Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of St. Jude Thaddeus, Naga City | v.3, n.16 | issn 2599-5030 | 15 to 21 April 2018
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FORGIVE AND FORGET
esus, despite his complete innocence, ‘They’ included the disciples. Jesus proved to was sentenced to a horrifying death. He them that he was flesh and bones by allowing was arrested as if he was a thief. them to touch him and by eating baked fish His enemies came at night, right in front of them. However, SUNDAY cowardly, to escape the public’s eye. these gestures were not so much REFLECTION They mocked him as he was put on of a legal gesture—so that they trial. They stripped him naked, put might have unassailable proofs of the on a crown of thorns, to spite him. resurrection, but of a moral gesture—so that They brutally scourged him, made him carry they might be freed from their guilt. Jesus the cross and eventually crucified him. The had vivid memory of his violent death, yet he severe flogging that lacerated his flesh was ready to show them his wounds. He bore determined his brief time on the cross. no grudge against them, no matter how fresh Although his disciples abandoned him, he the wounds. continued to tread the via dolorosa to fulfil Indeed, the disciples were the first the Father’s mission. And on that first day of witnesses of Jesus’ mercy. They were weak the week, on that First Sunday of Easter, he and blind until Jesus strengthened them by showed up to his disciples and greeted them his resurrection and his mercy. So now with “Peace be with you!” Jesus commissioned them by asking them When the disciples saw Jesus, they to proclaim the same mercy by saying: thought they saw a ghost. How could they “Thus it is written that the Christ would mistake Jesus for a ghost? They had lived suffer and rise from the dead on the third and journeyed with him for three years! day and that repentance, for the forgivePerhaps they were guilt-stricken that they ness of sins, would be preached in his name failed to see Jesus in flesh and blood. They to all the nations.” were aware how they abandoned Him. They Jesus asks us now to learn to forgive thought the cross was a defeat and his death and forget. Forgiving does not entail was the end of all their dreams. Now, they forgetting the reality of the injustice. were being confronted by his presence—his Justice must be restored. Yet, while we may unexpected presence. They protected still have vivid memories of past themselves by locking their doors. Jesus was transgressions, the pain should no longer not their concern at all. He was far from dwell in our memories. Like Jesus, once their minds because they were scared for forgiven, we can already freely talk about their lives. Now, they were experiencing the those sad experiences with graceful forgiving presence of Jesus. bearing, holding no grudges and At the cross, Jesus already forgave every resentments, but love, understanding and one—for not knowing what they were doing. mercy. 4 — Fr. Wilmer Joseph S. Tria
Peace be with you! { Luke 24.36 }
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Domingo 4, Pagkabuhay (Taon B)
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ko an marhay na pastor.” Pastor an parating ginagamit sa Daan na Tipan bilang metapora dapit sa Dyos. Pati mga propeta inaapod man na mga pastor huli kan saindang pag-ataman sa mga tawo. An ‘marhay’ bako LECTIO sanang marhay sa trabaho, DIVINA arog baga kan marhay na panday, kundi sarong tawong mamumùton asin mapinadangat. Itinataya an saiyang buhay para sa saiyang mga ataman. Siring kaini si David kan pinatumba nya an higante. Urog pa kaini si Jesus an nagdusay kan saiyang buhay para sa satong kaligtasan. Sisay an marhay na pastor sa buhay ko? Tàno?
“Midbid ko an sakuya asin midbid ako kan sakuya.” An pagkamidbid bako sanang pagkatuom kan ngaran kundi may totoong relasyon sa kairiba. Si Jesus nanilaman tanganing mabuhay kaiba nyato. Nagkakan, naglakbay, nagtukdo, nagbulong kairiba an saiyang mga disipulo. Sya nagsakit, ipinako sa krus sagkod nautsan, kairiba kan saiyang ipinapastor. Kaya masasabi nanggad na midbid ni Jesus an mga tawo kabilang na an mga Pariseo asin eskriba. Guràno ko kamidbid an mga kairiba ko sa Prayer Meeting?
“Igwa ako nin mga karnero na bakong tagalaog; sinda man kaipuhan na antabayan ko.” Kun dai nakalawíg an mga karnero, yaon sinda sa laog kan kudal tanganing matàwan proteksyon. Susog ki Jesus, igwa pa syang mga karnero na dai pa natatàwan kan siring na proteksyon. Buot nya man sindang makabali sa laog kan kudal tanganing sinda gabos magin sarong komunidad. Ini an mga hentil na ngapit iyo an aatamanon kan mga apostol asin mga disipulo. Sisay pa an mayo sa laog kan BEC na dapat kong alukon? 4