SJTP Parish Weekly Bulletin V4,N28 (July 14, 2019)

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archdiocesan shrine and parish of st. jude thaddeus, naga city | v.4, n.28 | issn 2599-5030 | 14 to 20 july 2019

Are you my neighbor?

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e can deduce in the Gospel reading during this 15th Sunday in ordinary time (Lk 10:25-37), two salient themes: firstly, the question on what is the rule in order to gain eternal life, and; secondly, defining the real neighbour in our life..

When the lawyer in the Gospel parable is found only in the Gospel challenged Jesus on the formula for according to St. Luke. This parable has been gaining eternal life, Jesus returned the an object of reflection by a number of question to the lawyer: What is written in Theologians as well as Biblical scholars and the law? And Jesus in affirmation agreed as an example, the fathers of the Church with the lawyer’s answer when he have allegorically interpreted the elements mentioned the greatest in the parable, like: Jerusalem is Heaven commandment: “You shall love and Jericho our world; the SUNDAY the Lord, your God with all your REFLECTION priest and Levite as the law and heart, with all your being, with authority in our religion; the all your strength, and with all victim representing Adam and all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” humanity; the robbers as the hostile (Lk 10:27) Clearly, Love of God and love of powers in the world; the beast as the body neighbor becomes our ticket to Eternal of Christ; the Inn is the Church which life, in other words, it is loving God as well accepts all, and; the Samaritan as Christ as our neighbor which should guarantee who is full of mercy and who will make a happiness. A riddle which quite ordinarily second coming in the future. confronts every believer upon reading this To the question, “which of these three is: which is greater, is it love of God or love was neighbor? The lawyer answered, ‘the of neighbor? Jesus answered this question one who treated him with mercy’” (cf Lk in another Gospel passage when He said: 10:36-37). Though he was right, the lawyer the first greatest commandment is to love avoided to say that it was the “Samaritan” God with all your might and the second is and it is understandable on his part not to like it, to love your neighbor as yourself. (cf acclaim the Samaritan. History shaped the Mt 22:37-39) Neither is greater, they are enmity between Jews and Samaritans of the same importance and dignity, the when the Samaritans intermarried and first is mentioned first and the second cooperated with the Assyrians in 722-1 bc mentioned as second, because there is no who conquered the Kingdom of Israel way that both commandments can be said instead of defying them. From then on at the same emission of the voice. until the time of Jesus, the Jews despised In the Gospel, the lawyer pursued the the Samaritans. In this parable Jesus question: “And who is my neighbor?” (Lk wanted to convey the message that what 10:29) which led Jesus to tell about the makes a neighbor is not so much the parable of the Good Samaritan. This Sunday Reflection / next page

giya sa prayer meeting

Lukas 10:38-42 Domingo 16, Taon C

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i Jesus asin an saiyang mga disipulo nagpadagos sa paglakaw…” Dai nag-uuntok si Jesus asin an saiyang mga disipulo sa paglakaw, dawa ngani dakol sindang tinarabangan sa saindang mga inaaragihan. Ngunyan, maagi sinda sa Betania, alagad LECTIO an sainda talagang DIVINA tinutumbok iyo an syudad kan Jerusalem kun sain nya ililigtas an katawuhan sa paagi kan saiyang kagadanan. Kasuarin ako tinamaan nin kahugakan sa pagbalangibog kan marhay na bareta? Tàno? “Kagurangnan, dai ka naheherak na pinapabayaan sana akong magtraboing solo kan tugang ko.” Yaon si Jesus sa harong kan saiyang mga katuod na si Marta asin Maria. Si Marta nasisibot sa kusina mantang si Maria nagdadangog kan hulit ni Jesus. Malinaw na selos si Marta ki Maria. Kaya nagluwas an saiyang naturalesa na suguon si Jesus na isubol si Maria sa kusina. Kasuarin ako nagselos asin rinibok ko si dai man dapat ribukon? “Marta, Marta, nasisibot ka asin nahahàdit dapit sa dakul na bagay…” Inapod ni Jesus si Marta sa ngaran tanganing sya tukduan, bakong anggutan. Buot ni Jesus an pagkakan na inaandam saiya, alagad urog mahalaga saiya an pagdangog ni Marta, lalo na ta ini na an huri nyang pagdalaw sainda. Ngapit, sya magagadan sa Jerusalem. Ano an sakong mga pinagkakasibutan kun kaya haros dai na ako makapamibi ki Jesus? 7 fr. wilmer joseph s. tria


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