents’ house, which was only a few blocks away from her home. Upon arrival, she learned that robbers had forcibly entered the house. One of them shot her father when he obstructed the criminal’s path. Questions hounded Claire. What did they do to deserve this? Doesn’t God care about her and her family? They were already serving actively in their parish yet God allowed this tragedy to happen. But after much prayer and reflection, her perspective started to change. She became thankful that the robbers panicked after they fired the gun and immediately left the scene, leaving other family members unharmed. Now, Claire continues to serve and invite others to experience God in the Renewal movement of their parish. The family tragedy brought darkness into her life but, with the grace of God, she continues to bring a lot of strangers into the light of Christ through her service. Alvin Fabella (alvinfabella@yahoo.com) 5 REFLECTION: When faced with trials, will you become bitter or better? Lord, thank You for being the light in the dark situations of my life. Amen. St. John Neumann, bishop, pray for us. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Loving our neighbor is the commandment that sums up the second section of the Decalogue – those laws directed towards our relationships with each other. In order to better respond to this commandment let us pray for the grace to be able to see and recognize God in each and every person. This is not always easy to do because sin obscures this truth in others. 1 John 3:11-21 11 Beloved: This is the message you have heard from the beginning: we should love one another, 12 unlike Cain who belonged to the Evil One and slaughtered his brother. Why did he slaughter him? Because his own works were evil, and those of his brother righteous. 13 Do not be amazed, then, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. Whoever does not love remains in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. 16 The way we came to know love was that he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. 17 If someone who has worldly means sees a brother in need and refuses him compassion, how can the love of God remain in him? 18 Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. 19 Now this is how we shall know that we belong to the truth and reassure our hearts before him 20 in whatever our hearts condemn, for God is greater than our hearts and knows everything. 21 Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence in God. P S A L M Psalm 100:1-2, 3, 4, 5 R: Let all the earth cry out to God with joy. 1 Sing joyfully to the Lord, all you lands; 2 serve the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful song. (R) 3 Know that the Lord is God; he made us, his we are; his people, the flock he tends. (R) 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, his courts with praise; give thanks to him; bless his name. (R) 5 The Lord is good: the Lord, whose kindness endures forever, and his faithfulness, to all generations. (R) GOSPEL “Come and see” is such a simple phrase to say but its implications are far greater. Jesus can make this invitation because He knows that if anyone responds to it they will not be disappointed in what they discover. Are we as sure as Jesus that if we invited people to share in our lives, they would discover the truth of the Gospel? If not, we have some work to do. GOSPEL ACCLAMATION A holy day has dawned upon us. Come, you nations, and adore the Lord. Today a great light has come upon the earth. John 1:43-51 43 Jesus decided to go to Galilee, and he found Philip. And Jesus said to him, “Follow me.” 44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter. 45 Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the law, and also the prophets, Jesus, son of Joseph, from Nazareth.” 46 But Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Here is a child of Israel. There is no duplicity in him.” 48 Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.” 49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.” 50 Jesus answered and said to him, “Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this.” 51 And he said to him, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you will see the sky opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” 2nd READING BLESSING LIST think: Let us pray for the grace to be able to see and recognize God in each and every person. T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ God’s special verse/thought for me today________________ _________________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Matthew 10-12 | |
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| | SABBATH | becoming a peace maker The prophet Micah prophesies about the Lord’s universal reign of peace. He mentions how the Lord will settle disputes during His reign and swords will be hammered into plows, and spears into pruning knives. “Everyone will live in peace among their own vineyard and fig trees” (Micah 4:4a). The book of Kings mentions the kind of reign Solomon has on his people. It mentions the prosperity that he and his subjects enjoy. He is not just regarded as a good ruler of his people — he was as good to the neighboring countries as well and was at peace with all of them. “As long as he lived, the people throughout Judah and Israel lived in safety, each family with its own grapevines and fig trees” (1Kings 4:25). These are some references quoted by scholars that provide background for today’s Gospel. The short exchange of words between Jesus and Nathanael is a little puzzling, if not understood, in the above context. For the Jews, a fig tree always signifies peace. Peace is when a man is able to sit undisturbed in full tranquility under a fig tree. This is what Jesus saw in Nathanael. He was the kind of man He was looking for to be part of this small clique of learners (disciples) that He was starting to organize. He needed Nathanael to put flesh to His teaching about the blessedness of those who work for peace. Someone like Nathanael could pacify the likes of Peter who would cut the ear of the soldier intending to take his master away. He was the kind of man who would surely rejoice in the company of angels heralding His coming, singing, “Glory to God in the highest and peace to His people on Earth!” Is there a Nathanael in me? Will I be worthy to be called by Christ for I, too, can sit peacefully under my fig tree? Fr. Sandy V. Emhaynes REFLECTION QUESTION: What will it take for you to be a Nathanael, a peacemaker? Divine Potter, mold me and make me a lover of peace like Nathanael. May I be a source of peace for others, too. | |
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