Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Maligayang Ika-7 Anibersaryo Katoliko Group
Maligayang ika-7 Anibersaryo sa inyo mga groupmates!
Ang Ebanghelyo ng Panginoon ay tunay nga na 'di lang nakakapagbigay ng kaalaman sa ating lahat, ang Ebanghelyo ay may kapangyarihan na makapagbago sa ating lahat! Ang pagbabago na ito ay nagpapalago at nagpapaunlad sa ating buong katauhan, sa esperitwal, sa pisikal, at sa ating relasyon sa Diyos at sa lipunan.
Sa aking karanasan, ang aking paglago sa grupo ay sa pagbabahagi ng aking mga pagninilay sa mga Pagbasa at pagbukas ko sa aking sarili sa mga naibabahagi ng iba tunay nga na tinutulungan ako ng Panginoon na paglalimin ang aking kaalaman sa Pananampalataya at pagpapalakas ng aking esperitwal na buhay sa pamamagitan ng lalo kong pagkilala sa Kanya. Nagpapasalamat ako at naging kasama ko kayo sa grupo na nagbibigay sigla sa akin upang ipagpatuloy ang pagtagpo sa Panginoon sa ating Pananampalataya. Dahil sa inyo, alam ko na lagi akong may kasama, na laging may makikinig at magbabasa ng aking ibabahagi, na laging may bukas-palad sa ating grupo na magbabahagi ng kanilang kaalaman, pagmamahal at pagninilay. Tunay na nagkakaroon tayo sa grupo na ito na masaksihan na tayo ay gawa para sa handog: ang lahat ng kabutihan ay natanggap natin mula sa Panginoon at tayo'y tinatawag upang ihandog sa iba ang ating sarili at ang ating mga natanggap mula sa Panginoon.
Dahil sa grupo natuon ang aking pagninilay sa pulyeto, mga pagpabasa, at sa ngayon ay sa mga dokumento ng Iglesiya. Ang paglago ko din sa grupo ang nag-udyok sa akin na makipag-ugnayan sa iba pang mga pangkat.
Salamat sa mga madalas na nagsheshare tulad nina Fr Dante, Bros Carlos, Resty, Prinz, George, Allan, Volt, James, Duchin, Benjie, Miguel, Bal at kina Srs Myrna, Claire, ate Dwen, Shirley
Ang panalangin ko ay lalo pang mamunga ang grupo na ito para sa Panginoon.
Gaya ng nasabi ko, dahil sa ipagdiriwang natin ang ating ika-7 Anibersaryo ng 30 na araw, Itutuloy natin ang ating pagdiriwang hanggang sa ika-9 ng Nobyembre. Kaya nama, magpopost ako ng aking mga naibahagi ko ng artikulo noon na palagian kong ibinabahagi pati sa labas ng ating grupo.
Maligayang Anibersaryo,
Eric Piczon
Friday, October 15, 2010
Katoliko Group Anniversary! Facebook posts and EWTN Notes
Hello groupmates!
Malapit na ang Anniversary ng ating Katoliko Group sa Oct 26. Nauna kong naisip na ipagdiwang ang ating anibersaryo ng isang buwan mula Oct 11 ngunit naging abala ako sa pag-buo ng presentasyon sa Encyclical ni Sto Papa Benito XVI na aking ibabahagi sa inyo sa loob ng 30 na ito.
Kaya naman upang masimulan ang ating pagdiriwang, ipopost ko aking nga tala sa ilang mga serye ng EWTN, kasama ng aking mga pagninilay na aking ibinahagi sa Facebook.
Nawa'y magpatuloy pa ang ating samahan at pagtagpo natin kay Kristo sa ating Pananampalataya.
Happy Anniversarry!
Your groupmate,
Eric
Some points I got from PBXVI's message for WYD 2011:1)We have to be planted and built up in Jesus Christ 2) it is in our Christian Faith that we have a personal relationship w/Him, encounter Him, our true identity is revealed by Him and our life grows towards complete fulfilment.***EWTN is everywhere! Yahoo to the expanding global reach of authentic Catholic Preaching!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sll4IwR8-F8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Wow! If Dives Misericordia meditated on the Parable of the Prodigal Son, Veritatis Splendor meditated on the person's question:"what good must I do to have eternal life". Encyclicals are prisms that show the full color spectrum of the light given by the Gospel and the Cathechism! ** the Sunday Gospel reminds that our love for our neighbors should always be grounded and shaped by our love for God.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXKAVf9G88s&feature=youtube_gdata_player
May God stir in our hearts the urgency and more intensified desire to respond to His call, our mission that orients us towards the filling in our deepest hunger to love and to serve Him.**Let's listen to Bishop Tagle's Sunday Readings meditation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmXEaZyJVt0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
You can save people from loosing their faith by knowing Christ more and helping others do the same. Here is a beautiful testimony of Dr Scott Hahn and his wife Kimberly that has been re-told thousands of times which has continually made people cross the Tiber. Thanks for making us fall in love with Bible studies and jumpstarting our desires to deepen our knowledge of the Faith.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btYWd31QIy8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Our familiarity with Mary's role in man's salvation history is an indicator of the degree of our recognition of the unity of all the books in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTdt3_LPDMQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Notes fr Social Doctrine by Msgr Stuart Swetland**
We are made for infinite love**Geneticist show that we all have a commone ancestor**Adam and eve didn't trust that God wants our Good
**Let's listen to Bishop Tagle's Gospel reflection. The Lord tells us that we should exceed the cleverness and zeal of wordly people and direct these things to fuel our desire to serve Him
Saw the movie Karol on EWTN. Wooow! This movie,which I rank 2nd on my favorite JP2 film list next only to"Witness to Hope", is a sort of a collage of the lessons I've learned from JP2. Maybe buying the DVD and donating to Lady of Peace Library so a lot of folks would benefit from it is a good idea!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVWYLkAeNaI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
"Be not afraid" is said to have appeared 366 times in the Bible from resurrection till the end. we have one for each day of the year including leap year**
Comfort those who are afflicted and aflict those who are overly comfortable**Instead of having more we have to move forward in being more is a humorous description of our social doctrine**
One tragic thing in life is not to be a saint **To be saint is follow our vocation to seek peace and justice**Social teaching is to sanctify the world**Justice is fidelity to the relatioship**The justice of God's kingdom is mercy**The church's social teaching helps us fulfill our vocation** God's Word and Thought is so real that it is a person, and the love between the father and son is the Holy Spirit. The thought and the person is not separate from God the Father, they are one being. He is a comunity of person, God is love. He is self sustained and does not need anything outside of himself. We are made out of love for love, out of communion for communion. Out of relatioship for relationship
So we can live with the communion with Him and brothers and sister and to be in harmony with creation with oursleves which is the original justice. We are made for God to be united with the infinite Love to fill the God-size hole in us**.in Christ we more than restored and because our relationship with God is restored..all other relationship can be healed and restored.**Grace can heal our internal disharmony**4 relationship that was affected by sin: With God. With others, with creation and with ourselves**
We have to go back to the very beginning to how God intended it to be**How can we love God who we can't see if don't love our brothers who we can see**Man is in the image of God coz they can think and choose..intellect and will,,also we are in the image of God coz we are called to live in communion and relationship**Francis' prayer shows that evil is the absence of good and that Christ has come here to fill that void**Mary is the model to receive grace and receive the truth. The magi found Christ in the arms of Mary
Notes from Priesthood through the Ages by Fr O'Connor**The priest is a priest because of his being even before his acting. The more pronounced the cross in the life of a priest is the more effective is his priesthood. **
Difference of pagan/jewish priest with our priest is that he also offers himself, they are the priest and victims. Numbered among sinners so we can be united to God**
Everyhting that the priests do is an extension of the mass, letting the power of the sacrifice of the cross flow.
Gospel of Life byFr Meneses**
Do not accept anytihing of the one without the other (Faith and Reason) because having only one of the will be a destructive lie--edith stein**The loss of the sense of God is the loss of the sense of man**Kapax dei we are capable of God**The body is a part and parcel of who we are, the expression of our person- summary of JP2's Theology of the Body
the title of the video indicates that PBXVI's statement, warning us of the deception of the media, was directed against the mafia. This means that it might be reasonable to suspect that there is an intentional media movement to harm the Church. Let us find courage when Jesus, when put in political/religious trap of deciding whether to stone the woman, a was able to strike to the root of the problem by letting the Truth of Gospel shine forth!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-rKEvxcYUY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Poverty is not just a problem to be solved, the poor people has to be loved**The poor people in the world might be those people who are in the aged homes**
We won't be able to adequately serve the poor if we don't let ourselves be filled with Christ**
God made us to work. For us not to work is against the 3rd commandment because it says there that for 6 days we will work and the rest on the 7th day.**Work became harder because of sin
One thing that the chess game shows us is not waste opportunities. As chess player should optimize his movements by doing meaningful ones, gaining any advantages and positioning pieces where they'll be most effective, Christians should take every opportunity to sanctify their lives, offer up even small works to God, and respond to our vocation in life where we will give Him the greater Glory**Let us pray that abortionists will peel off the layers of rationalizing they have built that desensitizes them and may they have compassion for the unborn babies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DIkYeRkD4M&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Malapit na ang Anniversary ng ating Katoliko Group sa Oct 26. Nauna kong naisip na ipagdiwang ang ating anibersaryo ng isang buwan mula Oct 11 ngunit naging abala ako sa pag-buo ng presentasyon sa Encyclical ni Sto Papa Benito XVI na aking ibabahagi sa inyo sa loob ng 30 na ito.
Kaya naman upang masimulan ang ating pagdiriwang, ipopost ko aking nga tala sa ilang mga serye ng EWTN, kasama ng aking mga pagninilay na aking ibinahagi sa Facebook.
Nawa'y magpatuloy pa ang ating samahan at pagtagpo natin kay Kristo sa ating Pananampalataya.
Happy Anniversarry!
Your groupmate,
Eric
Some points I got from PBXVI's message for WYD 2011:1)We have to be planted and built up in Jesus Christ 2) it is in our Christian Faith that we have a personal relationship w/Him, encounter Him, our true identity is revealed by Him and our life grows towards complete fulfilment.***EWTN is everywhere! Yahoo to the expanding global reach of authentic Catholic Preaching!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sll4IwR8-F8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Wow! If Dives Misericordia meditated on the Parable of the Prodigal Son, Veritatis Splendor meditated on the person's question:"what good must I do to have eternal life". Encyclicals are prisms that show the full color spectrum of the light given by the Gospel and the Cathechism! ** the Sunday Gospel reminds that our love for our neighbors should always be grounded and shaped by our love for God.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXKAVf9G88s&feature=youtube_gdata_player
May God stir in our hearts the urgency and more intensified desire to respond to His call, our mission that orients us towards the filling in our deepest hunger to love and to serve Him.**Let's listen to Bishop Tagle's Sunday Readings meditation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmXEaZyJVt0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
You can save people from loosing their faith by knowing Christ more and helping others do the same. Here is a beautiful testimony of Dr Scott Hahn and his wife Kimberly that has been re-told thousands of times which has continually made people cross the Tiber. Thanks for making us fall in love with Bible studies and jumpstarting our desires to deepen our knowledge of the Faith.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btYWd31QIy8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Our familiarity with Mary's role in man's salvation history is an indicator of the degree of our recognition of the unity of all the books in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTdt3_LPDMQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Notes fr Social Doctrine by Msgr Stuart Swetland**
We are made for infinite love**Geneticist show that we all have a commone ancestor**Adam and eve didn't trust that God wants our Good
**Let's listen to Bishop Tagle's Gospel reflection. The Lord tells us that we should exceed the cleverness and zeal of wordly people and direct these things to fuel our desire to serve Him
Saw the movie Karol on EWTN. Wooow! This movie,which I rank 2nd on my favorite JP2 film list next only to"Witness to Hope", is a sort of a collage of the lessons I've learned from JP2. Maybe buying the DVD and donating to Lady of Peace Library so a lot of folks would benefit from it is a good idea!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVWYLkAeNaI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
"Be not afraid" is said to have appeared 366 times in the Bible from resurrection till the end. we have one for each day of the year including leap year**
Comfort those who are afflicted and aflict those who are overly comfortable**Instead of having more we have to move forward in being more is a humorous description of our social doctrine**
One tragic thing in life is not to be a saint **To be saint is follow our vocation to seek peace and justice**Social teaching is to sanctify the world**Justice is fidelity to the relatioship**The justice of God's kingdom is mercy**The church's social teaching helps us fulfill our vocation** God's Word and Thought is so real that it is a person, and the love between the father and son is the Holy Spirit. The thought and the person is not separate from God the Father, they are one being. He is a comunity of person, God is love. He is self sustained and does not need anything outside of himself. We are made out of love for love, out of communion for communion. Out of relatioship for relationship
So we can live with the communion with Him and brothers and sister and to be in harmony with creation with oursleves which is the original justice. We are made for God to be united with the infinite Love to fill the God-size hole in us**.in Christ we more than restored and because our relationship with God is restored..all other relationship can be healed and restored.**Grace can heal our internal disharmony**4 relationship that was affected by sin: With God. With others, with creation and with ourselves**
We have to go back to the very beginning to how God intended it to be**How can we love God who we can't see if don't love our brothers who we can see**Man is in the image of God coz they can think and choose..intellect and will,,also we are in the image of God coz we are called to live in communion and relationship**Francis' prayer shows that evil is the absence of good and that Christ has come here to fill that void**Mary is the model to receive grace and receive the truth. The magi found Christ in the arms of Mary
Notes from Priesthood through the Ages by Fr O'Connor**The priest is a priest because of his being even before his acting. The more pronounced the cross in the life of a priest is the more effective is his priesthood. **
Difference of pagan/jewish priest with our priest is that he also offers himself, they are the priest and victims. Numbered among sinners so we can be united to God**
Everyhting that the priests do is an extension of the mass, letting the power of the sacrifice of the cross flow.
Gospel of Life byFr Meneses**
Do not accept anytihing of the one without the other (Faith and Reason) because having only one of the will be a destructive lie--edith stein**The loss of the sense of God is the loss of the sense of man**Kapax dei we are capable of God**The body is a part and parcel of who we are, the expression of our person- summary of JP2's Theology of the Body
the title of the video indicates that PBXVI's statement, warning us of the deception of the media, was directed against the mafia. This means that it might be reasonable to suspect that there is an intentional media movement to harm the Church. Let us find courage when Jesus, when put in political/religious trap of deciding whether to stone the woman, a was able to strike to the root of the problem by letting the Truth of Gospel shine forth!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-rKEvxcYUY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Poverty is not just a problem to be solved, the poor people has to be loved**The poor people in the world might be those people who are in the aged homes**
We won't be able to adequately serve the poor if we don't let ourselves be filled with Christ**
God made us to work. For us not to work is against the 3rd commandment because it says there that for 6 days we will work and the rest on the 7th day.**Work became harder because of sin
One thing that the chess game shows us is not waste opportunities. As chess player should optimize his movements by doing meaningful ones, gaining any advantages and positioning pieces where they'll be most effective, Christians should take every opportunity to sanctify their lives, offer up even small works to God, and respond to our vocation in life where we will give Him the greater Glory**Let us pray that abortionists will peel off the layers of rationalizing they have built that desensitizes them and may they have compassion for the unborn babies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DIkYeRkD4M&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Mga tala sa panayam kay Dr. Robert George tungkol sa tunay na kahulugan ng kasal
EWTN World Over Live
Youtube
Mp3
Ano ba ang kasal?Ang kasal ay pag-iisang dibdib ng mag-asawa. Walang makakaisip ng kasal kung hindi dahil sa kakayanan ng lalaki at babae na magkaroon ng anak sa loob ng relasyong sekswal. Ang katotohanan na ito ay ang sentro ng konsepto ng kasal ng lahat ng komunidad sa buong mundo. Ang susi sa pag-unawa sa kasal ay sa pagsasama ng babae at lalaki, isang relasyon na pandalawang tao lamang (kahit sa polygamy) at ito ay mayroong relasyong sekswal na para lamang sa mag-asawa kung saan nagiging ganap ang kanilang pagiging mag-asawa. Ang magkakaparehong pananaw at pagkaunawa sa kasal ng mga komunidad sa buong mundo ay may layunin at naa-angkop sa relasyong bukas sa pagkakaroon ng sariling anak. Ito ang pinaka modelo ng kasal. Ngunit ang kasal ay 'di lang tinitignan bilang paraan upang magkaroon ng anak dahil kahit ang mag-asawa ay walang kakayanan na magka-anak, kinikilala pa din ng simbahan at ng estado na sila ay kasal sa kondisyong ang kasal nila ay naging ganap dahil sa pagtatalik o relasyong sekswal na ordinaryong naglalayon sa pagkakaroon ng anak. Sa pinaka modelo ng kasal, mayroong presensya ng ama at ng ina, at pagmamahal sa mga anak ng mga tunay nilang magulang. Ito rin ang isa sa dahilan kung bakit 'di maaring maging kasal ang pagsasama ng dalawang lalaki o dalawang babae kahit maaari naman silang umampon ng bata. Tayo ay mga nilalang na may katawan at mayroon tayong kaugnayang pangkatawan sa ating mga magulang na ating pinanggalingan. Sa pag-sisiyasat, kahit ang mga anak na nabuo dahil sa 'sperm donation' ay naghahanap din ng kanilang tunay na magulang. Kahit ang mga inampong anak ay may kagustuhan na mahalin ng kanilang mga tunay na magulang.
Kung babaliwalain natin ang pagbibigay kahulugan sa kasal bilang relasyon ng isang babae at isang lalaki lamang, mawawalan tayo ng basehan na makita na ang kasal ay 'di maaring maging relasyon ng mahigit sa dalawang tao. Kung ibabase lang natin ang kasal sa nararamdaman ng tao, tandaan natin na maari ding makaranas ng mala-romantikong damdamin ang mahigit na dalawang tao. Sa pagsira ng tao sa kahulugan ng tunay na kasal, ano pa ang pipigil sa atin na kilalanin ang pagsasama ng mahigit dalawang tao bilang kasal?
Ang pagsuporta ng estado sa maling pananaw na ito ay maglalagay sa mga komunidad sa peligro. May posibilidad na dumami ang komplikasyon tulad ng posibilidad na masampahan ng kaso ng diskriminasyon ang mga laban dito at ang pagpuwersa na bigyan ng trabaho sa simbahan ang mga same-sex couple. Sa Massachussets, ang Catholic Charities na kumakalinga sa mga ulila nang mahigit 100 na taon ay nagsara upang maiwasang makibahagi sa paghaya sa maling pananaw ng kasal. Nasampahan sila ng kaso at naparatangang nagkamali laban sa batas ng 'same-sex marriage'. Ganon din sa New Mexico nang ang isang photagrapher ay pinagmulta ng $7,500 dahil sa pagtanggi na kunan ng litrato ang kasal ng dalawang taong may parehong kasarian dahil alam niya na ito ay laban sa Kristianong pananampalataya.
Tayong lahat ay apektado nito.
Youtube
Mp3
Ano ba ang kasal?Ang kasal ay pag-iisang dibdib ng mag-asawa. Walang makakaisip ng kasal kung hindi dahil sa kakayanan ng lalaki at babae na magkaroon ng anak sa loob ng relasyong sekswal. Ang katotohanan na ito ay ang sentro ng konsepto ng kasal ng lahat ng komunidad sa buong mundo. Ang susi sa pag-unawa sa kasal ay sa pagsasama ng babae at lalaki, isang relasyon na pandalawang tao lamang (kahit sa polygamy) at ito ay mayroong relasyong sekswal na para lamang sa mag-asawa kung saan nagiging ganap ang kanilang pagiging mag-asawa. Ang magkakaparehong pananaw at pagkaunawa sa kasal ng mga komunidad sa buong mundo ay may layunin at naa-angkop sa relasyong bukas sa pagkakaroon ng sariling anak. Ito ang pinaka modelo ng kasal. Ngunit ang kasal ay 'di lang tinitignan bilang paraan upang magkaroon ng anak dahil kahit ang mag-asawa ay walang kakayanan na magka-anak, kinikilala pa din ng simbahan at ng estado na sila ay kasal sa kondisyong ang kasal nila ay naging ganap dahil sa pagtatalik o relasyong sekswal na ordinaryong naglalayon sa pagkakaroon ng anak. Sa pinaka modelo ng kasal, mayroong presensya ng ama at ng ina, at pagmamahal sa mga anak ng mga tunay nilang magulang. Ito rin ang isa sa dahilan kung bakit 'di maaring maging kasal ang pagsasama ng dalawang lalaki o dalawang babae kahit maaari naman silang umampon ng bata. Tayo ay mga nilalang na may katawan at mayroon tayong kaugnayang pangkatawan sa ating mga magulang na ating pinanggalingan. Sa pag-sisiyasat, kahit ang mga anak na nabuo dahil sa 'sperm donation' ay naghahanap din ng kanilang tunay na magulang. Kahit ang mga inampong anak ay may kagustuhan na mahalin ng kanilang mga tunay na magulang.
Kung babaliwalain natin ang pagbibigay kahulugan sa kasal bilang relasyon ng isang babae at isang lalaki lamang, mawawalan tayo ng basehan na makita na ang kasal ay 'di maaring maging relasyon ng mahigit sa dalawang tao. Kung ibabase lang natin ang kasal sa nararamdaman ng tao, tandaan natin na maari ding makaranas ng mala-romantikong damdamin ang mahigit na dalawang tao. Sa pagsira ng tao sa kahulugan ng tunay na kasal, ano pa ang pipigil sa atin na kilalanin ang pagsasama ng mahigit dalawang tao bilang kasal?
Ang pagsuporta ng estado sa maling pananaw na ito ay maglalagay sa mga komunidad sa peligro. May posibilidad na dumami ang komplikasyon tulad ng posibilidad na masampahan ng kaso ng diskriminasyon ang mga laban dito at ang pagpuwersa na bigyan ng trabaho sa simbahan ang mga same-sex couple. Sa Massachussets, ang Catholic Charities na kumakalinga sa mga ulila nang mahigit 100 na taon ay nagsara upang maiwasang makibahagi sa paghaya sa maling pananaw ng kasal. Nasampahan sila ng kaso at naparatangang nagkamali laban sa batas ng 'same-sex marriage'. Ganon din sa New Mexico nang ang isang photagrapher ay pinagmulta ng $7,500 dahil sa pagtanggi na kunan ng litrato ang kasal ng dalawang taong may parehong kasarian dahil alam niya na ito ay laban sa Kristianong pananampalataya.
Tayong lahat ay apektado nito.
-- my heart rejoices in the Lord!
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Praying Deus Caritas Est
"Lord you are love, let us abide in love so we can abide in You, and You abide in us" (1 Jn 4:16)"We have come to know and to believe in Your love for us, to encounter you and to respond to your gift
We thank you for the beautiful love between a man and woman. help us discipline and purify this love, a love that should promise us infinity and, eternity. Unite our body and soul when we love and make this love lead us beyond ourselves through self-giving so we can know You and so we can know ourselves, for you have said "Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it"
Ground and shape our love in faith. Give this love so we may give it to others. Make us a source from which rivers of living water flow (cf. Jn 7:37-38) by constantly drinking anew from You, Jesus Christ, whose pierced heart flows the love of God (cf. Jn 19:34). So great is Your love for man that by becoming man You have followed us even into death reconciling us through justice and love. Unite us to You so we may become one spirit with You" (1 Cor 6:17).
It is written that a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife and they become one flesh(Gen 2:24) you have designed this union to represent the complete humanity. Help us direct this love towards marriage, to a bond that is an icon of the relationship between You and Your people. Your way of loving becomes the measure of human love.
Jesus, incarnate love of God, You are the shepherd who goes after the lost sheep,You are the one who looks for the lost coin, You have revealed God the Father who goes to meet and embrace us his prodigal sons. Jesus, Logos and ultimate eternal wisdom, You are our real food and You truly nourish us and enable us to enter into the Your self-giving. Before, we only stand in Your presence, now we are able to unite ourselves with You by sharing in your self-gift, and by sharing in your body and blood. This Union with you unites us with all those to whom you have given Yourself and draws us out of ourselves towards You uniting us with all Christians. You have united our Love for you and the love for our neighbours: draw us all to into Yourself. We find you Jesus in the least of the brethren, and in You,Jesus, we find God. Our communion with Your will increases in a communion of thought and sentiment so that Your will is now our own will, and you become more deeply present to me than I am to myself. Let us surrender ourselves to this self- abandonment for you are our joy (cf. Ps 73 [72]:23-28).
Lord, in You and with You, I love even the person who I do not like or even know because we encounter You in them. I learn to look on this other person not simply with my eyes and my feelings, but with Your eyes. If I have no contact with You in my life, then I cannot see in the other anything more than the other, and we can't see them in the image of God. Help us to welcome, love, and serve our neighbours. Make us see what You have done for us and how much You love us.
Unite us in You with your love. Holy Spirit, conform our heart into Christ's heart and move us to love our brethren as Christ loved them, just as when he bent down to wash the feet of the disciples (cf. Jn 13:1-13) and above all when he gave his life for us (cf. Jn 13:1, 15:13). Transforms the heart of the church, so that it becomes a witness before the world to the love of the Father. Make humanity a single family in his Jesus. We ask you to be with us in evangelizing
We read in the Acts of the apostles that "All who believed were together and had all things in common; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need" (Acts 2:44-5). Teach us to be faithful to the "teaching of the Apostles", in a life centered on "communion" (koinonia), "the breaking of the bread" and "prayer" (cf. Acts 2:42). Lead us to serve you in the widows and orphans, prisoners, and the sick and needy of every kind for these service expresses who we are We are your family. No one in our family should go without the necessities of life, no member should suffer through being in need. We thank you for always giving us an opportunity to do good to all especially to those who are of the household of faith.
May our leaders lead us in the just ordering of society. We pray that states will guarantee religious freedom and harmony between the followers of different religions. May states recognize and respect the proper independence of the Church based on faith as a community. Purify our reason, free it from ethical blindness caused by effects of power and special interests. Purify and liberate our reason through our Faith where we encounter You and we see new horizons that extends beyond the sphere of reason. Help us spread the Church's social teaching using reason and natural law, to help form consciences in political life and to give us greater insight into the authentic requirements of justice as well as greater readiness to act accordingly, even when this might involve conflict with situations of personal interest.
May we Christians speak with a united voice to ask for the "respect for the rights and needs of everyone, especially the poor, the lowly and the defenceless. May we respond to immediate needs of our brothers and sisters, to feed the hungry, cloth the naked, care for and healing the sick, visit those in prison, make our faith active through love (cf. Gal 5:6). To make present here and now the love which man always needs. May we make people aware of Your presence By having a pure and generous love as Your witness. Guide us by the faith which works through love (cf. Gal 5:6) so that it is"the love of Christ urges us on" (5:14).
Lord, you have given Yourself for us, even unto death, inspire us to live no longer for ourselves but for You, and, with You, for others. Let us share in the needs and sufferings of others, for this is my sharing of my very self with them: my personal presence in our gift. May we not consider ourself as superior to the one served, rather, we are able to serve because You have graciously enabled us to do so.
Give us Hope to do good even in the face of apparent failure. Make us humble to accept Your mystery and to trust You even at times of darkness. You have given Jesus for our sake. You hold the world in Your hands and, in spite of all darkness, You will ultimately triumph in glory.
Through our Faith make us see your love which you revealed in the pierced heart of your Son, Jesus on the Cross. Let Your light illuminate our world and give us the courage to keep us living and working. We thank you for creating us in your image and letting us experience this intimate union. We ask you to pervade our souls and make us fountains where rivers of living water flow" (Jn 7:38).
-- my heart rejoices in the Lord!
We thank you for the beautiful love between a man and woman. help us discipline and purify this love, a love that should promise us infinity and, eternity. Unite our body and soul when we love and make this love lead us beyond ourselves through self-giving so we can know You and so we can know ourselves, for you have said "Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it"
Ground and shape our love in faith. Give this love so we may give it to others. Make us a source from which rivers of living water flow (cf. Jn 7:37-38) by constantly drinking anew from You, Jesus Christ, whose pierced heart flows the love of God (cf. Jn 19:34). So great is Your love for man that by becoming man You have followed us even into death reconciling us through justice and love. Unite us to You so we may become one spirit with You" (1 Cor 6:17).
It is written that a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife and they become one flesh(Gen 2:24) you have designed this union to represent the complete humanity. Help us direct this love towards marriage, to a bond that is an icon of the relationship between You and Your people. Your way of loving becomes the measure of human love.
Jesus, incarnate love of God, You are the shepherd who goes after the lost sheep,You are the one who looks for the lost coin, You have revealed God the Father who goes to meet and embrace us his prodigal sons. Jesus, Logos and ultimate eternal wisdom, You are our real food and You truly nourish us and enable us to enter into the Your self-giving. Before, we only stand in Your presence, now we are able to unite ourselves with You by sharing in your self-gift, and by sharing in your body and blood. This Union with you unites us with all those to whom you have given Yourself and draws us out of ourselves towards You uniting us with all Christians. You have united our Love for you and the love for our neighbours: draw us all to into Yourself. We find you Jesus in the least of the brethren, and in You,Jesus, we find God. Our communion with Your will increases in a communion of thought and sentiment so that Your will is now our own will, and you become more deeply present to me than I am to myself. Let us surrender ourselves to this self- abandonment for you are our joy (cf. Ps 73 [72]:23-28).
Lord, in You and with You, I love even the person who I do not like or even know because we encounter You in them. I learn to look on this other person not simply with my eyes and my feelings, but with Your eyes. If I have no contact with You in my life, then I cannot see in the other anything more than the other, and we can't see them in the image of God. Help us to welcome, love, and serve our neighbours. Make us see what You have done for us and how much You love us.
Unite us in You with your love. Holy Spirit, conform our heart into Christ's heart and move us to love our brethren as Christ loved them, just as when he bent down to wash the feet of the disciples (cf. Jn 13:1-13) and above all when he gave his life for us (cf. Jn 13:1, 15:13). Transforms the heart of the church, so that it becomes a witness before the world to the love of the Father. Make humanity a single family in his Jesus. We ask you to be with us in evangelizing
We read in the Acts of the apostles that "All who believed were together and had all things in common; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need" (Acts 2:44-5). Teach us to be faithful to the "teaching of the Apostles", in a life centered on "communion" (koinonia), "the breaking of the bread" and "prayer" (cf. Acts 2:42). Lead us to serve you in the widows and orphans, prisoners, and the sick and needy of every kind for these service expresses who we are We are your family. No one in our family should go without the necessities of life, no member should suffer through being in need. We thank you for always giving us an opportunity to do good to all especially to those who are of the household of faith.
May our leaders lead us in the just ordering of society. We pray that states will guarantee religious freedom and harmony between the followers of different religions. May states recognize and respect the proper independence of the Church based on faith as a community. Purify our reason, free it from ethical blindness caused by effects of power and special interests. Purify and liberate our reason through our Faith where we encounter You and we see new horizons that extends beyond the sphere of reason. Help us spread the Church's social teaching using reason and natural law, to help form consciences in political life and to give us greater insight into the authentic requirements of justice as well as greater readiness to act accordingly, even when this might involve conflict with situations of personal interest.
May we Christians speak with a united voice to ask for the "respect for the rights and needs of everyone, especially the poor, the lowly and the defenceless. May we respond to immediate needs of our brothers and sisters, to feed the hungry, cloth the naked, care for and healing the sick, visit those in prison, make our faith active through love (cf. Gal 5:6). To make present here and now the love which man always needs. May we make people aware of Your presence By having a pure and generous love as Your witness. Guide us by the faith which works through love (cf. Gal 5:6) so that it is"the love of Christ urges us on" (5:14).
Lord, you have given Yourself for us, even unto death, inspire us to live no longer for ourselves but for You, and, with You, for others. Let us share in the needs and sufferings of others, for this is my sharing of my very self with them: my personal presence in our gift. May we not consider ourself as superior to the one served, rather, we are able to serve because You have graciously enabled us to do so.
Give us Hope to do good even in the face of apparent failure. Make us humble to accept Your mystery and to trust You even at times of darkness. You have given Jesus for our sake. You hold the world in Your hands and, in spite of all darkness, You will ultimately triumph in glory.
Through our Faith make us see your love which you revealed in the pierced heart of your Son, Jesus on the Cross. Let Your light illuminate our world and give us the courage to keep us living and working. We thank you for creating us in your image and letting us experience this intimate union. We ask you to pervade our souls and make us fountains where rivers of living water flow" (Jn 7:38).
-- my heart rejoices in the Lord!
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Homily ng Sto. Papa sa Pentekostes
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http://zenit.org/article-29347?l=english
It's not for nothing that in the language of Jesus "fire" is above all a representation of the cross, w/o which Christianity does not exist
We must know how to recognize that..losing ourselves forDtrue God, DGod of love&life, is..gaining ourselves, finding ourselves more fully
He had previously said was realized: "I have come to cast fire upon the earth, and how I long that it already be burning!" The fire of God, the fire of the Holy Spirit, is that of the bush that burned without being consumed.
It is a flame that burns but does not destroy, that, in burning, brings forth the better and truer part of man, as in a fusion it makes his interior form emerge, his vocation to truth and to love.
DChurch is one&multiple..destined as she is to live among all nations/peoples,in the most diverse social contexts. She responds2 her vocation to be a sign&instrument of unity ofDhuman race if she remains free from every state and every particular culture. [The Church is the]house of all in which each one can find a place.
homogenization..d modelOfBabel..dImpositionOfA culture of unity that we could call "technological."..in Babel everyone spoke d same language. At Pentecost..DApostles speak different languages..everyone understands the message in his own tongue. DUnity of the Spirit is manifested inD plurality of understanding. DChurch is one&multiple.
When a person or a community, limits itself to its own way of thinking&acting, it's a sign that it has distanced itself from the Holy Spirit
unity is the sign of recognition, the "business card" of the Church in the course of her universal history.
Persons, often reduced to individuals in competition or in conflict with each other, by d Spirit of Christ, open themselves2d experience of communion, can involve them to such an extent as2make of them a new organism: Church
The Spirit triggers a process of reunification of the divided and dispersed parts of the human family
Where there are divisions and estrangement he creates unity and understanding.
The Son of God, dead and risen and returned to the Father, now breathes with untold energy the divine breath upon humanity, the Holy Spirit.
-- my heart rejoices in the Lord!
Monday, May 24, 2010
Prayer based on Dives in Misericordia
Your Mercy is concretely expressed in our conversion. Jesus, you have undergone the cross to bear upon our sin & to restore the creative power in man to access the fullness of life & holiness. Our Redemption shows your mercy in it's fullness, the ultimate and definitive revelation of your holiness, your absolute fullness of perfection: the fullness of justice & of love. By your passion & death, you have shown the absolute & superabundance of justice. By your sacrifice, the Father is linked to us more intimately than that of creation. Now we are linked to the Father, our Abba, by the bond of love that grants us participation in d very life of the Trinity.
You have paid for our sins at the price of your sacrifice, of your obedience even to death. You have redeemed us from Death at the price of your death, for you are w/o sin & you alone are able—by means of your own death—to inflict death upon death. Your cross, Lord Jesus, makes us understand the deepest roots of evil, which are fixed in sin and death.
You are the God Of Mercy. Let this knowledge be our constant & inexhaustible source of our conversion. Let us experience the interior transformation when we love and show mercy to our neighbors. Remind us that in doing this, we also receive mercy from the same people
When we seek for true justice, remind us that it only has True mercy as it's profound source. When we concern ourselves only of reciprocal and equal distribution of objective & extrinsinc goods, remind us that love and only love is capable of restoring us to ourselves. That the most perfect incarnation of justice and of "equality" between people is Mercy which makes people meet one another in that value which is man himself. May we see that justice constitute the goal of forgiveness where he who forgives and he who is forgiven encounter one another at an essential point, the dignity of the person. That justice is necessary in order that love may reveal its own nature. We pray for a human society with justice, merciful love and forgiveness.
Remind us that forgiveness is more powerful than sin. That it is also d fundamental condition for reconciliation, not only in d relationship of God w/man,but also in relationships bet people. Give us the grace to acknowledge that we are trespassers against each other. Make us see that forgiveness, when it has Mercy as it's source, doesn't mean indulgence toward evil, scandals, injury or insult but it is a reparation for evil and scandal, compensation for insult.
Mother Mary, our mother in the order of grace,help us win the battle, the conflict that is within us, the battle with our disordered attraction to sin. Help us preserve our sense of what is sacred and deliver us from elements that dehumanizes us and cause our society's moral decay. We pray that we, the Church, continue to reveal You, our Father, you who allow us to "see" yourself in Christ. Amen
-- my heart rejoices in the Lord!
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Regina Coeli
(Dinarasal tuwing Pasko ng Pagkabuhay hanggang sa Pentekostes)
N: Reyna ng langit matuwa ka. Aleluya!
L: Sapagkat ang sanggol na ikaw ay karapat-dapat na magdala. Aleluya!
N: Ay nabuhay na mag-uli ayon sa kanyang sinabi. Aleluya!
L: Ipanalangin mo kami sa Diyos. Aleluya!
N: Magalak ka at matuwa, O Birheng Maria. Aleluya!
L: Sapagkat ang Panginoon ay tunay na nabuhay na mag-uli. Aleluya!
N: Manalangin tayo.
L: O Diyos, na dahil sa pagkabuhay na mag-uli ng iyong Anak na si Jesu-Kristong aming Panginoon, ay minarapat mong bigyan ng kagalakan ang buong daigdig. Ipagkaloob mo sa amin, hinihiling namin sa iyo na alang-alang kay Birheng Maria na kanyang Ina ay makamtan namin ang kasiyahan ng buhay na walang hanggan, sa pamamagitan na rin ni Kristong aming Panginoon.
N: Luwalhati...
L: Kapara noong una . . . (3X)
-- my heart rejoices in the Lord!
