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Friday 30 August 2013

Kababaang-loob

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
September 1, 2013

First Reading: Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29

My son, perform your tasks in meekness; then you will be loved by those whom God accepts. The greater you are, the more you must humble yourself; so you will find favor in the sight of the Lord. For great is the might of the Lord; he is glorified by the humble. The affliction of the proud has no healing, for a plant of wickedness has taken root in him. The mind of the intelligent man will ponder a parable, and an attentive ear is the wise man's desire.

Psalm: Psalm 68:4-7, 10-11

Second Reading: Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24

For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers entreat that no further messages be spoken to them. But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel.

Gospel: Luke 14:1, 7-14

One sabbath when he went to dine at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees, they were watching him. Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he marked how they chose the places of honor, saying to them, "When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest a more eminent man than you be invited by him; and he who invited you both will come and say to you, `Give place to this man,' and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, `Friend, go up higher'; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you. For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted." He said also to the man who had invited him, "When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your kinsmen or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just."

Reflection
By Beth Eguia

Ang tema ng mga pagbasa sa linggong ito ay napapanahon kung ating iuugnay sa mga kaganapan sa ating bansa. Ang pinaka-kontrobersyal na dito ay ang “pork barrel”. Ating tinutuligsa ang paggamit sa pondo ng bayan para sa sariling kapakanan.  Ang malaking porsyento ng ating kinikita buwan buwan na inilalaan sa pagbayad ng buwis ay naibubulsa lamang ng ilan sa ating mga hinalalal na tagapangasiwa  ng ating pamahalaan. Masakit isipin na ang bilyun-bilyong pera ay di nagagamit sa tama tulad ng pagsasaayos ng mga imprastraktura, mga eskwelahan o pagpapaaral sa mga kapus-palad nating mga kapatid.

Ang tamang paglilingkod ay di naghahangad ng kapalit. Ang isang tao ay di dapat tumatakbo sa pulitika upang makalakap ng pera para sa pansariling kapakanan. Ang isang ulirang mangagawa ay nagtratrabaho ng walong oras at iginigugol ang bawat minuto sa pagtapos ng kanyang mga gawain at hindi sa pakikipag tsismisan o pagtitinda ng kanyang mga “branded bags at perfumes” sa oras ng trabaho. Ang isang ulirang estudyante naman ay nag-aaral nang mabuti, nagpupuyat  araw-araw para maging handa sa lahat ng pagsusulit at di gumagamit ng kodigo para makamit ang unong marka.

Bilang isang anak, isang magulang, isang opisyal sa gobyerno o ordinaryong manggagawa, tayo ay pinapa-alalahanan ng Diyos na maging mapagkumbaba sa pagtupad ng ating mga tungkulin. Hindi tayo kailangang mapansin ng iba habang ginagawa natin ito bagkus matahimik at masayang  gumagawa at iniaalay sa Diyos ang anumang papuri na ating natatanggap.

Si Jesus ang pinakamagandang halimbawa na nagpamalas ng pagpapakumbaba. Kahit Siya ang Anak ng Diyos, hindi Niya ginamit ito sa pakikipaghalubilo sa mga tao mahirap man o mayaman. Siya ay naglingkod sa pamamagitan ng pagpapagaling sa mga maysakit, pagpapakain sa mga nagugutom at hindi naghangad ng kapalit.

Prayer

PANGINOON, pinupuri at pinaparangalan Ka namin. Salamat po sa mga pagbasa sa araw na ito. Patuloy Mo kaming gabayan at paalalahan na maglingkod ng may pagpapakumbaba. Nawa ay di kami magpadala sa tukso na maghangad ng kapalit sa bawat paggawa ng aming tungkulin.  Amen.



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