chaos

The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Monday, Memorial of St. Scholastica, Virgin, 10 February 2025
Genesis 1:1-19 ><))))*> + ><))))*> + ><))))*> Mark 6:53-56

*Photo by author, sunset in Atok, Benguet, 27 December 2024*.

Blessed are you,
God our loving Father
in giving us a taste of
the beginning everyday
especially on this first day
of work and of school
as your words in the first reading
remind of our daily
beginning in you!

In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters. Then God said, “Let there be…” Thus evening came, and morning followed… (Genesis 1:1-3, 7).

In the beginning
there was nothing but
chaos just like in our lives
until you brought light,
order and life, God;
it is always light and order
that come first to set the
stage for life like in those first
two days; what is most lovely,
Father is when the third day came
and there began balance and
symmetry in your creation 
like sea and earth, 
day and night,
sun and moon
that relationships happened
and everything started to be good.

In the gospel today
as in our lives,
every day is a new beginning
with its many chaos:
sickness and diseases,
emptiness,
self-alienation,
rejection in all forms,
failures and disappointments
as well frustrations
that all remind us of how
everything was in the beginning;
but, with Jesus Christ's coming
and healing
we saw the light
and experienced healing
and order.

Everything becomes good
when seen in your light
and design, Lord Jesus;
when our relationships are
kept and maintained
especially at home like with
our siblings,
parents and family
as exemplified by the twins
St. Scholastica
and St. Benedict.

Make everything new again
and most of all good,
dear Jesus in our lives
like in the Genesis
as shown by St. Scholastica
who was able to do more
because she loved most.
Amen.

*Painting “Altar of St. Scholastica” by Johann Baptist Wenzel Bergl (1765), ncregister.com*

The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Tuesday in the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Year I, 04 July 2023 Genesis 19:15-29 <*(((>< <*(((>< + ><)))*> ><)))*> Matthew 8:23-27

Your words today, O God our Father, are all about chaos and destruction, storms and calamities in the sea and the land; just like so many of us these days who are in the "eye of the storm", in the midst of great trials and sufferings in life due to their own making or somebody else's sins and wrongdoing, or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The whole world is yours, O Lord; you have the whole world in your hands and you know everything that is happening. Grant us the trust and confidence in you of Jesus your Son and the deep faith of Abraham as you kept your promise to save his nephew Lot and family from the catastrophe that fell on Sodom and Gomorrah.

Keep us strong, O God, in the face of trials and tribulations of life; calamities inevitably happen, it is how we face and deal with these that truly matter; cleanse us of our impurities, of our stubbornness, of our sins, never to needlessly look back like Lot's wife but instead move forward in life learning your important lessons of being morally upright and holy. Amen.

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In the beginning…

In the eye of the storm