October 03, 2015
Saturday
26th Week
in Ordinary Time
1st reading:
Baruch 4.5-12, 27-29
Gospel: Luke 10:17-24
The seventy-two disciples returned full of joy. They said, “Lord, even the demons obeyed us when we called on your name.” Then Jesus replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. You see, I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the Enemy, so that nothing will harm you. Nevertheless, don’t rejoice because the evil spirits submit to you; rejoice rather that your names are written in heaven.”
At that time Jesus was filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit and said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and made them known to the little ones. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
I used to be the seminary electrician while under formation for the priesthood. While working on the electrical connections of an old sacristy which the rector wanted to convert into a lounge, I got electrocuted. It happened this way. While standing on the highest rung of an aluminum ladder that almost reached the ceiling, I accidentally touched a live wire. I felt the rush of electricity though my body. I had become part of a high voltage circuit. The desire to live was there, but I had only two choices: to surrender my life to the power of electricity, or to submit my weight to the power of gravity. In both choices, death was probable. I chose the latter. I flexed my knees and true enough gravity did the rest. I fell down to the concrete floor half dead.
I derive from this accident some precious lessons related to Jesus’ vision about Satan falling like lightning from heaven (Luke 10:19). While I fell down from the ladder and remained alive, Satan who used to be an Archangel fell down from heaven and suffered “death” (loss of eternal life). Flexing my knees spared me; the refusal to bend his knees in humility led Lucifer to death with finality. The word “devil” if read in reverse is a past tense (“lived”). Lucifer is a being of the past; he used to have life but eventually became a living dead after he refused to flex his knees before the God he was supposed to serve.
I may have come out from that experience alive. But if like Satan I keep refusing to flex my knees in submission to God’s holy Will, I live like him – a living dead! — Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email: dan.delosangeles@gmail.com. Website: www.frdan.org.
PRAYER FOR THE DAY: God our Father teach us to be humble so that we may have life. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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