Daily Bible Reflections
for February 7, 2017
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Dear Friend,

God has a great plan for your life including this Tuesday.

Praying for you,

Bo Sanchez



7
February
Tuesday
TODAY'S READINGS:

DIDACHE | COMPANION | SABBATH
DIDACHE

 

GOD’S ENABLING
POWER!
 

“You disregard God’s commandment but cling to human tradition.” – Mark 7:8

 

       We live in a world that operates on this principle: Act or be acted upon. If we don’t do anything, we’ll be drowned by destructive worldly beliefs. But blessed be God, the authority of His Word stands despite human tradition. “(God’s) grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness…That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses... For when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Corinthians 12:9-10).

       God’s grace is always sufficient. It overflows into gratitude to God and unto the service of mankind. It is God’s enabling power!

       ‘Twas His grace that transformed my criminal mind that said, “The world owes me a great deal,” into a missionary mind that declares, “I owe a great deal of service to the world.”

          Never let evil triumph. Instead, let good triumph over evil.

          Choose the good. Choose God! Obet Cabrillas (obetcab@yahoo.com)
 

Reflection:“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)

 

Lord, I pray the prayer of surrender: I can’t but You can. Take over.

 

St. Colette, pray for us.

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COMPANION

 

1ST READING
 

At the end of the creation story, God claimed that what He has created was “very good.” This refers to mankind – the crowning accomplishment of creation. With this blessing comes great responsibility. The challenge for us is to know our responsibilities and be faithful to them. The sacrifice of faithfulness is worth it because the benefits are “out of this world.”

 
Genesis 1:20-2:4

20 God said, “Let the water teem with an abundance of living creatures, and on the earth let birds fly beneath the dome of the sky.” And so it happened: 21 God created the great sea monsters and all kinds of swimming creatures with which the water teems, and all kinds of winged birds. God saw how good it was, 22 and God blessed them, saying, “Be fertile, multiply, and fill the water of the seas; and let the birds multiply on the earth.” 23 Evening came, and morning followed — the fifth day. 24 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth all kinds of living creatures: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals of all kinds.” And so it happened: 25 God made all kinds of wild animals, all kinds of cattle, and all kinds of creeping things of the earth. God saw how good it was. 26 Then God said: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and the cattle, and over all the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the ground.” 27 God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them, saying: “Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that move on the earth.” 29 God also said: “See, I give you every seed-bearing plant all over the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food; 30 and to all the animals of the land, all the birds of the air, and all the living creatures that crawl on the ground, I give all the green plants for food.” And so it happened. 31 God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good. Evening came, and morning followed — the sixth day. 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth and all their array were completed. 2 Since on the seventh day God was finished with the work he had been doing, he rested on the seventh day from all the work he had undertaken. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work he had done in creation. 4 Such is the story of the heavens and the earth at their creation. 

 
P S A L M
 
Psalm 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9

R: O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!

3 [4] When I behold your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you set in place — 4 [5] What is man that you should be mindful of him, or the son of man that you should care for him? (R) 5 [6] You have made him little less than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor. 6 [7] You have given him rule over the works of your hands, putting all things under his feet. (R) 7 [8] All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field, 8 [9] the birds of the air, the fishes of the sea, and whatever swims the paths of the seas. (R)

 
GOSPEL
 

Jesus challenges His disciples to take up the call and live their life with concrete acts of mercy and love, and not just pay lip service to our faith. Those in public service should heed this call and show where they stand through their actions.

 
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

Incline my heart, O God, to your decrees; and favor me with your law.

 
Mark 7:1-13

1 When the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus, 2 they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands. 3 (For the Pharisees and, in fact, all Jews, do not eat without carefully washing their hands, keeping the tradition of the elders. 4 And on coming from the marketplace they do not eat without purifying themselves. And there are many other things that they have traditionally observed, the purification of cups and jugs and kettles and beds.) 5 So the Pharisees and scribes questioned him, “Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders but instead eat a meal with unclean hands?” 6 He responded, “Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; 7 In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines human precepts. 8 You disregard God’s commandment but cling to human tradition.” 9 He went on to say, “How well you have set aside the commandment of God in order to uphold your tradition! 10 For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother, and Whoever curses father or mother shall die. 11 Yet you say, ‘If someone says to father or mother, “Any support you might have had from me is qorban’ ” (meaning, dedicated to God), 12 you allow him to do nothing more for his father or mother. 13 You nullify the word of God in favor of your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many such things.” 

 

think: How do you avoid hypocrisy and remain true to who you are?

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Read the Bible in one year  Romans 9-12

 

T O D A Y’S BLESSING LIST

 

thank You, Lord, for: ______________________________________________________

 
 

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SABBATH

 

MY LIFE: A LIVING SACRIFICE TO

THE LORD
 

Hypocrisy is something that no one likes and is ultimately one of the most destructive forces at work against the witness of the Gospel life. When a person claims to be a Christian and fails to live a Christian way of life without any remorse or attempt to change, the Church is faced with a difficult situation. It cannot afford for the situation to continue and thus most, out of faithfulness to God’s will for it, seek to challenge the person who is failing in their Christian responsibility to repent and undergo conversion. However, what follows is often a tirade against the Church along the lines that it is not allowing proper freedom of expression to the individual.

       The Church is a community that lives according to a certain creed and rules. The Church reserves the right, and correctly so, to regulate itself according to these rules. As such it has the power to both include and exclude persons according to their willingness to submit their lives to the lifestyle professed by the Church. This is the right of any organization and group as long as it applies its rules fairly and without bias. Therefore, if we want to belong to the Church, we make a choice to set aside a certain amount of our own freewill insofar as we commit ourselves to abide by the rules. This submission of our lives to the Church and, ultimately the will of God, is necessary if we are going to take on a life of Christian discipleship.

       It is completely meaningless to call oneself a Christian and then refuse to live according to Christian beliefs! The teachings of the Catholic Church have nothing to do with limiting the freedom of an individual and everything to do with outlining what it means to call oneself a Catholic. The choice to be Catholic is the choice to submit oneself to all that the Catholic Church teaches and believes. We cannot take on the name and not the teachings. Fr. Steve Tynan, MGL

 

---------- REFLECTION QUESTION ----------

How can you grow in your understanding of the teachings of the Church so that you can live them more fully in your life?

Lord, grant me the grace that I need to understand Your will for my life and help me follow it every day. Amen.

 

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