Getting involved

Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Tuesday in the Fourteenth Week of Ordinary Time, Year II
Hosea 8:4-7, 11-13     ><))))*> + ><))))*> + ><))))*>     Matthew 9:32-38

Your words today,
O Lord are very inspiring
and challenging,
inviting me to get involved with
those in the margins,
with those suffering,
for those "troubled and abandoned,
like sheep without a shepherd"
(Matthew 9:36).

Give me the wisdom
and charity to be involved
with the voiceless in your
holy name, Jesus,
for the sake of your Kingdom
and not for any self-interests
like those in Israel in 
the first reading who "appointed
kings without God's approval,
making idols out of their gold
and silver, making altars
that became occasions for their sins"
(Hosea 8:4, 11).

Grant me courage,
Jesus to get involved with your
poor little ones who sometimes
would even reject our efforts
but most especially when others
brand us as rebels,
as diabolic.

But the Pharisees said, “He drives out demons by the prince of demons” (Matthew 9:34).

Teach me, Jesus,
the proper way to respond to
your invitation to get involved
with the poor and suffering,
that I may grow in love
and compassion
for those in need.
Amen.