Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of St. Jude Thaddeus, Naga City | v.4, n22/23 | issn 2599-5030 | 2 to 15 June 2019
LANGUAGE OF DIVINE LOVE
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entecost means fifty days after the resurrection. It sounds like fifty shades of mystery. The scale of clarity and obscurity is wide and sliding. There are no fixed points or permanent colors.
the Church is like a cold mummy. After the resurrection, Jesus appeared The second reading reminds us that each several times to his disciples, both men and has received gifts from the Holy Spirit. In women. Jesus showed up to Mary Magdalene who mistook him for a gardener. fact, we are all unique because we are endowed with different gifts. And everyone Then Jesus accompanied the two is enriched by the sharing of unique gifts to disciples on their way to Emmaus. one another. He also entered the hiding place SUNDAY There is a difference of the apostles on two consecutive REFLECTION between a grace and a gift. Sundays. Then he appeared to Grace is what we need to be saved. We them again while they were receive them from the sacraments. Gifts are catching fish early in the morning. These what we need to save others. We receive days before the Ascension were a them from the Holy Spirit. continuation of his revelation and Because of Pentecost, we have the duty evangelization to his disciples. Then after to share our gifts to the community. the Ascension, there was silence. Today, on Pentecost Sunday, we suddenly Hoarding these gifts is a sin, a sin of omission. Like Peter and Paul, we need to hear a noise. The first reading describes this evangelize the world. This world includes noise like a driving wind. Then, there are our family, our school, our parish, every fireworks. However, it’s not like the fire corner of the parish, especially the going up the air, but tongues of fire vulnerable. Like Mary who constantly descending from heaven. This is how prayed for the mission of the Apostles, we eyewitnesses describe the Pentecost. also need to pray for the mission of the Immediately, after receiving the Holy Church. Monks and the nuns pray for this Spirit, the apostles spoke in different intention day and night in their languages. At the town center of Jerusalem, monasteries. people came from about 16 different When we hoard our talents, we commit geographical regions. Yet when the apostles sin. We hoard our talents when we refuse to spoke, each could understand them in their native language. Indeed, the language of the give our share to the community, when we Holy Spirit is universal. It is the language of are abundant in criticisms but thrifty in giving solutions to problems, when we divine love. pursue a personal benefit under the guise of This event, this Pentecostal event, is volunteering, or when we help only those considered the inauguration of the Church. who can pay us back. Our gifts are wasted The Church lives because it received a soul, DIVINE LOVE / next page the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit,
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akul pa an sasabihon ko saindo, alagad dai pa nindo masasabutan.” Itinukdo ni Jesus sa mga disipulo na sya magsasakit asin magagadan, alagad naglalaom pa nanggad sindang sya magigin hading makikilaban. Dai LECTIO ninda masabutan na an DIVINA Kagurangnan ipapako sa krus kaiba kan mga tulisan. Dai ninda masaho na an pundasyon kan Simbahan iyo an dugo na ipapabulos ni Jesus sa krus. Anong pagsakit an dai ko pa maakuako?
“Pag-abot kan Espiritu kan Katotoohan, tatabangan nya kamo nganing masabutan nindo an gabos na katotoohan.” Dai kita mapapasala sa Espiritu kan Katotoohan. An dalan sadit asin lubak-lubak, alagad tatabangan kitang makaagi na dai nasasakitan. Huli kan saiyang dunong, tatabangan kitang dai mahulog sa lìtag kan kaputikan. Huli kan saiyang pagkamuot, dai kita madadaog kan pagkauri asin pagigin maisip. Huli ta sya liwanag, dai kita matatakot sa diklom. Ano an pagmati ko bilang myembro kan BEC sa parokya?
“An gabos na sadiri kan sakong Ama sadiri ko; kaya sinabi ko na hali sako an ipapahayag saindo kan Espiritu.” Huli kan pagigin matinubod-tubod na Aki, si Jesus tiniwalaan kan Ama kan gabos na bagay sa langit asin sa daga. Mayong pagkakaiba an giya hali sa Espiritu sa giya hali sa saiyang katukduan. Gabos ini hali man sana sa saiyang Ama. Asin an Espiritung ini masagom sa bilog na kinaban, sa sisay man na tawo na magtiwala sa saiyang dunong, sa saiyang liwanag. Sa anong mga okasyon ako nangungurus? Ano an halaga kaini sako? 4