Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul, 09 July 2025
Wednesday in the Fourteenth Week of Ordinary Time, Year I
Genesis 41:55-57, 42:5-7, 17-24 <'[[[[>< + ><]]]]'> Matthew 10:1-7
Praise and glory
to you, most loving
God our Father
in making us so strong
beyond our knowing like
Joseph in the first reading
when he met after so many years
his brothers who have sold him
into Egypt; I could feel the strong
tensions within him,
of bursting into tears of
joy and sadness,
pain and healing when he
finally met again his
brothers who disowned him
and sold him ---
Of that lingering feeling
within him of being lost,
a lost one so sadly lost
not due to his but own brothers'
making.
When Joseph’s brothers came and knelt down before him with their faces to the ground, he recognized them as soon as he saw them. But Joseph concealed his own identity from them as soon as he saw them and spoke sternly to them. The brothers did not know, of course, that Joseph understood what they said, since he spoke with them through an interpreter. But turning away from them, he wept (Genesis 42:6-7, 23-24).
I pray dear Jesus
today for those many children
so lost these days after they
were given away by their
own mother or after their parents
have breakup in marriage;
fill their emptiness within
with your loving presence,
Lord, while making them
realize human love is always
imperfect like our relationships;
make them choose to become
better not bitter
despite their broken homes.
Most especially,
I pray for those lost in life -
those who have lost
their dreams,
their faith,
their belief in others;
help us find them,
Jesus and lead them
back to you.
Amen.
Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Our Lady of Fatima University
Valenzuela City
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