Tag: vindication

Praying for the patience of Job

The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Thursday in the Twenty-sixth Week of Ordinary Time, Year II, 03 October 2024
Job 19:21-27     <*((((><  +  ><))))*>     Luke 10:1-12
Photo by Mr. Jay Javier, 07 September 2024.
God our loving Father:
Grant me the "patience of Job".
Like him, everyday I go through many
trials and sufferings:
some are of my own-making,
some can be explained and understood,
but most often,
many of them are a mystery,
beyond explanations,
beyond comprehension.
Yes, Lord:
many times I have so many
questions in life that are left
unanswered but like Job,
I believe You alone knows
everything I am going through,
especially the pains and hurts,
the difficulties and hardships.

But as for me, I know that my Vindicator lives, and that he will at last stand forth upon the dust; Whom I myself shall see: my own eyes, not another’s, shall behold him, And from my flesh I shall see God: my inmost being is consumed with longing (Job 19:25-27).

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Lord Jesus Christ:
Thank you for calling me,
for sending me into your
great harvest;
how lovely are your words,
"The harvest is abundant
 but the laborers are few;
so ask the master
to send out laborers
for his harvest" (Matthew 10:2);
so many times,
we think the solution to our
problems are found in things
without knowing nor realizing
what we need are more people
willing to labor with somebody else's
pains and hurts,
people willing to labor
for people so lost in the mysteries
of life saddled with many things
without clear explanations
except to be patient like Job,
trusting that in the end,
our vindication is in You.
Amen.

Advent, our vindication in Christ

The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Monday in the Second Week of Advent, 11 December 2023
Isaiah 35:1-10   ><))))*> + ><))))*> + ><))))*>   Luke 5:17-26
Photo by author, Advent Sunday II, 2021, Basic Education Department chapel of Our Lady of Fatima University, Valenzuela City.
Thank you, dear God,
our loving Father for this 
Season of Advent,
a season of our vindication
in your Son Jesus Christ
our Lord;
what a joy to hear your words
on this Monday of the Second
Week in Advent through the 
Prophet Isaiah:

Strengthen the hands that are feeble, make firm the knees that are weak, say to those whose hearts are frightened: Be strong, fear not! Here is your God: he comes with vindication; with divine recompense he comes to save you.

Isaiah 35:3-4
Vindication, O God, 
is one word we miss so much
these days, an experience we long for
when finally we are proven right
or true, and most of all, justified;
it is a difficult mission from you,
dear Father, to always walk in your 
ways, to follow your will especially
in this world when being true and faithful,
honest and kind, loving and caring
are looked down upon as signs
of weakness;
it is so difficult to be good and holy,
 just like those men carrying 
that paralytic to enter the room
to get near to Jesus Christ.
Teach us to persevere always,
Lord Jesus like those men,
to never give up on you,
to always find ways even if
we have to climb our way up
just to go down to you
to experience your healing 
and mercy.
Most of all, your vindication.
Amen.