Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul, 15 July 2025
Tuesday, Memorial of St. Bonaventure, Bishop & Doctor of the Church
Exodus 2:1-15 ><))))*> + ><))))*> + ><))))*> Matthew 11:20-24
Sometimes I wonder
O God how it feels to be
in front of you,
of what to feel when you are
so like us humans - sadly
frustrated,
exasperated.
Jesus began to reproach the towns where most of his mighty deeds had been done, since they had not repented. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes” (Matthew 11:20-21).
Forgive us, dear Jesus
when we are so callous
and numb before you,
not feeling you at all
because we are so absorbed
in our own pride and foolishness,
justifying our sinful ways
that we hardly feel you,
because we could not feel others
nor ourselves as our bloated egos
numbed our humanity; we have lost our
sense of sinfulness and could no longer
appreciate what is good and beautiful,
right and orderly; we have become like
those two Hebrews Moses caught fighting
each other that instead of feeling his care
and concern for them,
they felt separated he would kill
them like the Egyptian officer.
How true were the words
of our Saint for today,
the most pure Bonaventure
who wrote, "If you do not know
your own dignity and condition,
you cannot value anything
at its proper worth."
Help us realize Jesus
how once mighty cities
like Chorazin, Bethsaida
and Capernaum remains in ruins
to these days, never to have
recaptured their old glory days
because since your time,
they never saw their dignity
and condition as your beloved
ones; let us not fall into ruins too
because of our unrepentance for
our sins. Amen.
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