Bearers of light

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The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Tuesday in the Twenty-third Week of Ordinary Time, Year II, 10 September 2024
1 Corinthians 6:1-11     <*[[[[><  +  ><]]]]*>     Luke 6:12-19

Thank you,
Lord Jesus Christ
for continuing to call us
to be your disciples
and apostles,
inviting us to get closer
with You like the Twelve
to share your light
first of all to our fellow
disciples and apostles 
who have lost their will
to burn.

Now indeed then it is, in any case, a failure on your part that you have lawsuits against one another. Why not rather put up with injustice? Why not rather let yourselves be cheated? Instead, you inflict injustice and cheat, and this to brothers. Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit the Kingdom of God? That is what some of you used to be; but now you have had yourselves washed , you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God (1 Corinthians 6:7-9, 11).

Forgive us, Lord Jesus,
when many times we live and
act like the Corinthian Christians
forgetting our new person in You
received in Baptism,
when we turn to the courts
to get justice that often terribly
end in bitterness and recriminations;
instead of bearing your light of
justice and mercy,
love and equality,
kindness and tenderness,
we resort to the ways of the world,
endlessly debating on technicalities
that we forget the person and the
wrongs and evil done;
let us return to you,
Jesus, the true Light of the world
to dispel the darkness of sin
and evil around us
by being your witnesses 
of the good news of salvation
as your new chosen people.
Amen.