Daily Bible Reflections
for July 12, 2014
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Dear Friend,

Be inspired with His message to you this Saturday!

Praying for you,

Bo Sanchez



12
July
Saturday
TODAY'S READINGS:

DIDACHE | COMPANION | SABBATH
DIDACHE

 

LOYALTY PLEDGE
 

“... nor a slave greater than his master.” – Matthew 10:24

 

My first job had everything I wanted. I was with a team that created tech-savvy, never-before-seen products. It provided training with no required tenure and it guaranteed a trip abroad.

       There was just one problem: The employees loved talking about their dissatisfaction with the company. I couldn’t stand it.

       I found another job where the employer befriended everyone and talked about his vision regularly. We supported each other and the camaraderie created a joyful workplace.

       I agree with Elbert Hubbard when he wrote, “If you work for a man, in heaven’s name work for him. Speak well of him and stand by the institution he represents. Remember that an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn, and eternally disparage, resign from your position. And when you are outside, damn to your heart’s content. But as long as you’re part of the institution, do not condemn it.”

       How we work and what we say about our superiors reflect our faith. If we can’t obey and show respect to our superiors on earth, how could we subject ourselves to our Master in heaven? Cecil Lim (cez_lim@yahoo.com)

 

Reflection: “Whatever you are doing, work at it with enthusiasm, as to the Lord and not for people.” (Colossians 3:23)

 

Lord, change my heart and guard my lips. May I learn positive lessons even from negative situations and bring goodwill to all I meet.

 

St. John Jones, priest and martyr, pray for us.

 

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COMPANION

 

1ST READING
 
 

The lack of vocations around the world is not for the want of God calling men and women to the religious life. I believe the biggest problem is that people do not listen to what God wants from them and secondly, if they have heard His call, they do not respond to it because the pleasures of the world call louder and more persistently. Let us pray for more vocations to the priesthood and religious life.

 
Isaiah 6:1-8

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 They cried one to the other, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts! 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 that he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 He touched my mouth with it. “See, 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)

 
 
GOSPEL
 
 

The Gospel truths are often drowned out in our secular and materialistic world because they do not readily sit with such values. This is a challenge for us believers to make our beliefs heard in the marketplace. We have just as much right to make known our views as anyone else in society. We should never be afraid to speak with conviction and a loud voice.

 
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of God rests upon you.

 
 
Matthew 10:24-33

24 Jesus said to his Apostle: “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.”

 

think:  Let us make our beliefs heard in the marketplace. We should never be afraid to speak with conviction and a loud voice.

 
T O D A Y’S BLESSING LIST
Thank You Lord for: __________________
 
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God’s special verse/thought for me today_
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READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR 2 Chronicles 28-30

 
 

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SABBATH

 

HOLINESS AND FEAR

 

Our liturgical readings today call our attention to God’s holiness, along with the resulting reverential fear. In the Bible, holiness is “not a static perfection, but the total and dynamic otherness of God” (as the Vatican II Weekday Missal puts it). This holiness is dramatically displayed in the First Reading today, from the account of Isaiah’s call. Here, the holiness of God is acclaimed by seraphim and accompanied by earthquake and smoke — elements that are typically present in the biblical narratives of God’s revelations. Isaiah knows that in the presence of such holiness, a sinful human being like him is doomed. But his fear and unworthiness is removed in symbolic fashion. An angel took an ember from the altar and touched it to Isaiah’s lips. With that he is purified, and also empowered to respond affirmatively to God’s call to him as His prophet.

       The Gospel somehow complements this, as Jesus makes clear to His Apostles as to who is in charge (“No disciple is above his teacher”). And then He clarifies matters as to who we should really fear: “The one who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.” With this, we realize that God is tops in our list. He alone, in other words, is holy and mighty, worthy of all our reverence and respect.

       God’s holiness inspires not so much fear, as in the cowardly attitude of a scared slave. Rather, ours is a filial and pious fear of the Lord. God’s holiness inspires our own holiness. We do not get dramatic manifestations of God accompanied by earthquakes, and He does not take away our guilt with embers. But God’s holiness itself makes us holy as He strengthens us in our weaknesses. Although we may be fearful and unworthy in front of such an action of God, that will not prevent us from committing ourselves to Him: “Here I am, send me!” Fr. Martin Macasaet, SDB

 

REFLECTION QUESTION: Does your fear of the Lord pull you away from Him or push you towards Him?

 
You alone are holy and mighty, Lord God.

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