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December 29, 2019 - Holy Family 29 de Diciembre del 2019 - La Sagrada Familia
The Rectory will be closed on New Year’s Day. La Rectoría estará cerrada el Día de Año Nuevo.
Remember that through your pledge to A Coffee a Day Recuerde que a través de su compromiso en la colaboración con la
for Our Parish campaign, can make our parish stronger campaña Un café al día, usted ayuda fortalecer nuestra parroquia para
for generations to come. We hope to no longer depend las generaciones venideras. No quisiéramos depender de la ayuda
economically on the Archdiocese to cover our expenses económica de la Arquidiócesis para cubrir los gastos y ofrecer un impul-
and to offer a lift so that those with special needs can have so para que las personas con necesidades especiales puedan tener acce-
access. Visit our website santamariaparish.churchgiving.com so. Visite nuestro sitio web santamariaparish.churchgiving.com para obte-
for an easier and more convenient way of making your ner una forma más fácil y conveniente de realizar su ofrenda habitual.
regular offertory. Let us pray for the successful stewardship Oremos por la exitosa administración de nuestra parroquia. ¡Muchas
of our parish. Thank you! gracias!
“Faith and Reason are like two wings of the
human spirit by which is soars to the truth”
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Fe Ciencia La brújula
III Del Corazón del Padre por La brújula es un invento extraordinario.
Fernando Rielo (continuación) El fenómeno del magnetismo se conocía; Así
El Padre es la expresión de la misma Providencia. Tenemos el don se refiere en libros chinos que datan del siglo
de la gracia santificante, pero esto no es lo mismo para la palabra II que ellos usaban un trocito de caña conteniendo una aguja magnética que
Padre. También la palabra "acto del Espíritu Santo" es diferente de se hacía flotar sobre el agua para indicar el norte magnético, aunque los
la palabra Padre ... Los sacramentos, los dones y las virtudes son chinos nunca se sirvieron del imán para establecer el rumbo en la navegación.
formas de la gracia santificante, pero diferentes realidades de la Los Árabes pudieron aprender de ellos aquel fenómeno y tal vez algunos
palabra Padre, aunque estas cosas provienen de la expresión de Él. cruzados lo aprendieron a su vez de los árabes llegando así a Europa. También
La gracia santificante es Él. el mercader de Venecia y explorador Marco Polo en el siglo XIII con su tío
En esta sola palabra, Padre, resume toda la existencia humana, comerciaron con China en la ruta de la seda durante mucho tiempo quien lo
toda nuestra vida cristiana, todos los diferentes aspectos de la explica en su libro “El Millon” (Il Milione) y trajeron algunos inventos de allí,
sabiduría, la voluntad y el sentimiento. como el papel, la pólvora y la brújula.
EL PADRE ES LA ULTIMA RAZÓN DE LA ACCIÓN HUMANA Y La brújula es un instrumento que cuenta con una simple aguja que nos indica
RELIGIOSA. Cristo es el camino, el objetivo es solo uno. Debido al en todo el mundo donde está el norte. Por fin, en el año 1117, en un libro de
plan del Padre, hemos sido redimidos y Él es el origen del Zhu Yu se menciona por primera vez el uso de la brújula para la navegación:
Verdadero Absoluto, el magisterio supremo, Él es la razón última “El navegante mira las estrellas por la noche y la posición de sol durante el día,
de nuestro pensamiento, voluntad y nuestra acción ... y nuestra y si está oscuro y nublado, se deja guiar por la brújula”. Pero en ciertas
vocación. (p.26) oportunidades no servía, pues necesitaba estar en aguas calmas. En 1180, el
El Padre es el norte de nuestras vidas ... sabio ingles Alexander Neckam (1157-1217) fue el primer europeo que hizo
referencia a esa capacidad del magnetismo para señalar la dirección.
Pictures of the week
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Simbang Gabi
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REFLECTION
Book of Sirach 3: 2-6, 12-14; Letter to the Colossians 3:12-21; Matthew 2: 13-15, 19-23.
Do you remember your father?
Many years ago, Pope Paul VI clearly asserted in Evangelii Nuntiandi that the Christian family is an instrument of evan-
gelization both for its own members and for society.
We should look at this truth, because today we have the impression that the most urgent thing is to think of the family
"on the defensive", given today’s threats to both the natural families and the families blessed by the Sacrament of Mar-
riage.
We find our true identity and our personal worth only in a family where we are loved, accepted and forgiven. This ex-
plains the importance that our father Founder gives to the family as a true instrument for the mystical life and why he
affirms that the model of a religious community is not a well-organized company or an army, but the Holy Family.
Certainly, a calm look at the Holy Family provides us with precious keys to our personal and community journey into the
heavenly home.
1. Paternity/Maternity is synonymous with apostolate. This is how we can understand the many times repeated phrase
that we are to be apostles 24 hours a day. This is how we can remember that our Apostolic Vow goes beyond organizing
or participating in activities, which is obviously indispensable.
Holy Family
In Galatians 4:19 Paul called believers his little children, he is praying for them to grow up because he accepted the full
By Francisco Sánchez, M. Id
privilege and responsibility for the children-churches who come from his loins: they are not numbers or names on a
New York
list... He knew that he was not called to build a corporation or an extensive organization with corporate structures, but
a family. He remembered how the children imitate his faith and life's decisions. He made common life and invested more time with them when his spiritual
children were younger.
In the same way that a healthy father does not impose his dreams on his children, he progressively found his joy in partnering with his children on their
journey, witnessing how God the Father called them to do always new things, which for himself would be impossible.
A father or mother does not need to be extremely intelligent to realize that it is God who has put his children on his way, that beyond his own personal
expectations and dreams, these creatures are children of God, human beings called to live an ever-increasing, ever-new generosity. In the same way, the
apostle's mission is to reveal that kindness hidden by passions, fears and adversities in the heart of each person.
And this is a truly paternal/maternal task, because you cannot delegate it to another person. No, it would not be the same.
Mary and Joseph could not fully understand the mission of their Son, but that was not necessary. It was enough for them to know that it was up to them to
accompany Him, guide Him and teach Him so that he could carry out the mysterious and grand deed entrusted to Him.
Children learn with their eyes more than with the ears. They see and, for instance, do not forget the behavior of their parents towards their grandparents.
In the Idente Youth we have experience of how children and adolescents observe professors, how they imitate them and how sensitive they are to every
detail when they behave with true parenting, despite their youth.
One of our Idente Youth professors was talking to a teenager after a summer camp. The young man told him that he had decided to follow Christ. The
professor had been the speaker in the workshops and was eager to hear what it was that led to the boy decision. So he asked him: How did God get your
attention? The teenager said nothing about the content of the messages or the relevance of what he had heard. He said simply: I guess what really did it
was when you remembered my name.
2. When we say that the family is an instrument for holiness, we mean all families. Many of us do not come from impeccable parents. When we read the
lives of the saints, we see that many came from good family backgrounds. Their parents were holy and God-fearing people, like St Theresa’s parents or
Mary’s parents, Joachim and Anne.
The ancestors of Jesus were not all just and holy people. Amongst them are also sinners; those who have committed incest, adultery, murder; and alien
women.
We need not imprison ourselves to our past but, on the contrary, consider the past mistakes of our ancestors including ours, to be the opportunities given
by God inviting us to learn and to grow to become better people. Learning about our family history will help us to better understand ourselves, our reac-
tions, our traits and our fears. Instead of regretting that we did not come from great and perfect families, we should accept that God has a reason to put us
in that family where we came from because it is through that family that He will bless us and help us to find ourselves and our salvation.
The truth is that God’s plan unfolds itself regardless of whether we come from a painful past or a sad and cursed family tree. This is the wisdom of God
beyond understanding. God has His plans beyond man’s calculation.
3. The First Reading stresses the obligations of children towards their parents. Ben Sira knew that young people run the risk of thinking only of themselves.
So, for a misunderstood yearning for independence, they can fall into selfishness. There is a way to save them from the narrowness of the heart: to edu-
cate them of gratitude, making them sensitive to the needs of others, especially the needs of those from whom they have received life. Honor your father
with your whole heart and do not be forgetful of the sufferings of your mother. Remember that they gave you birth. How can you repay them for what they
have done for you? (Sir 7:27-28). Gratitude to God and neighbor is learned in the family.
We can paraphrase the words of Christ: How can we be grateful to God if we don't know how to be grateful to our parents and relatives?
Also from a practical point of view, today’s First Reading advises on how to behave with parents and elderly relatives. It is possible that the weakening
could not only be physical but also mental. It is hard to deal with someone who has lost his head, who repeats the same boring or even offensive
phrases.
That is the time to show up the depth of one’s affection and filial gratitude.
The First Reading summarizes children’s duties and obligations towards their parents as honor them. The most obvious and immediate meaning of the
verb to honor is to lead a good, whole and correct life so that parents can feel proud of them.
The second duty of children expressed with the verb to honor is to provide emotional, spiritual and financial assistance to parents when they are in
need. After a lifetime of hard work and sacrifice, they are sometimes forced to live in straitened, humiliating circumstances. No child should endure
seeing their parents in such conditions.
In Hebrew honor means: to have weight. Parents are to be honored while continuing to give them the weight they deserve. It is a dramatic experience
for older people to feel snubbed, even derided and to realize that their words, advice and gestures of affection no longer have any weight. In this way
we can understand why our Father Founder emphasizes honor as the synthesis of all the virtues: It is a matter of highlighting, of helping to give life to
the best of each other, to the most valuable gifts of our neighbors.
The love of children for their parents is something God appreciates. This is clearly evident from the promises of blessings given to those who take care
of father and mother. In the Book of Sirach we learn that there is a specific response of the Holy Spirit for those who are faithful to the love of the fam-
ily: If you honor your father, your sins will be forgiven; show respect to your mother, and you will be truly rich. Honor your father; then your own children
will make you happy, and God will hear them when they pray. The prayer of one who honors the parents will be granted, but when this love is lacking,
our rapport with God becomes a formality, a cold and heartless religious practice.
4. In the Second Reading Saint Paul says: Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they may not become discouraged. When there is no love in the family,
individuals lose the capacity to love. He warns parents to never drive your children to resentment or you will make them feel frustrated. Our young peo-
ple are under tremendous stress today. But instead of receiving encouragement and support from their parents, some parents drive their children to do
more than they could or give more importance to their work and career than to caring for their children. Children do not feel the unconditional love of
their parents. They think that their parents love them only when they do well in their studies. As a consequence, they suffer from a sense of inade-
quacy. This leads to insecurity and jealousy, especially if their siblings or friends are performing better than them.
A few years ago, there was a famous case of a young man who stood at the bar of a court of justice to be sentenced for forgery. The judge had known
this man from the time he was a child, because this man's father had been a famous lawyer. Do you remember your father? asked the judge sternly,
that father whom you have disgraced? The young man answered, I remember him perfectly. When I went to him for advice or companionship, he would
look up from his work and say, “Run away boy, I am busy”. My father finished his work, and here I am. That famous lawyer had neglected his son, with
awful results.
If a son or daughter is never good enough for his or her parents, if we are never good enough for our spouse, then the ground is being prepared for
infidelity, indifference and eventually separation.
Mary and Joseph knew that the child they carried in their arms was not theirs: he was entrusted by God to their care but remained God’s. They guarded
him with care until the day in which he inaugurated the extraordinary mission he was destined to. A mission not fully revealed to them and completely
shrouded in mystery.
5. The next story illustrates the efforts we must make to love, first of all, those whom God presents to us as our family. Can you translate it into your per-
sonal case?
A teacher was helping one of her kindergarten students put his boots on. He asked for help and she could see why. With her pulling and him pushing,
the boots still didn't want to go on. When the second boot was on, she had worked up a sweat.
Then the little boy said, Teacher, they're on the wrong feet. She looked and sure enough, they were. It wasn't any easier pulling the boots off then it was
putting them on. She managed to keep her cool as together they worked to get the boots back on; this time on the right feet.
He then announced, These aren't my boots. She bit her tongue. Once again she struggled to help him pull the ill-fitting boots off. He then said, They're
my brother's boots. My Mom made me wear them. She didn't know if she should laugh or cry. She mustered up the grace to wrestle the boots on his
feet again. She said, Now, where are your gloves? He said, I stuffed them in the toes of my boots.
6. Joseph was obedient to God and in touch with the will of God for him and his family. This is why parents must lead the way and foster regular family
prayer besides personal intimacy with the Most Holy Trinity. We can truly take a page from him in in the way we take care of our families and our mar-
riages. He is a model of the Spirit of the Gospel, anticipating what we hear today from the lips of St. Paul: Never say or do anything except in the name of
the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Let us remember that what is said for natural families is equally valid for religious communities. And let us on this feast of the Holy Family, pray to Mary,
Joseph and Jesus to help us strengthen the family that God has given to us.
Luis Casasús
Superior General de
los Misioneros Identes
AMORIS LÆTITIA AMORIS LÆTITIA
OF THE HOLY FATHER DEL SANTO PADRE
FRANCIS FRANCISCO
TO BISHOPS, PRIESTS AND DEACONS A OBISPOS, SACERDOTES Y DIÁCONOS.
CONSECRATED PERSONS PERSONAS CONSAGRADAS
CHRISTIAN MARRIED COUPLES PAREJAS CASADAS CRISTIANAS
AND ALL THE LAY FAITHFUL Y TODOS LOS LAICOS FIELES
ON LOVE IN THE FAMILY SOBRE EL AMOR EN LA FAMILIA
212. Short-term preparations for marriage tend to be 212. La preparación próxima al matrimonio tiende a concentrarse en
concentrated on invitations, clothes, the party and any number of las invitaciones, la vestimenta, la fiesta y los innumerables detalles que
other details that tend to drain not only the budget but energy and consumen tanto el presupuesto como las energías y la alegría. Los
joy as well. The spouses come to the wedding ceremony exhausted novios llegan agobiados y agotados al casamiento, en lugar de dedicar
and harried, rather than focused and ready for the great step that las mejores fuerzas a prepararse como pareja para el gran paso que van
they are about to take. The same kind of preoccupation with a big a dar juntos. Esta mentalidad se refleja también en algunas uniones de
celebration also affects certain de facto unions; because of the hecho que nunca llegan al casamiento porque piensan en festejos
expenses involved, the couple, instead of being concerned above demasiado costosos, en lugar de dar prioridad al amor mutuo y a su
all with their love and solemnizing it in the presence of others, formalización ante los demás. Queridos novios: « Tened la valentía de
never get married. Here let me say a word to fiancés. Have the ser diferentes, no os dejéis devorar por la sociedad del consumo y de la
courage to be different. Don’t let yourselves get swallowed up by a apariencia. Lo que importa es el amor que os une, fortalecido y
society of consumption and empty appearances. What is santificado por la gracia. Vosotros sois capaces de optar por un festejo
important is the love you share, strengthened and sanctified by austero y sencillo, para colocar el amor por encima de todo ».
grace. You are capable of opting for a more modest and simple Los agentes de pastoral y la comunidad entera pueden ayudar a que esta
celebration in which love takes precedence over everything else. prioridad se convierta en lo normal y no en la excepción.
Pastoral workers and the entire community can help make this 213. En la preparación más inmediata es importante iluminar a los
priority the norm rather than the exception. novios para vivir con mucha hondura la celebración litúrgica,
213. In their preparation for marriage, the couple should be ayudándoles a percibir y vivir el sentido de cada gesto. Recordemos que
encouraged to make the liturgical celebration a profound personal un compromiso tan grande como el que expresa el consentimiento
experience and to appreciate the meaning of each of its signs. In matrimonial, y la unión de los cuerpos que consuma el matrimonio,
the case of two baptized persons, the commitment expressed by cuando se trata de dos bautizados, sólo pueden interpretarse como
the words of consent and the bodily union that consummates the signos del amor del Hijo de Dios hecho carne y unido con su Iglesia en
marriage can only be seen as signs of the covenantal love and alianza de amor. En los bautizados, las palabras y los gestos se
union between the incarnate Son of God and his Church. In the convierten en un lenguaje elocuente de la fe. El cuerpo, con los
baptized, words and signs become an eloquent language of faith. significados que Dios ha querido infundirle al crearlo « se convierte en
The body, created with a God-given meaning, “becomes the el lenguaje de los ministros del sacramento, conscientes de que en el
language of the ministers of the sacrament, aware that in the pacto conyugal se manifiesta y se realiza el misterio ».
conjugal pact there is expressed and realized the mystery that has 214. A veces, los novios no perciben el peso teológico y espiritual del
its origin in God himself”. consentimiento, que ilumina el significado de todos los gestos
214. At times, the couple does not grasp the theological and posteriores. Hace falta destacar que esas palabras no pueden ser
spiritual import of the words of consent, which illuminate the reducidas al presente; implican una totalidad que incluye el futuro:
« hasta que la muerte los separe ». El sentido del consentimiento
meaning of all the signs that follow. It needs to be stressed that
muestra que « libertad y fidelidad no se oponen, más bien se sostienen
these words cannot be reduced to the present; they involve a
mutuamente, tanto en las relaciones interpersonales, como en las
totality that includes the future: “until death do us part”. The
sociales. Efectivamente, pensemos en los daños que producen, en la
content of the words of consent makes it clear that “freedom and civilización de la comunicación global, la inflación de promesas
fidelity are not opposed to one another; rather, they are mutually incumplidas[…] El honor de la palabra dada, la fidelidad a la promesa,
supportive, both in interpersonal and social relationships. Indeed, no se pueden comprar ni vender. No se pueden imponer con la fuerza,
let us consider the damage caused, in our culture of global pero tampoco custodiar sin sacrificio ».
communication, by the escalation of unkept promises...
Honoring one’s word, fidelity to one’s promises: these are things
that cannot be bought and sold. They cannot be compelled by
force or maintained without sacrifice”.
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