Lordie, God's Message For You Today, September 7, 2011

Daily Bible Reflections for September 7, 2011 Dear Lordie, God will never leave you. This Wednesday is no different. Praying for you, Bo Sanchez PS. Do you live in the Philippines? Sign up for Bo's weekly  cellphone message. This is FREE. (That is why you have to live in the Philippines to sign up for this service.) Text:   BOSEZ_<your full name>_ <your email address> and send to any of the following numbers: Globe (09178494444); Smart (09088949999); Sun (09228945555) And you'll start receiving Bo's inspiring message to encourage you, guide you, and bless your week.   7 September Wednesday TODAY'S READINGS: DIDACHE | COMPANION | SABBATH DIDACHE   WORDLY CONCERNS, HEAVEN LY FOCUS   Keep your minds fixed on things there (in heaven), not on things here on earth. – Colossians 3: 2   “I’m sorry, Lord. I spend more time with my family — talking, eating, playing together — than on my prayer time with you. I waste more time with friends, with brothers and sisters in community, listening to their needs and building them up than on reading the Bible. I think of our businesses most of the time — of how to serve our clients more with excellence and love and of how to uplift the lives of our employees — more than I contemplate on the mysteries of the faith and teachings of the Church. I’m sorry, Lord. I built a house here on earth and filled it with joy and love. I should focus more on my home in heaven. I am concerned with day-to-day things. I even have a car that brings me to people in different places, and a cell phone and a laptop to keep in touch with them. I am such a worldly man. Forgive me, Lord.” Know what? I hear my God telling me: “My son, you are concerned with worldly things but when you bring my love in what you do, you bring heaven closer to you and to others. Keep it up, my child!”  Alvin Barcelona (kpreacheralvin@gmail.com) 7 REFLECTION: Are you concerned with worldly things for their own sake? Or are they your means to bring God and heaven closer to you and to others?   Dear God, let my worldly concerns be ultimately focused on heaven — on You — as the main reason for it all.     Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top COMPANION   1st READING   Now that we have been united with Christ Jesus in baptism, our new life is one in union with Him. Hence we should no longer live as unbelievers who give no thought to God, but by the power of the cross put to death the evil passions and desires in our hearts.   Colossians 3:1-11 1 Brothers and sisters: If you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Think of what is above, not of what is on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory. 5 Put to death, then, the parts of you that are earthly: immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greed that is idolatry. 6 Because of these the wrath of God is coming upon the disobedient. 7 By these you too once conducted yourselves, when you lived in that way. 8 But now you must put them all away: anger, fury, malice, slander, and obscene language out of your mouths. 9 Stop lying to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed, for knowledge, in the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all and in all.   P S A L M   Psalms 145:2-3, 10-11, 12-13 R: The Lord is compassionate toward all his works. 2 Every day will I bless you, and I will praise your name forever and ever. 3 Great is the LORD and highly to be praised; his greatness is unsearchable. (R) 10 Let all your works give you thanks, O LORD, and let your faithful ones bless you. 11 Let them discourse of the glory of your kingdom and speak of your might. (R) 12 Making known to men your might and the glorious splendor of your kingdom. 13 Your kingdom is a kingdom for all ages, and your dominion endures through all generations. (R)   G O S P E L   From the perspective of the Kingdom of God, what would ordinarily be considered a curse and misfortune is seen as a blessing. This is only possible when we see things with eternity in mind, when all the worldly and human values will be turned upside down. What Jesus emphasizes in these teachings is the importance of knowing our total need for God, which wealth and riches can obscure. For St. Francis, poverty was a blessing as it made him more like Jesus and totally dependent on God for all his needs.   ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia Rejoice and leap for joy! Your reward will be great in heaven. R: Alleluia, alleluia   Luke 6:20-26 20 Raising his eyes toward his disciples Jesus said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours. 21 Blessed are you who are now hungry, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who are now weeping, for you will laugh. 22 Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Son of Man. 23 Rejoice and leap for joy on that day! Behold, your reward will be great in heaven. For their ancestors treated the prophets in the same way. 24 But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. 25 But woe to you who are filled now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will grieve and weep. 26 Woe to you when all speak well of you, for their ancestors treated the false prophets in this way.”   my reflections think: We should no longer live as unbelievers who give no thought to God, but by the power of the cross put to death the evil passions and desires in our hearts.     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 Jeremiah 4-6 Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top SABBATH   Blessedness Is Being With God   Who is truly blessed? In the Gospel today, Jesus said they are the poor, hungry, weeping, hated and excluded, insulted, and denounced as evil. On the contrary, He pronounced woes on the rich, the laughing and those of good reputation. Then and now, this teaching would receive much resistance, criticism and ridicule. But Jesus knew what He was saying. The key to unlocking the wisdom of His reversal teaching is in the cause of the blessedness and the curse. Jesus points out that blessedness is achieved if the above situations occur because of Him. Poverty, hunger, weeping, and so on will be blessed situations if we experience them because of faithfulness to the Lord. But if one, in his poverty, sorrow and difficulties, is unfaithful and resorts to sin, then he is not blessed but cursed instead. But they, too, can attain blessedness if they share their gifts with the poor and so on. Situations of dire need comes to every person. There’s always the temptation to take the easy way out. I was not spared of it. Once, I made an appeal for medicines for our parish medical clinic. After the Mass, a person approached me and said that his brother, a doctor in the United States, could send me a lot of of medicines. To make the long story short, the medicines arrived in a cargo box addressed to my bishop and was ready for pick up at the customs office. I went there at 8:00 a.m. and on the first window, I was charged P20 for an application form without a receipt. Then I was made to wait, approach one table after another, and talk to a lot of people. By 3:00 p.m., I had enough. My paper was being processed slowly because I refused to give bribe money to the persons involved. It was immoral and as a priest retriving the cargo of a bishop, it was unbecoming and unacceptable. I left proud that I did not succumb to the temptation. But I did not give up. I sought help from authorities and eventually, the cargo was obtained morally. Blessedness is not found in material things, power, fame or whatever this world could offer. It is in having a good relationship with the Lord. Fr. Benny Tuazon   Reflection Question: How strong am I in resisting the temptation to cut corners to attain my goal or to get out of a problematic situation?   Lord, strengthen me when my resolve to follow Your will in all things and in all situations weaken.   St. Eustace, pray for us.   Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top

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Lordie, God's Message For You Today, September 6, 2011

Daily Bible Reflections for September 6, 2011 Dear Lordie, Get empowered by His message to you this Tuesday! Praying for you, Bo Sanchez PS. Do you live in the Philippines? Sign up for Bo's weekly  cellphone message. This is FREE. (That is why you have to live in the Philippines to sign up for this service.) Text:   BOSEZ_<your full name>_ <your email address> and send to any of the following numbers: Globe (09178494444); Smart (09088949999); Sun (09228945555) And you'll start receiving Bo's inspiring message to encourage you, guide you, and bless your week.   6 September Tuesday TODAY'S READINGS: DIDACHE | COMPANION | SABBATH DIDACHE   REGRET ... NOT   Jesus went up a hill to pray and spent the whole night there praying to God. – Luke 6:12   Art is my first love. Before I learned how to read or write, I already knew how to draw. I even had my own comic book characters when I was a kid. But I didn’t pursue a career in the arts. As a teenager, I was led to believe that there was no money in it. Though I was satisfied taking up engineering, I still regret not becoming a graphic artist or an animator. Why do regrets come only in the end? Why do we feel sorry about the things that happened or didn’t happen in the past? Maybe it’s because we didn’t ask for God’s guidance before we made a decision. Because if we did, then we would have the confidence that whatever has happened was His will and was part of His bigger plan. In today’s Gospel, Jesus had to spend overnight praying on top of a hill before making a big decision of naming His 12 Apostles. And guess what, one of those He chose would become a traitor. But did Jesus regret it? I don’t think so. For He knew that it was part of the Father’s plan. Edgardo Tulabut (ylnoseye@gmail.com)   REFLECTION: When was the last time you consulted God for a big decision?   Guide me, Lord, when I make choices in life so I will live according to Your plans.     Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top COMPANION   1st READING   St. Paul explains to the Christians all that Christ has accomplished for us in His death on the cross. Through the cross, we have been freed of our sins, circumcised in our hearts, raised to new life, and Satan’s power over us has been broken. Hence, we are now to live a new life in the power of the Holy Spirit and not be dominated by our sinful desires. Let us today claim the power of the cross in our minds and hearts.   Colossians 2:6-15 6 Brothers and sisters: As you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him, 7 rooted in him and built upon him and established in the faith as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. 8 See to it that no one captivate you with an empty, seductive philosophy according to tradition of men, according to the elemental powers of the world and not according to Christ. 9 For in him dwells the whole fullness of the deity bodily, 10 and you share in this fullness in him, who is the head of every principality and power. 11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not administered by hand, by stripping off the carnal body, with the circumcision of Christ. 12 You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 And even when you were dead in transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he brought you to life along with him, having forgiven us all our transgressions; 14 obliterating the bond against us, with its legal claims, which was opposed to us, he also removed it from our midst, nailing it to the cross; 15 despoiling the principalities and the powers, he made a public spectacle of them, leading them away in triumph by it.   P S A L M   Psalms 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11 R: The Lord is compassionate toward all his works. 1 I will extol you, O my God and King, and I will bless your name forever and ever. 2 Every day will I bless you, and I will praise your name forever and ever. (R) 8 The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness. 9 The LORD is good to all and compassionate toward all his works. (R) 10 Let all your works give you thanks, O LORD, and let your faithful ones bless you. 11 Let them discourse of the glory of your Kingdom and speak of your might. (R)   G O S P E L   Even though Jesus was God, He lived His life with the limitations of human reality. Like us, He needed to spend time in prayer, seeking God the Father’s blessing and direction for His life. Here, we see Jesus doing an all-night vigil before He chooses the 12 Apostles. Like Jesus, we need to pray fervently before we make any major decisions in our lives so that we will be guided by God to make the right one.   ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia I chose you from the world, that you may go and bear fruit that will last, says the Lord. R: Alleluia, alleluia   Luke 6:12-19 12 Jesus departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. 13 When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named apostles: 14 Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, 15 Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called a Zealot, 16 and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. 17 And he came down with them and stood on a stretch of level ground. A great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon 18 came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and even those who were tormented by unclean spirits were cured. 19 Everyone in the crowd sought to touch him because power came forth from him and healed them all.   my reflections think: Like Jesus, we need to pray fervently before we make any major decisions in our lives so that we will be guided by God to make the right one.     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 Jeremiah 1-3 Jeremiah 1-3     Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top SABBATH   Jesus Prays! Why not us?   The beginning of today’s Gospel says that Jesus departed to the mountain to pray. And He did not only pray for hours but spent the night in prayer to God. You ask, “Jesus prays?” And why not? Prayer is communication with God more than an activity of a creature to his Creator. It is a person to person exchange. It is an exchange of “wills,” if you will. The Christian is expected to pray always and more in serious situations. There is nothing more important to a Christian than to know what God wills and to express his will in the process. Jesus shows His true humanity. He was the Son of God, true, but He was also the son of Mary and Joseph. He needed to pray, and pray He did. Incidentally, He did it because He was about to choose His 12 apostles — men who will be witnesses to everything He was to do and say, who will compose the foundation of His Church, who will see to it that everything will be passed on to future generations. They were important men and He had to confer with God about them. As a parish priest, I also get to choose my servants. They are men and women who will be my co-operators in the ministry of salvation. Ever since I became a parish priest, I have always looked for people who will be of service to the parish. I even interview them to let them know what is expected of them and what parish service entails. I find myself praying to God for enlightenment every time. I also tell them to spend time in prayer before finally deciding to become servants. Service to God is ultimately between them and God, and not with me. In most cases, our decisions were stable and responsible. Personally, I make it a point to pray before I go out of my room in the morning. I know that once I get out of my room, I would find it harder to commune with God because of so many things to do and people to attend to. Before I retire at night, I pray again so that God and I will always be on the same page. Needless to say, prayer is my source of spiritual strength, my refuge when I am faced with challenges and crucial decisions. If Jesus prays, so much more should we!  Fr. Benny Tuazon   Reflection Question: Do I make it a point to pray and commune with God every day? How much importance do I give to prayer in making decisions or in facing my trials?   Lord, increase my desire to pray every day.   Sts. Cottidus, Eugene & Companions, pray for us.   Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top

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Lordie, God's Message For You Today, September 5, 2011

Daily Bible Reflections for September 5, 2011 Dear Lordie, Conquer this new week with God's Word in your heart! Praying for you, Bo Sanchez PS. Do you live in the Philippines? Sign up for Bo's weekly  cellphone message. This is FREE. (That is why you have to live in the Philippines to sign up for this service.) Text:   BOSEZ_<your full name>_ <your email address> and send to any of the following numbers: Globe (09178494444); Smart (09088949999); Sun (09228945555) And you'll start receiving Bo's inspiring message to encourage you, guide you, and bless your week.   5 September Monday TODAY'S READINGS: DIDACHE | COMPANION | SABBATH DIDACHE   LOVE FREELY   “The scribes and the Pharisees watched him closely to see if he would cure on the Sabbath so that they might discover a reason to accuse him.” – Luke 6:7   Mr. Santos wasn’t able to attend last Sunday’s Mass. His reason: He took care of his very sick wife. Ana’s husband got mad at her for leaving the house without his knowledge. Well, Ana rushed their neighbor to the hospital. Mariel should have been home by 5:00 p.m. Her mother shouted and scolded her because she came home a little late. The reason: Mariel helped her classmates with their homework. John was not supposed to go to the computer shop during regular days. When he got home, his father (who came home early) spanked him. Actually, John printed a Father’s Day card. Jesus healed the sick. But the Pharisees accused him. Why? Because he did it on a Sabbath. Though rules and regulations help in putting order to our lives, let us not be constrained by them. Rather, let us be free in showing our love by serving others whenever possible. Sol Saura (sol_saura@yahoo.com) 5 REFLECTION: Love is serving others.   Lord, may I always seize the opportunity to serve others today.     Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top COMPANION   1st READING   Paul saw that the sufferings that he endured in his missionary work and apostolic endeavors were in a mysterious way a prefiguring of the sufferings that are necessary to see the church, Christ’s body, brought to its perfection. This perspective gave meaning to his sufferings and made them an expression of his love for the Christian communities that he ministered to. We, too, can offer all our pain and sufferings to the Lord as St. Paul did and so help build the Kingdom of God.   Colossians 1:24-2:3 24 Brothers and sisters: I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which is the church, 25 of which I am a minister in accordance with God’s stewardship given to me to bring to completion for you the word of God, 26 the mystery hidden from ages and from generations past. But now it has been manifested to his holy ones, 27 to whom God chose to make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; it is Christ in you, the hope for glory. 28 It is he whom we proclaim, dmonishing everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone perfect in Christ. 29 For this I labor and struggle, in accord with the exercise of his power working within me. 2: 1 For I want you to know how great a struggle I am having for you and for those in Laodicea and all who have not seen me face to face, 2 that their hearts may be encouraged as they are brought together in love, to have all the richness of fully assured understanding, for the knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.   P S A L M     Psalms 62:6-7, 9 R: In God is my safety and my glory. 5 [6] Only in God be at rest, my soul, for from him comes my hope. 6 [7] He only is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I shall not be disturbed. (R) 8 [9] Trust in him at all times, O my people! Pour out your hearts before him; God is our refuge! (R)   G O S P E L The Pharisees were jealous of Jesus’ popularity with the people and so, at every opportunity, they sought to trap Him doing something that was in their view against the law of Moses. Here they want Him to cure a man with a withered hand on a Sabbath so they could accuse Him of breaking the law. Jesus is not to be intimidated by their hypocrisy and legalistic interpretation of the law and boldly calls the man forth and heals him in front of them.   ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord; I know them, and they follow me. R: Alleluia, alleluia   Luke 6:6-11 6 On a certain sabbath Jesus went into the synagogue and taught, and there was a man there whose right hand was withered. 7 The scribes and the Pharisees watched him closely to see if he would cure on the Sabbath so that they might discover a reason to accuse him. 8 But he realized their intentions and said to the man with the withered hand, “Come up and stand before us.” And he rose and stood there. 9 Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?” 10 Looking around at them all, he then said to him, “Stretch out your hand.” He did so and his hand was restored. 11 But they became enraged and discussed together what they might do to Jesus.   my reflections think: We, too, can offer all our pain and sufferings to the Lord as St. Paul did and so help build the Kingdom of God.   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 Isaiah 64-66     Isaiah 64-66   Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top SABBATH   Live To Love   The Lord Jesus cured a man with a withered hand on a Sabbath. According to Jewish Laws, it is forbidden. But He did it not before He gave His teaching: “I ask you, is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?” Jesus was a pious Jew. His parents reared Him as one. He knew the Sabbath Law. But He was also God’s Son. He knew the spirit of those laws. He knew the purpose and importance of the Sabbath Law and all Jewish Laws. He took advantage of this situation to show them the real intent of the Law which is to be a good child of God and to merit salvation. As a priest, I usually follow a schedule so that I could effectively attend to the needs of my parishioners and to give myself time to prepare well in disposing those commitments. Once, I had a Mass at 6:00 p.m. in our parish. Half an hour before the time, I was already preparing myself. But just minutes before the Mass, my secretary called to say that a woman was in the office asking for a priest to give the Sacrament of Anointing to her dying mother. Immediately I told her I would go. I instructed my secretary to inform the people at Mass to wait because I would be attending to a dying person. I was hoping that they’d understand. But even if they did not, going to the dying person was the right decision. Although I was committed to the Mass, the soul of a sick person took priority. After the visit, I rushed back to the parish to preside at Mass. I was told that some left but many stayed and even prayed for the sick person. I was sad for those who left (unless they had important schedules too!) but I was happy for those who stayed and even prayed for the sick I visited. We always hear some lawyers and even non-lawyers cry out the Latin dictum, “Dura lex sed lex!” which means, “The law may be harsh but that is the law!” For Jesus, the law is the servant and men are its master. Of course, the ultimate Master is God for He created everything. But according to God’s purpose, the law must serve man. Man should not be enslaved by the law. Fr. Benny Tuazon   Reflection Question: Have I tried to look into the spirit of the laws that I usually face in my daily life?   God, our Master Ruler, help me to adhere more to the spirit of Your laws and apply the same to my neighbor.   St. Joseph Canh, pray for us.   Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top

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