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Theo Tigno•
6/4/2007 6:34 am
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Monday, June 4th 2007 |
Tobit 1:3; 2:1a-8
I, Tobit, have walked all the days of my life on the paths of truth and righteousness. I performed many charitable works for my kinsmen and my people who had been deported with me to Nineveh, in Assyria.
On our festival of Pentecost, the feast of Weeks, a fine dinner was prepared for me, and I reclined to eat. The table was set for me, and when many different dishes were placed before me, I said to my son Tobiah: "My son, go out and try to find a poor man from among our kinsmen exiled here in Nineveh. If he is a sincere worshiper of God, bring him back with you, so that he can share this meal with me. Indeed, son, I shall wait for you to come back."
Tobiah went out to look for some poor kinsman of ours. When he returned he exclaimed, "Father!" I said to him, "What is it, son?" He answered, "Father, one of our people has been murdered! His body lies in the market place where he was just strangled!" I sprang to my feet, leaving the dinner untouched; and I carried the dead man from the street and put him in one of the rooms, so that I might bury him after sunset. Returning to my own quarters, I washed myself and ate my food in sorrow. I was reminded of the oracle pronounced by the prophet Amos against Bethel:
"All your festivals shall be turned into mourning,
and all your songs into lamentation."
And I wept. Then at sunset I went out, dug a grave, and buried him.
The neighbors mocked me, saying to one another: "He is still not afraid! Once before he was hunted down for execution because of this very thing; yet now that he has scarcely escaped, here he is again burying the dead!"
Dawg's thought:
Today's prayer intention is for a special intention.
There are those who refuse to see the ways of God.
There are those who look at us who want to defend life in a mother's womb as oppressive to women. There are those who look at us who want to live a chaste life as unrealistic. There are those who look at us who believe that the homosexual union is wrong as "hateful" people.
Then there are people like Tobit. There are people who desire to the see the dignity of the human person given to each of us by God. There are those of us who see a child that may be born with a disability as a child and not a hinderance to a way of life. There are those of us who see the dignity of how God created us as "male" and "female" as a means to give of ourselves freely, totally, faithfully and fruitfully in love, not use. There are people who believe in a just wage as a means of respecting the dignity of their employees.
There are people like Tobit who desire to do God's will. There are people like you to do God's will. Take care and God Bless.
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