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Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Tuesday, First Week in Ordinary Time, Year II, 13 January 2026
1 Samuel 1:9-20 <*{{{{>< + ><}}}}*> Mark 1:21-28
“It isn’t that, my lord,” Hannah answered. “I am an unhappy woman. I have neither wine nor liquor; I was only pouring out my troubles to the Lord” (1 Samuel 1:15).
How often people misread what is really inside us, Lord Jesus, especially when we pour out our troubles to you; and yet, you have always been so kind with us, so gracious in listening and most of all in granting our prayers and desires.
Teach us, dear Jesus to open ourselves more to you, to bare our souls to you to be cleansed and refreshed in your healing mercy and abounding love.
Most of all, help us to pour things out to you, Jesus those sins and evil we keep inside, those which we have buried deep inside us that continue to bother and destabilize us including the pains and hurts in the past that have imprisoned us and prevent us from experiencing your liberation and freedom, salvation and fresh start like that man with an unclean spirit in today's gospel. Amen.
