Tagle: Don’t follow ‘arrogant, revengeful kings’
Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 08:10:07 +0000
LUIS Antonio Cardinal Tagle, Manila archbishop, on Palm Sunday, challenged the Christian faithful not to follow “arrogant, revengeful” kings.
Tagle, in his homily on Palm Sunday at the Manila Cathedral in Intramuros, Manila, said that at present, people followed these leaders because their ways were “easier” and more “attractive” than that of Jesus Christ’s.
Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, during which Catholics commemorate the “passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
Branded as a rebel who was seen as a threat to Rome, the perfect God-man was arrested on Maundy Thursday, died on Good Friday as a final sacrifice to save mankind from sin, and rose from the dead on Easter Sunday to give new life to his believers.
Tagle admitted that “it is not easy to emulate and embrace the traits of Jesus, who “is humble and in full solidarity” with the sinful humanity.
“But through God’s mercy, we could love and follow him,” he said.
“Imposible sa ating hubarin ang sarili, magpakababa, yung igalang ang umaalipusta sayo. Yung hilumin ang sumusugat sa yo. Di yan ang kalakaran ng mundo. Pero para sa Diyos di yan impossible,” Said Tagle.
(It is impossible for us to practice humility, to respect those who abuse us. To heal others who inflict pain on you, that is not how the world works. But these things are not impossible to Christ.)
He said in St. Paul’s letter to Philemon in the New Testament, where the apostle convinced Philemon to reconcile with and embrace as brother Onesimus, the person who fled Colossae, an ancient city of central Asia Minor and the site of an early Church, after he has wronged him, the way Jesus Christ, the Christian faithful’s savior, would have, Christ was described as “not like other kings in the world who hold on to their dignity, so others may hold them in high esteem and exalt them.”
He said in St. Paul’s letter to Philemon in the New Testament to reconcile with and embrace as brother Onesimus, who has wronged him, the way Jesus Christ would have.
Christ was “not like other kings in the world who hold on to their dignity, so others may hold them in high esteem and exalt them,” Paul said.
Onesimus had fled Colossae, an ancient city of central Asia Minor and the site of an early church.
The Bible also said that Christ never approved of the use of weapons for revenge, Tagle said.
“Ang tugon ni Hesus sa magmamaltrato sa kanya ay paghihilom. Siya susugatan pero di siya gaganti, mangsusugat sa iba, Tagle said.
(His response to those who persecute him is healing. Others would cause him pain, but he would not seek revenge or hurt them back.)
Tagle referred to Judas Iscariot, one of Christ’s 12 disciples who betrayed Jesus by turning him over the Romans.
He also renewed his call on the faithful not to avoid Jesus’ words and deeds,” but instead get to know Jesus so that they could follow him. CATHERINE A. MODESTO
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