Daily Bible Reflections
for May 8, 2017
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Dear Friend,

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Praying for you,

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8
May
Monday
TODAY'S READINGS:

DIDACHE | COMPANION | SABBATH
DIDACHE

 

ANY CONCERN?

 

“This is because he works for pay and has no concern for the sheep.” – John 10:13

 

       She is a senior vice president of a prestigious company. Of course, with her position comes an attractive salary package. She is efficient and is an effective asset whose expertise is bringing their company to the top of its industry.

       But even though she reports early for work, she goes home late at night every single day. She can be disapproving because she easily gets irritated or mad when things are not done the way she wants them. She can be demanding as she wants to get things done at the shortest time possible. She even calls and asks her staff to do something even during lunchbreak or beyond working hours. Unsympathetic, one may say, but if someone is sick, she would still ask that person to deliver the job. She shows no concern for anyone in her workplace. She just lives to work.

       I’m glad our God is not like that. He is always concerned about us. He knows our needs and takes care of us. He teaches us and equips us to live life to its fullest. He blesses us with His goodness and mercy. Sol Saura (sol_saura@yahoo.com)

 

Reflection: How do you show concern for the people around you?

 

O God, please forgive us for the times we are not sensitive to the needs of others. Grant us the grace to be like Jesus to them.

 

St. Peter of Tarentaise, pray for us.

 

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COMPANION

 

1ST READING
 

The Church discovered that the Gospel was to be proclaimed to both the Gentiles and the Jews. Peter related this experience and as the leader of the nascent Church, his testimony carried a greater authority than Paul’s or anyone else’s. This is how the Holy Spirit guided the Early Church and led Her into the ministry to the Gentiles.

 
Acts 11:1-18

1 The Apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God. 2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem the circumcised believers confronted him, 3 saying, “You entered the house of uncircumcised people and ate with them.” 4 Peter began and explained it to them step by step, saying, 5 “I was at prayer in the city of Joppa when in a trance I had a vision, something resembling a large sheet coming down, lowered from the sky by its four corners, and it came to me. 6 Looking intently into it, I observed and saw the four-legged animals of the earth, the wild beasts, the reptiles, and the birds of the sky. 7 I also heard a voice say to me, ‘Get up, Peter. Slaughter and eat.’ 8 But I said, ‘Certainly not, sir, because nothing profane or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ 9 But a second time a voice from heaven answered, ‘What God has made clean, you are not to call profane.’ 10 This happened three times, and then everything was drawn up again into the sky. 11 Just then three men appeared at the house where we were, who had been sent to me from Caesarea. 12 The Spirit told me to accompany them without discriminating. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house. 13 He related to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, saying, ‘Send someone to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter, 14 who will speak words to you by which you and all your household will be saved.’ 15 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them as it had upon us at the beginning, 16 and I remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said, ‘John baptized with water but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ 17 If then God gave them the same gift he gave to us when we came to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to be able to hinder God?” 18 When they heard this, they stopped objecting and glorified God, saying, “God has then granted life-giving repentance to the Gentiles too.”

 
P S A L M
 
Psalm 42:2-3; 43:3-4

R: Athirst is my soul for the living God.

1 [2] As the hind longs for the running waters, so my soul longs for you, O God. 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)

 
GOSPEL
 

We need to discern the voice of God from the myriad of other voices we hear in our daily lives. If we know the voice of God well enough, we will not be tempted to follow the alternative voices that will probably lead us astray. It is Jesus who is the primary voice of truth and it is His will that we need to follow if we want a fulfilling life. Let us do all that we can to better know Jesus’ voice and word in our lives.

 
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

I am the good shepherd, says the Lord; I know my sheep, and mine know me.

 
John 10:11-18

11 Jesus said: “I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 A hired man, who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own, sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf catches and scatters them. 13 This is because he works for pay and has no concern for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I will lay down my life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd. 17 This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have power to lay it down, and  power to take it up again. This command I have received from my Father.”

 

think: Jesus is the Good Shepherd. How does it make you feel that He cares

for you, His sheep?

 
 
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Read the Bible in one year Deuteronomy 19-22

 

T O D A Y’S BLESSING LIST

 

thank You, Lord, for: ______________________________________________________

 

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SABBATH

 

A TOTAL AND COMPLETE

RELATIONSHIP

 

Continuing the Good Shepherd theme from yesterday, Jesus now presents Himself to us as the Good Shepherd. There is no doubt about Him. But as though to rub it in even more to us, He contrasts His being the Good Shepherd with the person of the “hired man, who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own.”

              The fundamental issues of identity and intimacy with one’s charges are what’s at stake here. Since the sheep are merely a source of income for the hired man, he doesn’t care at all about knowing and taking care of the sheep one by one, which is the mark of the Good Shepherd. The sheep’s welfare is something beyond him.

              Unfortunately — but should we rather say, “fortunately,” inasmuch as we have our Lord Jesus Christ Himself who acts as our Good Shepherd? If He states His “case” clearly, it is not to brag about Himself. Jesus is just stating the plain truth: “I am the Good Shepherd; I know My sheep and My sheep know Me in the same way that the Father knows Me and I know the Father…” In other words, there is full and deep knowledge and intimacy in the relationship between Jesus and us. This is something no other person can claim. Not that all other pastors are fake impostors; it is just that Jesus — and only He — can claim to be the Good Shepherd.

          Read again our Gospel passage and feel the unmatched claim and command of our Lord. It is there in His powerful assertion of one of the consequences of His being the Good Shepherd: His readiness to lay down His life, in complete command of Himself.

                   Such is Jesus, our Good Shepherd. Fr. Martin Macasaet, SDB

 

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

With Jesus as your Shepherd, have you submitted yourself to His complete command and knowledge of you? 

Lord Jesus, let me know You as You know me. Let me give utmost importance to my relationship with You. For indeed, You truly love me as Your own, like no one else. Amen.

 

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