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Busy Bodies

Posted by junix28 on March 30, 2011 in The THEATER OF LIFE...funny & serious scenes

Busy Bodies

There were these four people,
named Somebody, Everybody, Anybody and Nobody,
who were supposed to be involved at work. 
Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about it, because it was Everybody’s job.
Everybody thought Anybody could have done it;
Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it.
So it ended up with Everybody blaming Somebody,
when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

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Passing on God’s Love

Posted by junix28 on March 29, 2011 in Homilies

Pass it on

(Kurt Kaiser-1969)


It only takes a spark to get a fire going

And soon all those around can warm up to  its glowing;

That’s how it is with God’s love, once you’ve experienced it:

You spread His love to ev’ryone, you want pass it on.

What a wondrous time is spring-when all the trees are budding,

The birds begin to sing, the flowers start their blooming;

That’s how it is with God’s love, once you’ve experienced it:

You want to sing, it’s fresh like spring, you want to pass it on.

I wish for you my friend, this happiness that I’ve found-

You can depend on Him, it matters not where you’re bound;

I’ll shout it from the mountain top, I want the world to know:

The Lord of love has come to me, I want to pass it on.

 

God does not love us  so that we can hoard His love for ourselves.

He desires that we pass it on to others.

By spreading the joy of His love,

we improve the lives of those around us-

and our own lives in the process.

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Am I a disciple or just an admirer of Jesus?

Posted by junix28 on March 28, 2011 in Homilies

Gospel Message Today

Reflections on Commitment

By: Barbara Regan, r.c.

“Am I really Jesus’ disciple, or just one of his admirers?”

The Admirer of Jesus

The Disciple of Jesus

…stands in the crowd  and listens to his speech.

…lets the words of the Lord influence his conduct.

…agrees with Jesus that the world is a sinful place.

…Goes home enthusiastic about Jesus’ teaching.

…eats bread and thanks God for His bounty.

…drinks wine and enjoys good friends.

…goes out among the crowd along the way of the cross.

…knows that he is a creature made by God, an earthen vessel, beautiful and intact, inviolable and safe.

…remains an earthen vessel, intact, but not whole.

…has a good life, but is not fully alive.

…stands in the crowd and listens to him speak

…lets the words of the Lord influence his life and burns like a consuming fire in his heart.

…grieves because of his own sinfulness and accepts God’s forgiveness.

…invites Jesus to come to his home and have dinner with him.

…becomes bread broken for the life of the world.

…enjoys good friendship and becomes wine…spilled out for his friends.

…walks in Jesus’ footsteps carrying the cross.

…is an earthen vessel, vulnerable, broken for others, revealing Christ within.

…is an earthen vessel, broken and remade in the image of Christ, broken and glorified.

…has the gift of abundant life and lives it to the full.

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Third Sunday of Lent 2011 Readings and thoughts

Posted by junix28 on March 26, 2011 in Homilies

Doing what Jesus did…

Exodus 17:3-7;Psalm 94:1-2,6-9; Romans 5:1-2,5-8;John 4:5-42

There was a funeral in the town. Everybody would be there. The parish priest had to go elsewhere that day, but he was happy that the funeral was in the hands of an intelligent common-sense no-nonsense curate.

That evening, when he returned, he asked the curate how the funeral had gone. ‘Ah, it went OK,’ he said, ‘No great problems. A huge crowd. Oh, by the way, I had one small problem.’ What was that?’ ‘Mrs Robinson was at the funeral, and as you know, she’s a Protestant.’ Ah, sure that’s no problem. I would have expected here to be there. A good friend of the family and all.’ ‘Ah, but she came up for Communion,’said the curate. This rivoted the parish priest to his chair, as he returned with a look of horror on his face. ‘What happened?’ he gasped. ‘Well,’ said the curate, ‘she was in my line for Communion. She was about two away from me when I spotted her…’ ‘Go on, go on’, said the parish priest, ‘What did you do? What did you do?’ ‘Well’, said the curate, ‘I didn’t know what to do. I had to make a snap decision. I just decided right there and then that I would do what I believe Jesus would do.’ ‘Oh my God, no!’ exclaimed the parish priest, ‘surely you didn’t do that!”

What really would Jesus do in that situation? We don’t really know, but today’s gospel shows us how would Jesus approach to a similar situation.

In today’s gospel, St John relates the encounter of Christ and a Samaritan woman at the well of Jacob. as required by the Jewish Law, Jesus, like all Jews, had to spend the Feast of Passover in Jerusalem. So, in our gospel today, we see Jesus on his way back from Jerusalem to his hometown in Galilee.  Sychar then was a usuall stopping point for the pilgrims. And it’s here that Jesus meets the Samaritan woman fetching water from the well.

Here Jesus, took the opportunity to reach out to the heart of human being, by using the human language.  Since the woman comes to water, assuming that she is thirsty, then Jesus meets her right in that specific need of her… “Give me a drink. “

This is the beauty of our God…in Jesus.

God meets us wherever we are. God meets us in our time of need. God seeks to encounter us in our very need. We just don’t recognize His working there at times, because we are so pre-occupied with many things, problems, etc. Or, we fail to see God working in our needs because we think that we can really make things happen for us, without God. But as Christians, we just have to believe and accept the fact that we are seemingly able to make things happen because there is SOMEONE who allows these things to happen. And it is always a GOD- moment, a GRACED moment.

This moment, or these GOD moments, may be, and need not be, highly dramatic, as what happens to St Paul in the road to Damascus.

We just have to note this that, whenever anything happens that stops us in our tracks and makes us think, we are being touched by grace. It happens all the time. For instance, a total stranger offers us a hand, an innocent kid asks a very innocent yet deep question, our planned projects fail, and so on. In all these things, God meets us, and He offers his abundant graces to us. Remember, it is an OFFER, not an imposition. We can accept or refuse it as such. If we accept the offer…change and growth in us happens. If we refuse it, our spirit would die of thirst of living water that only God can provide.

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