Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of St. Jude Thaddeus, Naga City | v.4, n5 | issn 2599-5030 | 3 to 9 February 2019
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he Archdiocese of Caceres celebrates today the feast of its principal patron, St. Peter Baptist. He was a Franciscan missionary, from Avila, Spain, who was assigned here, in the Diocese of Caceres.
While he was here, he organized villages community at Corinth for their pride and prejudices by pushing them to focus on and towns, put up hospitals, charities and love and complementarity than on educational centers in the region, all in the competition and division. Jesus, even if spirit of evangelization. Today, these towns God, was not spared. At his inaugural and parishes still exist, and we are all address, when he applies to himself the beneficiaries of the fruits of his prophecy of Isaiah, they took missionary work. He died a SUNDAY martyr in Japan because of the REFLECTION offense at him. They were tremendously troubled with the opposition of non-Catholic words that today, he will bring good priests who did not appreciate his tidings to the poor, liberation to the missionary works in their country. captives, sight to the blind, freedom to the The readings this Sunday encourage us oppressed, and declare a year pleasing to to be faithful to God’s mission by being God. Yet, Jeremiah, Paul and Jesus faced all ready to face hatred, rejection and the hatred and persecution with prophetic persecution. The world is filled with evil, such as treachery and betrayal, maneuvering courage. They endured the rejection because God tasked them to preach these and manipulation, graft and corruption, inconvenient truths. poverty and oppression. The poor and the The vicious cycle of oppression exists in vulnerable are oftentimes the victims. To all levels of society. We are guilty of proclaim their liberation from mendicancy preserving the status quo. We, too, have and captivity is a disturbing prophetic been rejected, one way or another, by message. Yet we are called to be faithful to individuals like our parents, teachers, that message. We cannot modify it in the friends, or by institutions like schools, name of political correctness or diplomacy. The readings are all inspiring. Jeremiah, churches, local governments and agencies. And we are also guilty of that same hatred Paul and Jesus find themselves in similar and rejection, when we ignore people, when circumstances. They bring to the people we humiliate them with our words and disturbing messages. We call them today actions, because of our arrogance and ‘inconvenient truths.’ These messages did prejudices. We are guilty of this evil every not please the ears of God’s enemies. Jeremiah faces his detractors with courage. time we sell our votes to evil candidates or go to the precincts without the thought of The Psalms offer us consoling words to the poor and the oppressed. sing in the midst of persecution. Paul INCONVENIENT TRUTHS / next page bravely reprimands the Christian
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Domingo 5, Ordinaryong Panahon, Taon C
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umalawod kamo...” An lawod iyo an pinakahararom na parte kan dagat o salog. Nag-angal si Pedro huli ta magdamlag na ninda ining ginibo alagad mayo sindang nakuang sira. Nalinigan na ninda an LECTIO mga hikot asin andam na DIVINA sindang magpahingalo. Habo na nindang uliton an pag-itsa. Alagad, huli ta sinabi ini ni Jesus, nagtubod sinda. Siring man, an pagpumalawod iyo an pag-utob kan mga masakit na agyat kan Kagurangnan. Kasuarin ako nagkuyog sa Dyos dawa pagal-pagal na?
“Rumayo ka sako Kagurangnan, huli ta saro akong makasàlan.” Garo si Pedro inulaan nin malipot na tubig. Garo sya nakalaog sa eleganteng lugar mantang an saiyang gubing makasupog-supog. Huli kan milagrong ini, nahiling nyang yaon sya sa atubangan nin banal na tawo, asin namatian nya an saiyang dakulang pagkukulang asin karàtan. Dai sya maninigo na magin katuod ni Jesus. Kasuarin ako nakamati nin kasusupgan sa Dyos asin nasubol sa pagkumpisal?
“Pakaduungan ninda kan mga sakayan sa baybayon, binayaan ninda an gabos asin nagsunod ki Jesus.” Ini an pagigin tunay na disipulo ni Jesus. Binayaan ni Mateo an lamesang singilan nin buwis. Binayaan kan mga parasira an saindang ama, baroto asin hikot. Hinulitan ni Jesus an mayaman na ipabakal an gabos na pagrugaring sa pagsunod saiya. An pagigin marhay na disipulo iyo an pagpaurog kan mga bagay na langitnon kisa mga kinàbanon na bagay. Ano an mga langitnon na bagay an pinaurog ko kisa kinàbanon na bagay? 4