Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of St. Jude Thaddeus, Naga City | v.2, n.34 | 13 - 19 August 2017
STRONG FAITH
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ow strong is your faith in God? Can you withstand the trials of life without clinging to Him? These are two questions I would like us to reflect on.
So, we ask again: How strong is your As Catholics, it is an undeniable faith? What happens to your reality that we have faith in God. faith especially when when It is the first gift that we have SUNDAY REFLECTION things get worse? When God received from Him when we were seems asleep and absent in baptized. In fact, as a priest, every our life? Can we stand the trials without time I administer the sacrament clinging to Him? of baptism, I always make it a point to There are times in our lives when God emphasize that the child will only receive seems not listening to our prayers, and it a small seed of faith. It is never given as a makes us terribly afraid and anxious. Can large tree well ready to bear fruits. Rather we just say that God is just testing our it is so small, like a seed that needs to be conviction and our faith? If we try to see it planted on a well-prepared ground, to be from a more positive perspective, we may regularly watered and supervised, so that as see that He is giving us more opportunities it sprouts and grows, it will develop into a to practice and profess our faith; that even healthy tree that soon will bear fruits. without feeling His presence in our lives, we The faith received during baptism can continue our journey of following Him. is, therefore, an incomplete entity. This Sadly, sometimes, rather than helping boost is so because, like the seed, God wants our self-confidence and conviction, and the community to participate, in the fight in the midst of problems, we choose to nourishment of faith. He wants to see that just say: “Lord, are you not bothered that I we are all cooperating in making it grow. am sinking?” Just like our mortal body, we need to We just need to trust in Him. He will do make faith grow, to develop it so that it will everything—everything!—that will bring us mature. All our experiences, undertakings to His kingdom, but we need to have firm in life, our studies and catechisms, our faith, or else we will hear the same words novenas and prayers, all the sacraments, spoken by Jesus to the disciples, “O, you of are parts and parcels of the process of growth of our faith. Therefore, the more we little faith.” We can make it “For God will not give involve ourselves in the endeavors for God, us something that we cannot manage, even our faith grows. Every time we face life’s the storms in our lives can be made calm challenges and struggles, our faith finds by our faith. Just have faith, and make that strength. The more we engage, the more we faith a little bit bigger.” 4 — Fr. Nunilon grow in faith, the closer and more present Arnold F. Bancaso Jr. God is to us.
giya sa prayer meeting
Mateo 15:21-28
Domingo 20, Ord. Panahon (Taon A)
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ya, babaeng Cananea na nagluwas sa teritoryong idto, nagkukurahaw na an sabi: ‘Kaheraki ako, Kagurangnan, Aki ni David! An aki kong babae makuring sinasaniban nin demonyo.’” An mga Cananea iyo an dating nag-eerok LECTIO DIVINA sa Dagang Panuga. Alagad, napalayas sinda kan mga Israelita. An dating kagrugaring kan daga iyo na an nasa laylayan kan banwaan. Alagad, an babaeng ini dai nag-alangan. Nawàran man syang lugar sa banwaan, alagad aram nyang dai sya nawàran lugar sa puso kan Dyos.
Ano pa an mga pinag-aalanganan ko sa parokya?
“Bako magayon na kuahon an tinapay kan mga aki asin idaklag sa mga ido.” Daing untok an pakiulay kan babae. Sa enot, dai sya ginirungan ni Jesus. Sa ikaduwa, sinabihan syang limitado sana an saiyang misyon. Sa ikatulo, malanit na an simbag ni Jesus. Gabos ini kuta nakapadisganar na sa babae. Alagad, labi-labi an pagkaherak nya sa kamugtakan kan saiyang aki, asin labi-labi an tiwala nya ki Jesus.
Guràno kararom an tiwala ko ki Jesus?
“Opo, Kagurangnan, pero an mga ido nakakakakan man nin mga rakdag na nahuhulog hali sa lamesa kan saindang mga amo.” Dawa malanit an tataramon ni Jesus, paglaom an pagdangog kan babae. Dai ginamit ni Jesus an layas na ido, kundi an ataman na ido sa laog kan harong na dawa dai pinapatukaw, tinutugutan na magkakan sa salog nin mga rakdag. Kaya labi na sana an kaugmahan ni Jesus sa pagtubod kan babae. Ano an mga pamibi ko na sinimbag ni Jesus? 4