Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of St. Jude Thaddeus, Naga City | v.3, n.7 | issn 2599-5030 | 18 to 24 February 2018
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TO BE HUMAN IS TO LOVE
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his Sunday is the first Sunday of Lent. In the Church calendar, the Lenten season covers forty days starting from Ash Wednesday to Palm Sunday, the time when we commemorate the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem when he was proclaimed as king-son of David—this also marks the beginning of the Holy Week. The Gospel for this Sunday tell of are able to combat temptations and not an episode in the life of Jesus where: succumb to sin, we do not become divine 1. The Spirit led Him to the desert but we experience joy, that joy SUNDAY in solitude for forty days; 2. While and gladness with a feeling of REFLECTION in the desert, Satan tempted him, gratitude because we have been and; 3. After his desert experience graced with sharing God’s life of holiness. and when John the Baptist was We truly become humans when we love already in prison, Jesus began his public instead of committing sin. ministry proclaiming the gospel of God: After Jesus’ experience of solitude in the “This is the time of fulfillment. The desert he started his public ministry. It was a Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and matter of making Himself ready for the believe in the gospel. (Mk 1:15)” We also can mission of establishing the Kingdom of God pattern our lives with Jesus’. here on earth. Yes, it is also true that, before Lent should also be a moment for accomplishing a big job, and we are given an solitude for all of us. This is a time when we opportunity of a desert experience—a can invoke the Holy Spirit to give us an moment of solitude when we can look into opportunity to be alone and look into ourselves and confront our own potencies in ourselves even amidst the busy-ness that our the light of God’s grace—a sort of world confronts us today. This is a time “recharging” happens. That desert experience when we can re-examine ourselves and ask gives us the power in building the Kingdom whether we indeed accept Jesus as the of God in our own spaces. We cannot locate king—the ruler of our own lives. the kingdom of God in any map . . .the Jesus was tempted. He was tempted all Kingdom of God is at hand . . . when life is a his life. This proved that he was indeed choice instead of death, love instead of human, like us, in all fashion. . . He is human hatred, freedom instead of slavery to sin, like us except in sin (cf Gaudium et Spes 16). responsibility instead of escapism, and By not committing sin, even if He was community instead of selfishness. Over and tempted, He made Himself the model of a above, let justice reign in the Kingdom of perfect human being. In our lives, when we God! 4 — Ramon L. Almoneda PhD
Let justice reign in the Kingdom of God!
Marko 9:2-8
Domingo 2, Kwaresma (Taon B)
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aakalihis nin anom na aldaw.” Buot sabihon, ikapitong aldaw. Makahulugan an aldaw na ini. Ini an aldaw na panô nin ritwal asin pagpamibi. Huli ta sa ikapitong aldaw nahaman an kinàban. An Sabado iyo an LECTIO ikapitong aldaw asin ini DIVINA aldaw na banal sa mga Hudiyo. Mahalagang gayo an mangyayari duman sa bukid na pinagdumanan ni Jesus kaiba an apat nyang disipulo. Ano an sakong mga aktibidad sa aldaw na Domingo?
“Maggibo kita nin tulong tolda.” Huli kan pangyayari, natakot si Pedro asin an saiyang mga pag-iriba. Dai ninda aram an itataram. Dai ninda aram an gigibuhon. Alagad napapataram si Pedro asin gusto nyang masibot kisa malamos sa takot. Kaya lang, mayong saysay an saiyang itinaram. Dai man sinda dapat maghaloy duman sa bukid. Dakul pa an dapat nindang gibuhon. Bako man nganing kapantay ni Jesus si Elias asin si Moises. Kaya salang gayo an nagluwas sa nguso ni Pedro, dahilan kun tàno biglang nagtaram an Dyos hali sa langit. Ano an sakong kinatakutan kun kaya ako napasalâ sa sakong desisyon?
“Ini iyo an Aki kong namumùtan; magdangog kamo saiya.” Nagparataram na si Jesus na sya magsasakit asin magagadan, alagad, mayong buot magdangog asin magsabot kan saiyang sinasabi. Kaya mahalagang gayo an pagsaksi kan saiyang Ama sa apat na disipulo. Asin dawa na ngani, dai pa man giraray ninda nasabutan ini sagkod na si Jesus magadan asin mabuhay liwat. Saka lang nasubatan na an dalan sa kamurawayan iyo an kasakitan asin kagadanan. Pàno ko inaako an sakong mga kasakitan sa buhay? 4