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Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Tuesday, Third Week in Ordinary Time, Year II, 27 January 2026
2 Samuel 6:12-15, 17-19 <*{{{{>< +++ ><}}}}*> Mark 3:31-35
Your words today are very interesting, God our loving Father: both the first reading and the gospel show us a setting of people gathered, inside and outside a circle of crowd; but, what makes it so interesting is the fact that more than the location of being "inside" and "outside" in any setting especially in gathering and in coming to you, what truly matters most is our action, of what are we doing because many times, we may be "inside" without doing your will while be "outside" doing your will.
The mother of Jesus and his brothers arrived. Standing outside they sent word to Jesus and called him. A crowd seated around him told him, “Your mother and your brothers and your sisters are outside for you.” But he said to them in reply, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” And looking around at those seated in the circle he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother” (Mark 3:31-35).
Thank you dear Jesus for coming to us, bringing us closer to you, to God our Father, and most especially with everyone; how sad at times when we are seated right in your circle yet too far from you and others because we are away from your will, from your very self, from your works; it does not really matter wherever we are seated but where we stand in you and with you in doing the will of God.
Teach us to imitate King David who rejoiced triumphantly in the arrival of the Ark of the Covenant where he was closest to God's presence not because of the Ark but most because of his care for the people around to whom "he distributed to each man and each woman in the entire multitude of Israel, a loaf of bread, a cut of roast meat, and a raising cake" (2Samuel 6:19).
Let us come to you, in you, and through you, dear Jesus in holy communion welcoming everyone with our loving service so that no one may feel far and outside from you and one another. Amen.
