archdiocesan shrine and parish of st. jude thaddeus, naga city | v.4, n.37 | issn 2599-5030 | 20 to 26 october 2019
Expanding your heart
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ver wondered why sometimes our prayers see to go unanswered? St Augustine explained the nature prayer like this: Suppose you want to fill some sort of bag, and you know the bulk of what you will be given. You stretch the bag or the sack. You know how big the object that you want to put in is, and you see that the bag is narrow, so you increase its capacity by stretching it. In the same way, by delaying the fulfillment of desire God stretches our heart, by making us desire. He expands the soul, and by this expansion he increases its capacity. Today Jesus is reminding us that we God has designed prayer to be flexible should have unlimited faith and enough to fit into everything else we do as confidence in God. He is a million well. And so, we really can always pray. times better than the judge who Maybe not while we are SUNDAY grants the wish of the persistent actually in the meeting—but REFLECTION widow. No prayer that we utter yes, while we are walking to goes unheard. God is never out of and from the meeting. Maybe not while his office. He's never on vacation. He is we are actually writing the report—but longing for us to bombard him with our yes, while we are driving to and from prayers. He is eagerly searching for hearts work. Maybe not while we are actually that trust him enough to ask him cooking but when we are washing the unceasingly for everything they need. He dishes. Our days are filled with a always answers our prayers, even when thousand little moments when we are the answer is "no". alone with ourselves. Jesus wants to be And so, as St Luke tells us, we should part of those moments. He wants us to "pray always without becoming weary." share those moments with us, because he Being constant in our prayer, just like the wants to share his life with us—as he will widow with her petitions to the judge, just prove once again today by coming to us in like Moses interceding for victory in the Holy Communion. battle against the Amalekites: constant in This week, let's fill up all those thanksgiving, constant in repentance, in-between times with prayer: thanking constant in praise, and constant in bringing God, asking him for what we need, and to God every need that comes our way. promising him that we will expand our Constancy built on confidence—that's the hearts in full confidence of his help. 7 fr. francis a. tordilla path to becoming better pray-ers.
My help comes from Yahweh who made heaven and earth. ps 121:2
Para sa Domingo 30c, Ord. Panahon “Huli ta an gabos na nagpapalangkaw ibababâ, asin an nagpapakumbabâ ilalangkaw.” babasahon i: sir 35:12-14,16-18 An pagkiling kan Kagurangnan sa mga nagtitios asin sa mga dukha bakong kawaran sa mga marhay an buhay kundi tanda na sya sarong matanos na hukom. An MGA BANHI hustisya nin KAN TATARAMON Kagurangnan iyo an saiyang paghiro tanganing magtugdas, magmantenir, asin magpanibago nin tamang relasyon. babasahon 2: 2 tim 4:6-8,16-18 Ipinapahayag ni San Pablo an saiyang dakulang pagsarig sa Dyos sa saiyang surat mantang sya nakabilanggo. Aram nya na harani na an saiyang kagadanan alagad bilog an saiyang buót. Ikinukumpara nya an saiyang buhay siring sa sarong atleta na nag-aandam na makamtan an premyo. Dawa mayong makakatabang sa kamugtakan nya, nagtutubod siya na dai sya papabayaan kan Dyos. ebanghelyo: lk 18:9-14 Ginamit ni Jesus an ehemplo na pamilyar sa mga kahimanwa nya tanganing bàguhon an saindang mga atitud. An pariseo na pigtitingkalag na matanos nagpapamibi “sa buót-buót” nya. Buót sabihon nagpapamibi sya bako lang na mayong nakakadangog sa sinasabi nya kundi nagpapamibi sya sa sadiri nya. Bako an Dyos an saiyang kaulay kundi sadiri nya. Sa saiyang kapaabaw-abawan, hinusgahan nya an kataid na parasingil nin buwis. Si Jesus inumaw an parasingil nin buwis nin huli ta an saiyang pamibi totoo asin maninigo nin huli ta naghagad sya nin tawad asin nangaipo kan hirak nin Dyos. paghurup-hurop 1. Pirang beses ako nagpapamibi sa sarong aldaw? 2. Ano an mga inaarang ko sa sakong mga pamibi? 7 fr. francis a. tordilla
San Antonio Maria Claret: Marahayon na Padi
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n “Ispiritwal na Ama kan Cuba” sarong misyonero, kagtugdas relihiyoso, kagpakarhay kan sosyudad, kapelyan kan reyna, kagpublikar, asin arsobispo. Saro syang Espanyol na napaduman sa Islas Canarias, sa Cuba, Madrid, Paris, sagkod sa Inot na Konsilyo Batikano. Sa mga libre nyang oras bilang sarong nin mga produktong maiintinda asin parahaból asin paradisenyo makukuahan nin pagkakan nin mga nin tela sa Barcelona, nanùdan pamilya. Kinontra ini kaidtong FEAST DAYS mga negosyante na buot nin ni Antonio an Latin asin pag& HOLY LIVES imprenta. Ini an nagin pagsasaro sa sanáng produkto— andam nya sa buhay bilang padi tubó. Kaibahan kan mga panurat relihiyoso asin pabliser. Inordinahan sya sa idad na ni Antonio iyo an duwang librong sinurat 28, alagad an maluyang resistensya nagnya sa Cuba: an Mga Hurup-hurop sa ulang saiya tanganing sya magin sarong Agrikultura asin Kaugmahan sa Probinsya. Kartusyano o kun bako man, Heswita, Pinapuli sya sa Espanya para sa alagad sya nagin saro sa pinakapopular na sarong trabaho ba dai nyang gayong prokurador sa Espanya. ikinaranga—an maging kapelyan kan Sa laog nin sampulong taon, nanginutan reyna. Inakò nya an trabaho sa tulong sya sa pagmimisyon asin mga pagreretiro kondisyon: dai sya sa palasyo maistar; (retreats), asin pirmi nyang tinatawan maduman saná sya kun mapakumpisal nin duon an Eukaristiya asin debosyon sa sa reyna asin matukdo sa mga aki kaini; Banal na Puso ni Maria. Sinasabi na dai asin, dai sya maayon sa mga okasyon sa nanggad nawawara an rosaryo sa kamot ni laog kan palasyon. Sa rebolusyon kan Antonio. Sa idad 42, tinugdas nya an sarong 1868, kaibahan kan grupo kan reyna si institusyon relihiyoso nin mga misyonero. Antonio sa padulag pasiring sa Paris kun Limang myembro saná sinda kan ini sain nagtukdo sya sa komunidad nin mga tinugdas—asin ngunyan iyo na an inaapod Espanyol. na mga Claretians. Sa bilog na buhay ni Antonio, Ipinadara si Antonio sa napabayaan buót nyang magpuon nin Katolikong na Arkidyosesis kan Santiago sa Cuba. imprenta. Tinugdas nya an Harong nin Inot nyang ginibo sa pagpakarhay kaini Publikasyon Relihiyoso, na nangungurog iyo an daing untok na pagtukdo asin na Katolikong pabliser sa Espanya. Digdi pagpakumpisal. Tinios nya an pagkontra nakapagsurat sya o asin nakaimprenta nin kan dakol na mga tawo huli sa pagtukdo maabot sa 200 na libro asin mga polyetos. nya sa mga uripon na mga Aprikano asin Sa Inot na Konsilyo Batikano, igot sa pagsikwal nya sa prostitusyon. nyang ipinakipaglaban an doktrina kan Sarong paragadan—na pinaluwas dai pagkakasalâ (infallability) kan Santo nya sa bilangguan—an nagtaga saiya sa Papa. Sa konsilyo, inumaw sya kan mga lalawgon asin pulso. Alagad si Antonio pa pag-iribang obispo, asin inapod sya na an nagpababa kan sentensya sa nasabing totoong santo ni Cardinal Gibbons kan paragadan hali sa padusang kagadanan Baltimore. Nagadan si San Antonio pababa sa pagkabilanggo na saná. Maria Claret sa idad na 63, mantang An solusyon nya sa pagtios kan mga nakadistyero sa may linderos kan Espanya Cubano iyo an saradit na mga tatamnan asin Pransya. 7 vic nierva GIYA SA LITURHIYA Domingo 29, Ordinaryong Panahon C, Okt 20-26, 2019 okt 20, dom : S. Marta / eph 3:14-21 / ps 33:1-2,4-5,11-12,18-19 / lk 12:49-53 okt 21, lun : S. Ursula / reph 4:1-6 / ps 24:1-6 / lk 12:54-59 okt 22, mar : S. Juan Pablo II / eph 4:7-16 / ps 122:1-5 /lk 13:1-9 okt 23, mye : S. Juan Capistrano / sir 35:12-14,16-18 / ps 34:2-23 / 2 Tm 4:6-8,16-18 / lk 18:9-14 okt 24, hwe : S. Antonio Ma. Claret / eph 4:32-5:8 / ps 1:1-4,6 / lk 13:10-17 okt 25, bye : S. Bonifacio I / eph 5:21-33 / ps 128:1-5 / lk 13:18-21 okt 26, sab : S. Alfredo Magno / eph 6:1-9 / is 145:10-14 / lk 13:22-30
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Gabos biyaya
an ako makatapos sa PREX, nagarang ako sa mahal na Dyos sa tabang ni St. Jude na lugod magkatrabaho ako. Nag-apply ako sa Bicol Medical Center bilang sarong housekeeper pero nareject ako ta overaged na daa ako. Dai man ako nagpadaog sa rejection, pero sa tabang kan ST. JUDE’S INTERCESSION mahal na Dyos, nagsakat ako sa Engineering Office asin kusog-buot na nag-apply giraray. Insigida naako man ako ta pwede pa daa magtrabaho an dawa siisay man, basta kaya pa magtrabaho. Nagpuon na ako magtrabaho pagkasumiter ko kan mga requirements. Sa arualdaw kong pagmata, an arang ko sa mahal na Dyos iyo an tawan ako nin marhay na kaibahan sa trabaho. Sa laog nin sobrang sarong taon, salamat sa mahal na Dyos ta mayo man akong nagin problema. Mabúot sinda sakuya magpuon sa opisina, sa mga duktor, mga nars asin mga kapwa ko janitor. Magin an mga para-bantay mabubuot. An gabos na biyaya itinao sakuya kan mahal na Dyos. Dahil kaini nakanuod po ako magpasalamat asin maghiras maski sadit o kadikit sa kapwa ko, bilang balos sa balaog na saiyang itinao. Urog an pasasalamat ko sa Simbahan. Tinukduan akong maghiras bilang pasasalamat sa biyaya na samong inaako. Puon sa bilog kong pamilya, pati po an sakong mga aki sagkod na sa mga makuapo ko, natukduan ko na maghiras. Urog sa gabos an magpasalamat kan biyaya na itinao kan Mahal na Dyos.—Norma Buena, Capucnasan, SJTP PREX Class 25 7 ****** abalos, St. Jude sa biyaya nin mga amigo. Mabalos sa biyaya nin kaugmahan sa arualdaw na pagkabuhay bilang eskwela. Ilikay mo man an sakuyang mga magurang sa katibaadan. Daraha man po an mga prayers ninda sa mahal na Dyos. Salamat po.—Sarong estudyante 7
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Baptized and Sent
The Church of Christ on Mission in the World
Excerpts from the Message of His Holiness, Pope Francis, for the World Mission Sunday 2019
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he title of the present Message is the same as that of October’s Missionary Month: Baptized and Sent: The Church of Christ on Mission in the World. Celebrating this month will help us first to rediscover the missionary dimension of our faith in Jesus Christ, a faith graciously bestowed on us in baptism. Our filial relationship with God is not something simply private, but always in relation to the Church. Through our communion with God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, we, together with so many of our other brothers and sisters, are born to new life. This divine life is not a product for sale – we do not practise proselytism – but a treasure to be given, communicated and proclaimed: that is the meaning of mission. We received this gift freely and we share it freely (cf. Mt 10:8), without excluding anyone. God wills that all people be saved by coming to know the truth and experiencing his mercy through the ministry of the Church, the universal sacrament of salvation (cf. 1 Tim 2:4; Lumen Gentium, 48). The Church is on mission in the world. Faith in Jesus Christ enables us to see all things in their proper perspective, as we view the world with God’s own eyes and heart. Hope opens us up to the eternal horizons of the divine life that we share. Charity, of which we have a foretaste in the sacraments and in fraternal love, impels us to go forth to the ends of the earth (cf. Mic 5:4; Mt 28:19; Acts 1:8; Rom 10:18). A Church that presses forward to the farthest frontiers requires a constant and ongoing missionary conversion. How many saints, how many men and women of faith, witness to the fact that this unlimited openness, this going forth in mercy, is indeed possible and realistic, for it is driven by love and its deepest meaning as gift, sacrifice and gratuitousness (cf. 2 Cor 5:14-21)! The man who preaches God must be a man of God (cf. Maximum Illud). This missionary mandate touches us personally: I am a mission, always; you are a mission, always; every baptized man and woman is a mission. People in love never stand still: they are drawn out of themselves; they are attracted and attract others in turn; they give themselves
to others and build relationships that are life-giving. As far as God’s love is concerned, no one is useless or insignificant. Each of us is a mission to the world, for each of us is the fruit of God’s love. Even if parents can betray their love by lies, hatred and infidelity, God never takes back his gift of life. From eternity he has destined each of his children to share in his divine and eternal life (cf. Eph 1:3-6). This life is bestowed on us in baptism, which grants us the gift of faith in Jesus Christ, the conqueror of sin and death. Baptism gives us rebirth in God’s own image and likeness, and makes us members of the Body of Christ, which is the Church. In this sense, baptism is truly necessary for salvation for it ensures that we are always and everywhere sons and daughters in the house of the Father, and never orphans, strangers or slaves. What in the Christian is a sacramental reality – whose fulfillment is found in the Eucharist – remains the vocation and destiny of every man and woman in search of conversion and salvation. For baptism fulfils the promise of the gift of God that makes everyone a son or daughter in the Son. We are children of our natural parents, but in baptism we receive the origin of all fatherhood and true motherhood: no one can have God for a Father who does not have the Church for a mother (cf. Saint Cyprian, De Cath. Eccl., 6). Our mission, then, is rooted in the fatherhood of God and the motherhood of the Church. The mandate given by the Risen Jesus at Easter is inherent in Baptism: as the Father has sent me, so I send you, filled with the Holy Spirit, for the reconciliation of the world (cf. Jn 20:19-23; Mt 28:16-20). This mission is part of our identity as Christians; it makes us responsible for enabling all men and women to realize their vocation to be adoptive children of the Father, to recognize their personal dignity and to appreciate the intrinsic worth of every human life, from conception until natural death. Today’s rampant secularism, when it becomes an aggressive cultural rejection of God’s active fatherhood in our history, is an obstacle to authentic
human fraternity, which finds expression in reciprocal respect for the life of each person. Without the God of Jesus Christ, every difference is reduced to a baneful threat, making impossible any real fraternal acceptance and fruitful unity within the human race. The universality of the salvation offered by God in Jesus Christ led Benedict XV to call for an end to all forms of nationalism and ethnocentrism, or the merging of the preaching of the Gospel with the economic and military interests of the colonial powers. In his Apostolic Letter Maximum Illud, the Pope noted that the Church’s universal mission requires setting aside exclusivist ideas of membership in one’s own country and ethnic group. The opening of the culture and the community to the salvific newness of Jesus Christ requires leaving behind every kind of undue ethnic and ecclesial introversion. Today too, the Church needs men and women who, by virtue of their baptism, respond generously to the call to leave behind home, family, country, language and local Church, and to be sent forth to the nations, to a world not yet transformed by the sacraments of Jesus Christ and his holy Church. By proclaiming God’s word, bearing witness to the Gospel and celebrating the life of the Spirit, they summon to conversion, baptize and offer Christian salvation, with respect for the freedom of each person and in dialogue with the cultures and religions of the peoples to whom they are sent. The missio ad gentes, which is always necessary for the Church, thus contributes in a fundamental way to the process of ongoing conversion in all Christians. Faith in the Easter event of Jesus; the ecclesial mission received in baptism; the geographic and cultural detachment from oneself and one’s own home; the need for salvation from sin and liberation from personal and social evil: all these demand the mission that reaches to the very ends of the earth. The providential coincidence of this centenary year with the celebration of the Special Synod on the Churches in the Amazon allows me to emphaze how the mission entrusted to us by Jesus with the gift of his Spirit is also timely and baptized and sent | Next Page
APOLO-GIYA
San Judas Tadeo
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usog sa tradisyon, si San Judas Tadeo nagbalangibog kan ebanghelyo sa Judea, SAmaria, Idumaea, Syria, Mesopotamia, asin Libya. Sinasabi pa ngani na nagsungko pa sya sa Beirut asin Edessa, dawa ngani an sugo sa masunod na misyon inaapod man na Tadeo kan Edessa, na iyo si Addai. Subuot, si San Judas Tadeo nagtaram nin Griyego asin Aramaiko, siring kan mga kakontemporanyo nya. Susog sa sarong alamat si San Judas aki ni Clopas asin ni Maria ni Clopas, na tugang ni Birhen Maria. Kun kaya ngani sa "Awit ki San Judas Tadeo" inaapod syang "pinsan na tunay ni Kristo." Susog man giraray sa tradisyon, si Clopas na saiyang ama, nagin sarong martir ma huli sa daing pagduwaduwa kaining pagpahayag nin pagtubod sa pagkabuhay liwat ni Jesus. Sinda San Judas asin San Bartolome an tinutubdan na nagdara kan Kristyanismo sa Armenia kun kaya sinda pareho an mga Santo Patron kan Apostolikong Simbahan kan Armenia. 7 vic nierva
Previous Page | baptized and sent necessary for those lands and their peoples. A renewed Pentecost opens wide the doors of the Church, in order that no culture remain closed in on itself and no people cut off from the universal communion of the faith. No one ought to remain closed in self-absorption, in the self-referentiality of his or her own ethnic and religious affiliation. The Easter event of Jesus breaks through the narrow limits of worlds, religions and cultures, calling them to grow in respect for the dignity of men and women, and towards a deeper conversion to the truth of the Risen Lord who gives authentic life to all. ... We entrust the Church’s mission to Mary our Mother. In union with her Son, from the moment of the Incarnation the Blessed Virgin set out on her pilgrim way. She was fully involved in the mission of Jesus, a mission that became her own at the foot of the Cross: the mission of cooperating, as Mother of the Church, in bringing new sons and daughters of God to birth in the Spirit and in faith. I would like to conclude with a brief word about the Pontifical Mission PARISH WEEKLY FINANCIAL REPORT
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Sagradong beste 2
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alba iyo an sagradong bado na ordinaryong ginagamit kan mga inordinan asin pinagnumbrahan na mga ministro sa Simbahan. An alba bubugkusan nin sintura sa habayan, apwera na sana CATECHETICAL kun ini husto CORNER na dawa mayo an sintura. An beste na ordinaryo sa padi na maselebrar kan Misa asin iba pang sagradong rito na direktang konektado sa Misa, iyo an kasulya, apwera na sana kun igwa nin iba pang beste na itinalaan para sa ispisipikong rito (girm 336-337). 7 vic nierva
OCT 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
RECEIVED 19,830.50 11,366.00 4,845.00 23,228.00 18,169.00 0.00 55,906.50
DISBURSED 28,600.00 9,317.25 0.00 0.00 9,967.41 0.00 0.00
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Societies, already proposed in Maximum Illud as a missionary resource. The Pontifical Mission Societies serve the Church’s universality as a global network of support for the Pope in his missionary commitment by prayer, the soul of mission, and charitable offerings from Christians throughout the world. Their donations assist the Pope in the evangelization efforts of particular Churches (the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith), in the formation of local clergy (the Pontifical Society of Saint Peter the Apostle), in raising missionary awareness in children (Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood) and in encouraging the missionary dimension of Christian faith (Pontifical Missionary Union). In renewing my support for these Societies, I trust that the extraordinary Missionary Month of October 2019 will contribute to the renewal of their missionary service to my ministry. To men and women missionaries, and to all those who, by virtue of their baptism, share in any way in the mission of the Church, I send my heartfelt blessing. 7 vatican news
ANNOUNCEMENTS OCT 19-27. Novena Mass in honor of
St. Jude Thaddeus (Weekdays, 6pm; Weekends, 5:30pm). OCT 23. DTI Seminar Workshop for
Starting Entrepreneurs, Edessa Hall, 2pm. OCT 26. Launching of First Sundays
Pledge Program, Edessa Hall, 7pm.
OCT 28. Solemnity of St. Jude Thaddeus,
Parish Fiesta Celebration, Solemn Pontifical Concelebrated Mass, 5:30p. OCT 30. Living Rosary after the 6pm
Mass.
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is published by the Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of St. Jude Thaddeus located at St. Jude Village, Concepcion Grande, Naga City Fr. Francis A. Tordilla parish priest
Fr. Emmanuel G. Mojica Fr. Larry G. Mijares parochial vicars
Mobile Number 0946.592.4709 Email stjude.naga@gmail.com
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