The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Monday in the Twenty-eighth Week of Ordinary Time, Year II, 14 October 2024
Galatians 4:22-24, 26-27, 31-5:1 <*((((>< + ><))))*> Luke 11:29-32
While still more people gathered in the crowd, Jesus said to them, “This is generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah… and there is something greater than Jonah here” (Luke 11:29, 32).
Your words today,
O Lord Jesus are so striking -
so destabilizing on a Monday
morning but looking back
to our lives,
we deserve them
because they are true!
More than the evil
of the sins we have committed
that have hurt us all,
strained our relationships,
and destroyed our environment
is the evil of our continued
disregard for You;
if sin is a turning away from
You, dear Jesus,
more evil is our rejection
of You like those people
in your time.
How sad until now
we keep on seeking signs
of God's presence among us,
of God's love and mercy for us
without realizing You are
God-is-with-us,
the Emmanuel.
Worst than our sins
against each other and You
Jesus is our refusal to recognize
You because we cannot let go
of our own convictions that are
self-centered and self-serving,
thinking it is freedom.
Forgive us, Jesus
in our never-ending lists
of signs we ask from You
to prove us your love,
your presence,
your approval
not realizing that the life
we now have,
and continue to waste,
is more than enough of
your loving presence.
Let us realize, Jesus,
as St. Paul reminds us in the
first reading today
that You have come to set us
free from the slavery of sin
and evil in order to be free to
love and be faithful to You.
Amen.
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