Parokya Ni San Jose - Naguilian, Isabela

FEBRUARY 22, 2020 BY MSGR. CHARLES POPE
The Cycle of Hatred and Revenge Ends With Me – A Homily for the 7th Sunday of the Year

In today’s Gospel the Lord is teaching us, by His grace, to break the cycle of hatred and retribution. When someone harms me I may well become angry, and in my anger seek to get back at the offender. If I do that, though, then Satan has earned a second victory and brought the anger and retribution to a higher level. Most likely, the one who originally harmed me will then take exception to my retribution and try to inflict more harm on me. And so the cycle continues and escalates. Satan loves this.
Recall the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. … The chain reaction of evil—hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars—must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation (From Strength to Love, 1963).

"𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗮 𝗻𝗶 𝗧𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗲, 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙖 𝙨𝙖 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗸𝘆𝗮 𝗡𝗶 𝗦𝗮𝗻 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗲"✨❤️⛪

Avail the 𝗧𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲 to support the fund raising project of the Parish Youth Ministry. T-shirts (White and Green), Mugs and Key Chains are available. Proceeds will be used for the construction of the new parish church. 💖😇

For inquiries, orders, and reservations kindly send a direct message to our 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁. Thank you very much in advance. God bless💞😇

𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐌𝐀𝐒 𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐍 2022✨💖🙏
Inviting everyone to come and celebrate with us in this Season of Hope, Peace, Joy and Love. Here is the Schedule of Masses. Schedule of Sponsors will be posted in daily!❤️😇💕

Let us continue to pray and help our faithful in seeing the heart and essence of the season in the humble, solemn, silent but mighty and loving reality of God who comes to us in Jesus' incarnation.
Amen 💗✨😇

November 23, 2022 - 𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐖𝐄𝐃𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐃𝐀𝐘❤️🙏✨
The goal of the event is to raise awareness and to pray for persecuted Christians, who are the most discriminated against religious group in the world.

Prayer for the Persecuted Christians:
Lord God thank you for the gift of life, I pray for your guidance and protection so that I can be a blessing and of help to others. I pray for the safety of all the frontliners, please heal all the sick people and all those affected by this pandemic. Amen.❤️

November 13, 2022 (Sunday)💝
𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐬/𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐬. 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐨𝐚𝐠✨😇

"To give worthy praise to the Lord's mercy, we unite ourselves with Your Immaculate Mother, for then our hymn will be more pleasing to You, because She is chosen from among men and angels. Through Her, as through a pure crystal, Your mercy was passed on to us. Through Her, man became pleasing to God; Through Her, streams of grace flowed down upon us." - St. Faustina🙏

Happy Birthday to all Altar Servers who will celebrate their birthday this November 🙏⛪. May God continue to bless you and keep you❤️

“The Lord is my strength and shield. I
Trust him with all my heart. He helps me,
and my heart is filled with joy. I Burst
out in songs of Thanksgiving.”
- Psalm 28:7

𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐋𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐒 𝐃𝐀𝐘🙏❤️💕😇

ℙ𝕣𝕒𝕪𝕖𝕣:
Grant eternal rest, O Lord. Lord, as you command, we reach out to the fallen. We call on you on behalf of those we could not reach this year. that all may share in his joyful resurrection. Amen🙏

Altar Servers in ACTION. Practice for the upcoming culmination of the Month of the Holy Rosary.🙏

Today is the 11th Episcopal Anniversary of His Excellency, Most Rev. David William V. Antonio, DD, Bishop of Ilagan.

Let us pray for his ministry as a shepherd of the Church!

𝙊𝙍𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊 𝙄𝙈𝙋𝙀𝙍𝘼𝙏𝘼:
𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴

Almighty Father, we raise our hearts to You in gratitude, for the wonders of creation of which we are part, for Your providence in sustaining us in our needs, and for Your wisdom that guides the course of the universe.

We acknowledge our sins against You and the rest of Your creation. We have not been good stewards of nature. We have confused Your command to subdue the earth. The environment is made to suffer our wrongdoing, and now we reap the harvest of our abuse and indifference.

Global warming is upon us. Typhoons, floods, volcanic eruption, and other natural calamities occur in the increasing number and intensity.

We turn to you, our loving Father, and beg forgiveness for our sins.

We ask that we, our loved ones and our hard earned possessions be spared from the threat of calamities, natural and man-made. We beseech You to inspire us all to grow into responsible stewards of Your creation, and generous neighbors to those in need.

AMEN.