One time, on my method 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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Immediately is Palm Sunday. It’s that point of the yr once we are requested to modify from “grocery” to “rosary” mode, as we ponder on the eagerness, demise, and resurrection of our Lord. It’s the time for us to wish, and be grateful to God for His large love and mercy for us all.
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In as we speak’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 liked the world, He gave us His solely Begotten Son, who suffered, died, and rose once more, in order that we might have everlasting life. Could we be crammed with 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 centered on ourselves, our agenda, our wishes, 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 convey 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, mirror, and renew. It’s the time to actually cease, look, and take heed to God, take heed to our hearts, and take heed to the individuals 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 aren’t God. We owe the whole lot to God. He owes us nothing. Allow us to beg for His mercy and forgiveness. It is usually the time for us to apologize from individuals now we have damage, used, or abused in any approach due to our selfishness and delight. Allow us to additionally forgive those that damage us, as God has forgiven us so many instances.
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LET GOODNESS FLOW. Let our self-discipline of Lent and Holy Week bear fruit. Could it not be stated of us: “Dasal nang dasal, pareho pa rin ang asal. (Praying and praying, however the character remains to be the identical.)” Could our being prayerful be fruitful. And, there are individuals, too, who’re “Mabunganga pero wala namang bunga. (Good in speaking, however doing nothing.)” Allow us to be taught 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’re this Holy Week, please keep in mind to hook up with the Lord with the guts. Phrases with out the guts are empty. God sees the guts. God feels the guts. He’s a God who has a giant, loving, forgiving, and beneficiant coronary heart. Let this time be a heart-to-heart time between you and God, and payback time to different individuals.
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Could this Holy Week pause lead us to clearer and deeper mission for the Lord, and for His individuals. I hope that this Holy Week will end in a change of coronary heart for a lot of of our political leaders. Unhappy to say, we’re nonetheless going by the “By way of Dolarosa,” the Approach of the Cross in our journey as individuals 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 go away your consolation zones. There could 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 “Approach 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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