It is enough for the student to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. ? Matthew 10:25

After a long and tiring morning, I was ready to plop myself on the bed for a short nap, but decided to get some peanuts to fill up my empty stomach. Nicole, my granddaughter, very sheepishly told me, ?Mamita, you are not supposed to eat on the bed!? I immediately realized my mistake, remembering my strict rules about these things.
      ?No elbows on the table?, ?Say please?, ?Don?t mix English and Tagalog, Mama? are some of the things she reminds us adults of when we forget. These ?reminders? from her make us happy because it means that she has absorbed the lessons well. What we adults need to do, though, is to remind ourselves to be examples through our actions.
      Mouthing rules often enough brings results, but practicing what one preaches brings out the best in both teacher and student. Chelle C.

REFLECTION:
Mouthing rules often enough brings results, but practicing what one preaches brings out the best in both teacher and student.

May my actions speak what my lips proclaim.

Isaiah 6:1-8

Isaiah knows that he is unworthy to be a spokesman for the Lord. Neither are we worthy of such an honor. But by the grace of God we have been chosen to announce the Good News to all creation. Let us be thankful for this privilege and grace. Let us not fail to be faithful to it at every opportunity we get. Let us be alert and ready for the times when God will call us to share the Good News of salvation with those around us, whether it be one-on-one sharing or preaching before the multitudes.

1 In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, with the train of his garment filling the temple. 2 Seraphim were stationed above; each of them had six wings with two they veiled their faces, with two they veiled their feet, and with two they hovered aloft. 3 ?Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts!? they cried one to the other. ?All the earth is filled with his glory!? 4 At the sound of that cry, the frame of the door shook and the house was filled with smoke. 5 Then I said, ?Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!? 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, holding an ember which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 He touched my mouth with it. ?See,? he said, ?now that this has touched your lips, your wickedness is removed, your sin purged.? 8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ?Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?? ?Here I am,? I said, ?send me!?

P S A L M

Psalm 93:1, 1-2, 5

R: The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty.

1 The LORD is king, in splendor robed; robed is the LORD and girt about with strength. (R) And he has made the world firm, not to be moved. 2 Your throne stands firm from of old; from everlasting you are, O LORD. (R) 5 Your decrees are worthy of trust indeed holiness befits your house, O LORD, for length of days. (R)

G O S P E L

Matthew 10:24-33

Jesus is quite clear that we are never to be ashamed of the Gospel. We should never be ashamed to proclaim it to others as it is the supreme truth of human existence and there is no eternal life without it. We have a duty, an obligation to proclaim the Gospel to others. If we fail to do this we actually endanger our own salvation, as we are not being true to all that we have received! Let us pray that it will never come to this in our lives.

24 No disciple is above his teacher, no slave above his master. 25 It is enough  for the disciple that he become like his teacher, for the slave that he become like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household! 26 ?Therefore do not be afraid of them. Nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known. 27 What I say to you in the darkness, speak in the light; what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops. 28 And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna. 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a small coin?  Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father?s knowledge. 30 Even all the hairs of your head are counted. 31 So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. 32 Everyone who acknowledges me before others I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father. 33 But whoever denies me before others, I will deny before my heavenly Father.?

my reflections
think: By the grace of God we have been chosen to announce the Good News to all creation.

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