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The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Thursday, Memorial of St. Cyril, Bishop & Doctor of the Church, 27 June 2024 2 Kings 24:8-17 <*((((><< + >><))))*> Matthew 7:21-29
God our loving Father, help us find You where we are now - especially those feeling so down at the bottom of the pits, those who are burdened with so much in life - help us find You O Lord in our darkness and sadness not where we would like to be.
It is a very beautiful day but your words in the first reading are very distressing like what many of us today are feeling; we have failed, we have sinned like the people of Judah and Jerusalem who were conquered and exiled by the Babylonians; it is the final week June, closing the first half of 2024 when life slows down, when tasks seem too difficult, when our spirits are also sagging; uplift our weary souls, inspire us and fill us with the warmth and zeal of the Holy Spirit to find You, dear God, where we are and let us stop our usual blaming game and wishful thinking of worlds and situations we imagined where You are not present.
Give us the courage like Jesus to speak with authority like St. Cyril of Alexandria who defended the truth of Christ as true God and true Man that paved the way to recognize Mary as the Mother of God; like St. Cyril of Alexandria, let us mean mean what we say, most of all, to be one with Jesus always among the poor and rejected and neglected for Jesus is always found among them. Amen.
