Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of St. Jude Thaddeus, Naga City | v.3, n.11 | issn 2599-5030 | 18 to 24 March 2018
giya sa prayer meeting
SAD BUT BRAVE
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he gospel portrays Jesus as truly God and truly human. At one point, Jesus would face death bravely. At another, he would face it with sadness.
In John’s gospel, there is no Agony of his closest friends. So when the hour came, in the Garden narrative. However, he admitted his feelings that his soul was the gospel reading this Sunday deeply troubled. We too value SUNDAY expresses similar sentiments, our earthly life. So just like Jesus, REFLECTION though differently. The words are we don’t just face death bravely. posed rhetorically: “What shall I We also face it with sadness. say: Father, save me from this hour? We feel sad that the smell of death and But it was for this very reason that I came.” doom seems all over the place. We are Here, John portrays Jesus as someone who plagued both by natural and man-made has long prepared himself for the coming of catastrophes. Dengue is as scary as Dengvaxia. his passion and death. There was no Terrorists are as scary as the vigilantes. And bargaining, no agonizing, but exhilaration no institution now has the power to stop war and excited anticipation! and human rights violations. The United On the other hand, John writes: “Now Nations and ICC have suddenly become lame my soul is troubled”. Jesus knows that the ducks in handling crises such as EJKs. Is our hour is at hand; that the time has come for world about to end? all that was foretold to take place. The question is irrelevant if it does not Jesus faced his death bravely. The source address the quality of our lives; if it does of his strength was the clarity of his death’s not lead us to genuine spiritual preparation purpose. “Unless a grain of wheat falls to the for the coming of Our Lord. The relevant ground and dies, it remains just a grain of ones are: Am I ready to face death? What wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.” am I doing now to prepare my meeting We too must face death bravely for the with my Great Master? If we ask such same motive. If we die from selfishness, we questions and do something to improve the grow in generosity. And when we grow in quality of our lives, then not far from our generosity, we enrich not only ourselves but Lord, we too can face the hour with the many people who benefit from our anticipated excitement mixed with the goodness. If we die from our bitterness and humble experience of sadness. gossip-mongering and concentrate on our According to one writer, “Life shrinks or duties, we increase our productivity. expands in proportion to one’s courage.” On the other hand, Jesus did enjoy his Indeed, the quality of our lives depends on earthly life as well. He attended weddings the courage we invest in facing our future, and feasts. He loved to eat and drink wine. our final meeting with our Lord Jesus. He had many friends. On one occasion, he Though sad, we ought to be brave. 4 cried when he heard about the death of one — Fr. Wilmer Joseph S. Tria
Marko 15:1-47
Domingo nin Palaspas (Taon B)
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i Jesus dai suminimbag nin ano.” Mayong tamang simbag sa salang hapot. Si Jesus bakong hadi kan mga hudiyo. Alagad si Jesus totoong hadi. Dai sya magmumuknang kahadian tumang sa Roma. Alagad, magmumukna sya nin LECTIO kahadian na espiritwal na DIVINA magdadanay dawa rugba na an Roma. Ngunyan, sentro an Roma kan Katolikong simbahan. Siring kaini an kapangyarihan kan dai pagsimbag ni Jesus. Kasuarin ako hinapot na paapi alagad dai ko sinimbag?
“Ipako sya sa krus!” Si Barabbas prisonero huli ta nagtumang sya sa Roma. An hanap kan mga hudiyo iyo idtong makikilaban sa Roma. Kayak an pinapili ni Pilato, si Barabbas an pinili na makaligtas. Si Jesus biktima nin panraraot kan mga Puon na Padi na labi-labi an pagkauri saiya. Ginamit ninda an estratehiya kan fake news tanganing makumbinsi an mga tawong magkurahaw kan saiyang kagadanan. Kasuarin ako nagin biktima kan pagpakaraot asin ano an nangyari sako?
“Pinirit ninda an sarong tawong nag-aagi, si Simon Cireneo na hali sa uma...tanganing darhon an saiyang krus.” Si Simon nagpa-Jerusalem para sa paskwa. Sa dai tinutuyong pagkakataon, nakua nya an saiyang sadiri sa tahaw nin byolensya. Naraot an saiyang katuyuhan sa Jerusalem. Alagad, nagluluwas lugod na sya an pinaka-enot na nagin parasundo ni Kristo. Pinahimutikan nya an sadiri, pinàsan an krus, asin nagin parasunod ni Kristo. Asin si Alejandro asin Rufus na saiyang mga aki nagin mga bantog na Kristyano kan panahon. Kasuarin ako nagin siring ki Simon? Nakalaog sa dai tinutuyong problema alagad napararom lugod an pagtubod ki Jesus? 4
san cirilo kan jerusalem
Tuninong na isog para sa Dyos
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imuhon nindo na an saindong pag-iriba, pag-iriba nin mga karnero; bako nin mga lobo: dai nindo talikdan an Simbahan,” ini an propetikong hulit ni Cirilo sa mga katekumeno na nakadangog nin salang mga katukduan. Haros bilog nyang buhay, mapapaligidan sya nin mga kalaban asin mga erehe, asin dawa ngani pinapahali na sya kan saiyang mga kalaban sa saiyang dyosesis, dai nya nanggad tinalikdan an Simbahan. Sa Jerusalem sa Israel nagdakula si San Kan taon 361, kan nagin emperador si Cirilo kan panahon na bago an Julian, buot kaining ipatugdok liwat an klase nin buhay kan mga Kristyano Templo kan Jerusalem. Buot FEAST DAYS kaining patutuuhan na salâ si duman. Bago kaiyan, an Simbahan & HOLY LIVES biyong pinasakitan kan mga Jesus sa pagsabi nya na dai emperador. Ribu-ribong mga nanggad maipapatindog liwat an Kristyano an pinasakitan asin Templo kan Jerusalem. ginaradan huli kan saindang Dakulaon na halaga nin pagtubod ki Kristo. kwarta an binutsan asin Kan taón 315, dakol na mga materyales an idineklara ni ipinatipon. Dakol na mga Emperador tawo an nagtarabang sa Konstantino na legal an paagi nin pag-ambag nin Kristyanismo sa saiyang mga alahas asin mga nasasakupan. Marhay mahalagang metal. kuta idtong pangyayari, Alagad danay na tuninong kundi dai man natapos an sana si Cirili sa pagmasid sa gabos na kasakitan. An mga mga pangyayari dawa ngani nagsurunod na taon nagdara ini masakit. man nin mga panibagong problema Syerto sya na an Templo dai para sa mga Kristyano. mahahaman, huli ta ini an sinabi ni Jesus, Igwa nin karibungan kun arin an na Dyos. Tuninong sanáng hiniling ni Cirilo tinutubdan asin dai tinutubdan kan mga an mga materyales, dangan nagsabi sya, Kristyano kaidto. Kadakol mga salang “Aram ko na dai ini mapapatindog.” Iyo katukduan o inaapod na erehiya. man nanggad. Inot, sarong bagyo, sinundan Nagkakapirang mga padi asin mga obispo ini nin linog, dangan sarong kasulô, asin an nagin mga pusog na parasurog kan nauntok na an pagpatindog kan Templo. katukduan kan Simbahan. Saro sa mga Huli kaini naghabo naman an emperador sa obispong iyan iyo si Cirilo kan Jerusalem. pagpadagos kan proyekto. Kan nagadan si San Maximo, obispo kan Nagadan ni San Cirilo kan taon 386. Jerusalem, na napiling magsangli saiya iyo si Ining mahuyo an buot asin mabuot na lalaki Cirilo na nagdanay sa pwesto sa laog nin 35 na nabuhay sa panahon nin karibungan asin taon. Alagad 16 na taon kaiyan yaon sa kamundúan, dai nanggad nawaran nin pagkadistyero. paglaom asin kusog nin buot huli ta an Tulong beses syang pinalayas sa saiyang mga kamawutan hali ki Jesus. Jerusalem kan mga maimpluwensyang Maimbod sya sa Kagurangnan sa bilog Ariano na buót syang pahalion sa pwesto. nyang buhay. Saro syang mabansay na Pinipirit ninda na akuon ni Cirilo an mga pangarugan sa katukduan asin katutuuhan salang katukduan dapit ki Jesus asin sa dapit ki Jesus asin sa Simbahan. Si San Simbahan. Alagad dai sya nagtutugot. Cirilo sarong Doktor kan Simbahan. 4 GIYA SA LITURHIYA Semana 5, Kwaresma, Taon b, Marso 18-24, 2018 mar 18, dom : S. Cirilo kan Jerusalem / Jer 31:31-34 / Ps 51:3-4,12-15 / Heb 5:7-9 / Jn 12:20-33 mar 19, lun : S. Jose, agom ni Maria / Sam 7:4-5,12-16 / Ps 89:2-5,27,29 / Rom 4:13-22 /Mt 1:16-24 mar 20, mar : S. Josef Bilczewski / Num 21:4-9 / Ps 102:2-3,16-21 / Jn 8:21-30 mar 21, myer: S. Benidicta Cambiago Frassinello / Is 49:8-15 / Dan 3:14-20,91-95 / Dan 3:52-56 / Jn 8:31-42 mar 22, hwe : S. Lea / Gen 17:3-9 / Ps 105:4-9 / Jn 8:51-59 mar 23, byer : S. Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo / Jer 20:10-13 / Ps 18:2-7 / Jn 10:31-42 mar 24, sab : S. Aldemar / Ezek 37:21-28 / Jer 31:10-13 / Jn 11:45-57
Hali sa sarong ama
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aro po akong ama. Bilang ama, mayo akong ibang buót mangyari sa sakong mga aki kundi an karahayan asin karahayan saná. Buot ko para sainda an gabos na makakarahay asin makakapaginhawa kan saindang buhay. Kun kaya man, ginigibo ko an gabos para sainda. Alagad ST. JUDE’S sarong dakulang INTERCESSION problema an nag-abot huli kan ikaduwa kong aki. Ngunyan, hinihiling ko ining sarong agyat kan Kagurangnan sako bilang ama. Dara kan pakibarkada, nalulong sa droga an aki ko. Sa inot, dai mi ini aram, sagkod na nagin problema na sya magin sa harong. Bilang ama, sinikap ko nanggad na an problema mi dai magbunga nin pagkabaranga sa harong. Deboto ako ni St. Jude puon pa kan ako teenager—huli sa sakong lola. Sinikap ko nanggad na kami durungan na magdebosyon sa patron kan mga imposible. Makusog an pagtubod ko sa bagsik nin pamibi; makusog man an pagtubod ko sa tabang ni St. Jude. Sabi ngani, an Kagurangnan talaga minahiro sa mga misteryosong paagi. An samong debosyon nagbugkos samo bilang sarong makusog asin pusog na pamilya. Sa tabang nin danay na pagpamibi asin pagsimba, nagkaburunyog kami, dai nagburutasan. An debosyon nagin susi sa regular na pagurulay-ulay, paghirirasan, pagdinarangugan. Urog pa kaming nagin dayupot sa kada saro. An aki ko na nalulong sa droga, dikit-dikit, luway-luway na naibalik mi sa imbong kan samong pamilya, sagkod na narealisar nya an kakundian na nakatamong saiya. Sa samong pag-anduyog, sya na mismo an naghagad kan kaipuhan nyang tabang. Durungan man na tinabangan mi sya. Dai nanggad kami nagburutasan. Nagtinarabangan. Ipinamati mi saiya an samong presensya asin pagpadangat. Sagkod na sya makahawas sa pagkalulong. Siring kaiya an namati ming pag-ataman kan Kagurangnan—sa mga paaging dai linalaúman, sa pag-antabay ni St. Jude. 4 Hiras ni R. Segismundo na deboto ni St. Jude. Hali sa www.stjudemanila.com. BALAOG SA TABANG NI ST. JUDE?
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CBCP statement on the Divorce Bill
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he Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has released its official statement on the Absolute Divorce Act of 2018 on March 13, Tuesday, following the quick passage of the said bill during its second reading at the House of Representatives. The CBCP maintains that the law, when enacted, will simply give struggling couples an easy option to jump ship and may consign still-fixable marriages to an instant death. the fact that we’re one of the last few countries without a divorce law until now speaks volumes about us as a nation. No doubt, those who associate divorce with being progressive would laud our legislators who are currently raring to pass a divorce bill in Congress. With due respect to them, we beg them to make room for more reasoned debates on the issue. Since they act as representatives of the people who elected them in office, we humbly suggest that they submit their personal opinions to a further consultation with their constituents. Perhaps they can also consult experts in various fields in order to consider the many implications of the issue, not just on families but on the Philippine society as a whole. Ask people around and they’ll have no second thoughts affirming that the family remains as one of our most valued treasures as Filipinos. Do we really intend to follow the same path taken by so-called “progressive countries” like the US where 4 out of 10 marriages end up in divorce? We do not doubt the sincerity of our pro-divorce legislators. It is precisely their good will which we wish to appeal to in asking them to reconsider their moves towards legalizing the dissolution of marriages. We do not even question the fact that there are indeed failed marriages and that not all married coupled were
“joined together by God”. Thus, we have provisions for both canonical and civil annulments, which are not exactly the equivalent of divorce. They are provisions that demonstrate how seriously we take marriage as an institution, such that we make room for the possibility that some marriages might have been null and void from the start, such as when couples enter into marriage not for love, but for family pressure, and for many other similar reasons that suggest that no valid marriage took place. The legal remedies for such difficult circumstances are not lacking in our existing laws, both civil and canonical. The social costs that go with an easy recourse to the dissolution of a marriage when couples begin to face the difficult challenges of marital love and commitment are what we ask our legislators to consider seriously. Even couples in seemingly successful marriages would often look back and recall the countless challenges that had almost brought their relationship to a breaking point if they had not learned to transcend personal hurts through understanding and forgiveness, or sometimes through the intervention of a dialogue facilitator such as a marriage counselor. In a context in which divorce is presented as an easy option, marriages and families are bound to break up more easily.
More children will grow up disoriented and deprived of the care of both parents. We do not mean to interfere with the dynamics of a political entity such as our country’s legislature. We are fully aware of the limits of our influence as spiritual and moral leaders of the ecclesial communities entrusted to our care. We also acknowledge plurality and diversity of moral opinions on the matter at issue. We merely ask that they consider the possibility that divorce, while it may indeed provide quick legal remedies for some seemingly “failed marriages”, might end up destroying even those marriages that could have been saved by dialogues or the intervention of family, friends, pastors, and counselors. Like Catholics in most other countries where divorce is legal, we wish to assert that nothing, not even a divorce law can make us give up our faith in the indissolubility of marriage as a lifetime covenant between a man and woman who have freely said yes to the call to love and commit themselves to God and to each other, through thick and thin. For the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, +romulo g. valles Archbishop of Davao President, CBCP 4 CBCPNews.net
Divine Mercy Ass’n joins pilgrimage
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n union with this year’s observance of the Lenten Season the Archdiocesan Divine Mercy Association held on March 10, Sunday, a Visita Iglesia of fifteen churches within Archdiocese of Caceres, namely: St Anne, Magarao; Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Bombon; Immaculate Concepcion, Quipayo, Calabanga; Divine Mercy, Paolbo, Calabanga; St. Peter the Apostle, Bagacay, Tinambac; San Pascual Baylon, Tinambac; Sto. Niño Parish, Tierra Nevada, Tinambac; San Martin de Porres, Tagongtong, Goa; St. John the Baptist, Goa; St. Joseph, San Jose; St. Claire of Assisi, Tigaon; St. Bernard Abbot, Ocampo; St. Francis of Assisi, Himaao, Pili; and St. Rose of Lima, Anayan, Pili. More than 160 pilgrims joined the event. Ten came from St. Jude Thaddeus Parish, namely, Juan Jana, Vicenta Hernandez, Mila Barizo, Socorro Altares, Ma. Francia Altares, Pura Machica, Lolita Almine, Jonathan Jana,Jeneth Jana and Gloria Cabrador. 4
ANNOUNCEMENTS MAR 23. Second & Last Canvassing for
Easter Angels, 6pm, Edessa Hall.
MAR 25. Palm Sunday. We gather at OLL
Chapel at 5am for the blessing of palms, followed by procession to the SJTP Church. It is also the Alay Kapwa Sunday. The second collection goes to the Social Action Programs of the Church. Please be generous to this cause. MAR 26. Suscipe: Sarong Pagdusay
(Santo Ehersisyon nin mga Awit, a Lenten prayer concert with the Ateneo de Naga University Choir, 6:30 to 8pm, SJTP Church. Free registration. Please spend an hour of prayer and take this opportunity to go to confession. MAR 27. Recollection Talk on Healing and
Reconciliation, 6:30 to 8pm.
MAR 30. Siete Palabras at the SJTP
Church, 12nn to 3pm, to be followed by Adoration of the Cross and Pro Terra Sancta collection for the upkeep of the Holy Land.
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Statues needed for Holy Week Processions
jtp still needs the following 5ft. tall image or group of images for our Annual Holy Week Pasos: a. jesus—Jesus enters Jerusalem riding a donkey, Last Supper, Washing of the Feet, Agony in the Garden, Jesus is kissed by Judas, Jesus is Arrested, Ecce Homo, El Señor de Pacencia, Jesus is Condemned to Death, Jesus meets his Mother, Simon of Cerene helps Jesus, Veronica wipes the face of Jesus, Jesus meets the Women of Jerusalem, Third Fall, Jesus is stripped of his Garment, Jesus is nailed to the Cross, Jesus dies on the Cross, the body of Jesus is removed from the Cross, Pieta, Jesus is laid in the tomb; b. others—Maria Jacobe, Marta, Maria Cleofe, Nicodemo, Joseph of Arimathea, Maria Alegria. If interested, please see Fr. Wilmer Tria, Fr. Rex Hidalgo or Pat Balmaceda for the details. 4
SAMNO SA KWARESMA
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n panahon kan Kwaresma panahon nin paghagad-tawad, pagsakripisyo, asin pagpenitensya. Masasalming ini magin sa pisikal na lawog kan Simbahan. Mayong mga samno sa luwas asin laog kan simbahan, lain saná duman CATECHETICAL sa mga elemento CORNER na makakatabang sa paghurup-hurop. Mayo nin mga burak asin kolor lilang tela an mantel kan lamisa sa altar. An kolor na lila simbulo nin pagmundo asin pagpenitensya. An dominanteng kolor na lila madanay puon Myerkules nin Abó sagkod Hwebes Santo, masasanglian ini nin itom sa aldaw kan Byernes Santo, sa aldaw nin pagrumdom sa pagkagadan sa krus kan Kagurangnan. 4
UTMOST GRATITUDE to all those who contributed food for the Penafrancia Vicarial Meeting held last March 13 at the Edessa Hall: Nilda Dacer, Zel Torres, Elsie Latumbo, Drs. Emil and Elba Alegre, Sr. Monique, CFSOP, Teresita Buenaflor, Ann Delloro, Atty. Raquel Payte, Aida Tusara, Pachit Felix, Ellen Pena, Bless Arquesa, Dr. Minene Elgar, Cecilia Magtuto, Nelson’s Bulalohan, Neri Sarcia & Noralyn Perez, Dr. Malou Sarmiento, Atty. Carmela Pena, Boboy & Imeeh Pena, Tin-Tin Delloro, Mike Pauig, Zeny Salvador, and Fr. Nunz Bancaso. Thanks also to our Donors this week: Ms. Alex Madrigal-Eduque (PhP 5,000) Mrs. Aileen Gallarte (PhP 5,000) Dr. Rebecca Torres (PhP 5,000)
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