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Cover
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Pete Lapid
The
Father Speaks
by Fr.
Siegfrid Binzler
SPECIAL:
Place
of Refuge
By
Philip Yuson
Sharing
By
Tintin Magbitang
Our
Faith
By Fr.
KJ Veeger, MSC
Surabaya
Corner
By
Ramon Martillano
Sharing
By
Carolle Bautista
Here's
the Latest
By
Tintin Magbitang
Reflection
Homily
by
Fr.
Martinus
God
Answers Prayers
By
Beth Manibog
Saint
for the Month
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Over the past four years I was
afflicted with an illness in the stomach and then in the throat, which
required me to be under medication for a long time...not just months,
but years. Both illnesses, I realized later on, was brought about by
too much stress in work and in my everyday life. Not that people around
me made my life stressful, but it was until much later that I realized
that was more of how I perceived and led my life to be.
The funny thing about it, was that being sick had become too stressful
for me that even just taking the medicines was something I really
dreaded. I changed doctors alright, hoping that the last one would make
me feel better than the previous one.
Then one
day, I met this doctor who after several visits told me: "You know, no
matter what medicine I give you, you will not get well unless you
eliminate the stress from your life and change your perceptions to a
more positive one". Then she pointed to the picture of Mother Theresa
hung on her wall, and she told me how selflessly she happily lived her
life serving other people.
Over time,
my illness in my stomach got better, but I started to develop an illness
in the throat. Then one day, Fr. Vic Robles, a Filipino priest from the
Divine Mercy Shrine, came to Indonesia and officiated a Healing Mass
which I attended. Since then, I never had any serious attack on my
throat. To this day, I am amazed at how our Lord Jesus had healed me
through the doctor, and then through the priest. We just have to
believe that we would get healed...... in His time and according to His
plan!
Because indeed, even long before, Jesus is our true healer. In Matthew
4:23 it says, “Jesus went around all Galilee,
teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom,
and curing all kinds of sickness and disease among the people.”
Looking
back at all those years, I have prayed to the Lord for physical healing,
I have asked the Community to pray for me, but only then did I realize
that on top of the physical healing, I also needed spiritual healing.
It is the kind of healing received when one's anxieties and fears are
dispelled by our acceptance of the situation and smoothening of our
relationships with our family, peers, community and neighbors.
But
in our everyday battles in this world, we don't realize that
unknowingly, we forget to take care of our physical body and spirit by
keeping them healthy. In 1 Corinthians 3:16, it clearly establishes
this: “Do you not know that you are God’s
temple, and that God’s Spirit abides within you? If anyone destroys the
temple of God, God will destroy him. God’s temple is holy, and you are
this temple.”
But how
could we nurture the Spirit within us if we fall into sin, and how can
we receive physical and spiritual healing if we don't receive the fruit
of the Spirit? In Galatians 5:22, “But the fruit of the Spirit is
charity, joy and peace, patience, understanding of others, kindness and
fidelity, gentleness and self-control.” When we do not have this in
our hearts, how could we receive God's healing grace?
Yes, the Lord Jesus is our Healer, and everything turns out well when we
put our life in good order by following His commandments. Learning to
take a little time each day to care of ourselves and our neighbors (just
like Mother Theresa) is the key to getting through our difficult times.
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