Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of St. Jude Thaddeus, Naga City | v.3, n.30 | issn 2599-5030 | 22 to 28 July 2018
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TAKE A REST TO SPEAK WELL
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y music teacher in high school But unlike God who rested to signify taught that “rest” in a completion of his creation, man need to rest musical score is equally in order to survive, in order not SUNDAY important as the “note” which to violate the 5th commandREFLECTION designates the tone or tune in a ment—not to kill since if a man song or music. It is in designating continues to work without rest then he is and executing correctly the beat killing himself softly. for the note or rest which make a song or Rest entails non-movement, silence and music lovely. an in-depth retrospection with the company In the Gospel reading for this 16th of Jesus. Rest is needed in order to reflect, Sunday in ordinary time (Mk 6:30-34) we also to be quiet, to re-energize, to meditate and can learn that rest is an important matter in rest when properly channeled should yield performing the task of evangelization. After better qualities of engagements and listening to the Apostles’ story of their performances. Usually, men who give mission and how they found difficulty in importance to rest with God are men who pausing to eat, Jesus invited them and said: can have better dispositions and can speak “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place words which are bridled by wisdom. People and get some rest (Mk 6:31).” known for resting –are people who are In the Biblical culture, rest is intricately “in-depth” are emulated and admired . . . important like in the account of creation in like monks, nuns, priests and religious. Genesis, the days of creation is completed In the Gospel, people rushed to follow with a rest on the seventh day. God rested Jesus and His men because they knew that not because He was tired but He rested they can reap something worthwhile from because He has seen all His creation to be them; they are men who speak and act out “good” and most importantly the creation of rest and silence. Usually, men of silence of the man and woman He saw to be “very are also men of compassion. This is the good” (cf Gen 1:31). reason why Jesus upon seeing the throng Today God continues to create (creation following them “had compassion on them, understood in the Hebrew context as because they were like sheep without a “putting order into something which is shepherd (Mk 6:34).” disordered” and not as “creating something Let us respond positively to Jesus’ out of nothing”) and human beings are His invitation to . . . “Come with Him by co-creators. It is through humans that God ourselves to a quiet place and get some rest. continues to create another human being; it (cf. Mk6:31)” We need Christian praxis –a is through humans that God create faith that goes beyond practices, actions, or engineers, nurses, policemen, politicians, behaviors but a combination of reflection teachers and all kinds of professions and and action that realizes the well-being of good citizens. In the process of creating all every human person. Today we need leaders these, man as partner of God need to rest. TAKE A REST / last page
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agkatapos kaini, nagpasiring si Jesus sa ibong kan dagat kan Galilea nin Tiberias.” Si Jesus padagos sa saiyang paglibot. Dakul na ‘tanda’ an saiyang naginibo na. Kadaklan, pagbulong kan mga imposibleng marahay na helang. LECTIO Nagbalyo pa sya sa ibong DIVINA kan dagat. Bako sanang sarong parokya an buot nyang tabangan. Naglalako sya kan biyaya sa kadaklan na nagmamàwot kaiyan. Anong ‘tanda’ o gibong herak an maihihiras ko man sa kapwa?
“Sain kita mabakal nin tinapay?” Bako sanáng bible study asin prayer meeting an mahalaga ki Jesus, kundi an pagkumusta sa kamugtakan kan mga tawo. Gutom sinda kaya sya naghapot. Pinapaisip nya an saiyang mga disipulo nin mga solusyon sa problema kan tawo. Dakul an problema ta ngunyan. Buwis, padagos na pagmahal kan barakalon. Kaya lalong tikapo an mga tawo. Kun may helang, dai makapabulong. Kun gutom, dai makabakal kakanon. Ano an isisimbag ko sa hapot ni Jesus?
“Igwa digdi nin sadit na aki.” Dawa kulang an pagtubod, nahiling ni Andres an halaga kan sadit na aki. Siring ini kan aking si David na mayo man lamang sa gigis kan higanteng si Goliath. Alagad sinda, dawa sadit, nagin pagtugmadan nin dakulang milagrong mangyayari. Ini huli kan kapangyarihan kan Dyos. Siring man kaini an satong mga hinihiras na talento para sa simbahan. Sadit asin dikit, alagad kun gigibuhon kaiba si Jesus, nagigin dakula an bunga. Guràno kasadit an sakong tabang sa simbahan asin guràno man kadakula an kapangyarihan ni Jesus sa sako? 4