ARCHDIOCESAN SHRINE AND PARISH OF
ST. jude thaddeus
WEEKLY PARISH BULLETIN Vol. 1, No. 16 | November 20-26, 2016
King of Love
fr. nunilon arnold f. bancaso jr. IS CHRIST the King of our lives? What does it mean to make him our King? Our king’s sole criterion In our gospel this Sunday, is our exercise of love. The we hear the thief asking Jesus SUNDAY difficulty on our part, is that, we to remember him when He is are so fixed at ourselves, which in his kingdom. Jesus assures disables us to see others. We are only able to and consoles him, “today you will be with see those that benefit us. me in paradise”. We always pray to God, “Our Father in When the Son of Man comes in his heaven, holy be your name, your kingdom glory, he will sit upon his glorious throne come…” Jesus tells us that the kingdom to judge the assembly of the faithful. He of God is at hand! We only need to will separate them from one another, like acknowledge it. But we continue to fail to a shepherd separating the sheep from the see because we fail to recognize the presence goats. He will have all the authority and of others especially those who are in need majesty before all the people. In his might, and marginalized. but filled with mercy and compassion, This is how Christ manifests his he will look intently into each and every kingship. He shows and presents himself person’s eyes. He shall see if we’ve shown to us in the most unexpected ways, in love. And if there has been no love in our unattractive features, in unlovable people, hearts, it will be painful, for his strike shall be as sharp as a two-edged sword. These will in the neglected ones. And in these be the measures of our place in his kingdom. circumstances we often fail to recognize him. Jesus identifies before us the things we His kingdom is not that of silver and ought to do while we are still here in this gold, not that of a majestic palace, not with world; because soon, when our day comes, those armies and knights, but rather of he will ask us these questions: did you give people who love. me food when I was hungry? Water, when His kingdom is a kingdom of love and I was thirsty? Clothes, when I was naked? Shelter, when I was a stranger? Did you visit mercy. This is what Jesus, the King, asks of us: to show love, for this love will be the me when I was in prison? measure of our judgment when we come Let us remember he said, whatever you before him in the end. do to the least of your brothers and sisters, Christ disguises himself as the poor, the you do to Me. This will be the basis of lonely, the sick, to see if there is love in our Christ’s judgment in the end. It won’t only hearts. If there is love in us, Christ, then is be about the good things that we did; but our King. n also the things that we did not do.
Reflection
GIYA PARA SA PRAYER MEETING
Mateo 24:37-44
Domingo 1 nin Adbyento (Taon A) “SIRING KAN panahon ni Noe an pagdatong kan Aki nin Tawo.” An paulit-ulit na patanid ni Jesus sa sato iyo na dai ta aram kun nuarin sya madatong, kun tàno asin LECTIO Divina kun pàno sya madatong. Ini an kahaputan kan mga disipulo, alagad mayo sindang nakukuang simbag. Ini man an satong kahaputan na mayo man na kasimbagan. Kadaklan na beses, an kawàran nin kasimbagan iyo an nagdadara sa kadaklan sa kawàran nin paglaom. Resulta? Naghihinugak. Nagpapalamos sa bisyo. Nasisibot sa Christmas Party, sa karakanan asin irinuman—siring kan panahon ni Noe. Ano an sakong kinakasibutan ngunyan? Pirang oras an itinatao ko para sa Dyos? Pira man para sa Party? “Duwang lalaki yaon sa uma, an saro kukuanon, an saro iwawalat.” Manlain-lain na klase an pagdatong kan Kagurangnan. Huli ta dai ta aram kun nuarin, kita nakukubanan asin natatagalpo. Kairiba ta pa sana ngunyan an satong tugang, saaga babawian na palan syang buhay. Kakakasal pa sana, nababalo na. Namumundag pa sana, kinua na kan satong Kagurangnan. An kagadanan nin tawo panô nin ngangalasan. Nagpapasabong man daw sako na tibaad magadan na ako ngunyan na banggi? Ano an sakong pagmati? “Kaya magpuka… Huli ta dai nindo aram kun nuarin maabot an Kagurangnan.” Dai ta aram, alagad sigurado ining maabot. Kaya dapat kitang magpuka. Ano an dapat tang bantayan? Ano an dapat tang pag-andaman? Igwa daw si Kristong tangkal na masisirungan sa buhay ko? Igwa daw syang makukuang bahugan na mahihigdaan sa sakong puso. Ano an bahúgan na pinag-aandam ko para sa sakong Kagurangnan? n
Lugod, maghadì si Kristo sa puso asin kalag kan lambang Pilipino.