The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Friday in the Second Week of Advent, 15 December 2023 Isaiah 48:17-19 ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> Matthew 11:16-19
How funny, O God, at this Season of Advent we listen to every Christmas carol over and over again and yet miss your Son Jesus Christ in the end?
Everyone loves the tune and the voice of Bing Crosby singing "Do you hear what I hear?" yet we refuse to listen to the Child born on that first Christmas day!
Jesus said to the crowds: ”To what shall I compare this generation? It is like children who sit in marketplaces and call to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance, we sang a dirge but you did not mourn.’ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they said, ‘He is possessed by a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is vindicated by her works.”
Matthew 11:16-19
Dear Jesus, please open our ears and our hearts to truly LISTEN to you, to HEAR you and follow you; forgive us for listening only to us, for hearing more the noise of the world than your voice right there in our hearts; let us listen to you, Lord, once and for all to experience "prosperity like a river, vindication like the waves of the sea" (Isaiah 48:18); harden not our hearts to follow you and imbibe your words in our lives. Amen.
