The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Monday, Memorial of St. Peter Claver, Priest, 09 September 2024
1 Corinthians 5:1-8 <*((((>< + ><))))*> Luke 6:6-11
God our loving Father,
make me a yeast,
a leaven for your people,
bringing them into
a community,
a communion.
Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all the dough? Clear out the old yeast, so that you may become a fresh batch of dough, inasmuch as you are unleavened. For our Paschal Lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed. Therefore, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavend bread of sincerity and truth (1 Corinthians 5:6-8).
Many times,
we in the Church fail
to recognize the importance
of corporate witness to
the Gospel as one body;
many times,
we pretend to be blind
and deaf and mute
in the evil pervading among us,
afraid of hurting others feelings,
worst, afraid of being unmasked
in living a double standard life;
straighten our lives,
Lord Jesus like that man
with a withered hand in the synagogue;
straighten our paths to your
righteousness as we discern
justice and mercy and love
whenever there are some
of us on the wrong side of the road.
Like St. Peter Claver
who called himself a
"slave of the slaves forever"
in his pioneering work among the
African slaves in in Colombia,
grant us the grace of courage
and strength to dare start the
impossible of being a yeast,
a leaven to the people
transforming them into
witnesses of your Gospel.
Amen.
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