 | Daily Bible Reflections
for May 13, 2012 |
|  Dear Lordie,
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Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
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| | How Do I Love Thee… My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. – John 15:12 Do we love like Pope Benedict? St. Padre Pio? Blessed Mother Teresa? Bo Sanchez? Or Obet Cabrillas? (How assuming!) Jesus is straightforward in telling us that He is our model. As I imitate the Lord’s love, I’ve found that His love is really S-U-P-E-R! His love is Selfless! Not estorge (companionship), or eros (physical), or phileo (familial). His love is agape — love that doesn’t expect any return. His love is Unconditional! 1-4-3 means “I love you.” Some love with 1-4-3-2 (I love you if), others with 1-4-3-4 (I love you when) or 1-4-3-7 (I love you because). But His love is 1-4-3-4-2: I love you EVEN IF! His love is Persistent! He is like Mike Enriquez, “Hindi namin kayo tatantanan!” He won’t stop loving you! His love is Eternal! Even married people vow, “Till death do us part,” but only God can love us eternally — till heaven where we’ll never part. His love is Respectful! Because the God who didn’t ask permission when He created you cannot save you without your permission. How do you love? Love as Jesus loves! And all these things shall be added unto you! Obet Cabrillas (kpreacherobet@gmail.com) 13 REFLECTION: How do I love? Is it Super love or stupid love? Lord Jesus Christ, You laid down Your life for us. May we, too, lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1ST READING The decision that the Gospel was as much for the Gentiles as for the Jews was not something that the Early Church arrived at overnight. It is a well-reflected and considered decision that would have been argued about over a period of time. That it is Peter and not Paul who is presented as the first to take the Gospel to the Gentiles from a reflected position in the Acts of the Apostles only serves to underline our thesis that the obvious candidate for this role would have been Paul. But in the end, giving the role to Peter underlines the fact that this is an official Church decision and not one made by an individual. Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48 25 When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and, falling at his feet, paid him homage. 26 Peter, however, raised him up, saying, “Get up. I myself am also a human being.” 34 Then Peter proceeded to speak and said, “In truth, I see that God shows no partiality. 35 Rather, in every nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him.” 44 While Peter was still speaking these things, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who were listening to the word. 45 The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit should have been poured out on the Gentiles also, 46 for they could hear them speaking in tongues and glorifying God. Then Peter responded, 47 “Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit even as we have?” 48 He ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. P S A L M Psalm 98:1, 2-3, 3-4 R: The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power. 1 Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done wondrous deeds; his right hand has won victory for him, his holy arm. (R) 2 The Lord has made his salvation known: in the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice. 3 He has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. (R) All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation by our God. 4 Sing joyfully to the Lord, all you lands; break into song; sing praise. (R) 2nd READING John’s first letter is focused on love being at both the heart of the Gospel proclamation and its lived experience. Without love, we are nothing. This is what the life of Jesus teaches us particularly in His efforts to include the poor and marginalized in His mission work. Nothing speaks more strongly of the universality of the Gospel message than this. And at its basis is the call of love — love of God and love of neighbor. 1 John 4:7-10 7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. 8 Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. 10 In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins. GOSPEL We reflected upon this text last week and you might say that it is a waste of time to do so again. No, it isn’t. This is part of the wonder of the Gospels and the Scriptures in general — that we cannot exhaust them when it comes to drawing guidance and inspiration from them. It is important to read the Scriptures as a whole and to seek their contextual meaning. However, there is also a wealth of knowledge and inspiration to be drawn from individual texts. Either way, we will certainly not exhaust their message, even in a lifetime of reflection. GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Whoever loves me will keep my word, says the Lord, and my Father will love him and we will come to him. John 15:9-17 9 Jesus said to his disciples: “As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 11 “I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. 12 This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. 13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father. 16 It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. 17 This I command you: love one another.” 1st READING 2nd READING GOSPEL PSALM think: Without love, we are nothing. 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 Joshua 9-12 SABBATH PAUSE My weekly time with God THANK YOU LIST Things to be grateful for from the past week ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ SPECIAL NEEDS Things to ask God for in the coming week ________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ HIDDEN TREASURE Most important word God told me this week ________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ | |
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| | SABBATH | Love Incarnate I was talking to one of our seminarians who has just finished his pastoral exposure in a province. During the month-long exposure, he spent two weeks in a remote area working with the farmers. He planted rice with them, worked with them in the fields, helped them establish their cooperatives, and taught catechism to their children in the evenings. But being so far from the poblacion and the chapel, he was not able to attend Mass for two weeks. “So how’s that? You didn’t have Mass for two weeks!” I asked him. “Yes, Father, but I think it’s OK. I spent the time loving instead,” he answered in jest. He may have said it jokingly, but I think he really meant it. Come to think of it, isn’t love the most important commandment of Jesus? Today’s Gospel is a long discourse on love punctuated by the command, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Love is the greatest of all the prescriptions. It is more important than cult, worship and liturgy. Love is the heart of the Christian life without which all our worship are rendered empty. We may be deprived (not by our own fault) of the liturgy or of cultic worship but we can still be a Christian if we continue to love. Our seminarian was without Mass for two weeks but he was not without love. He was still a good Christian. Yes, the Mass is the apex, the source and summit of the Christian life. But it is so only insofar as it is “enfleshed” by our concrete acts of loving. The Eucharist is a celebration of life. It should never be divorced from our concrete acts of loving. When Jesus said, “Do this in memory of me,” He was not referring to a sentimental remembrance of Himself. The Lord is not lacking in attention. Rather, He invites every Christian to love as He loved. When a Christian loves, he celebrates the memory of Jesus. When a Christian loves, the celebration of the Eucharist becomes a real celebration of life. Today, let us ask the Lord to make us better and real Christians. As we remember Jesus, let us ask Him to make us better lovers. Fr. Joel Jason REFLECTION QUESTION: How does the Mass empower you to heed the Christian admonition to love? In the Eucharist, we encounter You, Love Incarnate. May we incarnate Your love to others, too, when they encounter us. | |
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