Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of St. Jude Thaddeus, Naga City | v.2, n.45 | 29 October - 4 November 2017
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TWO LOVES
he gospel tells us of two loves. These loves work like hinges to a door. The door opens and closes depending on the strength of the hinges. Christian life also works depending on the strength of these two loves. Love of God is meaningless unless it is made concrete by love of neighbor, and love of neighbor is meaningless if it is not an outflow of the love of God. According to C. S. Lewis, there to the poor and the disadvantaged, knowing are two kinds of love. The first is that she will get absolutely nothing from gift-love. The other is need-love. them in return. It is the love SUNDAY REFLECTION of a parishioner who selflessly When you give as much as you can to the other person without renders her services to the worrying about what you can get Church either as a choir member, a lector, back in return, that is gift-love. However, or a Eucharistic minister. Her services are when you give while expecting something in rendered free of charge and she knows that return, that is need-love. she gets nothing in return. This love is pure Most of human loves are need-love. giving. It is selfless. Need-love is what makes a little child ran to We need both gift-love and need-love. his mother when frightened. The child needs Our first act of love is need-love. It is our the protection of the mother, and this need is need for the love from God, for the love from an act of love. It is what makes the wife lean our family. That sort of dependence is not on her husband when she is upset. It is what bad. In fact it is very beneficial. However, makes us look for genuine friends who can we must also learn gift-love, the love of listen to us and love us in return. This kind pure giving. We must not act as spoiled of love is not bad at all. According to Plato, brats, receiving without giving. A one way love is the child of poverty. Yes, when there is relationship does not endure. need, there is love. When there is emptiness, Gift-love requires a lot of action, a lot of there is the need-for-love. Yet, this is not the cultivation. It is a command. Not all people noblest of loves. can be loved at first sight. But to love all The noblest of loves is gift-love. It is the people can be learned. That kind of love can love shown by parents when they work hard be cultivated the way we cultivate a garden. in order to provide security and education It takes time; it takes a lot of patience. And for their children simply because they want even if we fail to see any good in the person, what is best for their children. It is also seen we can love that person blindly, in faith. 4 in someone who is involved in an apostolate — Fr. Wilmer Joseph S. Tria
Her services are rendered free of charge and she knows that she gets nothing in return. This love is pure giving. It is selfless.
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Mateo 23:1-12
Domingo 30, Ord. Panahon (Taon A)
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a tukawan ni Moises nagtukaw an mga eskriba asin an mga pariseo. Kaya an gabos na isabi ninda saindo, gibuha asin utuba?” Matapos na batikuson ni Jesus an mga pariseo asin eskriba huli kan saindang pagparasagin-sagin, uya, bigla syang nagsabi na LECTIO DIVINA gibuhon asin utubon an saindang mga katukduan. An katukduan na ini gikan ki Moises, asin dawa sain saka kisisay ini ipahayag, tama man giraray an katukduan. Gabos ini katukduan kan Dyos. Kaya malinaw na dapat sunudon an katukduan dawa sisay pa man an saiyang pilion na magdara kaini sa katawuhan. Masunod daw ako sa katukduan ni Jesus dawa suya ako sa nagtutukdo kaini?
“…Alagad dai kamo maggawi susog sa saindang ehemplo: ta nagtataram sinda alagad dai naggigibo.” Bako man talaga idtong pag-umaw sa mga hipokrito. An pinakapunto ni Jesus yaon duman sa ‘alagad’. Tama an tukdo, alagad nakakasuka an saindang gawi. An hanap ninda pagpasikat, bakong paglingkod; siram bakong sakripisyo; onra bakong kapakumbabaan. Dai ninda nasusugpon an saindang arualdaw na pagkabuhay sa tataramon kan Dyos. Arualdaw sindang nagbabasa asin nagpapamibi kan tataramon kan Dyos, alagad mayo lamang gira sa saindang kalag an langitnon na katukduan. Sinda nagtutukdo na suway sa hawak. Suya ako sa siring na mga tawo, alagad, ano man daw ako? Tibaad siring man ako sainda?
“Kamo dai magpaapod na Rabbi: ta saro sana an saindong maestro, asin kamo gabos magturugang.” Hinali kan Santo Papa an titulong Monsignor huli ta an siring nagin titulo nin pribilehiyo, bakong titulo nin paglingkod. Para saiya, gabos na padi pantay-pantay asin sinda LECTIO/next page