Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul, 22 September 2025 Monday in the Twenty-Fifth Week of Ordinary Time, Year I Ezra 1:1-6 <*((((>< + ><))))*> Luke 8:16-18
We praise and thank you, God our loving Father for the peaceful rally yesterday though marred by some hooligans; we hope and pray that you will touch the hearts and souls of our leaders and government officials to imitate King Cyrus of Persia that they choose what is good for the people, that they choose your divine will, that they choose to be remembered well despite our many differences.
In the first year of Cyrus, King of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord inspired King Cyrus of Persia to issue this proclamation throughout his kingdom, both by words of mouth and in writing: “Thus says Cyrus, King of Persia: ‘All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord, the God of heaven, has given to me, and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Therefore, whoever among you belongs to any part of his people, let him go up, and may his God be with him! Let everyone who has survived, in whatever place he may may have dwelt, be assisted by the people of that place with silver, gold, goods, and cattle, together with free-will offerings for the house of God in Jerusalem” (Ezra 1:1-4).
King Cyrus could have kept your people enslaved in Babylon, Lord, after he had conquered the Babylonians but King Cyrus chose to set them free to return to Jerusalem; moreover, he returned their gold to bring back to your temple in Jerusalem; we still believe, dear Lord in the goodness of people: touch them especially those involved in the flood control scams in our country; give us more men and women willing to stand for the truth so that the guilty ones are punished and the funds are returned to be put into good use for your people. Amen. Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Our Lady of Fatima University Valenzuela City ([email protected])
