Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of St. Jude Thaddeus, Naga City | v.4, n20 | issn 2599-5030 | 19 to 25 May 2019
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giya sa prayer meeting
OUTROOF ONE ANOTHER
n Biblical times, apartment-style homes were built on top of city walls. Part of the roof were extended beyond the walls to protect them from rain and sun. This roof extension is translated ‘forbear’ in English. It literally means to outroof one another. This is the whole point of God’s commandment, to forbear one another in love. To outroof one another means to protect those your love with your love rather than expose them and their faults. Second, the Gospel calls us to love like Indeed, love has its own disappointGod. Sometimes we are overly concerned ments. A father was reading a survey about whether God loves us. He does, and claiming that children are more attached to His love is perfect. What we need to be TV than to their fathers. But this father was concerned about is our loving like God. very proud of his daughter and God’s love is gracious, merciful, slow to confidently asked her: “if you had to anger. Bickering and shouting choose between me and the TV set, SUNDAY which would you choose?” After REFLECTION cannot be signs of love. Rather, they are symptoms of hatred, proper reflection, she answered: God’s love is good to all. Is our love for all? “That would depend what’s on.” Or is it narrowed down to the ‘deserving’. When you attend wedding ceremonies, you God’s love is not selective. When Christ will be amazed by the meticulous died, He died for all. Love must be spread to preparation and just say: love is in the air! disinfect all the viruses that has been But when you hear a couple in your scattered by sin in every corner of the neighborhood bickering and shouting, you world. True love radiates to all. say, love could sometime be just like a cloud Lastly, love is a call to action. A person that could be gone by a blow of the wind! who loves is a productive person. Love is The Gospel this Sunday calls us to love apostolic and missionary. The Holy Father as Jesus loved. Easter is a call to joy and one is challenging every Christian family to go cannot experience joy unless he or she loves. beyond its own “family concerns” to a What is love? Is it merely a feeling? A wider sphere of apostolate, “the social mood? No! It is both vehement affection concerns.” The Filipino family has many and ready service. Like a dish, there is both missions to accomplish. It has to the ingredient and the substance of it is Christianize politics; it has to redeem the action, service or commitment. Mere environment; it has to reinforce education affection cannot be love, and mere and alleviate poverty in the society. All commitment can make the relationship these are concrete acts of love: An act of boring. Love, therefore, is the union of wills. outroofing to protect others with our love. It is the desire to do what the beloved 4 fr. wilmer joseph s. tria wishes, so long as it is not wrong.
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Domingo 6, Pagkabuhay, Taon C
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n namumuot sako, makuyog kan sakong itinukdo.” An katukduan ni Jesus iyo man saná an katukduan kan Ama. Kaya ngani inaapod syang Tataramon kan Dyos huli ta sya an bulanos na LECTIO kapahayagan kan Dyos. DIVINA An pagkamuot iyo an pinakapuso kan Tataramon na ini. Iyo man iyan na pinakapuso kan Ebanghelyo. An sisay man na namumuot ki Jesus, nagkukuyog sa saiyang mga katukduan. Sisay an tinabangan kong susog sa katukduan ni Jesus?
“Alagad an parasurog, an Espiritu Santo na ipapadara kan Ama sa ngaran ko, iyo an matukdo saindo gabos…” An parakletos sa Griego siring sa abugado. Sya nagtutukdo, naghuhulit, nagtatabang, nag-aabugado. Alagad, bakong siring kan mga abugado ngunyan na an pinaka-obheto iyo na matàwan paborableng sentensya an saindang kliyente dawa sa kaputikan, an parakleto iyo an Espiritu kan Katotoohan. Ini an itinutuga ni Jesus para sa saiyang mga disipulo. Sisay an tinaraman kong katotoohan dawa ini makakakulog?
“Katuninungan iwinawalat ko saindo: an sakong katuninungan itinatao ko saindo.” Mayo si Jesus ibang pamana kundi an katuninungan. Dawa an sùlot nyang gubing, ngapit kukuanon kan mga soldados na iyo an mapako saiya sa krus. An siring na katuninungan bakong bunga kan pang-aapi o pagpapatakot siring kan gibo kan mga diktador na gamit an armas asin militar, kundi pagkasaro ki Kristo. An tunay na katuninungan iyo an pagkuyog kan kabùtan kan Dyos. Ano man an sakong maipapamana sa sakong mga aki na bakong materyal? 4