2018: Year of the Clergy
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My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, God speaks to us in time and history. God communicates through time and history. From a faith perspective, we can say that history owes its existence to God whose voice is at the origin of human history. Through the revelation of God, human history becomes salvation history. Using the eyes of faith, we are able to discern the dynamic presence of divine action, intervention or communication in our personal and communal histories. The peak of God’s intervention is in Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh, and by doing so, was immersed in the drama of human history. Revelation is not a mere communication of the content of God’s identity and plan but effects in history what God intends. Our people come to church with the expectation of being guided in discovering the meaning of life in the light of faith. They bring their frustrations, needs, sins, wounds and dying to us that the power of the Paschal Mystery may kindle hope and strength for the journey. We hope that in our ministry of proclaiming God’s Word, they may hear the word that the Lord has put in every prophet’s mouth. Then somehow, the joyful and painful experiences begin to speak of a God who faithfully walks with them. Welcome to angsalitangdiyos.com! +LUIS ANTONIO G. CARDINAL TAGLE
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PAHATID May kakaibang pakiramdam kapag nakakasaksi ng mga una – unang ngiti, unang hikab, unang hakbang, unang salita. Biyaya ng Diyos ang mga una. Kaya nga para sa mga Hudyo, ang una, ang panganay ay inaalay sa Diyos bilang handog ng pasasalamat. Sa unang pagkakataon, itatampok sa isang website ang audio recording ng mga pagbasa sa Filipino. Ang mga piling lector mula sa iba’t ibang parokya ay nag-magandang loob na gumanap para magkaroon ng huwarang sipi ng tamang pagpapahayag ng mga pagbasa sa liturhiya. Layunin ng website na ito ang tulungan ang mga lektor sa kanilang mahalagang tungkulin. Mariing ipinaala ni Papa Benito XVI na ang mga naatasang magpapahayag ng Salita ng Diyos sa liturhiya ay dapat sumailalim sa paghuhubog, paghahanda at pagsasanay (Cf. Sacramentum Caritatis, 45). Dahil ang Diyos mismo ang nangungusap sa kanyang bayan sa tuwing ipapahayag ang Salita ng Diyos (Cf. Sacrosanctum Concilium, 33), kailangang paghandaan ito ng mga lector sa pamamagitan ng pag-aaral, pagninilay at pagsasabuhay nito. Ang website na ito ay patunay ng hindi matatawarang ambag ng mga layko sa buhay at misyon ng simbahan. Mula sa pawis, pagod, talino at kakayahan ng mga masisipag na lektor ng Arkidiyosesis ng Maynila, ang website na ito ay sinimulan, ipinagpapatuloy at pinalalago. Salamat sa kanila. Salamat sa Diyos. Tuloy po kayo!
Reb. Padre Carmelo P. Arada, Jr. Minister - Ministry on Lectors and Commentators |
Praise to you, Lord God, King of the universe,
And all glory to your name.
I praise you and thank you for calling me
To proclaim your word to your beloved people.
Open the hearts of all who worship with us,
So that they may hear your voice when I read.
Let nothing in my life or manner disturb your people
Or close their hearts to the action of your Spirit.
Cleanse my heart and mind,
And open my lips so that I may proclaim your glory.
All praise to you, heavenly Father, through the Lord Jesus, in the Holy Spirit,
Now and forever. Amen.
- published as “A Reader’s Prayer” in the National Bulletin on Liturgy, #50
CALL AND COMMISSIONING OF ISAIAH
Then I said, "Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!" Then one of the seraphim flew to me, holding an ember that he had taken with tongs from the altar.
He touched my mouth with it and said, "See, now that this has touched your lips, your wickedness is removed, your sin purged."
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?" "Here I am," I said; "send me!"
- Isaiah 6:5-8
CALL AND COMMISSIONING OF JEREMIAH
Now the word of the LORD came to me saying, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations." Then I said, "Alas, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, Because I am a youth." But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am a youth,' Because everywhere I send you, you shall go, And all that I command you, you shall speak. "Do not be afraid of them, For I am with you to deliver you," declares the LORD. Then the LORD stretched out His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me, "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
- Jeremiah 1:4-9
1. Thou shall not read from sheets of throwaway missalettes.
2. Thou shall not announce numbers of pages, scripture chapters and verses, or the summary statements attached to the readings.
3. Thou shall not add words to the texts, such as “and this is the word of the Lord.”
4. Thou shall not contribute to noise pollution by overstating the obvious, as in “The response for today’s psalm is…”
5. Thou shall not announce intercessions or announcements or proclaim scripture without first practicing the words out loud.
6. Thou shall not overdo the “fido comments” such as sit!, stand! or kneel!
7. Thou shall not run from or toward the pulpit, except in cases of true human emergency.
8. Thou shall not begin to proclaim God’s word while people are still shifting their posture from one position to the other.
9. Thou shall not simply read God’s word, as though it were a novel or a citation from the telephone directory.
10. Thou shall not forget the privilege and responsibility accorded you as a minister of the word.
- Taken from: “Making God’s Word Our Own”
By Dr. Nancy Benvenga and
Rev. Christopher Heller
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