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8 Parish Bulletin LENTEN RECOLLECTION - 1 Fr. Tito Caluag The First Lenten Recollection was given last Saturday March 2 by Fr. Tito Caluag. Fr. Tito centered his talk on the theme of Year of Faith, focusing on the context of Eucharistic Consciousness. The forty days of Lent are a time of intense preparation for Holy Week which culminates in the Easter Tridiurn: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter - and this Paschal Mystery of the Last Supper-Cross-Resurrection is the central mystery of our faith. "Since we have the same spirit of faith ..., we also believe, and so we also speak, knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into His presence." (2 Corinthians 4:13-14) For this Year of Faith, Pope Benedit XVI asked the faithful to pay emphasis to New Evangelization and the celebration of the faith in the liturgy, especially in the Eucharist. Fr. Tito talked about how To have faith/To believe is not a mere mental process; Faith is an activity of the whole person. This consciousness of faith brings us to an awareness of God's love, and God loves us even in our failures and shortcomings. Knowing and feeling His love, no other response is possible except to love Him back. "Amor con amor se paga. " Faith inspires us to live it. We profess the faith in fullness and with renewed conviction, with confidence and hope - to witness and thus to evangelize. The Ignatian 3-fold process of 1. To know 2. To love 3. To follow is reflected in the movement of the Mass with the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist. At each Mass, we commemorate the Last Supper at which Our Lord Took Blessed Broke Gave Each Mass is a means for us to Take stock of our lives, Be aware of God's love for us and to give thanks, and to Break of ourselves and Give to others. We are to live this Eucharistic consciousness throughout the day, every day. Christ's divinity is defined by the Cross and the Resurrection, and every Mass brings this Paschal Mystery to us again and again. Evangelization means to make people realize that we have been crucified with Christ and we prepare for His promise of the resurrection. The Eucharist is both the tool and the end goal. It enables us to discover meaning in our life because in that one perfect sacrifice, Christ defeated sin and death yesterday, today, and tomorrow. At each Mass, Christ becomes truly present at the altar at Consecration and then in us at Communion. Thus, at each Mass, the community comes together to Remember Celebrate Believe Fr. Tito talked about a BBC interview with Carl Jung, who founded analytical psychology, when Jung was 84 years old. The interviewer John Freeman asked him about his childhood and being brought to church every Sunday as was the norm then. Freeman: God? Jung: "Oh yes." Freeman: God?" "And did you believe in "Do you now believe in Jung: "NOW? ..(moment of silence while Jung ponders his reply) ... difficult to answer ... I KNOW. I needn't ...,I don't need to believe - I know." Fr. Tito brought out the significance of our Pilipino term for faith - pananampalataya, and the beauty of its root word - "taya" - which evokes that element of risking all when we offer ourselves to God, i.e. itataya mo ang sarili mo sa Diyos. To partake of the Eucharist is to bring its spirituality and consciousness into our every moment of life so that we may truly say as in Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." by Elizabeth Virata
March 10,2013 9 AN INVITATION TO A PILGRIMAGE Ci5~c;o~ + RUSSIA. AND TOUR OF: Visiting 9 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, 4 European "Capital of Culture" and many more Black Madon.18 of Czastochawa BIasaedPope John PIU 11 INFANT .ESUS OFPRAGUE SCHONBRUNN PALACE SPlENDOROUS LAKE BI.S) MAY 15,; 31,20l3 ( Eastern Europe) Ma~ 30 • June 5,2013 ( extension to Russia) FR. ROBERT MANANSALA, OFM Pllgnmtlge Chaplain AUSTRIA, S OVENIA, HUNGARY, POLAND, GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC and RUSSIA
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