Sunday, January 29, 2012
4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Kung Hei Fat Choi! Masasabi kong mas lalong maswerte ako sa
taong ito dahil sa mismong kaarawan ko (January 23, 2012) ang Chinese New Year.
Dati na akong maswerte simula nang magbalik-loob ako sa ating Poong Maykapal. Dahil
sa kanya nakilala ko ang aking sarili. Nasagot niya ang mga katanungang
bumabagabag sa akin noong nasa kadiliman pa ako ng buhay at hindi ko pa siya
nakilala. Naging mabuti siya sa akin kahit na akong isang makasalanang tao.
Totoo nga ang sinabi niya sa ebanghelyo niya noong nakaraang linggo na “Ako’y pumarito
para sa mga makasalanan” at ako’y isa na doon.
Ipinagpasalamat ko at natagpuan niya ako at natagpuan ko rin siya.
I just want to say thanks to Annie, Mark Amihan, Ate Bambie
Moran, Leoner Rosales, Noel Banday, Ellen, Tessa at kay Diding sa Haranita na
ginawa n’yo ngayong gabi… Napaiyak n’yo ako!
Heto na po ang mga suhestiyon kong kanta para sa darating na
linggo…
Entrance:
1. Pag-inambitay
2. Diosnong
Magtutudlo ,swak sa 1st and 2nd Reading
3. Purihin
ang Panginoon (Isidro, Ramirez)
4. Halina
at Lumapit (Habito) prioritize stanza 3
5. Sing
to the Mountains (Dufford)
6. Blest
be the Lord (Schutte)
Kyrie:
1. O
Ginoo, Kaloy-I Kami (Set 4)
2. Ginoo,
Kaloy-I Kami (Neniel)
3. Maawa
Ka (Francisco-Reyes)
4. Panginoon,
Maawa Ka (Cayabyab)
5. As
we Prepare
6. Lord,
Have Mercy (Francisco-Reyes)
Gloria:
1. Himaya
sa Dios (Nars Fernandez)
2. Himaya
sa Dios III
3. Luwalhati
sa Dios (Sengson)
4. Papuri
sa Dios (Francisco-Reyes-Torres)
5. Give
Glory to God
6. Glory
to God (Francisco-Agatep)
First Reading:
Deuteronomy 18:15-20
Moses spoke to all the people that God
shall send a prophet like Moses, one who will tell them all that He (God)
commands.
Responsorial Psalm:
Psalm 95:1-9
If today you hear His voice, harden not your hearts.
Second Reading:
1
Corinthians 7:32-35
Be free from anxieties.
Gospel Acclamation/Alleluia:
1. Pangitaa
ang Gingharian
2. Alleluia
Himoa Kami nga Dalan
3. Alleluia
17
4. Sing
Alleluia (Marcelo)
Gospel:
Mark 1:21-28
Teaching with Authority
The people were astonished at the way Jesus taught, for He spoke as One having authority, and not like the teachers of the Law. Here Jesus also drove out the evil spirit from a man who was in the synagogue.
The people were astonished at the way Jesus taught, for He spoke as One having authority, and not like the teachers of the Law. Here Jesus also drove out the evil spirit from a man who was in the synagogue.
Homily by Fr. Charles Irvin:
Two words in the Gospel account you just heard captured my
attention… “astonished” and “amazed.” St. Mark reports that the people in
Capernaum’s synagogue were astonished at Jesus’ teaching and all were amazed.
So the question arises: Why? Why were they so astonished and amazed? After all
they thought Jesus was a rabbi, someone who speaks God’s word, and they were,
after all, in a synagogue, a place where one would expect to be hearing about
what God had to say. So why were they so astonished and amazed?
First of all we need to notice that this event occured at the very
beginning of Our Blessed Lord’s public ministry. St. Mark reports this event in
the first chapter, twenty-first verse of his Gospel account. Jesus has just
finished gathering His twelve apostles and was now “going public,” so to speak.
Jesus had not as yet performed His dazzling miracles. He had not as yet cured
the blind, healed the lepers, healed the crippled, and raised people from the
dead. The most astounding miracle of all -- His own resurrection from the dead
-- had not yet occurred.
Why then was there astonishment and amazement at His first words
here, at the beginning of His public ministry? It was common, we know, for
rabbis to have followers and to move from synagogue to synagogue. What was so
amazing about Jesus? Wasn’t He teaching the way rabbis taught? Wasn’t Jesus
proclaiming the word of God to His people – something all rabbis did?
What I want to point out is the particular the style of speech
used by Jesus and to note the way He taught. He did not say “The Lord’s words
for you today are…” Nor did He say: “The God who sent me says this…” No.
Jesus spoke in His own name, on His own authority. There is, you see, a big
difference in Jesus’ speech here. He is telling everyone what He, the Christ is
declaring to them. He is not speaking on behalf of God -- He is speaking as
God!
In another gospel account, St. Matthew, reports Jesus as saying:
"You
have heard the commandment imposed on your forefathers, 'You shall not commit
murder; every murderer will be liable to judgment.' What I say to you is
…everyone who grows angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment.
"You have heard the commandment, 'You shall not commit adultery.' What I
say to you is: anyone who looks lustfully at a woman has already committed
adultery with her in his thoughts. "You have heard the commandment imposed
on your forefathers, 'Do not take a false oath; rather, make good to the Lord
all your pledges.' What I tell you is: do not swear at all. Say, 'Yes' when you
mean 'Yes' and 'No' when you mean 'No.' Anything beyond that is from the evil
one."
The Ten Commandments were revered by the Israelites. Those
commandments and the tablets upon which they were written connected them --
directly connected them -- with God Himself. To alter or tamper with them was,
for the Jews, absolutely unthinkable. To hear Jesus expand on those
commandments was, to say the very least, astonishing and amazing. What Jesus
taught was marvelous. It was luminous, enlightening, and brilliant. But how He
taught was mind boggling because the way Jesus spoke was as God speaking. He
didn’t speak about God. He didn’t begin by saying: Thus says the Lord…” No. He
simply and directly spoke as only God would speak. Nothing could be more
astonishing than that. Either Jesus is who He claimed to be and demonstrated
Himself to be, or else He was a charlatan, a fraud, and a liar. He is either
God the Son made human flesh, or He is not. One has to choose. One cannot
escape making that choice.
Have you ever heard it stated that it really doesn’t matter what
religion you belong to since they’re all leading us to God? When you hear that
said you should realize that sort of thinking flies in the face of what we just
heard about Jesus Christ, both in today’s passage as well as in many others.
Because if it is true that Our Blessed Lord is God made flesh for us, then it
really does matter what religion we have. The devils themselves recognized Him.
Why do those who claim to be religious people refuse to acknowledge who He
really is? It wasn’t the devils that gave Jesus a bad time. They simply
vacated; they simply fled from His presence and went elsewhere to do their
dirty work. It was the religious know-it-alls who gave Jesus a hard time. The more
they realized that Jesus of Nazareth was really Someone, the more they
understood what He was claiming to be, the more they wanted to rid themselves
of Him. He spoke with God’s own authority. He was a terrible threat to the
claimed authority of the big know-it-alls.
Now there are many ways people try to rid themselves of Christ. They tried to
kill Him, bury Him in a tomb and then post a detail of soldiers to guard that
tomb. We know, however, how useless that was. Another way is to simply ignore
Him. Many have done that, are doing it now, and will do it in the future. The
danger about ignoring Him is equivalent to the danger of ignoring the
instructions on drug prescriptions, or ignoring the directions on how to fly an
airplane.
Still another way is to claim that Jesus is just another
interesting religious figure in human history. You simply decide that Buddha or
Mohammed, or some guru from the Far East is just as good as Jesus it comes to
journeying to God. But if that’s true then why bother with going to church? Why
not simply start your own church? I mean, after all, if you really believe that
one religion is just as good as another you can probably do a better a job with
organizing a religion than the ones we’ve got. But when you do, let’s see you
cure people with various diseases, make the blind see, restore crippled limbs,
and raise people from the dead. Finally, and most importantly, let us see you
rise from the dead three days after you’ve been buried.
So is it really true that one religion is just as good as another?
Do we take the words and teachings of Jesus with ultimate seriousness or do we
just relativize His life, death, resurrection and teachings? Is His voice
just one of many? Or is He the Word of God spoken for us?
Now I’m quite aware that all of you here today do not dismiss
Jesus. You wouldn’t be here listening to His words and receiving His Body and
Blood if your hearts and souls were elsewhere. But I’ll bet you have heard
members of your families reduce religion to something equal to a cafeteria
choice by declaring it doesn’t really matter what you pick and choose. Will you
simply let those statements pass by unchallenged? Will you let your children,
your grandchildren and members of your family, as well as your friends who say
these things, go on without responding with your own convictions about Jesus
Christ? We need to love them enough to call them to take Jesus of Nazareth
seriously. After all, He really does speak with authority, and not like the
others.
We’ve all heard a lot of talk about evangelizing. Evangelizing
doesn’t mean that we have to go around town knocking on doors and preaching at
others about our religion. It can be something far less difficult and far less
offensive than that. Evangelizing can be as easy as simply and clearly stating
the truth about Jesus and telling folks “We have never heard anyone else speak
with such authority.”
Offertory:
1. Dios
Nia Ko (swak sa 2nd reading “magtugyan sa inyong kaugalingon ngadto
sa pag-alagad sa Ginoo”)
2. O
Dios Dawata (Koro Viannista)
3. Ginoo
Walay Sukod (Juris of MYMP) “I don’t know if pang offertory ba jud siya but the
lyrics seems to be for offertory”
4. Diyutay
Lang Kini (Koro Viannista)
5. Mugna
sa Dios (Koro Viannista)
6. Panalangin
sa Pagiging Bukas Palad (Arboleda, Francisco)
7. Narito
Ako (San Andres)
8. Narito
Ako, Panginoon (Que)
9. Prayer
for Generosity (Arboleda)
Sanctus:
1.
Santos (Pastorela)
2.
Santos V
(Villanueva)
3.
Santo, Santo, Santo
(Que)
4.
Santo, Santo, Santo
(Francisco)
5.
Holy, Holy, Holy
(Benitez)
6.
Holy, Holy, Holy
(Dufford-Schutte)
Acclamation:
1.
Si Kristo (Chord of
Am)
2.
Si Kristo (Chord of
E)
3.
Si Kristo’y Namatay
(Hontiveros)
4.
Si Kristo ay Namatay
(Dying)
5.
Memorial Acclamation
(Marcelo-Fenomeno)
6.
When We Eat this
Bread
Amen:
1.
Amen
2.
Dakilang Amen
3.
Amen (World Youth
Day ’95)
4.
Amen Alleluia
(Bayogos)
Pater Noster:
1.
Amahan Namo I (Set
1) chord of D
2.
Ama Namin (Marcelo)
3.
Aman Namin
(Hontiveros 1)
4.
Our Father (Alipio)
Doxology:
1.
Kay Imo Man
2.
Sapagkat
3.
For Thine (Mallote)
Agnus Dei:
1.
Kordero sa Dios IV
(Chord of Dm-Bb)
2.
Agnus Dei (R.
Villanueva Mass 8)
3.
Kordero ng Diyos
(Cayabyab)
4.
Kordero ng Diyos
(Que)
5.
Lamb of God (Folk)
Communion:
1. Kini
Maong Akong Lawas (Koro Viannista)
2. Natawag
ko na Ikaw (swak sa 2nd reading)
3. Ang
Kinabuhing Mahinungdanon (swak sa 2nd Reading)
4. Kalig-on
sa Pagtoo
5.
Awit ng Paghilom (Aquino)
6.
Awit ng Paghahangad (Cenzon)
7.
H’wag Mangamba (Francisco)
8.
Manatili Ka (Francisco)
9.
O Hesus, Hilumin Mo (Francisco)
10. Pagkakaibigan
(Cenzon, Abad-Santos)
11. God of Silence
(Francisco)
12. Here I Am, Lord
(Schutte)
13. On Eagle’s Wings
(Joncas)
14. You are mine
(Haas)
15. Your Heart Today
(Francisco)
Recessional:
1.
Ang Tawag (Koro Viannista version)
2.
Kinsa? (sibo sa 2nd reading)
3.
Ang Atong Tulubagon
4.
O Bayan ng Diyos (Aquino) Prioritize Stanza 2
5. I am the Bread
of Life (Toolan). Prioritize Stanza 5
