The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Wednesday in the Thirteenth Week of Ordinary Time, Year I, 05 July 2023
Genesis 21:5, 8-20 ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> Matthew 8:28-34
Photo by author, sunset at Tagaytay City, 08 February 2023.
God our loving Father,
today we continue to pray
for those in great trials and
sufferings in life,
those in the eye of the storm
especially those driven out
from their own homes,
from their country,
from their roots
like the refugees and those
fleeing from wars and calamities;
those displaced due to economic
reasons like poverty;
the victims of the inhuman practice
of human trafficking.
Take care of those people
driven away from their homes
especially the children who
always suffer most;
look after the welfare of
those thrown into foreign
lands and environment,
so alienated in language and culture;
sustain those forced to make
ends meet after being
led to somewhere else
not of their own choice
and decision.
Hear the cries of the many
and modern
Hagar and Ishmael
of our time;
bless them too for
we all came from Abraham;
punish the human traffickers,
convert them,
take away their hearts of stone
and give them natural hearts
who respect and rejoice
humanity.
Your very own Son
and our Lord Jesus Christ
was also driven out by people
after he had exorcised two demoniacs
at the territory of Gadarenes;
how sad that until now it continues
to happen among us when we drive
people out and away because we
value more things and animals than persons.
The whole planet,
the whole land is yours,
O Lord but until now,
so many are lording over
vast tracts of land
when all we really need
at the end is a simple plot
of three-and-a-half feet wide
by eight feet in length,
six feet under.
Amen.
Daniel 6:12-28 ><)))*> ><)))*> ><)))*> Luke 21:20-28
Red Wednesday 2019 at our Parish.
Thank you very much Lord Jesus Christ for making us remember our persecuted brothers and sisters in faith at last night’s “Red Wednesday” celebrations.
One of the lasting impressions it had left me is the sight of those lighted candles amid the darkness and the red light that bathed our churches.
Keep our eyes open, Lord, like the Prophet Daniel who tried to find you even inside the lions’ den.
Make us realize that we belong to you and would always be safe with you even in this world full of destruction and troubles like a lion’s den.
Let us live in constant communion with you, Jesus, so that we may always find you, trust you, and rest in you amid the many turmoils that happen daily in our lives in this crazy world.
Give us the grace of being one those blessed people who would find you coming in time of our trials and tribulations.
“And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. But when these signs begin to happen, stand erect and raise your heads because your redemption is at hand.”
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