archdiocesan shrine and parish of st. jude thaddeus, naga city | v.4, n.33 | issn 2599-5030 | 1 to 7 september 2019
Friend, move up higher When you are invited to a banquet, do not make yourself important.
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nce I got invited to a debutante ball and to lead the invocation. I arrived early and took a seat. A woman who seemed to be the event organizer approached me and said, “Father, I am sorry, but this table is for the debutante’s family. You may take any seat except this one.” That was embarrassing. I sat at the wrong table. In the gospel (lk 14:7-14), we find What could be the point here? More Jesus at a banquet. Observing that the than just social manners given by Jesus, guests were choosing the place of honor, this inevitably points more to our life of Jesus, rather than directly criticizing the faith. Many people give too much guests’ behavior, told them a parable, importance to themselves. They seek not “When you are invited to a just simple honor, but the highest praise. wedding banquet, do not recline Be superior than others! Be the first! Be at a table in the place of honor... the best! Be the richest, the SUNDAY Rather, go and take the lowest REFLECTION most beautiful, the most place” (lk 14:8,10). powerful! But this is not so in Why were the guests the Kingdom of God—“where everyone choosing the place of honor? And why who exalts himself will be humbled, and should one take the lowest place? In the one who humbles himself will be Jesus’ time, people were usually seated at exalted” (lk 14:11). This is the way from banquets according to social rank. People Christ’s humiliation in the cross to his who look for self-importance would glory. This is the same movement of the naturally choose the best place because one called “friend” and was asked to their seating affected others’ perceptions “move up higher.” The wedding banquet of their honor. Now, Jesus pointed out portrays this Kingdom, where God as the this cultural behavior to teach something. host who gives honor to the one who Rather than choosing a place of honor deserves it, and where we as the guests and be demoted by the host to make who should approach the banquet with room for a more distinguished guest, all humility. Jesus suggested: start by sitting at the After praying the invocation, I walked lowest place. Then the host may come to towards the last table. But the mother of ask such a person, “Friend, move up the debutante approached me and said, higher.” “Move up to a better seat.” “Move “Father, come forward and sit with us; up to a more important place.” And such a you are family and a friend!” 7 fr. erwin b. blasa person receives all the honor.
Para sa Ika-23 Domingo, C “An siisay man dai magpasan kan sadiri nyang krus asin magsunod sakô, dai ko magigin disipulo” babasahon i: wis 9:13-18b An libro nin Kadunungan isinurat bilang sarong pamibi ni Hading Solomon. Nahiling nya na dawa gurano kaasensado an kinaban ngunyan MGA BANHI sa linya nin KAN TATARAMON teknolohiya, kakánon, asin edukasyon, maluya pa nanggad an pagtatalubo sa pagmangno sa saindang kapwang nagtitios asin nangangaipo. Hinahapot nya siring man kun pàno manudan an kadunungan nin Mahal na Dyos na iyo an makakapatingkalag saiya hali sa sitwasyon na ini. An kadunungan na ini, bako an kadunugan nin banwaan o kultura, kundi kan lambang saro. babasahon 2: philem 9-10,12-17 An surat na ini ni Pablo sarong pagpatutuo na an nagdulag na suruguon na si Onesimoibinilang na nya bilang sarong “tugang” asin ini “gikan sa saiya man sanang puso.” Inaalok ni Pablo si Filemon na bayaan na an kaisipan na sinusunod kan kinaban: kagurangnan asin suruguon. Asin akuon an kaisipan kan simbahan: tugang sa tugang. Dai hinuhunà ni Pablo na saiyang mga gawi iyo an magigin basihan tanganing an kauripnan matapos na. ebanghelyo: lk 14:25-33 Si Jesus dai nagpamidmid na sya sarong pilosopo, paratukdo, o eksperto sa mga Tugon. Sya nagpamidbid bilang tunay na agihan nyato pasiring sa Dyos asin an tunay na kaugmahan sa buhay. Haloy na panahon tang itinugot na an pauruutrong na pagsimba o pagpamibi dai magdulot nin pagbabago sa satong buhay. Sya saná an makakapano kan satong buhay. Kun sya an
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