Daily Bible Reflections
for October 6, 2017
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Dear Friend,

This Friday, work with Him at your side.

Praying for you,

Bo Sanchez



6
October
Friday
TODAY'S READINGS:

DIDACHE | COMPANION | SABBATH
DIDACHE

 

WHITE LIES AND

ANSWERED PRAYERS

 

We have sinned in the Lord’s sight and disobeyed him. We have neither heeded the voice of the Lord, our God. – Baruch 1:17-18

 

       “If people call, tell them I’m not here,” I told my secretary. I had tons of paperwork to attend to, so I didn’t want to be disturbed with phone calls. But I seemed to hear my conscience saying, “You’re teaching your secretary to lie.”

       So I called back my secretary and told her, “Don’t lie. If people call, tell them, ‘She can’t come to the phone right now. May I take a message?’”

      Small lies, or white lies as we call them, may seem harmless. But my experience is that little sins are the root of bigger sins.

          I’ve had a number of answered prayers and people ask me why I receive so much blessings. The secret, I tell them, is the gist in today’s readings: Obey God.

         Disobeying God — like lying and cheating — means sinning against Him. God and sin cannot coexist. So when we sin, we disconnect from Him. If we are disconnected from Him, we do not hear His answers to our prayers, and we do not see the blessings He wants to give us.

       The second secret is to accept His answer. Even if it’s not what we really want, trust that it’s the best answer ever. Again, that means obey Him. Chay Santiago (cusantiago@gmail.com)

 

Reflection: How often do you say, “Yes, Lord!”?

 

Lord, humbly, I will follow You.

 

St. Bruno, priest, pray for us.

 

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COMPANION

 

1ST READING
 

One great source of inspiration to live the Gospel has to be how the Lord has been faithful to His people through the ages. Whether we are sinners or saints, God remains faithful to His promises to us. How faithful are we to our commitments to God? To others? It would be good to ask ourselves these questions every now and then.

 
Baruch 1:15-22

15 During the Babylonian captivity, the exiles prayed: “Justice is with the Lord, our God; and we today are flushed with shame, we men of Judah and citizens of Jerusalem, 16 that we, with our kings and rulers and priests and prophets, and with our ancestors, 17 have sinned in the Lord’s sight 18 and disobeyed him. We have neither heeded the voice of the Lord, our God, nor followed the precepts which the Lord set before us. 19 From the time the Lord led our ancestors out of the land of Egypt until the present day, we have been disobedient to the Lord, our God, and only too ready to disregard his voice. 20 And the evils and the curse that the Lord enjoined upon Moses, his servant, at the time he led our ancestors forth from the land of Egypt to give us the land flowing with milk and honey, cling to us even today. 21 For we did not heed the voice of the Lord, our God, in all the words of the prophets whom he sent us, 22 but each one of us went off after the devices of his own wicked heart, served other gods, and did evil in the sight of the Lord, our God.”

 
P S A L M
 
Psalm 79:1-2, 3-5, 8, 9

R: For the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver us.

1 O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple, they have laid Jerusalem in ruins. 2 They have given the corpses of your servants as food to the birds of heaven, the flesh of your faithful ones to the beasts of the earth. (R) 3 They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them. 4 We have become the reproach of our neighbors, the scorn and derision of those around us. 5 O Lord, how long? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire? (R) 8 Remember not against us the iniquities of the past; may your compassion quickly come to us, for we are brought very low. (R) 9 Help us, O God our savior, because of the glory of your name; deliver us and pardon our sins for your name’s sake. (R)

 
GOSPEL

God’s mercy is infinite. This is one of the greatest truths the Scriptures reveal to us. It is evident in the lives of many prophets and most forcefully in the life of Jesus, the Son of God Himself. Why do we seem to forget this truth so easily? Don’t we feel beholden to God for anything? We need to throw away our pride and admit that we owe everything that is good in our lives to the mercy and love of God.

 
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

 
Luke 10:13-16

13 Jesus said to them, “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14 But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. 15 And as for you, Capernaum, ‘Will you be exalted to heaven? You will go down to the netherworld.’ 16 Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me.  And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

think: If there is one thing in your life that you want to thank God for today, what is it?

 
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T O D A Y’S BLESSING LIST

 

thank You, Lord, for: ______________________________________________________

 

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SABBATH

 

REND YOUR HEARTS

 

Penance as a form of repentance during the time of Jesus was markedly public. A sinner was not remitted of his sins by a simple private praying of three Hail Marys and three Our Fathers as is sometimes prescribed today. A sinner has to publicly perform penance and part of it is sitting in sackcloth and ashes in view of the public. But sitting in sackcloth and putting on ashes was not a form of public humiliation. It carried with it a deeply religious meaning.

       A sackcloth is a coarsely woven straight cloth made out of camel’s hair. Though it is called a cloth, it is not really a cloth as it has no design whatsoever. It is just like a potato sack put over an individual to indicate mourning and penance. It has no pockets to indicate willingness to part with anything that is earthly so as to train the heart to long for things that are of heaven.

       Ashes signify dirt and death. Dirt reminds the penitent of the origin of his being, and death signifies the end of his earthly pilgrimage. But ashes also symbolize new beginnings as new cities are built from the ashes or ruins of old ones. Ashes therefore symbolize the death to self and the rising to a new a glorious self, focused on the things of the Kingdom.

       The practice of “sackcloth and ashes” is no longer with us today but their meaning is as significant as ever. To repent is to put on a new mind and new heart, ready to leave behind old ways unto newness of life. Fr. Joel Jason

 

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

In your life right now, what do you need to put “sackcloth and ashes” for?

 

Create in me a new heart. Put in me a steadfast spirit, O Lord. Amen.

 

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