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The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Friday in the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time, Year I, 28 July 2023 Exodus 20:1-27 ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> Matthew 13:18-23
God our loving Father, make me a good soil, a real "good earth" who welcomes your word to penetrate my heart.
Let me be a good soil, O Lord, by allowing myself to be absorbed by your word, your seed.
Let your word, O God, grow and bear fruit in my heart!
Forgive us that until now from Mount Sinai where you gave us your Ten Commandments to the shores of Galilee where Jesus spoke to us in parables of your kingdom up to now in the comforts of our homes and parish church amid the squalor of our many brothers and sisters without decent home, your words seem to have fallen on deaf ears.
O how you amaze me so greatly, loving God for your patience in continuing to speak to us, inviting us to enter into a dialogue and relationship with you; and yet, here we are, not listening, still stubborn; teach me to give myself to you completely so you would absorb me and fill me with your life and energy. Amen.
