Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of St. Jude Thaddeus, Naga City | v.4, n8 | issn 2599-5030 | 24 February to 2 March 2019
BRIGHT HEARTS
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ccording to Pope Francis, to love our enemies is a difficult logic. Yet, the martyrs of the Church were able to do it. And David, in the first reading, had the chance to kill Saul, his enemy. But he told his soldier: “Do not harm him, for who can lay hands on the Lord’s anointed and remain unpunished?” To reciprocate love is natural. Yet, Jesus invites us to transcend natural relationships and to be perfect like our Heavenly Father who makes the sun shine on both the good and the bad. The Pope says: “We are invited to forgive those who are killing us, who want us out of the way… Not only forgive, but even pray that God may watch over them! Even more, to love them.” When science was able to discover a way drug menace and will never restore peace, to split the atom, Albert Einstein said: “The security and order in society. Every human true problem lies in the hearts and thoughts life is important from the moment of conception to the moment of death. of men. It is not a physical problem but an If we want peace, we need a heart ethical one. What terrifies is not the transplant. We need a heart that can love not explosive force of the atomic bomb only friends but including our but the power of the wickedness SUNDAY of the human heart—its explosive REFLECTION enemies. To acquire this, we should not forget God. St. power for evil.” Indeed, the root Augustine said: “you have made us for you of all forms of violence—bullying, alone, and we are restless until we rest in rape, murder, terrorism, war—is bitterness thee.” The true foundation of peace is God, of the heart. God who teaches us to love even our enemies. The readings call us to work for peace God is not asking us to develop romantic but this work begins in the peace in our love with our enemies, or to condone the evil hearts. There can be no peace in the world if that they do. God calls us to an agape, even there is no peace in the neighborhood. Peace with those who persecute us or make our in the neighborhood begins in the peace in lives miserable. Agape is the love that pursues the heart of every person. For this, we need the welfare of everyone, including our to change our heart of stone to a heart of enemies. And this love includes forgiveness, human flesh. But only God, the Holy Spirit, can perform this heart transplant on us. Only prayer, sending them to rehabilitation or to prison, and yes, even by not voting for them the man who fears God and prays to Him —all for the welfare of their souls! When our can undergo such spiritual surgery. hearts are in agape with both friends and The Church leads us to this spiritual surgery by teaching us to value life. Time and enemies, our hearts shine the light of God. Let us make things right by making our again, the Church preaches that insurgency hearts shine bright. 4 fr. wilmer joseph and terrorism are not solutions to an inept s. tria government. EJK is not the solution to the
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àdaw ta nahihiling mo an kasadit na ati sa mata kan saimong tugang…?” An buta dai makakataong giya sa kapwa buta asin an parakasala dai makakahusga sa kapwa parakasala. Kaya, pinapalikay kita ni Jesus sa basingLECTIO basang na paghukom sa DIVINA kapwa o sa paghuna na kita makakataong na hulit sa sainda. Ini an karatan kan mga Pariseo na naghuhuna asin naghihiro na garo baga sinda an banal asin an gabos nindang kapwa mga maraot. Kaya, urog mahalaga an parating pag-eksamen kan sadiri pasiring sa dalan nin kabanalan. Ginigibo ko daw an burubangging pag-eksamen kan sakong kunsensya?
“Halia nguna an dakulang ati sa mga mata mo...” Siring sa trapo na maati, kita man kaipuhan labahan tanganing urog na magin mabisa sa paglinig kan iba. Siring sa samhod na maati, kita man kaipuhan na pagpagón tanganing mahali an mga alpog. Kaya mahalaga an kapakumbabaan. Mahalaga na mahiling an sadiri bilang trapo o samhod, na piniling magin kasangkapan kan Dyos sa pagpabakli sa iba. Alagad, enot sa gabos, kaipuhan munang linigon. Mainaan lamang an ati sa satong puso. Pirang beses akong magkumpisal kada bulan?
“An marhay na tawo, marhay man an gibo…” Bakong rambang an karahayan kan tawo. Natural sa marhay na tawo an maggibo nin marhay, sa maraot na tawo an maggibo nin maraot. Kaya an paramuda asin paragadan dai nanggad masasabing marhay na tawo. Siring man an tawong ipinaglalaban an dignidad kan buhay nin tawo dai masasabing maraot na tawo huli sana ta tumang sya sa bantog na pulitiko. Pàno ko inaataman an sakong puso? 4