Praying for a true teacher

Lord My Chef Daily Recipe by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Thursday in the Third Week of Easter, 08 May 2025
Acts 8:26-40     ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'>     John 6:44-51

God our loving Father,
our Cardinals have started
their election process for the
successor of Peter, 
the Vicar of Christ 
your Son here on Earth;
send them your Holy Spirit
to enlighten their minds
and their hearts to seek
and follow your will in 
Christ Jesus.

Help them choose a good shepherd
who is also a good teacher like 
your Son Jesus Christ imitated so well
by the deacon Philip with the help
of the Holy Spirit.

Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, that is, the queen of Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury, who had come to Jerusalem to worship, and was returning home. Seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah. Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?” He replied, “How can I, unless someone instructs me?” So he invited Philip to get in and sit with him (Acts 8:27-28, 30-31).

Your Servant,
himself a former Pope too
St. Paul VI wrote us in December 1975
"Modern man listens more willingly
to witnesses than teachers,
and if he does listen to teachers,
it is because they are witnesses"
(Evangelii Nuntiandi, #41);
send us true and good,
teachers who are witnesses 
of the Gospel; give us more
teachers like Philip who taught
clearly of the essential truth 
in this life which is about 
Jesus the Christ.

Next week we shall
choose our new leaders 
to govern us; take away
our blindness as teachers ourselves
that we may elect into office who
are also good teachers who stand 
for what is true and just,
not corrupt and liars;
send us more teachers
who will awaken in us your
Divine Presence to bring out
in everyone each one's
own giftedness as a person.

At the same time,
we pray for our professional 
teachers from the public school
who will work at the polling places
next week; give them strength
not only in body but also in 
mind, heart, and soul
to keep our elections clean
and honest, not to be swayed
by corrupt candidates who poison
the society and keep people away
from Christ and one another.

Let us not forget, 
Lord Jesus that as we share
in your prophetic mission,
we are all teachers like you;
keep our hearts and minds
open to the promptings of the
Holy Spirit to go wherever we
are needed most for your greater
glory. Amen.