ARCHDIOCESAN SHRINE AND PARISH OF
ST. jude thaddeus
WEEKLY PARISH BULLETIN Vol. 1, No. 10 | October 9-15, 2016
Gratitude
fr. nunilon arnold f. bancaso jr. IN HEAVEN there are four rooms, each contains our prayers: a big room for our supplications and petitions, a medium room for our praises and adoration, a small room for our conversion and forgiveness, and a very small room for our gratitude where an angel sings: “...lonely table just for one.” we cling, we remember. If Thrice I’ve opened left unanswered, we tend to the St. Jude prayer box SUNDAY complain, or worse, rebel against and patiently read what’s God or others. If desire was written on the pieces of paper inside. It is good to note that there are fulfilled, we are sometimes consumed by that people who are firm in their belief that God moment of delight, we experience a kind of mental block-out—nakalingaw. We forget to will grant their prayer requests through the acknowledge and recognize those who have intercession of St. Jude. But it is saddening been part of the actualization of our desire. to note as well that very few have expressed Jesus is reminding us to not just fix our gratitude and thanksgiving for the many focus on things that we desire to possess. blessings God has given them, or at least Do not easily be consumed and absorbed by for those questions and problems that were that moment of delight. Remember nothing heard and given solution. comes from us. Whatever grace we receive In today’s gospel, Jesus asked these questions: Where are the others? There were becomes ours not because we deserve them, but because we are loved by this God who is ten of you who got healed, right? The same question is being thrown to all ever-merciful. Let us then say our gratitude to God of us. Let us try to recall the many blessings and to those who have been part of who that we all have received from God, or even and what we are. Only then we shall see from other people, have they received our a multitude of angels, in that big room, gratitude? reminding us as they sing: “Give thanks with This is one of the ironies of life, benefits a grateful heart, give thanks to the holy one, make us remember. As long as we assured of give thanks because He has given Jesus Christ, benefits, that our desire will be granted, that his Son…” n we will receive something for our advantage,
Reflection
GIYA PARA SA PRAYER MEETING
Lukas 18:1-8
Para sa ika-29 Domingo (Taon C) “MAGDANAY SA pagpamibi na dai nagsusuko.” Iyo ini an kamugtakan kan enot na panahon kan Simbahan. Sa tahaw nin labi-labing kasakitan, kan an mga Kristyano pinagpeLECTIO Divina persegir, nagdadanay sinda sa pamibi. Dakul an mga nagin martir huli ta nagsarig sinda sa Dyos. Patanid kan Kagurangnan sa ebanghelyo, na dawa pa mahaloy an pagsimbag kan Dyos sa satong mga pamibi, mahalaga na magdanay kita sa pamibi asin pagtubod. Kasuarin si huri kong pangadyi? Ano si hinagad ko sa Dyos? “Huli ta parati akong pinupurisaw kan balóng ini…” An dukha masakit makakuang hustisya. Ini an kamugtakan kan panahon. Ini man giraray an kamugtakan nyato ngunyan. Sa parabola, ipinapahiling an kapangyarihan kan pakiulay na daing untok. Kun posible ngani ini sa tawong maraot, lalong mangyayari ini sa Dyos. Mas hararom an saiyang dahilan sa pagsimbag sa satong kahagadan. Sya an Dyos kan Hustisya. Dai man iyan mangyari sa satong kapanahunan, siguradong mangyayari iyan sa Buhay na daing kasagkuran. Ano parati an sakong hinahagad sa mahal na Dyos? Pansadiring pangangaipo o hustisya para sa banwaan? Arin sa duwa an mas mahalaga? “Alagad, kun an Aki nin Tawo mag-abot, makakua daw syang pagtubod sa kinaban?” Si Jesus danay na nagpapamibi. Kwarentang aldaw sya sa disyerto bago magpuon kan saiyang misyon. Parati syang nagdadalaw sa Sinagoga sa pagpamibi. Bago pinili an dose, sya nagpamibi. Nagsakat sya sa bukid kan Tabor asin sa hardin nin Getsemani sa pagpamibi bago nya hampangon an pagsakit asin kagadanan. Siring kaini an hinahagad na pagtubod kan Kagurangnan. Dawa sa tahaw nin krisis sa buhay, masarig daw an sakong pagtubod sa Dyos? n
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God along suffices. — st. teresa of avila