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
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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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eople who are different from the rest are almost always belittled and looked down to. Whatever custom we're used to, it will always be what our society chooses to follow, whether it be in gender roles, religions, gender orientations, physique, and so on, so forth.
But amidst of the conflict in our she was visibly annoyed and uninterested, various opinions and beliefs, St. working to undermine him, St. Frederick Frederick of Utrecht should be a took every ounce of patience and FEAST DAYS symbol of the faithful's voice. He & HOLY LIVES calm, prudence and charity with is celebrated as the Bishop of him when he spoke to her. Utrecht, martyr of the faith, for In his acts of spreading the Gospel and his virtuous acts. moral rights, St. Frederick was pushed into Although his early life was unclear, a dangerous place of political target. Sadly, it's true that this authority St. Frederick felt the need to had been validate their trained under stance, which the Church on the dreaded of Utrecht, day of July 18, among 838, was proved. many other After a mass clergymen. He he just held, St. also composed Frederick met a prayer to the the fate of Julius Holy Trinity. Caesar. He was In 825, stabbed by two he was assassins. Barely selected and recuperating proclaimed and in his dying as bishop breath, St. of Utrecht Frederick recited by Bishop Ps 144: "I will Ricfried. St. praise the Lord Frederick in the land of the was given living." the task of His life story enlightening tells so much those who why he is the are newlypatron of the converted into deaf. Those who Christianity. can hear decide Like all advocates of faith, St. Frederick to ignore the cries of those who cannot. experienced oppression of the powerful St. Frederick gave up his life for his faith, figures in politics of their community. which makes him indeed a Holy Martyr He found himself in the predicament of that serve as an example of commitment, ousting Empress Judith after her sons and letting Christ guide you. 7 jahzara shainne endriga accused her of immortality. Even after GIYA SA LITURHIYA Domingo 16, Taon C, Hulyo 14-20, 2019
hul 14, dom : S. Kateri Tekakwitha / Dt 30:10-14 / Ps 69:14,17,30-37 / Col 1:15-20 / Lk 10:25-37 hul 15, lun : S. Buenaventura / Ex 1:8-14,22 / Ps 124:1-8 / Mt 10:34--11:1 hul 16, mar : S. Maria Magdalena Postel / Ex 2:1-15 / Ps 69:3,14,30-34 / Mt 11:20-24 hul 17, mye : S. Marcelina / Ex 3:1-6,9-12 / Ps 103:1-7 / Mt 11:25-27 hul 18, hwe : S. Frederico kan Utrecht / Ex 3:11-20 / Ps 105:5,8-9,24-27 / Mt 11:28-30 hul 19, bye : S. Arsenio Magno / Ex 11:10--12:14 / Ps 116:12-18 / Mt 12:1-8 hul 20, sab : S. Margarita kan Antyokya / Ex 12:37-42 / Ps 136:1,10-15,23-24 / Mt 12:14-21
Para sa sakong aki
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t. Jude, namimibi ako saimo huli ta ako pano nin paghandal huli sa sakuyang nguhod na aki. Kagagradwar nya pa sana sa college, pasiring sa panibagong buhay na sakuyang ipinaghahandal huli ta garo dai sya andam asin an saiyang disposisyon dai ST. JUDE’S pa INTERCESSION husto. Nangangaipuhan nanggad sya nin giya asin kaibahan. St. Jude, tabangan mo man sya, asin gibuha man ako na katuwang nya sa bagay na ini sa paagi na magigin independyente sya tanganing makanuod man syang mabuhay sa saiyang pagmaigot. Lugod ipahiling mo man saiya an kabutan kan Ama, asin giyahan sya sa dalan nin marhay asin matanos na buhay. Irayo mo man sya sa anuman na kasakitan, kahilangan, katikapuhan, asin iba pang mga kadipisilan. Ipamati mo man saiya asin ipasabot na sya nanggad namumutan— namumutan mi na saiyang mga magurang, namumutan kan saiyang mga matuang tugang, namumutan kan gabos na nasa paligid nya. Asin na an pagkamuot na ini magtao man saiya nin imbong sa oras nin kamunduan. Ibinubugtak ko sa saimong mga palad, St. Jude, an sakuyang aki, daraha man sya sa kaginhawahan, sa pusog na pagtubod sa Dyos, sa maugmang buhay arualdaw, sa marhay na trabaho asin relasyon sa kapwa. Ipinapamibi ko ini saimo nin bilog na pagsarig. Amen.—Agnes May Panton, deboto ni St. Jude 7 pwb BALAOG ASIN TABANG NI ST. JUDE?
Kun igwa kamo nin istorya nin presensya ni St. Jude sa saindong buhay, o kahagadan o pamibi, isurat asin ihiras tanganing magin inspirasyon asin pamibi nin gabos. Gibuhon na halìpot saná asin simple, dai masobra sa 300 tataramon. Paki-email sa stjude.naga@gmail.com o darhon sa SJTP Parish Office.
Sunday Reflection / previous page proximity of our positions either physically, economically, politically or religiously but what makes a neighbor is a person who is in need of our mercy. A neighbor is one for whom we can render service. A neighbor is one for whom we can show mercy. A neighbor is one whom we can accompany in the journey for wellness—a journey towards the eternal bliss with God. 7 ramon l. almoneda, phd-th
Praising God for gift of creation leads to respect for it, pope says vatican—Human beings are called to praise God for his gift of creation, not be predators out to plunder the earth and all it contains, Pope Francis said. In a message sent July 8 to participants of an Italian conference on the consequences of deforestation in the Amazon, the pope said the current situation in the South American rainforest “is a sad paradigm of what is happening in many parts of the planet.” It is “a blind and destructive mentality that prefers profit to justice; it highlights the predatory attitude with which men and women relate to nature,” he said. “Please do not forget that social justice and ecology are deeply interconnected.” According to its website, the international forum sponsored by the Laudato Si’ Community, an association inspired by the pope’s encyclical on the environment, reflected on the Amazon as “the key to ‘ecological conversion'” in order to obtain a “better understanding of
integral ecology and obtain the knowledge of living in harmony with creation.” The conference took place in the central Italian town of Amatrice, which was devasted in 2016 after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck the region. Amatrice was the hardest-hit town, accounting for 234 of the estimated 290 deaths, according to the Italian Civil Protection office. In his message, the pope said the conference’s location was “a sign of hope” as well as a “sign of closeness to so many brothers and sisters who still live at the crossroads between the memory of a frightening tragedy and a reconstruction that is slow to take off.” Regarding the conference’s theme, the pope said the deforestation and exploitation of the Amazon and its
inhabitants has brought thousands of men and women to their knees and forced them to “become foreigners in their own land, deprived them of their own culture and tradition and broke the balance that united these peoples to their land for millennia.” Citing St. Paul VI’s encyclical on integral human development, “Populorum Progressio,” the pope said that humankind can no longer “remain an indifferent spectator in the face of this destruction, nor can the church remain mute: the cry of the poor must resound.” Pope Francis also offered three attitudes for the conference participants to reflect upon when discussing the care of the environment. The first word, doxology—the liturgical formula of praise Praising God / next page
Human justice should bow down to divine charity
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or the simple reason that our human justice can never cope with all the demands and requirements of divine charity as shown by Christ in his passion, death and resurrection, our human justice should bow to divine charity.
Somehow this was the message of Pope Francis to the Filipino bishops who had their “ad limina” visit to him recently. Love and pray for your persecutors, the Pope was reported to have told the bishops. Imitate Christ, he told them. Christ made no exception in his love for everyone. He even offered mercy to those who crucified him, and even went to the extent of finding excuses for them. “Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they are doing.” (Lk 23,34) It was as if the Holy Father was comforting those bishops who have been the object of vitriolic attacks by a politician. It was as if the Holy Father was reminding them that they should not be surprised by these painful developments. It was as if the Pope was telling them that they have to learn to expect being misunderstood, mocked, insulted and practically given a public crucifixion because that was how Christ himself went through. “If they persecuted me, they will persecute you as well,” Christ told his disciples. (Jn 15,20) And Christ reminded his disciples that no servant is greater than his master. That’s just how things are. But the bishops should simply focus on their ministry which is far more important than complaining about being unfairly treated and defending themselves. Charity and mercy, compassion, understanding and patience should always be obvious in all their actuations and reactions.
Let’s remember that charity, the charity of God as shown by Christ is the highest and the mother virtue. It is the ultimate truth itself. It is what makes justice real justice, the justice of God and not just our own idea of justice. It is this charity that can manage to be above the usual as well as the unusually severe differences and conflicts we can have among ourselves. It has a universal scope. It can even extend to those who clearly reject God, as in, even those who are already in hell. This charity does not stop just because it is not reciprocated or, worse, because it is contradicted. This is the reason charity is superior to justice. And this is also the reason we just cannot live by justice alone, which has in its core the law of Talion. Our justice cannot fully fathom what is due to us, what we truly deserve. Only God’s charity can. God’s charity gets more stirred when unreciprocated and contradicted. It will even offer the other cheek. It is always magnanimous, making one willing to suffer and die if only to bring others to the truth, to the right path, to God. Charity will proclaim the truth in season and out of season. And it does stop even if the truth is rejected. This is the charity of God. It is the highest good we can have. It is God himself who in the First Letter of St. John is described, nay, defined as love. “Deus caritas est.” (cfr. 4,8) 7 cbcpnet
ANNOUNCEMENTS JULY 20, 27. Basic Orientation Program
SJTP Pastor Fr. Francis Tordilla and Mo. Rose Enciso, Superior of the Daughters of Mary Mother of the Church Institute, sign memorandum of agreement on Sr. Arlene Lorente's assignment as full-time Parish Catechist Coordinator at SJTP.
Praising God / previous page to God—is the attitude that all men and women must have before the beauty of God’s creation. “Praise is the fruit of contemplation, contemplation and praise lead to respect and respect becomes almost veneration before the goods of creation and its creator,” the pope said. An attitude that is eucharistic, he continued, helps men and women grasp the gift of life and recognize that
for new catechists, 9:30-11am, 2-4pm. JULY 7-16. Novena and Feast of Our
Lady of Mt. Carmel.
JULY 22. Feast of St. Mary Magdalene,
Sitio Magdalena Fiesta Celebration.
JULY 25. Feast of St. James, Apostle, St.
James Village Fiesta Celebration, 9am. JULY 28. Feast day of the Hearts of
Jesus and Mary, Villa Corazon Chapel, 5:30pm. JUL 29. Memorial of St. Martha,
“everything is given to us free of charge, not to be looted or devoured but to be a gift meant to be shared, a gift to be given.” Finally, an ascetic attitude toward the environment is important so that people may “know how to give up something for a greater good, for the good of others. Asceticism, Pope Francis said, “helps us to convert a predatory attitude—that is always lurking—into sharing, building a relationship that is ecological, respectful and kind.” 7 cbcpnet
honoring parish staff and workers, 6pm Mass. PARISH GIFT SHOP A music album titled: Echoes from Edessa, A Jubilee Album (p350); A St. Jude Thaddeus Devotional Handkerchief (p50); and A St. Jude Thaddeus Calendar 2019 (p20). Others are St. Jude Thaddeus Oil (p50) and St. Jude Thaddeus Images (p500).
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aipuhan nanggad an makuring paglangan tanganing masiguro na an tinapay asin an arak na gagamiton sa Eukaristiya pakarhay an pagkatago asin dai mararaot, kun saiin an arak dai CATECHETICAL magigin sukà CORNER asin an tinapay dai mapapànos o mátagas na madali na sanáng magkabaranga. Kun pagkatapos kan pagbáyaw o sa panahon kan saiyang pagkomunyon mahiling kan padi na bakong arak kundi tubig an nasa kalis, ipapalos nya an tubig sa ibang lalagan, dangan makonsagrar nin arak na may salak tubig(girm 323-324). 7 vic nierva
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