Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of St. Jude Thaddeus, Naga City | v.4, n21 | issn 2599-5030 | 26 May to 1 June 2019
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TWO KINDS OF PEACE
was part of small group touring the headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, when the host asked the group if there were any questions. One young woman raised her hand and quipped: “If everyone in the world desires peace, then why is that are still wars and killings going on around the world?” We all stood there for a while silenced by the seemingly naïve question. recognized as God, arouses in the hearts of There has never been so much talk of people a profound, unknown joy, different peace as today, and meanwhile we continue from any other joy. It is the joy of knowing to make war in many places. But, precisely oneself known, loved, precious. And the on this point, the Gospel of John this discovery of God's love opens us to new, Sunday makes an important unexpected scenarios: despite political and distinction: there is a peace of Jesus economic failures, the world and another peace, given by the SUNDAY world. St. John lays down for us REFLECTION remains to have a destiny of good, a loving design that flows towards the peace being offered by Jesus. God. And in this project I, if I want, I have a "I give you my peace, not as the decisive role. I am loved, you are loved. world gives it." The border of evil and good is Together with God we can change the world. in our heart. The enemy is within us, not The peace of the world, that which is outside, and the first authentic pacification sold as the absence of war, or worse still, as must take place within us with ourselves and war, deemed necessary to impose peace is our violence. Christians often talk about very much different from the peace of peace and the first thing that comes to their Christ. Killing drug dependents will finally mind is the cemetery! They think of a state of resolve the problem of drug abuse in our non-movement; no worrying, no arguing, country. Killing criminals is the only path because everyone is dead. Peace, according to toward peace. Whose peace do you have the Word of Jesus, is the first gift he makes, right now? Is it the peace of Jesus which is risen, appearing to the fearful disciples. profound, firm, and immovable? A pacified heart is a firm, unyielding At the end of these splendid Easter days, heart, which has understood its place in the let us invoke the Comforter, the Holy world, which does not get scared in adversity, Spirit, given by the Father, to face our daily does not despair in pain, is not discouraged in life with the certainty of the presence of the fatigue. The discovery of God, in one's life, the Lord, day after day, step by step. 4 fr. joyful encounter with him, the perception of francis a. tordilla his beauty, the conversion to the Lord Jesus
Peace I bequeath to you, my own peace I give you, a peace which the world cannot give, this is my gift to you. JOHN 14:27
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Solemnidad kan Pagsakat sa Langit, Taon C
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a ngaran nya, ipaghuhulit sa gabos na tawo, puon sa Jerusalem, an pagbakli asin kapatawadan nin mga kasalan.” Ano an sugo ni Jesus? An pagsadol sa gabos na tawo kan pagbàgong buhay asin an paglinig kan LECTIO kasàlan. Sisay an DIVINA tutukduon? An gabos na tawo, an gabos na linalang. Puon sa Jerusalem? Iyo. Para sa mga Hudiyo, an kinàban dapat dumulok sa Jerusalem. Para ki Jesus, an Jerusalem an dapat dumulok sa kinàban. Sain ko dinadara an mensahe ni Jesus nin pagbakli?
“Ako an mapadara saindo kan ipinanuga kan sakong Ama.” Si Jesus an kasangkapan kan Ama, an mapadara kan panuga kan Ama. Dai digdi sinambit kun ano an ipapadara o kun ano panuga kan Ama. Alagad, malinaw sa ibang kabtang kan Banal na Kasuratan na iyo ini an Espiritu Santo. Tinugon sinda ni Jesus na maghalat sa Jerusalem sagkod na ini mag-abot. Digdi sana magkakaigwang bisa an gabos na gibo kan mga apostol. Yaon daw sako an Espiritu Santo? May bisa daw an sakong gibo?
“Mantang benebendisyunan nya sinda, naghali sya asin dinara sa langit.” Huli ta natapos nya an saiyang misyon sa daga, kinua na sya kan saiyang Ama tanganing ibalik sya sa saiyang tamang pwesto asin estado. Kaya, an pagsakat sa langit bako sanang antisipasyon sa pagdatong kan Espiritu Santo kundi pagdanay kan presensya ni Jesus sa saiyang mga disipulo asin sa masurunod, gamit an saiyang pusisyon asin kapangyarihan. Ano an mga bendisyon na inako ko hali ki Jesus? 4 fr. wilmer joseph s. tria