One time, on my option to Batangas, I advised my driver “Magazine-rosary tayo.” As I used to be bringing out my rosary from my pocket, he made a cease, pointing to me, a grocery!
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At this time is Palm Sunday. It’s that point of the yr after we are requested to modify from “grocery” to “rosary” mode, as we ponder on the eagerness, dying, and resurrection of our Lord. It’s the time for us to wish, and be grateful to God for His super love and mercy for us all.
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In at the moment’s Gospel (Luke 23:1-49), we hear in regards to the ardour of our Lord. Allow us to not overlook the message of all of it—For God so cherished the world, He gave us His solely Begotten Son, who suffered, died, and rose once more, in order that we might have everlasting life. Might we be full of regret for our sins however most of all gratitude, for God’s mercy, and conversion from our sinful methods.
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Holy Week reminds us to be “hulí ” i.e. to place ourselves final, and put God first. All too typically, we’re so targeted on ourselves, our agenda, our needs, and pleasures that we put God final and least in our lives. “Magpahulí ka.” Put your self final and provides precedence to God.
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Holy Week additionally reminds us to be “húli” i.e. to be caught by God. Permit God to seize you, and produce you to His coronary heart. All too typically, we run away, and escape from God, and wander far and lengthy from Him. “Magpahúli ka.” Give up to God, and permit Him to embrace you lovingly, particularly this Holy Week.
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GO SLOW. Let this be a time for us to relaxation, replicate, and renew. It’s the time to actually cease, look, and hearken to God, hearken to our hearts, and hearken to the folks round us. Tone down worldly, political, and social media chatter.
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STAY LOW. Allow us to humble ourselves to God and be grateful to Him. Allow us to once more know who we’re, and who God is. We’re not God. We owe every thing to God. He owes us nothing. Allow us to beg for His mercy and forgiveness. It is usually the time for us to say sorry from folks we now have damage, used, or abused in any method due to our selfishness and satisfaction. Allow us to additionally forgive those that damage us, as God has forgiven us so many occasions.
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LET GOODNESS FLOW. Let our self-discipline of Lent and Holy Week bear fruit. Might it not be mentioned of us: “Dasal nang dasal, pareho pa rin ang asal. (Praying and praying, however the character remains to be the identical.)” Might our being prayerful be fruitful. And, there are folks, too, who’re “Mabunganga pero wala namang bunga. (Good in speaking, however doing nothing.)” Allow us to study to speak much less, and simply do good deeds, with a smile, and in secret.
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No matter you do, wherever you might be this Holy Week, please bear in mind to connect with the Lord with the center. Phrases with out the center are empty. God sees the center. God feels the center. He’s a God who has an enormous, loving, forgiving, and beneficiant coronary heart. Let this time be a heart-to-heart time between you and God, and payback time to different folks.
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Might this Holy Week pause lead us to clearer and deeper mission for the Lord, and for His folks. I hope that this Holy Week will lead to a change of coronary heart for a lot of of our political leaders. Unhappy to say, we’re nonetheless going by means of the “By way of Dolarosa,” the Means of the Cross in our journey as folks and as a nation. Praying that we, too, will expertise a political “resurrection,” quickly.
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Take into consideration this: If you wish to encounter the Lord, you need to depart your consolation zones. There will be no actual conversion if we don’t go down from our entitled disposition, and half from our filthy possessions, inordinate pleasures, and relations.
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Inviting you to expertise a serene and hidden “Means of the Cross” on the Sanctuary of the Divine Phrase, in the back of the Christ the King Mission Seminary, E. Rodriguez St. Avenue, Quezon Metropolis.
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Holy Thursday recollection on the Lord’s Flock Constructing in Catanduanes Road nook Del Monte, West Ave, Quezon Metropolis at 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Good Friday recollection on the Rizal Excessive Faculty Stadium sponsored by the Christian Household Motion in Caniogan, Pasig at 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Free admission.
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A second with the Lord:
Lord, assist us to come across You this Holy Week, and each week. Amen.
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