Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of St. Jude Thaddeus, Naga City | v.3, n.53 | issn 2599-5030 | 30 December 2018 to 5 January 2019
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In the Sunday Gospel for this feast of the Holy Family (Luke 2:41-52), it is strange that Mary and Joseph discovered that the boy Jesus was not with them when they arrived home. Without the background of Jewish culture and traditions in Jesus’ time, it is tempting to judge that Mary and Joseph were irresponsible not to notice that the boy Jesus was lost while they were travelling all the way from Jerusalem to their home, considering that the journey took more than a day.
days of her search but amazingly, Mary When Jews make a pilgrimage to maintained her composure and calm and Jerusalem they go by caravans where women upon finding Jesus at the temple just said the are grouped together separate from men words: “Son, why have you done this to us? while children may travel either with the Your father and I have been looking for you mother or with the father, that is why with great anxiety (Lk 2:48).” Though Mary it was only when they arrived home could not understand what it that Mary and Joseph realized that SUNDAY the boy Jesus was not with any one REFLECTION meant when Jesus told her: “Why were you looking for me? Did you of them. not know that I must be in my Father’s house? This “Finding of Jesus in the (Lk 2:49).” Mary was open to grow in Temple” is meditated as a Joyful Mystery in praying the Rosary. For parents, losing a child understanding God‘s love, she ―kept all these things in her heart (Lk 2:51). Mary was is never a joyful experience, but finding the resolutely wanting to continue in her lost child is beyond joy. While Joseph and devotion to God even amidst her Mary were anxious and found Jesus engaged uncertainties, she continued pondering all in a discussion with the teachers of the faith, these things in her heart (cf. Lk 2:51), which they were surprised. The conversation which followed (see Lk 2:48-50) prompts strangeness made her even stronger. As parents, Mary and Joseph were really for us again if we do not know that for the law abiding citizens in their place and time Jewish custom, a twelve year old boy is when they conformed to their tradition to considered an adult already. attend the Passover feast pilgrimage as It can be imagined that the 3 days of required of them. And while following their travel by Mary and Joseph were a fatiguing custom they were even compromised to have one (cf. Lk 2:45-46). Mary indeed must have lost the boy Jesus. And we thank Mary and been filled by the Holy Spirit with the gift of Joseph, Jesus was not lost forever! In our fortitude to endure the fatigue and the society today it is sad that when the youths tiredness and anxiety of losing a child. Mary LISTEN / next page must have been so worried during the three
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ya, mga mago, hali sa sirangan, nagtungá sa Jerusalem...” Ki Mateo, bakong hadi kundi mga mago an naghahanap ki Jesus. Tibaad sinda mga taga-Persia asin an saindang relihiyon Zoroastrianismo. Sinda LECTIO mga parabasa kan bituon, DIVINA bakong parabasa kan banal na kasuratan. Dawa sinda hentil, pinalad sindang pasabungan kan Dyos. An mga Pariseo asin Eskriba lugod, dawa nagbabasa kan bibliya, dai napasabungan kan pagkamundag ni Jesus. Ano an nagdadara sako ki Jesus?
“Napurisaw si Hadeng Herodes, asin man an bilog na Jerusalem kaiba nya.” Tàno ta mapurisaw an hadi? Yaon saiya an bilog na kapangyarihan. Ini huli ta aram nyang bako syang lehitimong hadi. Pinaburan sana sya kan Roma. Sya sarong Arabo. Habo saiya kan mga Hudiyo. Tàno ta mapurisaw an bilog na Jerusalem? Ini huli ta sinda mga Herodetards na pwedeng mawàran kapangyarihan kun mahali si Herodes sa saiyang pwesto. Ano an nagpupurisaw sako ngunyan?
“Binuksan an saindang mga kaban, nagdulot saiya nin mga regalo: bulawan, insenso asin mirra.” Garo dai bagay sa aki an mga regalo. An lalauman ta mga kawatan asin bado. Alagad, ini kabilang sa mas hararom na paghiling kan mga mago sa aki. An bulawan angay na regalo sa hadi. An insenso, regalo sa padi. An mirra regalo sa propeta. Saro pa, an mga ini madaling bitbiton kun halawig an byahe. Asin mamahalon man an mga ini na ngapit mapapakinabangan kan banal na pamilya sa mga masurunod na taon. Ano an regalo ko ki Jesus ngunyan na taon? 4