Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Tuesday, Second Week in Ordinary Time, Year II, 20 January 2026
1 Samuel 16:1-13 <*[[[[>< + ><]]]]*> Mark 2:23-28
Lord Jesus Christ,
our Lord of Sabbath,
our very rest,
teach us to go back to you
and rest in you; for the second
straight day, Pharisees attacked
you though your disciples:
yesterday they challenged you
about fasting, today about
the sabbath.
As Jesus was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath, his disciples began to make a path while picking the heads of grain. At this the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on a sabbath?” Then he said to them, “The sabbath was made for man not man for the sabbath. That is why the Son of Man is the Lord even of sabbath” (Mark 2:23-24, 27-28).
How lovely is the imagery
of Sabbath: the day when God
rested from creating everything;
it is the only day standing alone
on its own because it is God's
alone; hence, a sabbath is always
a return to you, O God,
a return to paradise where you alone
are the Lord;
but, alas, we have also
infected this blessed day
with our sin and evil,
taking it also as our own.
Make us realize,
dear Jesus,
that like fasting,
we need to enter
into Sabbath
by first recognizing you
as our Lord and God,
not the day
nor the tradition
nor the laws;
teach us to see more
inwards like God in choosing
David as next king of'
Israel.
Amen.
lordmychef.com 