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The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Thursday after Pentecost, Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest, 01 June 2023 Genesis 22:9-18 ><]]]]'> + <'[[[[>< Matthew 26:36-42
God our loving Father, thank you for allowing us to reach the first half of the year and what a tremendous blessing on this first day of June we are also celebrating the Feast of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest. In Jesus Christ you have given us the perfect mediator to you, our Father and to one another as brothers and sisters.
In Baptism, you have made us share in your priesthood, Lord Jesus; you have weakened the COVID virus and how sad that now we are free to travel, many of us have refused to come back to Sunday Eucharist when we exercise Christ's priestly ministry. May our lives be a life of worship to you, O God, like Abraham, trustingly obeying you even in giving up those most precious to us.
Again then Lord’s messenger called to Abraham from heaven and said: “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you acted as you did in not withholding from me your beloved son, I will bless you abundantly…
Genesis 22:15-17
Also on this Feast of Jesus Christ our Eternal High Priest, we pray most fervently for our priests that each of them may be a man of the Word, a man of prayer in intimate relationship with you, dear Jesus so that they may give us only you, Jesus, always you, Jesus. We pray for priests most especially bishops too who have no more time to pray to be one with you, Jesus, as they spend more time with people, sad to say, with the rich and powerful forgetting your little ones like the poor and the sick; transform our priests and bishops, Jesus, to be more like you in thinking, in speaking, in doing, in living, and in loving. Amen.
