Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul, 13 October 2025
Monday in Twenty-Eighth Week of Ordinary Time, Year I
Romans 1:1-7 <*((((>< + ><))))*> Luke 11:29-32
Are we doomed,
Lord Jesus?
Your words today
are so penetrating
and we deserve them
considering the news of
wholesale corruption in our
country,
the indifference of many
that sadly include shepherds
of souls.
While still more people gathered in the crowd, Jesus said to them, “This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah… At the judgment the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation and condemn it, because at the preaching of Jonah they repented, and there is something greater than Jonah here” (Luke 11:29, 32).
The sign of Jonah
is about repentance
while the sign
of the queen of the south
is about wisdom;
true wisdom happens
when we repent
because repentance is
an expression of our
fear of the Lord that is
the beginning of wisdom;
teach us, Jesus, to be signs
who point to you,
the "someone larger"
than Jonah and the queen
of the south for you are the
ultimate sign of all;
like Paul, let us be the
living witnesses of your
glorious resurrection
by proclaiming your good
news of salvation both in
words and in actions.
Amen.
Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Our Lady of Fatima University
Valenzuela City
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