Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of St. Jude Thaddeus, Naga City | v.4, n24/25 | issn 2599-5030 | 16 to 27 June 2019
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hysical food works in us even when we don't think about it, even when we sleep it turns into flesh, blood, vital energy. Spiritual food is different: it is effective if we collaborate with Christ, who wants to transform our life into his. In the Gospel, Jesus asks his disciples to feed the crowd. He could have done it easily by himself but he wanted their participation. He wanted their five loaves of bread and two pieces of fish. percentage of participation is there in your The usual alibi: “I am poor and I have Sunday masses? Well, even if we had 100% of nothing to give” is finally refuted in this the population participating in the Mass, gesture of Jesus. Whatever little we have, does this mean that the Kingdom of God God wants it, so as to strengthen our faith advances? I don't care so much how many and that of others. people attend Mass. I care more about those The Eucharist is therefore a who come out converted and feast of collaborative faith. It SUNDAY stimulates and strengthens REFLECTION consoled, disciples who are able to lower the mystery they have relationships with God. He wants just celebrated into everyday life. us to proclaim unanimously and The Eucharist is not credible if as a ritual courageously "Here is the Lord!" If I look at myself, I always find myself small, imperfect, it remains the memory of a success two thousand years ago. Instead, it is a "school of a sinner, full of limits. But the Eucharist tells life", a proposal of love that involves my us otherwise. Jesus, in the most difficult whole life: it must make me available to love moment of his life, makes a definitive gesture: he gives himself, does not offer bread my neighbour, to the point of giving my life for others according to the example that and wine, like Melchizedek, but his own life Jesus left us. That gesture, a gesture of on the altar of the cross. It is not the bread absolute love, is celebrated and repeated that becomes Christ, but Christ who becomes bread, in order to be assimilated, to every time a community of believers gathers together with a priest. But it cannot be a nourish, to indicate a new path, a new logic, pat-on-the-shoulder activity gesture. Either that of total self-giving. Whenever people from around the world the Eucharist infects our life, it fills it, it learn that you are parish priest, two common shapes it, it informs it or it remains sterile, questions would always come up: How many dead, useless. The Mass begins just when we leave the church door. And it lasts a whole parishioners do you have? And then this week. 4 fr. francis a. tordilla leads to the crucial question: What
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asunod ako saimo dawa sain ka man magduman.” Marhay an kamàwutan, huli ta sabi nya ‘dawa sain.’ Alagad, an simbag ni Jesus, ‘mayo ngani lamang.’ Kaipuhan masabutan kun ano an kabayaran LECTIO kan pagsunod ki Jesus, DIVINA kaya sya nagsabi: “an mga amid may kalot asin an mga gamgam may mga salagan, alagad an Aki nin Tawo mayo lamang masisirungan.” Namundag sya sa bahugan. Magagadan sya sa krus. Ilulubong sya sa lulubngan na sinublian. Sagkod sain an pagigin aktibo ko sa Prayer Group?
“Kagurangnan, tuguti nguna akong magpuli ta ilulubong ko an sakong ama.” An pakikilubong nakagamot sa kultura kan tawo. Dai malinaw digdi kun gadan na an ama kan buot magin disipulo. Tibaad ini gurang na asin buot nya muna ining atamanon sagkod na magadan. Saka na sana sya masunod ki Jesus. Alagad, malinaw an pangapudan ni Jesus. Gadan o buhay, urog mahalaga an pagbalangibog kan Marhay na Bareta kisa ibang bagay. Pàno ko pinapahalagahan an pagbalangibog kan Marhay na Bareta?
“An sisay man na nag-aarado dangan magsalingoy, bakong maninigo sa Kahadian nin Dyos.” Mahalaga sa pag-arado na nakahiling sa sarong punto tanganing tanos an linya kan pagkaarado. Kun ini tiriko, sa bilog na taranuman, maririparo ini kan gabos, asin
Whenever you eat this bread, then, and drink this cup, you are proclaiming the Lord's death until he comes.
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