SJTP Parish Weekly Bulletin V3,N44 (October 28, 2018)

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Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of St. Jude Thaddeus, Naga City | v.3, n.44 | issn 2599-5030 | 28 October to 3 November 2018

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GOD’S POWER IN HUMAN WEAKNESS

he Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome is the oldest public Church (313 a.d.) and holds the cathedra of the Bishop of Rome, the Pope. It is the mother and head of all the churches in the city and the world. Aside from being revered as the most important basilica in the western world, it also known to house the famous towering statues of the twelve apostles holding their instruments of death. Lorenzo Ottoni depicted Saint Jude (1704-09 a.d.) carrying a spear instead of a club. All of these close friends of the Lord underwent martyrdom except for Saint John, the beloved. This Baroque addition highlights in an elaborate architectural magnificence the fundamental historical and theological truth expressed by Tertullian (155-240 a.d.) that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. ancient truth by linking it to contemporary This well-known adage is a paraphrase evangelization. If we are to proclaim our of a letter of Tertullian in 197 A.D. to a faith in Jesus today, we need not bother Roman governor refuting all the charges against the Christians and declaring boldly first about strategies and techniques to capture the attention of our audience. It is that persecuting them will not necessary to remind ourselves of the destroy Christianity. On the apostolic foundations of the contrary, it will only embolden SUNDAY them. “kill us, torture us, REFLECTION Church. We stand on the shoulders of these friends of the condemn us, grind us to dust; Lord who have gone way much ahead of us, your injustice is the proof that we whose greatest proclamation of faith has are innocent. Therefore God suffers or been done through the sacrifice of their allows that we thus suffer… Nor does your lives. They took heed the example of Jesus, cruelty, however exquisite, avail you; it is whose supreme sacrifice of love, rather a temptation to us. The oftener we consummated on the cross, was carried out are mown down by you, the more in number we grow; the blood of Christians is in order that we might have life. (Jn. 10:10) Following Jesus would necessarily entail seed” (Apologeticus, Chapter 50). The losing his life for His sake so as find it. (Mt wisdom of this ancient Church Father is a wellspring of inspiration to every Christian 10:38-39) It is the logic of the grain of wheat that dies in order to sprout and bring new undergoing persecution to this day. The theme for this year’s fiesta in honor life. (Jn. 12: 24) Pope Emeritus Benedict xvi addressed a protestant community once by of Saint Jude Thaddeus, Martyrdoom and GOD’S POWER / to last page Evangelization Today, echoes in our time this

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rin an enot sa gabos na mga tugon?” Dai nagsusugot an eskriba kundi buot nyang makasabot. Saro syang tunay na estudyanteng buot makasabot kan katukduan ni Jesus, bakong arog kan mga nagkaerenot na Pariseo LECTIO asin eskriba. Sya siring sa DIVINA tunay na disipulo ni Kristo. An hapot nya iyo ini: Ano talaga an pinaka-puso kan ley? Arin sainda an urog sa gabos? Ano an nangingibabaw na kahaputan ko ki Jesus?

“Kamumùtan mo an Kagurangnan mong Dyos sa bilog mong puso, bilog mong kalag, bilog mong isip asin bilog mong kusog.” Bakong banga-banga. Habo nin Dyos na sya may kabangâ o karibal. Dakul kitang padangat sa buhay, alagad sya an dapat mangibabaw. Dakul kitang dahilan tanganing mabuhay, alagad sya an dapat mangibabaw. Dakul kitang buot adalan, alagad sya an dapat na mangibabaw. Dakul kitang dapat ipaglaban. Alagad sya an dapat mangibabaw. Kamùtan sya urog sa mga linalang nya. Sa panahon nin eleksyon, sisay an sakong Kagurangnan na dinadangog asin kinukuyog?

“…An saimong kapwa siring saimo man sana…” Mahalaga an pagkamuot sa sadiri. An pagpahalaga kan salud kan satong hawak asin kalag, kan kapakànan kan satong presente asin puturo, mga tanda ini kan satong pagkamuot sa sadiri. Ini man an patugmadan o sukulan kan satong pagkamuot sa iba. Ini an pagirumdom sato, na kamùtan an iba gamit an sukol kan pagkamuot sa sadiri. Sisay an tawong pinapadangat ko siring sa pagpadangat ko kan sakong sadiri? 4


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