Daily Bible Reflections
for March 7, 2017
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Dear Friend,

This Tuesday, never forget how important you are to God.

Praying for you,

Bo Sanchez



7
March
Tuesday
TODAY'S READINGS:

DIDACHE | COMPANION | SABBATH
DIDACHE

 

LIKE FATHER,
LIKE SON!
 

“This is how you are to pray: Our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name, thy Kingdom come…” – Matthew 6:9-10

 

I used to have the mindset that all rich people are uncaring while poor people are good and saintly. I believed that when people become rich, they become evil. And that heaven awaits the poor, while hell awaits the rich.

       I thought this way because I had a deep hatred for the rich. English-speaking people reminded me that I was poor in English. I hated being with tall people because it emphasized my small stature all the more. I hated mingling with the well-off because they reminded me of how miserable I was.

     Then I encountered a quote from St. Cyprian explaining the Our Father. He said, “When we call God ‘our Father’ we ought to behave as sons of God.”

        Change began. I still have a long way to go, but as I surrender to His grace, Jesus restores me step by step from an unlovely sinner into the likeness and image of God! Obet Cabrillas(obetcab@yahoo.com )

 

Reflection:The Our Father is the Ultimate Restoration Power because it presents the nature of God as: Father, Holy, King, Almighty, Provider, Forgiver, Preserver and Deliverer!

 

Lord, let me maximize Your grace when I pray the Our Father. Let me pray as a trusting child and never as a conceited Pharisee. Amen.

 

Sts. Perpetua and Felicity, martyrs, pray for us.

 

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COMPANION

 

1ST READING
 

Isaiah tells us that the Word of God fulfills His will. This means that the Holy Spirit works within us for our salvation. This is called “prevenient grace.” When we share the Gospel with others, let us trust that God’s grace is already powerfully at work within them.

 
Isaiah 55:10-11

10 Thus says the Lord: Just as from the heavens the rain and snow come down and do not return there till they have watered the earth, making it fertile and fruitful, giving seed to the one who sows and bread to the one who eats, 11 so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me void, but shall do my will, achieving the end for which I sent it.

 
P S A L M
 
Psalm 34:4-5, 6-7, 16-17, 18-19

R: From all their distress God rescues the just.

3 [4] Glorify the Lord with me, let us together extol his name. 4 [5] I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. (R) 5 [6] Look to him that you may be radiant with joy, and your faces may not blush with shame. 6 [7] When the poor one called out, the Lord heard, and from all his distress he saved him. (R) 15 [16] The Lord has eyes for the just, and ears for their cry. 16 [17] The Lord confronts the evildoers, to destroy remembrance of them from the earth. (R) 17 [18] When the just cry out, the Lord hears them, and from all their distress he rescues them. 18 [19] The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; and those who are crushed in spirit he saves. (R)

 
GOSPEL
 

Jesus teaches us to pray and calls us to entrust our life in His hands. What matters is God’s will for us and not our earthly desires. Prayer is about depending on our relationship with God. The starting point of prayer is this: God wants to love us and He wants us to love Him in return.

 
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

One does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.

 
Matthew 6:7-15

7 Jesus said to his disciples: “In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 “This is how you are to pray: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, 10 thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread; 12 and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; 13 and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 14 “If you forgive men their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.

 

think: How did you feel after falling into temptation?

 
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Read the Bible in one year 2&3 John and Jude

 

T O D A Y’S BLESSING LIST

thank You, Lord, for: ______________________________________________________

 
 

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SABBATH

 

ABOUT PRAYER

 
“When you pray do not babble like the pagans…”

       How often do we disobey these words of Jesus? How often do we recite prayers, read or repeat memorized words without thinking what we are doing? How often is our mind somewhere else than with Him to whom we address these words? How often do we think that the more words we use, the more the Lord must hear and answer us? How often has prayer become a routine — the killer of an intimate relationship with our loving God?

       Prayer is supposed to be a conversation, a dialogue with God. In a dialogue, we must give the partner time and room to respond. If the conversation becomes a monologue, it is not a conversation anymore. It always challenges my patience and charity when a person meets me and endlessly talks about himself and never gives room for me to say anything. And when he asks me a question, he talks again before I could answer. But I like these moments because they make me aware of how God must feel when we ignore Jesus’ words and our prayers become a monologue, a torrent of words.

       Jesus taught His disciples a prayer, which we call the “Lord’s Prayer.” We know it so well, we recite it so often that while we follow the command of Jesus to use these words, we also violate what He said before — not to “babble like the pagans.” Unfortunately, we are forced to recite a version that uses antiquated language, words we don’t use in ordinary conversation anymore, like “thou” and “thine,” and to ask God not to lead us into temptation is, which some old Church Fathers already condemned because God never leads us into temptation.

       The best prayer, therefore, is to go to a chapel or church and spend some time alone with the Lord and talk to Him in your own words — and then listen to His answer in your heart. Fr. Rudy Horst, SVD

 

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

As part of your regular prayer, do you have personal conversations with the Lord?

Lord, thank You for making me aware again that my prayer often does not please You. As You taught Your disciples how to pray, teach me again and again. I need it. Amen.

 
 

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