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The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Thursday in the Twenty-Fifth Week of Ordinary Time, Year II, 22 September 2022 Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> Luke 9:7-9
Your words today, O Lord our God are "greatly perplexing" that I feel like Herod the tetrarch in the gospel "trying to see" you, Jesus (Lk.9:7-9).
So many times I have prayed before asking you how I wanted to see you because "all is vanity in this world; nothing is new under the sun. Even the thing we say as new has already existed in the ages that preceded us" (Eccl.1:2,9-10); and so, what else is there for us to see in this world, in this life but you, dear Jesus!
But, how can we see you truly, O Lord Jesus, so that we may also find the meaning of this life amid all the vanities around us?
When a group of Greeks came to Jerusalem and requested to see you just before Good Friday, you replied through Philip with the falling and dying of a grain of wheat (Jn.12:20-26) to show us that in order to see you, we have to learn to look through your Cross; that we can only see you, Jesus, in your Passion and Death to see your glory in your Resurrection.
Forgive us, Lord, when so many times we wax our desire to see you with novelties and sentimentalities of the world that are simply vanities like Herod the Tetrarch; let us go down to our knees before you on the Cross, commune with you in prayers before the Blessed Sacrament and most especially, live by witnessing your pasch in a world so fascinated with drama and effects than with essence that is love willing to suffer and die like you on the Cross. Amen.
