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The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Wednesday in the Thirteenth Week of Ordinary Time, Year I, 05 July 2023 Genesis 21:5, 8-20 ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> Matthew 8:28-34
God our loving Father, today we continue to pray for those in great trials and sufferings in life, those in the eye of the storm especially those driven out from their own homes, from their country, from their roots like the refugees and those fleeing from wars and calamities; those displaced due to economic reasons like poverty; the victims of the inhuman practice of human trafficking.
Take care of those people driven away from their homes especially the children who always suffer most; look after the welfare of those thrown into foreign lands and environment, so alienated in language and culture; sustain those forced to make ends meet after being led to somewhere else not of their own choice and decision.
Hear the cries of the many and modern Hagar and Ishmael of our time; bless them too for we all came from Abraham; punish the human traffickers, convert them, take away their hearts of stone and give them natural hearts who respect and rejoice humanity.
Your very own Son and our Lord Jesus Christ was also driven out by people after he had exorcised two demoniacs at the territory of Gadarenes; how sad that until now it continues to happen among us when we drive people out and away because we value more things and animals than persons. The whole planet, the whole land is yours, O Lord but until now, so many are lording over vast tracts of land when all we really need at the end is a simple plot of three-and-a-half feet wide by eight feet in length, six feet under. Amen.
