 | Daily Bible Reflections
for February 23, 2012 |
|  Dear Lordie,
Never lose sight of Jesus this Thursday.
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
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| | EMBRACING SUFFERING “If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself.” – Luke 9:23 I love St. Therese’s book, The Story of a Soul, and I’m eager to follow her “little way” of serving God. But when I read about her desire to suffer for the sake of sinners, my mind drew to a halt. I don’t like any kind of pain, period. But the idea persisted until finally, I gave in and asked God to teach me to suffer. Somehow, knowing that everything I’m going through was God’s work and that He means to purify me changed my perspective. Instead of curling up and nursing my own pain, I sought and saw what He was trying to teach me. I realized that we suffer most when we are denied what we want. We feel we deserve to be acknowledged and feel hurt when we’re not. We want to be understood and feel frustrated when we’re not. We crave for things we don’t have and worry beyond all sense. If we think about it, a lot of our pain is self-inflicted. Before I learn how to suffer for others, I have to stop suffering for myself first. This first step was profoundly liberating. Cecil Lim (cez_lim@yahoo.com) 23 REFLECTION: “The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.” (C.S. Lewis) Lord, I want to learn how to suffer for the sake of sinners everywhere. St. Polycarp, bishop and martyr, pray for us. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING A true faith life is always about the choices we make; it is all about the priorities we have in life. We can talk about being committed to God’s will, but if we do not make the choices to actually put such talk into practice, then it means nothing. Talk is cheap and easy; action is where we pay the price for our beliefs. Deuteronomy 30:15-20 15 Moses said to the people: “Today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and doom. 16 If you obey the commandments of the Lord, your God, which I enjoin on you today, loving him, and walking in his ways, and keeping his commandments, statutes and decrees, you will live and grow numerous, and the Lord, your God, will bless you in the land you are entering to occupy. 17 If, however, you turn away your hearts and will not listen, but are led astray and adore and serve other Gods, 18 I tell you now that you will certainly perish; you will not have a long life on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and occupy. 19 I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live, 20 by loving the Lord, your God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him. For that will mean life for you, a long life for you to live on the land that the Lord swore he would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” P S A L M Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4, 6 R: Blessed are they who hope in the Lord. 1 Blessed the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked nor walks in the way of sinners, nor sits in the company of the insolent, 2 but delights in the law of the Lord and meditates on his law day and night. (R) 3 He is like a tree planted near running water, that yields its fruit in due season, and whose leaves never fade. Whatever he does, prospers. (R) 4 Not so the wicked, not so; they are like chaff which the wind drives away. 6 For the Lord watches over the way of the just, but the way of the wicked vanishes. (R) GOSPEL We can spend our entire lives seeking the pleasures of the world and it will not satisfy our hunger for meaning in our lives. True meaning and satisfaction will only come when we accept the will of God for our lives and follow it. This is what the saints realized and focused on. It is not easy, but then the good things in life rarely come to us without a cost. GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Repent, says the Lord; the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. LIST 2 Thessalonians 1-3 Luke 9:22-25 22 Jesus said to his disciples: “The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised.” 23 Then he said to all, “If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. 24 For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. 25 What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?” think: True meaning and satisfaction will come when we accept the will of God for our lives and follow it. 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 2 Thessalonians 1-3nd READING SSING LIST | |
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| | SABBATH | THIS WILL MEAN LIFE FOR YOU We all know how it feels — joyless days, dejection, disappointment, anger, resentment. We all know, too, where they lead us to — withdrawal from society, burying our heads in the sand of hate, hiding from friends, putting on a long face, and avoiding all forms of social interaction. Henry David Thoreau wrote about going to his hideaway in the woods called Walden Pond. He wanted “to put to rout all that was not life!” Yesterday, we entered seriously into our own, grander version of Walden Pond. We sort of retreated from the world. We paused awhile and considered how we may put to rout not only that which is not life but also that which causes downright death — the death of our soul. How do we experience this kind of death? First in my list is the lack or absence of love. Two things are absolutely needed, Sigmund Freud says, for mental health: love and work. We need to experience loving others and being loved in return. Even neonatal and longitudinal studies have confirmed this over the past many decades. Newborn babies who were cuddled, exposed to a warm breast and placed near a beating human heart within 48 hours after being born, stood better chances of growing up psychologically whole and emotionally well-adjusted. Second in my list is living like one is the ultimate arbiter of right and wrong — behaving as if whatever choices I make in my unbridled freedom can never be anything but right. This means nobody outside of me has the right to tell me what to do. The third in my list is going it alone, doing a Lone Ranger, and cutting myself off from others, including God. Let us hear it from today’s First Reading. We are given a choice between life and prosperity, death and doom. The Holy Book gives us the antidote to spiritual death. In place of the three listed above, we are told to love the Lord, heed His voice, and hold fast to Him. “That,” the passage says, “will mean life for you.” Fr. Chito Dimaranan, SDB REFLECTION QUESTIONS: When tragedy strikes, do you embrace it as an opportunity to choose life? Or do you choose doom? I choose You, Lord, over all things and persons. I open myself to Your work in my life. | |
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