20 Tandaan
ninyo ang salitang sinabi ko sa inyo: ‘Walang lingkod na mas dakila sa kanyang
panginoon.’ Di ba’t inusig nila ako? Uusigin din kayo. Tinupad ba nila ang
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ang lahat ng ito dahil sa aking pangalan sapagkat hindi nila nakikilala ang
nagpadala sa akin.
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Thursday, May 19, 2022
Ang Mabuting Balita Mayo 21 Sabado sa Ika-5 Linggo ng Pasko ng Muling Pagkabuhay: Juan 15:18-21
Reflection for May 20, Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter: John 15:12-17
I have called you friends, because I have
told you everything I have heard from my Father. It was not you who chose me,
but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so
that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. This I command
you: love one another.”
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Reflection:
What would happen if we follow this love commandment of Jesus?
There would be no more betrayal, hatred and separation amongst married couples only love. But the sad reality is we choose to turn a deaf ear to this love commandment of the Lord. For the simple reason that we love ourselves more than we love Jesus and our fellowmen.
There’s a saying that before we give love we have to love ourselves first. For how would we know how to give love if we have not experienced loving ourselves first? However this statement does not jibe on how Jesus interprets love or on how Jesus gives the purest meaning of love.
For Jesus to love is not to love oneself first, to love is to lay down ones life for the beloved, for Jesus to love is to forgive the many hurts that has been hurled and inflicted upon us by our beloved. For at the end of the day if we love the way Jesus loves us what would remain is love no hatred but only love.
But how do we love? We love selectively and we love with measure, we calibrate the love that we give by the love that we receive. And we oftentimes do not love our fellowmen when they do not fulfill our selfish expectation for them. Let us love without condition and let us love without expecting love in return for this is how Jesus loved us.
How do you love? -
Marino J. Dasmarinas
Ang Mabuting Balita Mayo 20 Biyernes sa Ika-5 Linggo ng Pasko ng Muling Pagkabuhay: Juan 15:12-17
14 Mga kaibigan ko kayo kung ginagawa ninyo ang iniuutos ko sa inyo. 15 Hindi ko na kayo tinatawag na mga lingkod sapagkat hindi alam ng lingkod ang ginagawa ng kanyang panginoon. Mga kaibigan naman ang turing ko sa inyo sapagkat ipinagbibigay-alam ko sa inyo lahat ng narinig ko mula sa aking Ama.
16 Hindi
kayo ang humirang sa akin, ako ang humirang sa inyo at nagtalaga sa inyo para
humayo at mamunga, at mamalagi ang inyong bunga. At ipagkakaloob sa inyo
anumang hingin n’yo sa Ama sa pangalan ko. 17 Iniuutos ko nga sa inyo:
magmahalan kayo.
Monday, May 16, 2022
Reflection for May 19, Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter: John 15:9-11
“I have told you this so that my joy might
be in you and your joy might be complete.”
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Reflection:
How can we remain within the loop of God’s love? It’s by doing good all the time and by not going against the commandments of God (Exodus 20:1-17) (Matthew 22:36-40). When we break the commandments we momentarily are cut-off from the love of God. Until such time that we repent for what we did. In the church repentance is done by humbly submitting ourselves to the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
It’s very important for us to remain in God’s love because this is the ideal life or perfect life so to speak. But there’s no ideal life for we are all imperfect beings created by a perfect God. So what should we do when we sin? We have to make amends immediately we have to humble ourselves before God and to the person that we have offended.
We can just imagine a life cut-off from the love of God or cut-off from the person that we love. What kind of life would that be? It’s a life without peace and tranquility and a life open wide for the devil to create havoc in our life.
Let us take advantage of this healing love
of God, because this is always available for us. Who would not want peace and tranquility
in his/her life? We all want it certainly! Therefore we should try our very
best to remain within the loop of God’s love. If we transgress it we should
have the humility to ask for forgiveness from God and from the person that we
have offended. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
Ang Mabuting Balita Mayo 19 Huwebes sa Ika-5 Linggo ng Pasko ng Muling Pagkabuhay: Juan 15:9-11
11 Sinabi
ko sa inyo ang mga ito upang mapasainyo ang aking kagalakan at maging ganap
ang inyong kagalakan.
Reflection for May 18, Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter: John 15:1-8
Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing.
Anyone who does not remain in me will be
thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them
into a fire and they will be burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in
you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you. By this is my
Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.”
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Reflection:
There is a story about a rich man who does not believe in Jesus, he is a self-made rich man so to speak. He attributes every success that he has to himself alone never on Jesus. His friends believed him for they saw how he worked very hard to achieve his vast fortune. Until he went through a severe financial misfortune wherein he lost everything that he owned.
In his lowliness and nothingness he suddenly thought of his relative who was a man of God. He went to him and asked for his wise counsel. He was advised to always connect with Jesus through his frequent presence in the Eucharistic celebration/Holy Mass and by regularly reading the bible.
This man who once was very averse to the Holy Mass and the Bible became a regular Mass attendee and has formed a habit of regularly reading the bible. True enough, he regained and eventually surpassed everything that he lost.
Jesus in this Sunday’s gospel exhorts us to remain in Him. Why? Because apart from Him we are nothing, no matter how rich and learned we are. We are still nothing because we are not connected with Jesus.
The money that we have it can fly away from our possession anytime. The learning/knowledge that we have, it will escape our mind once we become senile. But if we remain with Jesus we are assured with something that is way beyond possession and learning. Time will come that we will leave this world, our possession neither our knowledge no matter how vast will not be able to give us eternal life.
There are those who live for today only and for this world only. They work hard to amass wealth; they seriously study to accumulate learning. Only to discover that something very important is still lacking in their lives. They search and endlessly search for it until they end up holding an empty bag because they’ve not found the true vine that is Jesus.
Let us seriously think about what Jesus
wants to convey to us through our gospel: “Remain in me, as I remain in
you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the
vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. I am the vine, you are the
branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because
without me you can do nothing.” (John 15:4-5) – Marino J. Dasmarinas
Ang Mabuting Balita Mayo 18 Miyerkules sa Ika-5 Linggo ng Pasko ng Muling Pagkabuhay: Juan 15:1-8
Hindi makapamumunga ang sanga sa ganang sarili, malibang mamalagi ito sa puno ng ubas; gayundin naman kayo, malibang mamalagi kayo sa akin. 5 Ako siyang puno ng ubas, kayo ang mga sanga. Ang namamalagi sa akin at ako sa kanya, siya ang namumunga nang sagana pagkat hiwalay sa aki’y hindi kayo makagagawa ng anuman. 6 Kung hindi namamalagi sa akin ang sinuman, ihahagis siya sa labas gaya ng sangang natuyo na tini¬tipon at ginagatong sa apoy at nagliliyab.
7 Kung
mamamalagi kayo sa akin at mamamalagi sa inyo ang mga pananalita ko, hingin
ninyo ang anumang loobin n’yo at magkakagayon sa inyo. 8 Sa ganito parangalan
ang aking Ama: kapag namunga kayo nang sagana at naging mga alagad ko.
Reflection for May 17, Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter: John 14:27-31a
If you loved me, you would rejoice that I
am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I. And now I have told
you this before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe. I will no
longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the world is coming. He has no
power over me, but the world must know that I love the Father and that I do
just as the Father has commanded me.”
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Reflection:
What is the peace that Jesus speaks about in the gospel and can we also have this peace within us?
The peaceful feeling that Jesus is talking about in the gospel is already within many of us, we feel it in the deepest recesses of our being. This is the reason why we are very much ready for whatever that may happen to us. We are not even afraid anymore to die because we acknowledge this gift of peace by Jesus.
But while we are still alive and kicking in this world Jesus is entrusting us with a mission. And this mission is to help Him extend this gift of peace to those who do not have it yet. Many are still not aware of this gift of peace by Jesus thus we must not sit idly. We must do something so that our fellowmen will know this wonderful gift by Jesus.
Where would we start? Start within our domestic church that is our very own family circle. Let us strengthen their spirits and give them hope by sharing Jesus with them. We may not know it but there may be members of our family who are losing hope already because of their life struggles.
We have everything to gain and nothing to lose if we would share and live Jesus with them. – Marino J.
Dasmarinas
Ang Mabuting Balita Mayo 17 Martes sa Ika-5 Linggo ng Pasko ng Muling Pagkabuhay: Juan 14:27-31a
29Ngunit sinabi
ko ito ngayon sa inyo bago pa mangyari ito. 30Hindi ko na kayo kakausapin nang
mahaba sapagkat parating na ang pinuno ng mundo. Walang anumang kanya sa akin
31ngunit dapat malaman ng mundo na mahal ko ang Ama, at ayon sa iniutos sa akin
ng Ama, ito mismo ang aking ginagawa.
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Reflection for May 16, Monday of the Fifth Week of Easter: John 14:21-26
Jesus answered and said to him, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; yet the word you hear is not mine but that of the Father who sent me.
“I have told you this while I am with you.
The Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name—he will
teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you.”
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Reflection:
How do we convey our love for Jesus? Do we love Him through our words alone or through our words and deeds? The ideal expression of love for Jesus is love through words and deeds. By loving Jesus we also receive love from Him love that is far more than the love that we give Him.
For example in marriage, if a man or a woman would express his/her love through words and deeds. He/she would receive more love than what he/she gives. This is the miracle of love that originates from God’s love for His only begotten Son which Jesus channels to us.
As we express love to our spouse, relative, friend or to a stranger. Let us not only convey it with words. Let us put deeds into it for this is how Jesus loved us. Jesus did not only express His love for us through His words. He reinforced it by giving His very life for us on the cross.
Let us be assured that when we give love
we would also receive love. Love that is more than the love that we give. –
Marino J. Dasmarinas
Ang Mabuting Balita Mayo 16 Lunes sa Ika-5 Linggo ng Pasko ng Muling Pagkabuhay: Juan 14:21-26
22 Sinabi sa kanya ni Judas, hindi ang Iskariote: “Panginoon, paano mangyayaring sa amin mo ipamamalas ang iyong sarili at hindi sa mundo?” 23 Sumagot si Jesus at sinabi sa kanya: “Kung may nagmamahal sa akin, isasakatuparan niya ang aking salita at mamahalin siya ng aking Ama at pupuntahan namin siya at sa kanya kami gagawa ng silid para sa aming sarili. 24 Hindi naman isinasakatuparan ng hindi nagmamahal sa akin ang aking mga salita. At hindi sa akin ang salitang naririnig n’yo kundi sa Amang nagpadala sa akin.
25 Sinabi ko sa inyo ang mga ito habang namamalagi pa akong kasama ninyo. 26 Ituturo naman sa inyo ng Tagapagtanggol ang lahat – ang Espiritu Santong ipadadala ng ama sa ngalan ko – at ipaaalaala niya sa inyo ang lahat ng sinabi ko sa inyo.
Reflection for Sunday May 15, Fifth Sunday of Easter: John 13:31-33a, 34-35
Ang Mabuting Balita para sa Linggo Mayo 15, Ikalimang Linggo ng Pasko ng Muling Pagkabuhay: Juan 13:31-33a, 34-35
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Reflection for Saturday May 14, Feast of Saint Matthias, Apostle: John 15:9-17
“I have told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete. This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing.
I have called you friends, because I have
told you everything I have heard from my Father. It was not you who chose me,
but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so
that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. This I command
you: love one another.”
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Reflection:
What is an ideal life in this world? It’s a life that is forever attached to the love of God. Without attachment to the love of God life would simply be empty, barren and meaningless. The love of God is the essence of life for we were not born to love this world. We came into this world to live and love God.
Let us think about loving this world more than God and we only create emptiness in our lives we end up with nothing except emptiness. It’s a fact of life that everything that is in this world is temporary: wealth, power and the like. All of these we will leave behind or will eventually leave us, but the love of God will always be there for us.
What matters is the love of God nothing else but the love of God. It’s no brainer therefore why Jesus is telling us to remain in His love. For if we always remain in the love of God we would be able to hurdle whatever trials that may come our way. And we would be able to conquer whatever fears that we may have even the fear of death.
Would you embrace this love that the Lord
is offering you? – Marino J. Dasmarinas
Ang Mabuting Balita para Sabado Mayo 14, San Matias, apostol (Kapistahan): Juan 15:9-17
11 Sinabi ko sa inyo ang mga ito upang mapasainyo ang aking kagalakan at maging ganap ang inyong kagalakan. 12 Ito ang kautusan ko: magmahalan kayo kung paano ko kayo minahal. 13 Wala nang pagmamahal na hihigit pa sa pag-aalay ng sariling buhay alang-alang sa kanyang mga kaibigan.
14 Mga kaibigan ko kayo kung ginagawa ninyo ang iniuutos ko sa inyo. 15 Hindi ko na kayo tinatawag na mga lingkod sapagkat hindi alam ng lingkod ang ginagawa ng kanyang panginoon. Mga kaibigan naman ang turing ko sa inyo sapagkat ipinagbibigay-alam ko sa inyo lahat ng narinig ko mula sa aking Ama.
16 Hindi
kayo ang humirang sa akin, ako ang humirang sa inyo at nagtalaga sa inyo para
humayo at mamunga, at mamalagi ang inyong bunga. At ipagkakaloob sa inyo
anumang hingin n’yo sa Ama sa pangalan ko. 17 Iniuutos ko nga sa inyo:
magmahalan kayo.
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Reflection for May 13, Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter: John 14:1-6
Where I am going you know the way.” Thomas
said to him, “Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the
way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes
to the Father except through me.”
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Reflection:
There were two senior citizens who were near death one was a believer the other was not. The non-believer was deeply troubled on what would happen to his soul when he dies. The believer was very calm and was not afraid to die.
There are those who dread the mere mention of death as if it’s a plague that needs to be avoided. But no matter how hard we avoid death using our wealth and power we cannot escape it because it’s a certain fact of life and it’s the rite of passage for the next life.
In the gospel Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places (John 14:1-2).” Therefore, Jesus is assuring us that we already have a place reserved for us there someday.
But we are still here in this world and the big question is can we be there someday to be with our Lord? Nobody knows about it except the Lord, what we have to do is to simply follow His teachings.
We do it not to buy our way to His
Father’s house; we follow His teachings because that’s what the Lord wants us
to do. Then, when our time comes we simply submit our fate to Him. –
Marino J. Dasmarinas
Ang Mabuting Balita para sa Mayo 13, Biyernes sa Ika-4 na Linggo ng Pasko ng Muling Pagkabuhay: Juan 14:1-6
4 At alam
n’yo ang daan sa pupuntahan ko.” 5 Sinabi sa kanya ni Tomas: “Pangi-noon,
hindi namin alam kung saan ka pupunta. Paano namin malalaman ang daan?” 6
Sinabi sa kanya ni Jesus: “Ako siyang daan, ang katotohanan, at ang buhay.
Walang nakalalapit sa Ama kundi sa pamamagitan ko.
Monday, May 09, 2022
Reflection for May 12, Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter: John 13:16-20
But so that the Scripture might be
fulfilled, The one who ate my food has raised his heel against me. From now on
I am telling you before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe
that I AM. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives
me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”
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Reflection:
Are you afraid of suffering and betrayal? In His humanity Jesus was also afraid of sufferings and betrayal. But His fears did not prevent Him from achieving His salvific mission. It even strengthened His resolve to continue amidst the difficulty of His mission. Jesus never gave up no matter how hard the odds against Him for He knew that He has a mission to fulfill.
Marriage starts like a rose garden and it seems that everything is rosy, beautiful and sweet. But after a period of time problems would crop up, there shall be sufferings and sometimes betrayal of vows. So what must we do? Should we simply walk away with our heads bowed in defeat? Or we stay, bear the brunt of the sufferings/betrayal and fight for the sanctity of the marriage covenant.
We must stay and fight for the sanctity of the marriage covenant. Let us remember that Jesus remained with His mission notwithstanding the sufferings and betrayals. What if Jesus simply gave up and walked away from His mission of salvation? Anyway He’s God and powerful but He remained for His love for God and for all of us.
Many married couples nowadays choose the easy way out when testing comes to their marriage. They choose to betray and eventually walk away from their marriage covenant. They simply walk away notwithstanding their sacred vows and the welfare of their children.
Jesus never walked away from His
responsibilities towards humanity notwithstanding the sufferings and betrayals.
He faced it all and triumphed over it. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
Ang Mabuting Balita para sa Mayo 12, Huwebes sa Ika-4 na Linggo ng Pasko ng Muling Pagkabuhay: Juan 13:16-20
18 Hindi
kayong lahat ang tinutukoy ko. Kilala ko ang mga hinirang ko. Ngunit kailangang
maganap ang Kasulatan: Ang nakikisalo sa aking pagkai’y tumalapid sa akin.”
19 Sinasabi ko ito ngayon sa inyo bago pa mangyari upang maniwala kayong
Ako Nga kapag nangyari ito. 20 Talagang-talagang sinasabi ko sa inyo: ako
ang tinatanggap ng tumatanggap sa ipinadadala ko, at ang nagpadala sa akin
ang tinatanggap ng tumatanggap sa akin.”
Reflection for May 11 Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter: John 12:44-50
Whoever rejects me and does not accept my
words has something to judge him: the word that I spoke, it will condemn him on
the last day, because I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me
commanded me what to say and speak. And I know that his commandment is eternal
life. So what I say, I say as the Father told me.”
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Reflection:
How can we reinforce our belief in the oneness of Jesus and God? It’s to follow to the letter the teachings of Jesus. Profession of belief only is not enough, we have to do concrete actions to seal our belief and faith. For example, if we believe that Jesus and God the Father are one yet we don’t give to somebody in need. What then is the use of our declaration of belief?
We who profess belief in the oneness of Jesus and God are their walking advertisements in this world. As such we should always see to it that we should always do something concrete to reinforce our belief by our acts of goodness.
In so doing we show the whole world that we truly are followers not only in words but also in deeds. Because the truest essence of faith is not exclusively confined to acts of worship alone it should always be coupled with acts of goodness.
Is your belief in the oneness of Jesus and
the Father always reinforced with acts of goodness? – Marino J.
Dasmarinas