Ang mga Tawo nga Buot Unta Mosunod kang Jesus

(Mateo 8:18-2)

v18Sa pagkakita ni Jesus sa daghan kaayong tawo nga nag-alirong kaniya, miingon siya sa iyang mga tinun-an, "Manabok kita sa lanaw." v19Unya may usa ka magtutudlo sa Balaod nga miduol kaniya ug miingon, "Magtutudlo, andam ako sa pagkuyog kanimo bisag asa ka moadto."
v20Si Jesus mitubag kaniya, "Ang mga milo may mga tagoanan ug ang mga langgam may mga salag apan ang Anak sa Tawo walay dapit nga kapahulayan."
v21Ug8:21 Tob. 4:3-4. may laing tinun-an nga miingon, "Ginoo, mopauli una ako aron paglubong sa akong amahan."
v22Si Jesus mitubag, "Sunod kanako ug pasagdi ang mga patay nga maoy molubong sa ilang mga minatay."

Monday, 01 July 2013 Bl. Antonio Rosmini, Priest, Founder of the Institute of Charity (1797-1855)
Blessed. Antonio Rosmini Priest, Founder of the Institute of Charity (1797-1855)         Antonio Rosmini was born on 24 March 1797 to Pier Modesto and Giovanna dei Conti Formenti di Riva at Rovereto, a very "Italian" town although part of the Austrian Empire since 1509. He was baptized the following day and received his early education locally.         In 1816 he enrolled at the University of Padua, Italy, where he received doctorates in theology and canon law. After his studies he returned to Rovereto to prepare for Holy Orders.         In February 1820 he accompanied his sister, Margherita, to Verona where the Marquess Maddalena of Canossa (now Blessed) had founded a religious institute. During the visit Maddalena invited him to found a male religious institute as a twin to her own institute. While the young man politely declined, her invitation in time proved prophetic.         Antonio was ordained a priest on 21 April 1821 at Chioggia, Italy. In 1823 he travelled to Rome with the Patriarch of Venice, who arranged an audience for him with Pope Pius VII. In that audience the Pontiff encouraged him to undertake the reform of philosophy.         In 1826 he went to Milan to continue his research and publish the results of his philosophical studies. He wrote on many subjects, including the origin of ideas and certitude, the nature of the human soul, ethics, the relationship between Church and State, the philosophy of law, metaphysics, grace, original sin, the sacraments and education.         On Ash Wednesday, 20 February 1828, Fr Rosmini withdrew to write the Constitutions of the budding Institute of Charity, in which he incorporated the principle of passivity (to be concerned with one's personal sanctification until God's will manifests itself to undertake some external work of charity) and the principle of impartiality (to free one of any personal preference in assuming a work of charity).         To assure himself of God's will in his philosophical and foundational work, Rosmini went to Rome a second time, in November 1828, and there received Pope Leo XII's support. On 15 May 1829 he met with the new Pope, Pius VIII, who confirmed his double mission as philosopher and founder. During this visit to Rome, Fr Rosmini published "Maxims of Christian Perfection" and "Origin of Ideas", winning the admiration of many scholars.         By 1832 the Institute of Charity had spread to Northern Italy and by 1835 it reached England, where the community enjoyed substantial growth. In England the Rosminians are credited with introducing the use of the Roman collar and cassock and the practice of wearing the religious habit in public. They were known for preaching missions, the practice of the Forty Hours, May devotions, the use of the scapular, novena celebrations, public processions and the blessing of throats on the feast of St Blaise.         Pope Gregory XVI approved the Constitutions of the Institute of Charity on 20 December 1838. On 25 March 1839 vows were taken by 20 Italian and 6 British priests. On 20 September 1839 Fr Rosmini was appointed provost general for life.         This happy period of growth and apostolic success, however, was tempered by opposition to his intellectual and philosophical writings from 1826 until his death.         Primarily his "Treatise on Moral Conscience" (1839) led to a sharp, 15-year controversy which required more than one Papal injunction to silence the "Rosminian Question". Another important, controversial work was "The Five Wounds of the Church" (1832).         Fr Rosmini found himself wedged between the obligation to renew Catholic philosophy and finding his works on the Index. But his obedience to the Church was admirable:  "In everything, I want to base myself on the authority of the Church, and I want the whole world to know that I adhere to this authority alone" (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "Note on the Force of the Doctrinal Decrees", L'Osservatore Romano English edition [ORE], 25 July 2001, p. 9).         To close the issue definitively, the Pontiff submitted all Rosmini's works to examination by the Congregation of the Index. On 3 July 1854, it was decreed: "All the works of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati that have recently been examined are to be dismissed, and this examination in no way detracts from the good name of the author, nor of the religious Society founded by him, nor from his life and singular merits towards the Church" (R. Malone, "Historical Overview of the Rosmini Case", ORE, 25 July 2001, p. 10).         Less than a year after this Decree Fr Antonio Rosmini died on 1 July 1855 at Stresa, Italy, at age 58.

Pangutana: Kinsa Man si Hesus

Ang Pahayag ni Pedro mahitungod kang Jesus

(Mateo 16:13-19)

v13Unya miadto si Jesus sa yuta duol sa lungsod sa Cesarea Filipo ug didto nangutana siya sa iyang mga tinun-an, "Sumala sa mga tawo, kinsa man ang Anak sa Tawo?"
v14Sila mitubag, "May nag-ingon nga siya mao si Juan nga Magbubunyag. Ang uban nag-ingon nga siya mao si Elias samtang ang uban nag-ingon nga siya mao si Jeremias o laing propeta."
v15Si Jesus nangutana kanila, "Apan kamo, unsa may inyong ikasulti? Kinsa man ako?"
v16Ug mitubag si Simon Pedro, "Ikaw mao ang Mesiyas, ang Anak sa Dios nga buhi."
v17Giingnan siya ni Jesus, "Bulahan ka gayod, Simon nga anak ni Jonas. Kay kining maong kamatuoran wala moabot kanimo pinaagi sa bisan unsang tawhanong pamaagi. Ang akong Amahan nga atua sa langit mao ang naghatag niini kanimo. v18Busa sultihan ko ikaw: ikaw si Pedro ug ibabaw niining bato tukuron ko ang akong simbahan ug bisan gani ang kamatayon dili gayod makabuntog niini. v19Ihatag ko kanimo ang mga yawi sa Gingharian sa langit: ang imong idili dinhi sa yuta, idili usab didto sa langit. Ug ang imong itugot dinhi sa yuta, itugot usab didto sa langit."

Friday, 29 June 2013 Saint Peter and Saint Paul, apostles - Solemnity
SOLEMNITY OF STS PETER AND PAUL Homily of Bl. John-Paul II Thursday, 29 June 2000 "Who do you say that I am?" (Mt 16: 15)         Jesus asks the disciples this question about his identity while he is with them in upper Galilee. It often happened that they would ask Jesus questions; now it is he who questions them. His is a precise question that awaits an answer. Simon Peter speaks for them all:  "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Mt 16: 16).           The answer is extraordinarily clear. The Church's faith is perfectly reflected in it. We are reflected in it too. The Bishop of Rome, his unworthy successor by divine will, is particularly reflected in Peter's words. (...)   "You are the Christ!". Jesus replies to Peter's confession:  "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven" (Mt 16: 17)         Blessed are you, Peter! Blessed because you could not have humanly recognized this truth, which is central to the Church's faith, except by God's action. "No one", Jesus said, "knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him" (Mt 11: 27).           We are reflecting on this extraordinarily rich Gospel passage:  the incarnate Word had revealed the Father to his disciples; now is the moment when the Father himself reveals his only Only-begotten Son to them. Peter receives inner enlightenment and courageously proclaims:  "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!".           These words on Peter's lips come from the depths of God's mystery. They reveal the intimate truth, the very life of God. And Peter, under the action of the divine Spirit, becomes a witness and confessor of this superhuman truth. His profession of faith thus forms the firm basis of the Church's faith:  "On this rock I will build my Church" (Mt 16: 18). The Church of Christ is built on Peter's faith and fidelity.           The first Christian community was very conscious of this. As the Acts of the Apostles recount, when Peter was in prison it gathered to raise an earnest prayer to God for him (cf. Acts 12: 5). It was heard, because Peter's presence was still necessary for the community as it took its first steps:  the Lord sent his angel to free him from the hands of his persecutors (cf. ibid., 12: 7-11). It was written in God's plan that Peter, after long strengthening his brothers in faith, would undergo martyrdom here in Rome together with Paul, the Apostle of the nations, who had also escaped death several times.   "The Lord stood by me and gave me strength to proclaim the word fully, that all the Gentiles might hear it" (2 Tm 4: 17).         These are the words of Paul to his faithful disciple Timothy:  we heard them in the second reading. They testify to what the Lord accomplished in him after he chose him as a minister of the Gospel and "grasped" him on the road to Damascus (cf. Phil 3: 12).           The Lord had come to him in a blaze of light, saying:  "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? " (Acts 9: 4), while a mysterious force threw him to the ground. "Who are you, Lord?", Saul had asked him. "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting!" (Acts 9: 5). This was Christ's answer. Saul had been persecuting Jesus' followers, and Jesus told him that it was he himself who was being persecuted in them. He, Jesus of Nazareth, the Crucified One who Christians said had risen. If Saul now experienced his powerful presence, it was clear that God really had raised him from the dead. He, in fact, was the Messiah awaited by Israel; he was the Christ living and present in the Church and in the world!           Could Saul have understood with his reason alone all that such an event entailed? Certainly not! It was, in fact, part of God's mysterious plan. It would be the Father who would give Paul the grace of knowing the mystery of the redemption accomplished in Christ. It would be God who would enable him to understand the marvellous reality of the Church, which lives for Christ, with Christ and in Christ. And he, who had come to share in this truth, would continuously and tirelessly proclaim it to the very ends of the earth.           From Damascus, Paul would begin his apostolic journey which would lead him to spread the Gospel in so many parts of the then known world. His missionary zeal would thus help to fulfill the command Christ gave to the Apostles:  "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations ..." (Mt 28:  19).(...)   The full unity of the Church!         I feel Christ's command echoing within me. It is a particularly urgent command at the beginning of this new millennium. Let us pray and work for this, without ever growing weary of hoping. (...)           May God grant us to achieve as soon as possible the full unity of all believers in Christ.  May we obtain this gift through the Apostles Peter and Paul, who are remembered by the Church of Rome on this day that commemorates their martyrdom and therefore their birth to life in God. For the sake of the Gospel they accepted suffering and death, and became sharers in the Lord's Resurrection. Their faith, confirmed by martyrdom, is the same faith as that of Mary, the Mother of believers, of the Apostles and of the saints of every age.           Today the Church again proclaims their faith. It is our faith, the Church's unchanging faith in Jesus, the only Saviour of the world; in Christ, the Son of the living God, who died and rose for us and for all humanity.

JESUS THE HEALER

Giayo ni Jesus ang Usa ka Sanlahon

Mateo 8:1-4

v1Milugsong si Jesus gikan sa bungtod ug misunod kaniya ang bagang panon sa katawhan. v2Unya miduol kaniya ang usa ka sanlahon ug miluhod sa iyang atubangan nga nag-ingon, "Sir, kon gusto nimo makahimo ka paghinloa kanako."
v3Gihikap siya ni Jesus ug giingnan, "Gusto ko. Mamaayo ka!" Ug dihadiha naayo siya. v4Unya miingon si Jesus kaniya, "Pamati! Ayaw kinig isaba kang bisan kinsa. Adtoa hinuon dayon ang pari ug ipakita ang imong kaugalingon kaniya unya paghalad sumala sa gisugo ni Moises aron pagmatuod nga naayo ka na."

"Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him"

The greatest disease in the West today is not tuberculosis or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty – it is not only a poverty of loneliness bu also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love as there is a hunger for God.

Saint of the DAY

Friday, 28 June 2013 St. Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr (+ 202)

This Saint was born about the year 120. He was a Grecian, probably a native of Lesser Asia. His parents, who were Christians, placed him under the care of the great St. Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna. It was in so holy a school that he learned that sacred science which rendered him afterward a great ornament of the Church and the terror of her enemies. St. Polycarp cultivated his rising genius, and formed his mind to piety by precepts and example; and the zealous scholar was careful to reap all the advantages which were offered him by the happiness of such a master.         Such was his veneration for his tutor's sanctity that he observed every action and whatever be saw in that holy man, the better to copy his example and learn his spirit. He listened to his instructions with an insatiable ardor, and so deeply did he engrave them on his heart that the impressions remained most lively even to his old age. In order to confute the heresies of his age, this father made himself acquainted with the most absurd conceits of their philosophers, by which means he was qualified to trace up every error to its sources and set it in its full light.         St. Polycarp sent St. Irenæus into Gaul, in company with some priest; he was himself ordained priest of the Church of Lyons by St. Pothinus. St. Pothinus having glorified God by his happy death, in the year 177, our Saint was chosen the second Bishop of Lyons. By his preaching, he in a short time converted almost that whole country to the Faith.         He wrote several works against heresy, and at last, with many others, suffered martyrdom about the year 202, under the Emperor Severus, at Lyons.

HEAR THE WORD

« Be doers of the Word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves » (Jas 1,22)

Don't delude yourselves, my brothers, if you hasten to hear the word without meaning to put into practice what you hear. Consider carefully: if it is good to hear the word it is even better to put it into practice. If you don't listen to it, if you don't do what you have heard, then you are not building anything. If you listen to it and do not put it into practice then you are building a ruin... “Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on rock”...: listening and putting into practice is to build on rock...“Everyone who listens to these words of mine,” the Lord continues, “but does not act on them is like a fool who built his house.” He, too, builds but what is it that he builds? He builds his house but, because he does not act on what he hears, he might just as well not have heard: he builds on sand! So, then, to listen without putting into practice is to build on sand; to listen and put into practice is to build on rock; not to listen at all is to build neither on rock nor on sand...But perhaps someone will say: “What's the good of listening?... Since I'll be building a ruin if I listen without acting isn't it safer not to listen?”... Rain, wind, torrents never come to an end in this world. Are you not building lest they come and knock you over?... If you insist on not listening to anything you will be without any shelter at all: the rain will come, the torrents pour down and will you be safe from them?... Think it over...: it is wrong not to listen, it is wrong to listen without acting, it follows that we should listen and act. Be a people who act on the Word; don't be satisfied with listening to it: that would be to deceive yourselves.

ANG EBANGHELYO KARON

Ang Awtoridad ni Jesus

MATEO 7:28-29

v28Sa pagkahuman ni Jesus ug sulti niining mga butanga, ang mga tawo natingala sa iyang pagtulon-an. v29Lahi siya sa ilang mga magtutudlo sa Balaod kay ang iyang pagtudlo inubanan man sa awtoridad.

ANG EBANGHELYO KARON

Ang Duha ka Tawo nga Nagbuhat ug Balay

MATEO 7:24-27

v24"Busa ang tanan nga nakadungog sa akong gisulti ug nagtuman niini mahisama sa usa ka maalamong tawo nga nagtukod sa iyang balay diha sa bato. v25Sa dihang mibundak ang ulan ug mibaha ang mga suba ug ang hangin mihapak ug mikusokuso niadtong balaya, wala kini matumba kay natukod man diha sa bato.
v26"Apan ang tanan nga nakadungog sa akong gisulti ug dili motuman niini, mahisama sa usa ka tawong buangbuang nga nagtukod sa iyang balay diha sa balas. v27Sa dihang mibundak ang ulan ug mibaha ug ang hangin mihapak ug mikusokuso niadtong balaya, natumba kini ug nagun-ob!"

ANG EBANGHELYO KARON

HUWEBES HUNYO 27, 2013

Wala Ako Makaila Kaninyo

MATEO 7:21-23

v21"Dili ang tanan nga magtawag kanakog 'Ginoo, Ginoo,' makasulod sa Gingharian sa langit kondili kadto lamang nagtuman sa kabubut-on sa akong Amahan nga atua sa langit. v22Niadtong adlawa daghan unya ang moingon kanako, 'Ginoo, dili ba nagsangyaw man kami sa mensahe sa Dios, naghingilin sa mga yawa ug naghimog daghang mga milagro pinaagi sa imong ngalan?' v23Apan ingnon ko unya sila, 'Wala ako makaila kaninyo. Mga makasasala, pahawa kamo!"

SAINT OF THE DAY

Thursday, 27 June 2013 St. Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (+ 444)
SAINT CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA Bishop and Doctor of the Church (+444)         Cyril of Alexandria, nephew of Theophilus, Bishop of Alexandria, gave evidences even as a youth of outstanding intelligence. After Theophilus' death he was called to that very See, became a sincere example to his flock, and grew famous as a most excellent pastor.         He showed marked assiduousness in the preservation of the Catholic faith against Nestorius, who asserted that Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary only as a man and not as God, and tha divinity was conferred on him for his merits.         After Cyril tried in vain to correct Nestorius, he denounced him to Pope St. Celestine. With this Pontiff's delegated authority, Cyril attended some sessions of the Council of Ephesus at which the Nestorian heresy was absolutely condemned, Nestorius excommunicated, and removed from his See, and the Catholic dogma of one divine person in Christ and the divine maternity of the glorious Virgin Mary asserted.         Solicitous for the faith alone, he suffered a great deal on account of it, carried out the greatest labors for God's Church, produced a great many writings, and died a holy death in the year 444, in the thirty-second year of his episcopacy.

Our Mother

Thursday, 27 June 2013 Our Lady of Perpetual Help
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP (Our Lady of Perpetual Succour)         The picture of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour is painted on wood, with background of gold. It is Byzantine in style and is supposed to have been painted in the thirteenth century. It represents the Mother of God holding the Divine Child while the Archangels Michael and Gabriel present before Him the instruments of His Passion. Over the figures in the picture are some Greek letters which form the abbreviated words Mother of God, Jesus Christ, Archangel Michael, and Archangel Gabriel respectively.          It was brought to Rome towards the end of the fifteenth century by a pious merchant, who, dying there, ordered by his will that the picture should be exposed in a church for public veneration. It was exposed in the church of San Matteo, Via Merulana, between St. Mary Major and St. John Lateran. Crowds flocked to this church, and for nearly three hundred years many graces were obtained through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin. The picture was then popularly called the Madonna di San Matteo. The church was served for a time by the Hermits of St. Augustine, who had sheltered their Irish brethren in their distress. These Augustinians were still in charge when the French invaded Rome (1812) and destroyed the church. The picture disappeared; it remained hidden and neglected for over forty years, but a series of providential circumstances between 1863 and 1865 led to its discovery in an oratory of the Augustinian Fathers at Santa Maria in Posterula.         The pope, Pius IX, who as a boy had prayed before the picture in San Matteo, became interested in the discovery and in a letter dated 11 Dec., 1865 to Father General Mauron, C.SS.R., ordered that Our Lady of Perpetual Succour should be again publicly venerated in Via Merulana, and this time at the new church of St. Alphonsus. The ruins of San Matteo were in the grounds of the Redemptorist Convent. This was but the first favour of the Holy Father towards the picture. He approved of the solemn translation of the picture (26 April, 1866), and its coronation by the Vatican Chapter (23 June, 1867).         Learning that the devotion to Our Lady under this title had spread far and wide, Pius IX raised a confraternity of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and St. Alphonsus, which had been erected in Rome, to the rank of an arch-confraternity and enriched it with many privileges and indulgences. He was amongst the first to visit the picture in its new home, and his name is the first in the register of the arch-confraternity.         At the present day not only altars, but churches and dioceses are dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour.         In some places, as in the United States, the title has been translated Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

THE LIGHT OF CHRIST

TIME TO EXPERIENCE CHRIST'S PRESENCE IN OUR MIDS. THE LIGHT SHINES TO THE DARKNESS AND WE ARE CHANGED. 

SHARING OUR TALENTS AND GIFTS

ENCOUNTERING CHRIST AND HIS FRIENDS