Daily Bible Reflections
for March 7, 2010;

Dear Friend,

Celebrate God's love through His Word for you this Sunday!

Praying for you,

Bo Sanchez

7
 March
Sunday
TODAY'S READINGS:

DIDACHE | COMPANION | SABBATH
DIDACHE

 

ENCOURAGERS
 
“It may bear fruit in the future”. – Luke 13:9
 
I was at a crossroad in life when one of my mentors, Mike Wilson, told me, “Ariel, I believe in you not because of your circumstances but because of who you are.” Boy, that made my day!
Don’t you love encouragers? They are a breath of fresh air when you are about to hyperventilate, a glass of ice-cold water on a hot summer’s day, a delicious plate of tapsilog (Filipino beefsteak with egg and rice) during lunchtime, halo-halo (Filipino iced dessert) on a hot, lazy afternoon… I think you get the picture.
The gardener in today’s Gospel saw a possibility of fruit in a plant that was barren for three years. As the owner gave up on it, the gardener pleaded with him and even laid out a recovery plan.
Today, let’s remember and pray for those who encouraged us and helped us recover in our trying times. Furthermore, we need to return the favor by being encouragers and true friends ourselves. Ariel Driz (adriz77@yahoo.com)
 
REFLECTION:
Do I get out of my way to encourage others? Do I pray for the people who encourage me?
 
Lord Jesus, thank You for all the people whom You’ve used to touch, help and encourage us. Bless them with Your choicest blessings! They are one of the brightest reflections of Your love in our lives. Amen.
 

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COMPANION

 

1st READING
 
God calls Moses into an incredible journey with Him and the People of God. Moses is merely a shepherd with a somewhat miraculous past in that he had been preserved from death at the hands of the Egyptians by a wily mother. In revealing His name to Moses, God tells us that He is the essence of existence. This use of the verb “to be” clearly indicates that God “is” and is dependent upon no one and nothing else for His being. He simply “is.”
 
Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15
1 Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. Leading the flock across the desert, he came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There an angel of the LORD appeared to him in fire flaming out of a bush. As he looked on, he was surprised to see that the bush, though on fire, was not consumed. 3 So Moses decided, “I must go over to look at this remarkable sight, and see why the bush is not burned.” 4 When the LORD saw him coming over to look at it more closely, God called out to him from the bush, “Moses! Moses!” He answered, “Here I am.” 5 God said, “Come no nearer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. 6 I am the God of your father,” he continued, “the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. 7 But the LORD said, “I have witnessed the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry of complaint against their slave drivers, so I know well what they are suffering. 8 Therefore I have come down to rescue them from the hands of the Egyptians and lead them out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.” 13 Moses said to God, “But when I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ if they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what am I to tell them?” 14 God replied, “I am who am.” Then he added, “This is what you shall tell the Israelites I AM sent me to you.” 15 God spoke further to Moses, “Thus shall you say to the Israelites The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. “This is my name forever; this is my title for all generations.”
 
P S A L M  
Psalm 103:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8, 11 (8a)
R: The Lord is kind and merciful.
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul; and all my being, bless his holy name. 2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. (R) 3 He pardons all your iniquities, he heals all your ills. 4 He redeems your life from destruction, he crowns you with kindness and compassion. (R) 6 The LORD secures justice and the rights of all the oppressed. 7 He has made known his ways to Moses, and his deeds to the children of Israel. (R) 8 Merciful and gracious is the LORD, slow to anger and abounding in kindness. 11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, so surpassing is his kindness toward those who fear him. (R)
 
2nd READING
 
We all experience warnings to repent of our sins. It is just that we are not very good at heeding them. It is time, now, to repent of our sins; in fact it is always the right time to repent. This is why the Church encourages the practice of the nightly examination of conscience where we reflect upon our day, give thanks for God’s many blessings and repent of anything we might have done wrong.
 
1 Corinthians 10:1-6, 10-12
1 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea, 2 and all of them were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3 All ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was the Christ. 5 Yet God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the desert. 6 These things happened as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil things, as they did. 10 Do not grumble as some of them did, and suffered death by the destroyer. 11 These things happened to them as an example, and they have been written down as a warning to us, upon whom the end of the ages has come. 12 Therefore, whoever thinks he is standing secure should take care not to fall.
 
G O S P E L
 
God is a patient God. It is not so much that His patience will run out with us but that we will run out of time to respond to His offer of salvation. We are the ones who have the clock ticking over our heads; we do not know how much time we have before we die. There is no conversion after death; the decisions we make regarding our salvation are all over and done with before we die. Hence the urgency to respond to the offer of salvation while we still can.
 
Luke 13:1-9
1 Some people told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. 2 He said to them in reply, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sinners than all other Galileans? 3 By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did! 4 Or those eighteen people who were killed when the tower at Siloam fell on them — do you think they were more guilty than everyone else who lived in Jerusalem? 5 By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did!” 6 And he told them this parable: “There once was a person who had a fig tree planted in his orchard, and when he came in search of fruit on it but found none, 7 he said to the gardener, ‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree but have found none. So cut it down. Why should it exhaust the soil?’ 8 He said to him in reply, ‘Sir, leave it for this year also, and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it; 9 it may bear fruit in the future. If not you can cut it down.’”
 
my reflections
t h i n k : The decisions we make regarding our salvation are all over and done with before we die. Hence the urgency to respond to the offer of salvation.
 
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God’s special verse/thought for me today________________
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T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST
Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________
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READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Genesis 4-6  
SABBATH PAUSE
My weekly time with God
THANK YOU LIST
Things to be grateful for from the past week
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SPECIAL NEEDS
Things to ask God for in the coming week
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HIDDEN TREASURE
Most important word God told me this week
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SABBATH

 

Lent : Jesus Corrects Our Impression of God
The 1997 New Catechism of the Catholic Church — edited and printed under the supervision of then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger who is now Pope Benedict XVI, and promulgated by Pope John Paul II — starts off with a succinct reflection on the nature of faith. It states that since humanity is made in the image and likeness of God, the human person is a religious being. Above difference of culture, color, creed and cult, the desire for God and the thirst to know Him through reason and experience is written in every human heart. In fact all cultures, creeds and cults have traditions of prayer, sacrifices and rituals.
Human reason, in its attempt to grasp the transcendent nature of God, can only think of God by purifying and raising human values to superlatives. Hence, philosophers posit that God is one who is allknowing, all-present, all-powerful, all-just, and all-perfect. There can be no weakness in Him. The Old Testament faith of Israel suffered also this limitation: the Jews thought of Yahweh-God more in terms of holiness as purity and righteousness as strict justice. Being poor, being physically handicapped, being gravely ill, being barren and infertile, being stricken by misfortunes, and dying at an early age were easily regarded as punishments for one’s sinfulness, or the sinfulness of one’s family and race. Dying in ignominy, such as crucifixion, was thought about as a curse (cf. Deuteronomy 21:23).
The God-Man Jesus Christ, however, reveals to us the face of God that we cannot grasp with our human logic: that God is also love and that the depth and the height of God’s love is compassion. From Divine Compassion flows mercy, forgiveness, patience, long-suffering and the spirit of sacrifice, all of which are normally viewed as manifestations of soft-heartedness and weakness. The Cross of Jesus is the utmost revelation of the compassionate face of God: a stumbling block for righteous Jews, and a scandal for reason-driven Gentile philosophers. Fr. Domie Guzman, SSP
 
Reflection Question:
Do you often question God’s loving and compassionate nature with the weak? Why? Spend time talking to Jesus Crucified about these.
 
How often I forget that Your compassion to the weak includes me. Open my eyes to this truth, Lord.
 
St. Ardo, pray for us.
 

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