AGOSTO 30, 2013 ANG EBANHELYO SA PAGSAYSAY NI SAN MATEO

Ang Sambingay Mahitungod sa Napulo ka Dalaga

Mateo 25:1-13

v1"Niadtong adlawa ang Gingharian sa langit mahisama sa napulo ka dalaga nga nagdala sa ilang mga suga ug nanglakaw aron pagsugat sa pamanhonon. v2Danghag ang lima kanila, ug maalamon ang laing lima. v3Ang mga danghag nagdala sa ilang mga suga apan wala sila magtagana pagdalag lana nga igdudugang, v4samtang ang mga maalamon nagdalag mga sudlanan nga punog lana uban sa ilang mga suga. v5Ang pamanhonon nalangan pag-abot, busa nagduka ug nakatulog ang mga dalaga.
v6"Tungang gabii na kadto sa dihang milanog ang usa ka singgit, 'Ania na ang pamanhonon! Dali kamo ug sugata siya!' v7Nangmata ang mga dalaga ug giandam nila ang ilang mga suga. v8Unya ang mga danghag miingon sa mga maalamon, 'Bahini kamig diyotay sa inyong lana, kay hapit na mangapalong ang among mga suga.' v9Apan ang mga maalamon mitubag, 'Ayaw kay dili na paigo ang lana alang kaninyo ug kanamo. Lakat hinuon kamo sa tindahan ug palit kamog inyong magamit.' v10Busa ang mga danghag nga dalaga milakaw aron pagpalit ug lana, ug sa wala na sila didto, miabot ang pamanhonon. Ang lima ka dalaga nga nakapangandam mikuyog kaniya pagsulod ngadto sa kombira sa kasal ug gisirhan ang pultahan.
v11"Unya miabot ang ubang mga dalaga ug misangpit sila, 'Sir, sir, pasudla kami!' v12Apan ang pamanhonon mitubag, 'Wala ako makaila kaninyo.'"
v13Ug gitapos ni Jesus ang sambingay sa pag-ingon, "Busa pagtukaw kamo kay wala kamo mahibalo sa adlaw o sa takna.

Friday, 30 August 2013 St. Fiaker, Anchorite († c. 670)
SAINT FIAKER Anchorite († c. 670)         St. Fiaker was nobly born in Ireland, and had his education under the care of a bishop of eminent sanctity who was, according to some, Conan, Bishop of Soder or the Western Islands. Looking upon all worldly advantages as dross, he left his country and friends in the flower of his age, and with certain pious companions sailed over to France, in quest of some solitude in which he might devote himself to God, unknown to the rest of the world.         Divine Providence conducted him to St. Faro, who was the Bishop of Meaux, and eminent for sanctity. When St. Fiaker addressed himself to him, the prelate, charmed with the marks of extraordinary virtue and abilities which he discovered in this stranger, gave him a solitary dwelling in a forest called Breuil which was his own patrimony, two leagues from Meaux. In this place the holy anchorite cleared the ground of trees and briers, made himself a cell, with a small garden, and built an oratory in honor of the Blessed Virgin, in which he spent a great part of the days and nights in devout prayer. He tilled his garden and labored with his own hands for his subsistence.         The life he led was most austere, and only necessity or charity ever interrupted his exercises of prayer and heavenly contemplation. Many resorted to him for advice, and the poor for relief. But, following an inviolable rule among the Trish monks, he never suffered any woman to enter the enclosure of his hermitage. St. Chillen, or Kilian, an Irishman of high birth, on his return from Rome, visited St. Fiaker, who was his kinsman, and having passed some time under his discipline, was directed by his advice, with the authority of the bishops, to preach in that and the neighboring dioceses. This commission he executed with admirable sanctity and fruit.         St. Fiaker died about the year 670.

AGOSTO 29, 2013 ANG EBANGHELYO

MARK 6:17-29

17Si Herodes mismo mao ang nagpadakop, nagpagapos, ug nagpabilanggo kang Juan. Gihimo niya kini tungod kang Herodias nga iyang gipangasawa, bisan kon si Herodias asawa ni Felipe nga iyang igsoon. v18Kay si Juan god nagpunay mag sulti kang Herodes, "Dili matarong nga makigpuyo ka sa asawa sa imong igsoon."

v19Tungod niini, nagdumot si Herodias kang Juan ug naninguha pagpatay kaniya, apan wala siya makahimo niini kay wala man siya tugoti ni Herodes. v20Nahadlok si Herodes kang Juan kay nasayod man siya nga si Juan maayo ug balaan nga tawo, busa iya siyang gipanalipdan. Gusto si Herodes mamati kaniya bisan tuod masamok ang iyang hunahuna inigkabati niya sa tanan nga isulti ni Juan.
v21Sa kataposan nakahigayon ra gayod si Herodias. Nahitabo kadto sa sumad sa adlawng natawhan ni Herodes. Niadtong higayona nagkombira si Herodes ug gidapit niya ang tanang kadagkoan sa kagamhanan, ingon man ang mga pangulo sa kasundalohan, ug ang mga inilang molupyo sa Galilea. v22Ang anak nga babaye ni Herodias misulod ug misayaw ug nakapahimuot siya ni Herodes ug sa iyang mga bisita. Busa ang hari miingon sa dalagita, "Unsa may imong gusto? Ihatag ko kanimo bisag unsay imong pangayoon." v23Nakasaad pa gani siya uban ang pagpanumpa nga nag-ingon, "Ihatag ko kanimo ang tanan nga imong pangayoon bisan pag ang katunga sa akong gingharian."
v24Busa migula ang dalagita ug nangutana sa iyang inahan, "Unsa may akong pangayoon?"
"Ang ulo ni Juan," mitubag ang inahan.
v25Ang dalagita midali pagbalik ngadto sa hari ug miingon, "Ihatag kanako karon dayon ang ulo ni Juan diha sa bandihado."
v26Nakapasubo kini pag-ayo sa hari, apan wala siya makabalibad tungod sa iyang gipanumpa atubangan sa tanan niyang mga bisita. v27Busa dihadiha nagsugo siyag usa ka sundalo nga punggotan sa ulo si Juan. Milakaw ang sundalo ug miadto sa bilanggoan ug gipunggotan si Juan. v28Unya gidala niya ang ulo nga gibutang sa bandihado ug gihatag ngadto sa dalagita, ug gihatag usab kini sa dalagita ngadto sa iyang inahan. v29Sa pagkadungog sa mga tinun-an ni Juan mahitungod niini, miadto sila ug gikuha nila ang iyang lawas ug gilubong.

Thursday, 29 August 2013 The Beheading of John the Baptist,Martyr
THE BEHEADING OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST Martyr Memorial         St. John the Baptist was called by God to be the forerunner of his divine Son. In order to preserve his innocence spotless, and to improve the extraordinary graces which he had received, he was directed by the Holy Spirit to lead an austere and contemplative life in the wilderness, in the continual exercises of devout prayer and penance, from his infancy till he was thirty years of age.         At this age the faithful minister began to discharge his mission. Clothed with the weeds of penance, be announced to all men the obligation they lay under of washing away their iniquities with the tears of sincere compunction; and proclaimed the Messias, who was then coming to make his appearance among them. He was received by the people as the true herald of the Most High God, and his voice was, as it were, a trumpet sounding from heaven to summon all men to avert the divine judgments, and to prepare themselves to reap the benefit of Vie mercy that was offered them.         The tetrarch Herod Antipas having, in defiance of all laws divine and human, married Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, who was yet living, St. John the Baptist boldly reprehended the tetrarch and his accomplice for so scandalous an incest and adultery, and Herod, urged on by lust and anger, cast the Saint into prison.         About a year after St. John had been made a prisoner, Herod gave a splendid entertainment to the nobility of Galilee. Salome, a daughter of Herodias by her lawful husband, pleased Herod by her dancing, insomuch that he promised her to grant whatever she asked. On this, Salome consulted with her mother what to ask. Herodias instructed her daughter to demand the death of John the Baptist, and persuaded the young damsel to make it part of her petition that the head of the prisoner should be forthwith brought to her in a dish. This strange request startled the tyrant himself; he assented, however, and sent a soldier of his guard to behead the Saint in prison, with an order to bring his head in a charger and present it to Salome, who delivered it to her mother. St. Jerome relates that the furious Herodias made it her inhuman pastime to prick the sacred tongue with a bodkin.         Thus died the great forerunner of our blessed Saviour, about two years and three months after his entrance upon his public ministry, about a year before the death of our blessed Redeemer.