Divine Paradox - 22-A

Jer 20:7-9

Rom 12:1-2

Mt 16:21-27

I. God of Paradox

• Abraham- assured of  posterity as numerous as the stars in the sky... and then asked to sacrifice His only Son Isaac, who would make this promise a reality.
• First Reading: Jeremiah's callGo whatever be the mission I am entrusting to you, and you will speak of whatever I command you to say.” The prophet gets scared; he is young; he does not know how to speak but the Lord assures him: “Do not be afraid…for I will be with you to protect you…They will fight against you but shall not overcome you, for I am with you to rescue you” (Jer 1:7-8, 19).and yet we hear Jeremiah seem to sound alone, forsaken or neglected by the Lord being subjected into redicule and rejection of Israelites.

• The paradox in the life and teachings of Jesus:
• the beatitudes
• The one who seeks to be great in the kingdom must be your servant.
• the first will be the last and the last will be the first.
• I have come that they may have life, life in all its fullness” (Jn 10, 10).-To achieve the life it is necessary to lose it.
• For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
  - 1cor. 1:18
• to conquer death, Jesus was subjected to it.

II. THE PARADOX OF DISCIPLESHIP.

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Gospel (Peter's delimma) Messiah, son of the Living God, the redeemer- to go to Jerusalem to suffer and die.? never shall it happen to you said peter.
• Simon Peter: a living stone of the Church having received revelation from the Father, accepted the plan of salvation professed his faith to the Son of the living God- Stumbling block because he let himself be guided by human reasoning.
• reality is that our ways of God is far different from God's ways.
• Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.--  Rom. 12:2
• Whose disciples are we?
• If we seek honor, power, comfort and leisure , acknowledgement, self interest,gratification, then we are World's disciples
• Christ's disciples seeks deny oneself, and cross and following Jesuss: gives up personal gains, other-centered, seeks not suffering but love- the ultimate giving of self and taking part God's project on beting one's life on love.
• our future is also a paradox
• whoever wishes to save his life will lose it,
     whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
• thus we have a choice:
• glory on earth and eternal suffering in hell.
• cross on earth and eternal glory in heaven.

source: http://sundaycommentaries.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/22nd-sunday-of-ordinary-time/

Ang Tigasin- 21st-A

Is. 22:15.19-23

Rom 11:33-36

Mt.16:13-20

I. the Rock

 si Simon bago maging tigasin.

• Mt.14- walking on the water
• Mt. 26- denial of Peter
• Mt. 16- prediction of Christ' death

Si Jesus ang tunay na Bato.

• This solid, immovable “rock”, is always and only Christ.“Wara nin ibang pundasyon na ikakabutang kundi an saro na ibinutang na, warang iba kundi si Jesu Cristo (1 Cor 3:11).

• marani kamo saiya, buhay na gapo, isinikwal nin mga tawo alagad sa mata nin Dios pinili na mahalaga.  (1Pt. 2:4)

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Si Simon naging Bato

• Ika GAPO. asin sa gapong iyan papatindugon ko an sakong simbahan.
• Peter as building stone:  the stone of which Jesus speaks, is the faith professed by Peter. This faith constitutes the foundation of the church, which keeps it united with Christ-rock, makes it indestructible and allows it to never be overwhelmed by the forces of evil. (tigasin)

• gates of hell will not prevail: Nothing ever—ensures Jesus—can prevent the church to complete her work of salvation, provided that she is always closely united to him, the Son of the living God. 
• key- manager of the house. authority to give or deny access to the palace.(first reading)
• loosing and binding: after that confession of faith, peter holds the key which opens the door of and gives access to salvation to those who confessed the same faith and exclude those whom refuse the faith.
• All those who, like Peter and with Peter profess this faith, are inserted, as living stones, in the spiritual building designed by God.: "
• kamo mismo, parehas kan mga gapo, magpatukdok kamo na maging espiritwal na harong na magiging banal na kapadian na madulot nin mag espiritwal na sacrificio na akong gayo nin Dios huli ki Jesu Cristo. "(1Pt. 2:4-6)

II. Ang mga Bagong Tigasin

• persecuted Christians in Iraq and Syria: 
• options: convert, leave, pay high tax, or be killed.
• thousands were already mercilessly killed, beheaded, shoot... old as well as infants.
• they are new martyrs of faith.
• kami pinapatios nin gayo alagad dai na dudunot, nawawraan nin mabibirikan alagad dire nawaraan nin pakakadtuan, pinipersiger alagad dai pinapabayaan, binabadag alagad dai na raraot. danay asin minsan saen dinadars mi sa hawak an pagkagadan ni Jesus tanganing an buhay ni Jesus ikapahiling sa samong hawak. (2 Cor. 4:9)

III. Peter as model

• tigasin o matibay- di dahil sa kun ano an kaya ta himuon (magpahibi nin bayi, mag padalagan sin motor na makaskas, pira na kaya ta u uson na arak)
• di dahil kun pira an igwa kita. (yaman, kapangyarihan impluwensya o nene)
• di dahil kun sino kita ( bata kita ni mayor, senador, artista o kun sino pa na pontio pilato)

• kundi dahil sa pag pahayag nato kan pagtubod ni Pedro kay Jesu Cristo, bilang mesiyas an Aki nin Dios na Buhay.