We keep on searching for so many things in this life to make us more “upwardly mobile” in life: knowledgeable and affluent, healthy and everything.
Nice.
But in our pursuits, we miserably fail becoming better persons for eventually, everything ends up with about money and material things, prestige and fame.
We forget you, O God who is Wisdom beyond compare.
For Wisdom is mobile beyond all motion, and she penetrates and pervades all things by reason of her purity.
Wisdom 7:24
Let us find you right here in our hearts, in Christ Jesus who had come to dwell within us. Amen.
“Wisdom breathes life into her children and admonishes those who seek her. He who loves her loves life; those who seek her will be embraced by the Lord” (Sir.4:11-12).
Forgive us, Lord Jesus, when there are times we think more about our various affiliations like religion that we forget the need for communion of minds and hearts in you.
Like John in the gospel, there are times we feel so entitled in life simply because we are with you, believing that we have the monopoly of doing what is right and what is good.
Instead of building bridges so we could be linked together as one, we put up walls that confine us with our own group but apart from others.
Enlighten us O Lord with your wisdom, finding the great truth that God dwells within each one of us despite our many differences in color and creed.
Give us your grace of wisdom and truth, fill us with your life so we may share your life freely with one another.
May God our Father embrace us with His great love and wisdom to drive away the demons and evil within us that keep us apart. Amen.Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II, Parokya ng San Juan Apostol at Ebanghelista, Gov. F. Halili Ave., Bagbaguin, Sta. Maria, Bulacan.
God was the true spirit of EDSA 1986; may we find our way back to Him again in our modern EDSA. Photo from Google.
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Monday, 25 February 2019, Week VII, Year I
Sirach 1:1-8///Mark 9:14-29
O God our Father, today I praise and thank you for the 33rd anniversary of the People Power Revolution that happened at EDSA.
I am proud O Lord of that historic moment in our history because I was there with my sister.
But I also feel so sad today, O Lord, because we have wasted your gift at EDSA. I feel betrayed by many of our leaders there who have left us. I feel betrayed by many of the other veterans of that bloodless coup who have left our cause.
EDSA 86 was our moment of Exodus from our own Egypt but due to our many idolatrous ways, here we are as a nation still wandering in the wilderness when EDSA has become the symbol of everything wrong in us.
Help us to return to you again as our Lord and only Master.
Let us turn back to you for more wisdom to finally set our course right on track as a nation, giving priority to the value of every person and of human life.
God our Father, sometimes I really can’t figure out anymore what went wrong with EDSA because I know I also have a part in its failure.
I still do believe in the ideals of EDSA and most especially in you, the God of history.
Yes, like that father of an epileptic, “I do believe, help me in my unbelief!” (Mk.9:24)
Amen.Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II, Parokya ng San Juan Apostol at Ebanghelista, Gov. F. Halili Ave., Bagbaguin, Sta. Maria, Bulacan.
EDSA today, the image of everything wrong with us. Photo from Inquirer.net via Google.
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