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The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Tuesday, Memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas, Priest & Doctor of the Church, 28 January 2025 Hebrews 10:1-10 ><))))*> + ><))))*> + ><))))*> Mark 3:31-35
Lord Jesus Christ, I pray for one thing today: for us to be made whole again, for us to be one in union in God in you and through you; forgive us O Lord for being so fragmented, so divided with each to his/her own; everyone insisting one's self and many beliefs and views often truncated and far from you.
Make us realize that in your life, death and rising again, you have greatly changed the way we look at everything that was so fragmented before but it seems, we have returned to that situation again; worst, many of us have chosen to be separated, to be on our own, to remain fragmented.
Brothers and sisters: Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of them, it can never make perfect those who come to worship by the same sacrifices that they offer continually each year…Then he says, “Behold, I come to do your will.” He (Jesus) takes away the first to establish the second. By this “will”, we have been consecrated through then offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all (Hebrews 10:1, 9-10).
Like yesterday in our prayer, let us put on your lenses, Jesus so that we can see life and persons in your light not in our distorted and colored views; open us to see more of you and of your will so that "whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother" (Mark 3:35)!
Grant us the humility and simplicity of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Angelic Doctor whose memorial we celebrate today that we may always turn away from sin in order to be in union with you always so we may have that peace because as he had taught us, "from the union of different appetites in man tending towards the same object that peace results" (Unio autem horum motuum est quidem de ratione pacis) Amen.
