Pope Benedict remembers persecuted missionaries on World Mission Sunday

Vatican City, Oct 18, 2009 / (CNA).-

Tens of thousands of faithful attended the Angelus with Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Square on World Mission Sunday. Pope Benedict’s words to them recalled missionaries who suffer persecution, including Father Ruggero Ruvoletto, killed in Brazil, and Father Michael Sinnot, kidnapped in the Philippines.

His message, Benedict XVI explained, was inspired by an expression from the Books of Revelation: “The nations will walk by its light.” The light is that of God, revealed by the Messiah and reflected on the Church, the Holy Father added.

“It is 'the light of the Gospel,’ that guides people towards the realization of one great family, in justice and peace, under the fatherhood of one good and merciful God,” Pope Benedict said. “The Church exists to proclaim this message of hope to all humanity, which in our time ‘has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.’"

The Church, he continued, feels the urgency of working to ensure that the sovereignty of Christ is fully realized. The Pontiff expounded, “All of its members and articulations cooperate in this project, according to the different states of life and charisms.”

“On this World Mission Sunday I remember the missionaries, priests, religious and laity, who devote their lives to bringing the Gospel into the world, also facing hardships and difficulties and sometimes even real persecution. I think, among others, of Father Roger Ruvoletto, a Fidei Donum priest, recently killed in Brazil, and Father Michael Sinnot, a religious, kidnapped a few days ago in the Philippines.”

Pope Benedict publicly thanked the Pontifical Missions for their valuable service rendered in animation and education to mission and urged all Christians to a gesture of sharing, in material and spiritual help of the young, poorer local Churches.

Benedict XVI concluded by speaking about Sunday’s feast of St. Luke the Evangelist, whose Acts of the Apostles narrates “the spread of the Christian message to the ends of the known world.”

“Let us invoke his intercession, together with that of St. Francis Xavier and Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus, patroness of missions, and the Virgin Mary, so that the Church may continue to spread the light of Christ among all peoples,” the Holy Father concluded. “I ask you also to pray for the Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops, which in recent weeks is taking place here in the Vatican.”

DI BINTINUEBE DJADUMINGU SIKLO B

Promé Lektura : Isaias 53, 10-11
Salmo : Salmo 33, 4-5, 18-19, 20. 22
Di dos Lektura : Hebreonan 4, 14-16
Evangelio : Marko 10, 35-45


Pa tur hende? El a bini pa duna su bida pa tur hende? I pa terorista- i violadornan, pa ladron i pa bandidunan pa ateonan i esnan ku no sa loke nan ke den bida...? Pa tur hende...?
Nos tin miedu ku ta SI . Hesus a bini p'asina nos tur tin bida i bida den felisidat. Por ta ku hendenan no a deskubrí Dios i ainda no a saboriá e alegria di sinti nan mes ruman di otro, ei ta nan pena i nan tristesa, hopi ta biba odiando òf amargá ku ta meskos ku biba sin ta felis. Esaki ta nos testimonio di kreyentenan den e mundu di awe: Nos mester ta testigu di e amor di Dios ku ta hasi di nos sirbidó di otro.
Ora un hende bisa ku e tabata ke biba manera "e promé kristiannan..." , di bèrdat ta sinti gana di hari, pasobra semper e evangelio di awe ta bin den nos mente. E disipelnan ku a kombibí ku Hesus, ku a skucha su bos direktamente i a kompartí pan kuné; ku a mira su milagernan... no tabata mihó ku nos, kasi lo bisa ku nan no a resaltá pa nan gran fe ni pa nan afan di sirbishi na otro. Un kos ta ... “ta ku Kristu” i otro hopi distinto ta “sigui Kristu”. Ta kere ku e apòstelnan riba e dia ei a keda den e promé parti. Nan tabatin mentalidat di kualke ser humano. Nan tabata buska e mihó puestonan i no di stima mas. Nan tabata kere si pero den sentido di haña rekompensa. Nan tabata pensa si pero ku aktitut di rekohé fruta. Asina nos ta komo hende ora Señor no a yega den nos intimidat.
No laga nos gaña nos mes, nos tur ke pa nan rekonosé nos trabou. Nos sa ku un persona di bèrdat ta trahadó ora e gradisí pa trabou ku a hasi p’e. Únikamente esnan trahadó sa di balorá trabou di e otro. Diferensia den bida kristian ta ku nos trabou no tin ku bai uní únikamente na espektativa di rekonosementu humano. Por ta ku otronan no ta rekonosé bo lucha i trabou, bo sakrifisio i preokupashonnan, pero ki grandi ta di duna bida pa otro sin interes, sin buska rekompensa! Únikamente Dios i abo sa balor di kada kos ku abo a hasi pa otro. Amor di Dios lo ta bo salario i bo rekompensa, bo sindikato i bo reinvindikashon mas urgente.
Gloria humano ta opskuresé gloria di Dios . Si move den kriterionan humano lo bo no komprondé. Mester "nase di nobo". Hopi bia den nos orashon diario nos ta hasi manera e apòstelnan, nos ta bisa Dios kua ta nos proposishonnan, kiko e mester hasi, na lugá di ta nos ta esnan ku ta laga Dios hasi loke mester pa nos.
E otro disipelnan a rabia ku nan pasobra nan tabata buska preferensia. Boso no ta kere ku nan tabata pensa ku tabata inoportuno pidi esaki, sino pasobra kada un tabatin deseo pa nan mes, ku loke e diesnan tambe a demonstrá nan ambishon. Hesus a probechá e okashon para skual nan tur.
Hopi bia den nos Iglesia nos ta mira ehèmpel di hende ku ke sobresalí riba tur otro.
Ora hende ta mira Iglesia nan ta hasié ku kriterionan únikamente humano, di tal manera saserdotenan ta "destiná", ser "obispu" o "vikario" ta un enkargo masha importante, i no bisa nada mes di ser Papa...
Mare nos por transmití na e rumannan ku sirbishi, spesial na esnan mas débil i den nesesidat di sosiedat, ta e kaminda pa hasi Dios presente den nos mundu. Ora nos haña nos mes dilanti di nos Señor, E lo no puntra nos ni e dògmanan, ni di Beibel, ni e mandamentunan i ni sikiera e sakramentunan, sino kon nos a biba den aktitut di sirbishi i disponibilidat. Ta puntra kon ainda tin kristian únikamente preokupá pa e puresa doktrinal ora en realidat Evangelio ta invitá nos na e puresa di bida i di kurason...
Únikamente un kristian ku por sirbi otro ta esun ku tin amor komo meta den su bida. Outoridat, segun Kristu, ta den sirbi e ruman.
E mihó manera di eksperensiá bida ta di sa ku tur loke un hende a biba ta bal la pena, ku el a hasi kada kos na su momento i ku e no a laga asuntunan pendiente pa un mañan ku lo no yega. Tempu di Dios yama "awor".
E apòstelnan tabata ke privilegio pa futuro. Pober di nos si den presente nos no deskubrí ku dor di duna, segun ehèmpel di Hesus, ta nos mihó rekompensa, nos mihó rekonosementu.