The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Friday, Memorial of St. Scholastica, Virgin, 10 February 2023 Genesis 3:1-8 ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> Mark 7:31-37
God our Father, today your words teach us what is to be truly opened, when openness leads us to sin and when the same openness leads us to grace.
But the serpent said to the woman: “You certainly will not die! No, God knows well that the moment you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods who know what is good and what is evil.” …Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.
Genesis 3:4-5, 7
Keep us open to you always, Lord; let us not dare open our eyes to things we cannot completely see nor comprehend; keep us at home with the truth that there are many things that seem only to be apparently good and better not seen at all because our eyes cannot completely see and embrace the whole reality; let us not dare to open things that would only close us, shut us out from you.
then he (Jesus) looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (that is, “Be opened!”). And immediately the man’s ear’s were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly.
Mark 7:34-35
Like that deaf man with a speech impediment healed in the gospel today, open us, O God our Father in your Son Jesus Christ by setting us aside from the noise of the world, touching our senses, and opening ourselves to your loving presence and to your very person so we may experience too your healing comfort and consolation; give us the courage to open up to you, like St. Scholastica to bare our souls and give our lives to you in Christ Jesus who had come to open for us anew the heavens and finally be one in you and with you. Amen.
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