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The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Friday, Memorial of St. Vincent de Paul, Priest, 27 September 2024 Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 <*((((>< + ><))))*> Luke 9:18-22
There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens. He (God) has made everything appropriate to its time, and has put the timeless into their hearts, without men’s ever discovering, from beginning to end, the work which God has done (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 11).
How lovely and mysterious are your words today, God our Father; you have appointed time for everything, making everything appropriate to its time, and has put the timeless into our hearts.
We live and move in time, through time measured and taken in various ways seen in the past, the present, and the future; there is the inescapable dimension and reality we keep on freezing momentarily, hoping to go back in the past while we are so eager to know what is to happen next in the future.
Let Jesus Christ your Son reign in our hearts that we may always live in the present moment of every here and now, the timeless in our hearts with our fervent loving service to you through others; like St. Vincent de Paul, let us be rooted in you, Jesus, living in the present, lovingly serving the poor and needy among us; but most of all, make our hearts attuned in you, Jesus, in prayer to experience the timeless even right here in this life. Amen.
