Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of St. Jude Thaddeus, Naga City | v.3, n.22 | issn 2599-5030 | 27 May to June 2 2018
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LIGHT, RADIANCE, AND GRACE
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he Mystery of the Most Holy guarded by the fathers. For upon this faith Trinity is the core of our the Church is built, and if anyone were to faith as Catholics. Since lapse from it, he would no longer SUNDAY it is a mystery, it is also be a Christian either in fact or in REFLECTION the most difficult reality to name,” said St. Athanasius. explain. As a consequence of that We acknowledge the Trinity, holy and difficulty, we just can’t, in our own perfect, to consist of the Father, the Son and efforts, satisfactorily convince nonbelievers the Holy Spirit. In this Trinity there is no to accept it. Thus, we are being accused by intrusion of any alien element or of anything many non-Catholics as polytheist—believers from outside, nor is the Trinity a blend of of many gods. “Three, yet one, how can it creative and created being. It is a wholly be?” they would ask. Foolish it may seem but creative and energizing reality, self-consistent that was how Jesus revealed the truth to us. and undivided in its active power, for the We have one God, he alone we worship; but Father makes all things through the Word from the one God, there are three persons and in the Holy Spirit, and in this way the united, equal in dignity, power and majesty. unity of the Holy Trinity is preserved. According to some Theologians and the Accordingly, in the Church, one God is Magisterium, we will not fully grasp the preached, one God who is above all things, reality of the Trinity, it remains a mystery, through all things, and in all things. God is and it is its very essence. But despite this above all things as Father, for he is the admonition, we try the best we can to at principle and source, he is through all things least analogously illustrate through words through the Word, and he is in all things in acceptable and experiential. Time will come the Holy Spirit. when the Holy Spirit will reveal everything St. Paul, writing about spiritual matters, to us. When this time comes, we will traces all reality back to one God, the Father. understand the totality of God. He said: “Now there are varieties of gifts, but Let’s try to illustrate it again by using the the same Spirit; and varieties of service but analogy of lighted candle. There is light, the same Lord; and there are varieties of radiance and warm. One is never separated working, but the same God, who inspires from the other. As we lit a candle, radiance them all in everyone.” simultaneously appears, and warmth is Even the gifts that the Spirit dispenses to sensed when we get closer to the light, so individuals are given by the Father through much so that when the flame of the candle is the Word. For all that belongs to the Father extinguished, radiance, light, and warmth belongs also to the Son, and so the graces will also be gone. given by the Son in the Spirit are true gifts of “It will not be out of place to consider the Father. Similarly, when the Spirit dwells the ancient tradition, teaching and faith of in us, the Word who bestows the spirit is in the Catholic Church, which were revealed by us too, and the Father is present in the Word. LIGHT / NEXT PAGE the Lord, proclaimed by the apostles, and
marko 14:12-16,22-26 Corpus Christi (Taon B)
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uman nindo andamon an kakanon ta..” Si Jesus an Kagurangnan. Aram nya asin kapot nya an masurunod na mga pangyayari. Dai saná sya nag-antisipar, kundi hinimo nya na susog sa kamàwutan nya an mangyayari. An LECTIO pasyon nya an kapanúan DIVINA kan kabùtan kan Ama. Bakong aksidente an saiyang pagkakapako sa krus, bako man ining personal na pagkadaog. An mga disipulo danay na yaon sa saiyang paggiya. Buot ni Jesus na makaibahan nya sinda sa pagkakan. Anong mga pagkakataon sa buhay ko na ibinubugtak ko sa palad ni Jesus?
“Akúa nindo ini; ini an sakuyang hawak.” Ini an huri sa kadakol na mga pamanggi na nakaibahan ni Jesus an saiyang mga disipulo, ini man an pagbukas nin pintuan para sa bago asin urog na mayaman pang paghirirasan nin kakanon nin kalag—na si Jesus mismo. Digdi tinugdas ni Jesus an Eukaristiya, sa paghiras sa saiyang mga katuod kan saiyang hawak asin dugo—pagdusay kan saiyang buhay tanganing kita magdanay saiya. Sa pànong mga paagi ko naisasabuhay an paghiras kan sadiri na ginibo ni Jesus?
“Pakatapos nindang mag-awit nin imno, nagduman sinda sa Bukid nin mga Oliba.” Pagkatapos kan kaugmahan sa pakikipagkatuod, sa paghiras nin pagkakan, paabuton an mga pagsakit ni Jesus. Pagkatapos kan pagpasaksi nya nin dakulang pagkamuot, paabuton an pagpasaluib asin pagnegar saiya, dangan an kapinùnan kan saiyang pagsakit. Alagad, pinakusog na kita kan saiyang paghiras kan saiyang sadiri. Pano ako nakikihiras sa parokya sa daing kundisyon na pagdusay ni Jesus kan saiyang sadiri? 4