Daily Bible Reflections
for March 8, 2010;

Dear Friend,

Conquer this new week with God's Word in your heart!

Praying for you,

Bo Sanchez

8
 March
Monday
TODAY'S READINGS:

DIDACHE | COMPANION | SABBATH
DIDACHE

 

A StRanger
 
And He said, “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place.” – Luke 4:24
 
A group of young boys were jamming with a popular band during a community gathering and they got an overwhelming applause from the audience. One proud mother said to her son who played the drums, “I didn’t know you can play that well,” and the son replied, “You didn’t know, mom, because you could not appreciate my music and you thought it was all noise.”
Isn’t it frustrating when we try to evangelize our own family and loved ones and they won’t even listen to us, or sometimes we even get criticized? But do not lose hope, do not give up on doing good for them. Believe that God is doing something even if it seems nothing is happening. Someday, in God’s perfect time, our loved ones will be able to experience for themselves the love and goodness of God and surely by then they would remember the things we did for them and appreciate us better.Jane Gonzales (mjsg2468@yahoo. com)
 
REFLECTION:
How much effort are we still willing to give to speak of His name to our loved ones?
 
Lord, give us the courage and confidence we need to speak more of You to those who are dear to us, through Chirst, our Lord. Amen.
 

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COMPANION

 

1st READING
Elisha has no doubt that God will listen to his prayers as he knows that he is not doing anything for his own glory. It is all for the glory of God. This is the attitude of life and action that we must develop as disciples of Jesus. We cannot afford to focus on ourselves as that will only lead to self-reliance and we are only too well aware of our own deficiencies and lack of reliability.
 
2 Kings 5:1-15b
1 Naaman, the army commander of the king of Aram, was highly esteemed and respected by his master, for through him the LORD had brought victory to Aram. But valiant as he was, the man was a leper. 2 Now the Arameans had captured from the land of Israel in a raid a little girl, who became the servant of Naaman’s wife. 3 “If only my master would present himself to the prophet in Samaria,” she said to her mistress, “he would cure him of his leprosy.” 4 Naaman went and told his lord just what the slave girl from the land of Israel had said. 5 “Go,” said the king of Aram. “I will send along a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman set out, taking along ten silver talents, six thousand gold pieces, and ten festal garments. 6 To the king of Israel he brought the letter, which read, “With this letter, I am sending my servant Naaman to you, that you may cure him of his leprosy.” 7 When he read the letter, the king of Israel tore his garments and exclaimed, “Am I a god with power over life and death, that this man should send someone to me to be cured of leprosy? Take note! You can see he is only looking for a quarrel with me!” 8 When Elisha, the man of God, heard that the king of Israel had torn his garments, he sent word to the king, “Why have you torn your garments? Let him come to me and find out that there is a prophet in Israel.” 9 Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha’s house. 10 The prophet sent him the message, “Go and wash seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will heal, and you will be clean.” 11 But Naaman went away angry, saying, “I thought that he would surely come out and stand there to invoke the LORD his God, and would move his hand over the spot, and thus cure the leprosy. 12 Are not the rivers of Damascus, the Abana and the Pharpar, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be cleansed?” With this, he turned about in anger and left. 13 But his servants came up and reasoned with him. “My father,” they said, “if the prophet had told you to do something extraordinary, would you not have done it? All the more now, since he said to you, ‘Wash and be clean,’ should you do as he said.” 14 So Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times at the word of the man of God. His flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. 15 He returned with his whole retinue to the man of God. On his arrival he stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel.”
 
P S A L M
 
Psalm 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4
R: Athirst is my soul for the living God. When I shall I go and behold the face of God?
1 [2] As the hind longs for the running waters, so my soul longs for you, O God. (R) 2 [3] Athirst is my soul for God, the living God. When shall I go and behold the face of God? (R) 43: 3 Send forth your light and your fidelity; they shall lead me on and bring me to your holy mountain, to your dwelling-place. (R) 4 Then will I go in to the altar of God, the God of my gladness and joy; then will I give you thanks upon the harp, O God, my God! (R)
 
G O S P E L
 
Jesus is preparing the Jews for what will perhaps be an unwelcome fact to them that the Gospel is for all people and not just for them. God has been working in their lives for the last 2,000 years to prepare them for a Messiah who will redeem the whole human race. This will call for a whole rethinking of their understanding of the idea that they are the Chosen People of God.
 
Luke 4:24-30
24 Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth: “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place. 25 Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe famine spread over the entire land. 26 It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon. 27 Again, there were many lepers in Israel during the time of Elisha the prophet; yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.” 28 When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury. 29 They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong. 30 But he passed through the midst of them and went away.
 
my reflections
t h i n k : W e cannot afford to focus on ourselves as that will only lead to self-reliance and we are only too well aware of our own deficiencies and lack of reliability.
 
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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 7-9  
 

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SABBATH

 

The Gate of God’s Blessings
 
During our Holy Land pilgrimage, I was a bit frustrated when our group visited the River Jordan. Being the only sizable body of water that flowed from the Lake of Galilee in the north to the Dead Sea down south, the holy river has also suffered a lot of human abuse. Not only had it been used for the “washing away” of spiritual filth in ritual baptisms celebrated there through the ages, but it also bears traces of having been a channel of disposal for some human and material wastes. In fact, the flowing waters of the river did not smell “fresh” at all. I can then resonate with the initial words of resistance of the Syrian General Naaman when he was asked to take a bath in the River Jordan for his healing from leprosy. I myself did not feel like taking a dip in the “holy waters” of the river.
To initially resist, to question, to seek understanding, to look for a degree of certainty — these are all part of our pilgrimage of faith. Even those whom the Bible presents as “witnesses of faith” — Abraham and Moses in the Old Testament, and the Blessed Virgin Mary in the New Testament — underwent their “night of faith.” Mary’s own “night of faith,” the Catechism of the Catholic Church (# 165) states, could have been the time when she had to share the darkness of Jesus’ suffering and death. Closer to our time, we learn that Mother Teresa of Calcutta — a most admired saint amongst various faiths — likewise had her dark night of the spirit.
In the end, God’s light and grace comes to us when we make the Act of Faith — that is, by the command of our will that is moved by God Himself, our human intellect will open up and submit to God’s Truth. This is what we mean when we speak about the prayer of surrender wherein we say: “Your will be done, Lord.” Fr. Domie Guzman, SSP
 
Reflection Question:
In what way is your faith also an experience of pilgrimage? What are your experiences that are related to the “night of faith”? How did you get over those experiences?
 
During dark moments, Lord, when it is difficult to go on, let my faith give me the necessary courage to hold on to You and Your promises.
 
St. Senan, pray for us.
 

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