Reconciliation in Christ

Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul, 05 September 2025
Friday in the Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time, Year I
Colossians 1:15-20     <*((((><  +  ><))))*>     Luke 5:33-39

God our loving Father,
our nation is in turmoil,
in disarray especially at the top:
the shameless dishonesty
and corruption of officials
in all branches of government
who have totally disregarded
the overburdened people;
reconcile us in Jesus Christ,
make us whole in him,
your "visible image" among us
for it is "in him
that you were so pleased
to reconcile all things"
(Colossians 1:15, 19-20).

Yes, we have every reason
to be so mad,
so angry
with the decadence
we have reached as a nation
but, let us also see how we
have allowed this to deteriorate;
if there is any reconciliation
needed at the moment,
it must begin in us, Father:
many of us have forgotten you,
have turned away from you,
have cheated in so many ways
with one another,
many have disregarded
without any qualms at all
 the Sunday rest
and worst of all,
many of us Christians
have not been humble
 to live simply within our means
with everybody desiring so much
material things that in the process
we have lost our senses of
decency
and of sin.

Lord Jesus Christ,
I bring to your presence
my own disintegration,
my many disorders
brought about by my sins
that have kept me away from
God and from one another;
be my center
and sustainer,
Jesus
so that peace
may eventually begin
in me.
Amen.

Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Our Lady of Fatima University
Valenzuela City
(lordmychef@gmail.com)