The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Monday in the Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time, Year II, 03 October 2022
Galatians 1:6-12 ><000'> + ><000'> + ><000'> Luke 10:25-37
Photo by Dr. Mylene A. Santos, MD, 10 September 2022.
Praise and glory
to you, O God our loving Father!
Thank you for this great
Monday, the first working
day of October!
Stir into flame your gift
to me, dear God, (2 Tim. 1:6),
fill me with zest
fill me with passion
fill me with life
to forge on amid all
the difficulties and trials
this day
this week
may bring to me.
Like the zeal
and enthusiasm
of St. Paul,
let me be firm
in asserting your
Good News of salvation
in Christ Jesus:
"If I were still trying
to please people,
I would not be a slave
of Christ" (Galatians 1:10c).
Keep me faithful to you,
Lord, and stop me from
pretending somebody
else, impressing people
by claiming to be your
disciple in all of its outward
signs without your Cross.
Keep me faithful to you,
Lord and stop me from
seeking attention,
perks and privileges
to be famous by claiming
to be your disciple but
afraid to suffer, afraid of
losing, afraid of failures.
Keep me faithful to you,
Lord, not to the cultic
signs and symbols we have
developed in deepening our
faith in you but, like the
priest and the Levite in
your parable today,
have totally disregarded
the wounded and sick,
the abandoned and
lost, the sinful and poor.
Deepen my faith,
strengthen my faith
to have passion in doing
your works, Lord;
forgive me, Jesus,
when I think and see more
of efficiency and programs
without meeting and
experiencing persons,
building relationships
in you, with you, and
through you.
Amen.
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