Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul, 10 September 2025
Wednesday, Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
Colossians 3:1-11 <*((((>< + ><))))*> Luke 6:20-26
How lovely are your words
today, Lord Jesus Christ
that pertain about heights.
In the first reading,
St. Paul invites us to seek
what is above,
think what is above
while in the gospel
you O Lord looked up
to us your disciples.
“Brothers and sisters: If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right-hand of God. Think of what is above, not of what is on earth” (Colossians 3:1-2).
Raising his eyes toward his disciples Jesus said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for the Kingdom of God is yours” (Luke 6:20).
Your beatitudes
lifted us up, dear Lord
changed radically
the way we must see
life and its meaning
so that we may aspire to
follow St. Paul's teachings;
before pointing our sights
up to heaven in you,
Jesus,
you first looked up to us
despite our miseries
and sins.
If we could just
imagine this great honor,
then perhaps we would no longer
doubt nor question
your beatitudes;
help us, Lord Jesus
to remember this great honor
you have given us
of lifting us up to you
in our poverty and hunger,
grief and exclusion,
insults and denunciations;
help us Lord
to set our sights up to you
so we may live your beatitudes
by finding and seeing you
among those below us
and with us.
Amen.
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