Daily Bible Reflections
for May 15, 2022
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Dear Friend,

This Sunday, remember that you are hidden in His heart.

Praying for you,

Bo Sanchez



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TODAY'S READINGS:

DIDACHE | COMPANION | SABBATH
DIDACHE

Fifth Sunday of Easter

VIEW FROM HEAVEN
“Where I am going, you cannot come.” – John 13:33 (NIV)

 

Anita Moorjani was dying of cancer and fell into a coma. Thirty hours later, she awoke and recounted her extraordinary experience.

Anita felt an incredible lightness. All her pains and fears were gone. She could see, hear, and sense what everyone wasfeeling. Then her awareness expanded.

Anita knew that everything happening was according to a great plan. She felt connected to everyone and was encompassed by pure, unconditional love. It was the deepest kind of caring that made her feel like she’s finally home.

When life gets challenging, I imagine myself in that place Anita called home. There I feel the deep love connecting us all, including those who hurt me, and I feel compassion and mercy. All experiences, including the seemingly negative, have a divine purpose. I am grateful knowing they are meant to bless and teach me.

Anita wrote the book Dying to Be Me. It’s a reminder not to wait for heaven when we can change how we live our lives on earth. Cecil Lim (cez_lim@yahoo.com)


reflect

“Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.” (St. Thomas More)

Lord, let me carry You in my heart so I may bear heaven wherever I go.


Saint Isidore, the farmer, pray for us.

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COMPANION

Fifth Sunday of Easter

First Reading | Acts 14:21-27

Paul and Barnabas spent time with the people they had evangelized to form them in the way of the Gospel. Without formation, the communities will eventually break down and disintegrate. It is difficult to know how much time Paul spent in the places where he proclaimed the Gospel. Maybe several months, including follow-up visits. Building community life takes hard work—it can also be a thankless task, as people are more focused on one’s shortcomings rather than strengths.

21 After Paul and Barnabas had proclaimed the good news to that city and made a considerable number of disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch. 22 They strengthened the spirits of the disciples and exhorted them to persevere in the faith, saying, “It is necessary for us to undergo many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.” 23 They appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, commended them to the Lord in whom they had put their faith. 24 Then they traveled through Pisidia and reached Pamphylia. 25 After proclaiming the word at Perga they went down to Attalia. 26 From there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had now accomplished. 27 And when they arrived, they called the church together and reported what God had done with them and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.


Responsorial Psalm | Psalm 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13

R: I will praise your name forever, my king and my God.

8 The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness. 9 The Lord is good to all and compassionate toward all his works. (R) 10 Let all your works give you thanks, O Lord, and let your faithful ones bless you. 11 Let them discourse of the glory of your kingdom and speak of your might. (R) 12 Let them make known your might to the children of Adam, and the glorious splendor of your kingdom. 13 Your kingdom is a kingdom for all ages, and your dominion endures through all generations. (R)


Second Reading | Revelation 21:1-5

When sin entered the world, we became disconnected from God. This affected our relationship with Him, with one another, and the world (see Genesis 3). Thus, the world and our relationships with God and each other need the redemptive work of Jesus. As stewards of creation, we need to care for the earth and pass a livable habitat on to the future generations. Pope Francis’ “Laudato Si” reminds us of our responsibility to care for the earth and all creation. Let us simplify our lives and stop wasting the precious resources of the world.

1 Then I, John, saw a new heaven and a new earth. The former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 I also saw the holy city, a new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with the human race. He will dwell with them and they will be his people and God himself will always be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there shall be no more death or mourning, wailing or pain, for the old order has passed away.” 5 The One who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.”


Gospel | John 13:31-33, 34-35

Our love for one another is the greatest sign of the Gospel truth to the world. Love expressed in service has the power to convince the world about our faith. Without love, the Church will only be like an empty gong and clanging cymbals. Let us persevere in our love for and service to one another to ensure that the Church remains at the heart of humanity.

Gospel Acclamation

I give you a new commandment, says the Lord; love one another as I have loved you.

31 When Judas had left them, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and God will glorify him at once. 33 My children, I will be with you only a little while longer. 34 I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. 35 This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”


Reflect:
“Prayer in action is love. Love in action is service.” (St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta)

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SABBATH

Fifth Sunday of Easter

Glory of Love

The first sentence of today’s Gospel passage is ominous. But it does sound real to me, who has been there and done that, taking care of young boys and young men in their formative years. There are individuals who just do not fit in, for some reason. Some people seem to have little social-relational skills, or they have gone too far out as to be unable to see themselves as part of a group.

Some get estranged of their own volition. Through a series of little choices, they slowly drift away, until they make that one big and final decision to leave.

It was night when Judas left. Curiously, no one protested. No one asked the Master what was the matter. Presumably, the man was already lurking in the shadows far too long. Now, he was angry about the wasted expensive perfume. Now, he was worried about the poor to whom the money could have been given.

When he left, Judas apparently brought the darkness with him. That darkness included his sinister ways and his compelling greed. There was business to do. He had cut a deal via secret private messaging with the authorities who promised him a sizeable reward. Thirty pieces of silver was something he could not exchange with time listening to pious exhortations about love. Remember, he had slowly gone to the deeper end of the ocean of selfishness and greed.

But it was when Judas had gone out that the Lord spoke about His impending hour of glorification. He spoke about bidding a gradual goodbye: “Yet a little while I am with you.” It was the exact opposite of Judas who left in a huff enveloped in darkness. His departure had neither overtones nor undertones of love.

But the Lord’s hour of glorification had to do with love. The sad but subtle taking leave (“where I go you cannot come”) was the foundation of something as bright as daylight: “A new commandment I give you—love one another, as I have loved you.”

This is our hour of glory—the glory of love. By this shall all men know! Fr. Chito Dimaranan, SDB


reflection question

How do you glorify the Lord’s love in your life?

Lord, I pray that in my life, Your love will always be made manifest in how I treat the people I come in contact with. Amen.

Today, I pray for: ________________________________

 

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