Articles – Center for Ignatian Spirituality – Philippines https://cisphil.phjesuits.org Tue, 14 Jul 2020 01:59:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://cisphil.phjesuits.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/cropped-CIS-Logo_white-PNG-32x32.png Articles – Center for Ignatian Spirituality – Philippines https://cisphil.phjesuits.org 32 32 hope is participation in God’s life https://cisphil.phjesuits.org/hope-is-participation-in-gods-life/ Tue, 14 Jul 2020 01:55:18 +0000 https://phjesuits.org/cisphil/?p=445 Most of us are not free to say “yes” before we say “no.” Our first response is normally “no”: “I don’t trust that. I don’t like that. I don’t agree with that.” The word enthusiasm (en-theos in Greek) means “filled with God.” I’m not encouraging mindless enthusiasm, but the enthusiasm that is based on intelligence, wisdom, and the great gift of hope. Hope is a participation in the very life of God. This hope has nothing to do with circumstances or events going well. It can even thrive in adversity and trial. True faith, which always includes hope and love, is a predisposition to “yes.” I would say that a foundational “yes” is the most distinguishing element between a secular agenda and one that is guided by the Spirit of Jesus. You can spot the different energy in a moment! “With him it was always ‘yes,’ and however many the promises God made, the ‘yes’ to them all is in him” (2 Corinthians 1:19b– 20). Jesus was a “yes” man in the deepest meaning of that phrase. 

(RICHARD ROHR, OFM)

]]> Galing sa Himlayan https://cisphil.phjesuits.org/galing-sa-himlayan/ Mon, 13 Jul 2020 07:15:36 +0000 https://phjesuits.org/cisphil/?p=437 Mateo 8:28-34
Hulyo 1, 2020

Marahil ay naranasan n’yo na, na sa inyong pagbisita sa yumaong mahal sa buhay, lumisan kayo na magaan at panatag ang kalooban? Para bang sa lugar ng mga patay ay meron ding buhay.

Sa Ebanghelyo ngayong araw, ang dalawang lalaking inalihan ng demonyo ay galing sa himlayan o libingan. Bakit kaya sila doon nanggaling? Doon ba sila sinapian? Bakit kaya ang karanasan nila ay ibang-iba sa gaan at panatag na loob na kadalasan ay nararamdaman natin pag tayo ay dumadalaw sa namayapang nating mahal sa buhay?

Sa ating pagninilay, magandang tanungin natin sa dasal: Lumilisan ba ako ng “libingan” ng may kapanatagan ng kalooban o puno ng galit at hinanakit na naglalayo sa tunay na pagka-ako? Saan nagmumula ang kapanatagan? Saan nagmumula ang pagkabahala?

Ang Diyos ay likas na nananahan sa ating puso. Kahit tayo ay parang inaalihan, ang presensya n’yang iyon ang magpipilit na sumigaw at tawagin si Hesus upang tayo maligtas at maging malayang muli. Sa pag-amin at pagtanggap ng ating kalagayan at paglalahad ng lahat ng ito kay Hesus, magmumula ang ating kalayaan at kapanatagan ng ating kalooban. 

(A. Endaya)

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