Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul, 09 September 2025
Tuesday, Memorial of St. Peter Claver, Priest
Colossians 2:6-15 ><))))*> + ><))))*> + ><))))*> Luke 6:12-19
Lord Jesus,
thank you for calling me today;
like your Apostles,
I felt you called me by name too!
So lovely,
so reassuring,
but also challenging
to me: what if I can't
keep with your pace
because I get tired,
or simply feel so afraid
of being hurt,
of being laughed at,
of being misunderstood,
of being rejected?
Brothers and sisters: As you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him, rooted in him and built upon him and established in the faith as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving (Colossians 2:6-7).
To walk in you, Jesus
is to forget myself,
to be always on the main road
not at the sides
where it is safe and comfortable;
to walk in you, Jesus
is to forget myself
and think of those others
on the streets who could not
walk in you for so many reasons
with some of them already down
and dying on the road;
to walk in you, Jesus
is to carry my Cross
and that is to love until
it hurts like you.
It is in walking in you,
Jesus that I can be rooted
in you; help me to remain near
and close to you not only
for me to imitate you
and be rooted in you
but most especially for you
to remind me when I am not
in sync with you;
keep me rooted in you
so that I can be built
upon you by sharing your
power (Lk.6:19) of loving service
to the poor
and forgotten,
your light for those confused
and lost,
restoring those dead
to sin in your mercy
and forgiveness.
Amen.
Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Our Lady of Fatima University
Valenzuela City
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