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Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul, 03 October 2025 Friday in the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time, Year I Baruch 1:15-22 <*((((>< + ><))))*> Luke 10:13-16
Your words today O Lord remind me so well of Bob Dylan's classic song "Blowing In the Wind":
How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly Before they're forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind Yes, and how many years must a mountain exist Before it is washed to the sea? Yes, and how many years can some people exist Before they're allowed to be free? Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head And pretend that he just doesn't see? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind Yes, and how many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, and how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind
I could feel your exasperation, Jesus in your words, "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes" (Luke 10:13); many times, I feel the same like you, Lord: we have become so numb and callous of each other, even indifferent to what is going on. On the other hand, how I wish we all feel like Baruch during the Babylonian captivity "flushed with shame" for all their sins against God, not heeding his voice as they "went off after devices of their own wicked hearts, served other gods, and did evil in the sight of the Lord" (Baruch 1:15, 22); Lord Jesus, bring back our sense of sin as individuals and as a people for us to realize how all this mess of corruption in government is the sum of our personal sins of not heeding your voice especially in choosing our leaders.
Have mercy on us, Lord Jesus! Bring back our sense of sin for us to be "flushed with shame" too like your exiles; awaken us from our indifference and numbness to all the corruption and sin happening in our country; we have trapped ourselves in our own abyss of miseries as we remain divided, seeking to follow people than you, O Lord Jesus who is the truth, the way and the life. With all the calamities and corruption happening among us, let us rise and stand by your side, Jesus - upholding what is true, what is good, and what is just. Have mercy on us your people, Jesus especially the little ones long been abused by the powerful and suffer most in calamities. Amen. Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Our Lady of Fatima University Valenzuela City ([email protected])
