Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of St. Jude Thaddeus, Naga City | v.3, n.42 | issn 2599-5030 | 14 to 20 October 2018
POVERTY CAN BE A CHOICE
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t is a natural tendency for every human being to aspire to be good and desire to be better than just being good.
unwanted because it brings too much When the man in the Gospel asked Jesus burden. For some poverty is something to what he must do to inherit eternal life (Mk 10:17), he was mindful that he was good since get rid of in order to place oneself in a comfortable position. But poverty on the he did not break any of the commandments other hand can be a choice. Poverty can be a of God and he was quite sure that he way of life. deserved eternal life. The man God knows what is best for needed to ask Jesus in order to be SUNDAY us. When Jesus, in this 28th assured . . . he needed to hear from REFLECTION Sunday Gospel, is seen looking Jesus that he was good and that he at the man with love, Jesus gazed at the man deserved eternal life. Here Jesus with that unprejudiced look. Jesus knew proposes one recipe in order to surpass his that the man had the right of his own choice already good standing—to do better than even if his face turned sad. What can be just obeying the commandments of God. better in a person than to make his own Jesus reiterates that a Christian needed to choices? . . . And God loves us for that! live a life which is different from all others. Though Jesus in his loving gaze was simply In a way, Jesus here repeats His moral proposing to the man that the sure way to demand: “Blessed are the poor. . . (Mt 5:3)” When he replied to the man: “You are lacking eternal life is not so much in obeying the in one thing. Go, sell what you have, and give commandments but in not being attached to his material possessions but to be more to the poor and you will have treasure in dependent on God and to follow His ways. heaven: then come, follow me. (Mk 10:21)” When we choose to live detached from Does God really want us to live in our possessions, Jesus assures us: “Amen, I poverty? Is God suggesting that the say to you, there is no one who has given up situation today of many Filipinos who house or . . . lands for my sake and for the utterly live in poverty a better lot? Is there sake of the gospel who will not receive a something good in poverty? Poverty in the economic point of view is hundred times more now in this present age.” (Mk 10:29-30) a state of lack or scarcity of resources in This is indeed more than winning the order to satisfy human wants and needs. lottery! 4 ramon l. almoneda, phd-th Poverty for others is a situation which is
Good master, what must I do to inherit eternal life? {mark 10:17}
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marko 10:35-45 Domingo 29, Taon B
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aestro, buot nyamo na gibuhon mo samo kun ano an hagadon mi saimo.” Tulong beses nang hinulaan ni Jesus an kagadanan nya. Sinasabi nya na an buot magin dakula dapat maglingkod sa gabos, asin an naeenot mahuhuri. LECTIO Sa pagpa-Jerusalem ninda, DIVINA may binulong na buta asin nakahiling. Alagad an mga disipulo, dawa muklat an mga mata, garo mayo lamang nahihiling. Si Jaime asin si Juan padagos ipinapahiling an saindang hababaw na ambisyon na magin bantog sa kahadian kan Dyos. Ano an personal kong ambisyon? Iyo daw ini an kabùtan kan Dyos para sakô?
“Kaya daw nindong inumon an kalis na iniinom ko, o magbuntog sa bunyag na binubuntugan ko?” Madaling manuga. Dawa dai ninda nasasabutan an kunsekwensya kan panuga. Ngapit, si Jesus ipapako sa krus. Asin gabos sinda nagdurulag, lain ki Maria asin Juan. Huna ninda kan kalis asin bunyag mga bendisyon. An kalis tanda nin kagadanan. An bunyag bako sanang paglubog sa tubig kundi paglubog sa kamunduan asin kasakitan. Ini si dai ninda nahihiling na karibay kan saindang ambisyon. Ano an pinanugaan kong nagbasol ako? Tàno?
“An buót magin dakula saindo magigi nindong paralingkod…” Naanggot an sampulo pakaaram kan ambisyon kan duwa. Kaya, gabos sinda nag-aambisyon. Kinua ining pagkakataon ni Jesus tanganing sinda tukduan. An patakaran kan kinàban iba man sa patakaran kan kahadian kan Dyos. An mga uripon may saro sanang amo, alagad an sugo ni Jesus iyo na an buot magin dakula sa kahadian dapat na magin suruguon kan gabos. Anong paglingkod na ginibo ko na mayo ni saro an nakakaaram? 4