The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Thursday, Memorial of St. Anthony, Abbot, 17 January 2025
Hebrews 4:1-5, 11 ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> Mark 2:1-12
God our Father,
let us enter into your rest,
let us go back to you in Jesus Christ
and enter your rest like in Paradise
before the Fall;
spare us of your wrath like with
the Israelites in Meribah and Massah
when they challenged and provoked you
and thus be prevented from entering
your rest, the Promised Land.
Let us be on guard while the promise of entering into his rest remains, that none of you seem to have failed. For in fact we have received the Good News just as our ancestors did. But the word that they heard did not profit them, for they were not united in faith with those who listened. Therefore, let us strive to enter into that rest, so that no one may fall after the same example of disobedience (Hebrews 4:1-2, 11).
With Christ's coming,
you have opened anew heaven
to us, enabling us to enter your rest
like what happened in the
opening of the roof above him
to lower a paralytic;
in Jesus,
that rest you have after creating
everything in Genesis
has become a reality
with his gift of forgiveness
and reconciliation
to everyone as experienced by
the paralytic in today's gospel;
O dearest Lord Jesus,
help me to rise again
by picking up the pieces of my life
made whole in you again
filled with your breath,
filled with your life,
soundly at rest
in your love
and mercy.
Amen.
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