Tag: bringing Christ

Sent forth to bring Jesus

Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Thursday, Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time, Year II, 01 October 2026
Memorial, St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Virgin & Doctor of Church
Photo by author, September 2020.
Praise and glory
to you, God our loving Father
for this month of October!
Thank you for calling
and sending us like the 72
others sent forth by Jesus
in today's gospel:

Jesus appointed seventy-two other disciples whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit. He said to them, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest” (Luke 10:1-2).

Thank you,
dear Jesus for those
you have called and sent
to comfort me in times of crises,
those you sent to encourage me
in times of doubts,
those you sent to bring me peace
when everything was in chaos
and disorder; send me too,
O Lord, to bring your love
and mercy to those down and 
wearied, to bring your warmth
and life to those losing energy
and will to forge on in life,
to bring healing for those
bruised and sick physically
and emotionally.
Teach me to be like
St. Therese of the Child Jesus
whom we celebrate today
to be love in the midst of the
Church; let me not be like
those visitors of Job who 
disturbed him,
instead of bringing him peace
they destabilized him;
the world is so sick these days,
Lord; send us to bring
you and your peace and love
and joy to everyone.
Amen.
Photo by a friend in Swan Island Dahlia Farm, Canby, Oregon, 29 August 2026.

“Bring me”…

The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Monday, Memorial of St. Bonaventure, Doctor of the Church, 15 July 2024
Isaiah 1:10-17     <*((((><  +  ><))))*>     Matthew 10:34-11:1
Photo from The Valenzuela Times, 02 July 2024.
On this blessed Monday,
your word "bring" invites me
to examine what I bring:

“Trample my courts no more! Bring no more worthless offerings; your incense is loathsome to me” (Isaiah 1:13).

Jesus said to his Apostles: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword” (Matthew 10:34).

Teach me, O Lord,
to bring your peace and justice,
to bring your truth and light
so that I may bring that
much-needed balance
we are searching in life.
Like St. Bonaventure,
help me to bring myself before
You, dear God in prayers,
to immerse myself in your words
in the scriptures
so that I may bring together
the ideal and practical,
the spiritual and material.
Many times, O Lord,
we bring our very selves,
it is our ego and pride
we love to bring everywhere
for everyone to see,
forgetting that
we must first bring
You back into our hearts,
bring You back into our minds,
bring You back into our lives
so that we can finally
bring out the best
worship of You.
Amen.