Nangelan tayo so sakey ed saray milagron ginagawa ne Jesus: say inpamaoli tod bilay ed si Lazaro ya kaaro ton malet. Diad say inpangigangan na Katawan ed si Lazaro ya ompaway ed lobok, ibabangat nen Jeus ed sikatayo ya say patey so aliwan nepeg ya pansampotan na saray anak na Dios. No ingen, say kiolid bilay, tan say andi-anggaan ya bilay. Tinalo na Katawan so patey, tan inpanengneng to so pakapanyari to ed say bilay na too – a nanlapu lan lamang ed Sikato.
Diad sayan inpamaoli na Katawan ed si Lazaro, bibirbiren tayo ya say bilay tayo et nanlapo ed say Dios; walad say Dios sirin no kapigan to iter yan bilay tan kapigan to oyosen yan bilay. No kapigan to ipikabiangan, tan kapigan to bawien. Nanlapo ed say Dios so bilay tayo, agtayo kayaryan iyan bilay. Inpalima, inpabayes, papaasikaso na Dios labat ed sikatayo iyan bilay. Ta lapud say twa, amin ed nanlapud say Dios, amin et kayaryan na Dios – sikatayo et steward tayo labat na Dios: manangasikaso itayo labat na Dios!
Diad sarayan arapan ya panaon, diad Arkidiosis tayo, mabetbet yo lan narengel so sayan salita: Stewardship. Tagapag-alaga. Manangasikaso. Tan saya so kabaliksan to: sikatayo so manangasikaso na mundo lapud sikatayo so pinalsa na Dios, nanlapo tayod Dios, sikatayo so kayaryan na Dios. Kumadwa, sikatayo met so manangasikaso na saray ma-spiritual na bengatlan bendision tan langkap lapud sikatayo so abinyagan. Kumatlo, sikatayo so tatawagen ya manbilay a maliket, aliwan masiblet, tan mapaabeba ya manangasikaso o steward tan saya so dalan ya magmaliw tayo masanto.
Stewardship calls us to conversion. We are not owners. We are tenants and stewards. Diad sayan panag-asikaso tayo, aralen tayo ya saray nanaawat tayon bendision, say bilay tayo tan saray resources tayo so ipikabiangan tayo para say mission nen Kristo. Sikato ya so dalan ed kinasanto tayo komon.
Diad saray arapen ya bulan, nanengneng tayo so pangekal na Archdiocese tayo na say arancel system para saray silibrasyon tayo na sakramento tan sakramentals.
Anto tan so arancel system? Panlalapuan na saray ibayar tan saray gagastosen na say parokia nipaakar ed saray kimey tan uusaren na simbaan, a singa say kuryente, saray panaglinis, saray apostolates, tan arum nira? Panlalapuan na say suporta para say pamaakaran na Simbaan? Manlalapu ya ed saray iiter yo no sikatayo so manpabinyag, manpakasal, manpamisa. Walay fixed ya manlalapud sikayo para say simbaan. Saya so arancel system: say fixed ya iiter ya kantidad ed serbisyo para saray sakramento.
Sayan sistema ya arancel ya panlalapuan na suporta para say simbaan et ekalen la na Arkidiosis tayo ed sarayan arapaen ya panaon. No saya et gawaen la, nepeg met balet ya sikatayo so walay pasimbalo nipaakar ed say pakatalus tayo nipaakar ed say Simbaan tan say kilalaban tayo. Sikatayo so nilalaban unong ed say agnasabsabaan tan agnatokor na panangasi na Dios. Say panangaro na Dios so mabolbolos ton iiter ed siktayo.
Tan lapud ag-ontutondan mangiiter so Dios ed sikatayo, tan lapud say Simbaan so panlalapuan na sarayan bendision tan grasya na Dios diad saray sakramento to, ontan la sirin ya sikatayo so andi-saew met ya mangiter tan mangipawil ed say Dios tan diad simbaan ya anggapo met so kasalat. Ta say twa, anggapo so kasalat tan kantidad so bilay na Katawan para sikatayo.
Diad say arapen ya Ambelat Agew, lukasan tayo so kapuspusoan tayo para sayan panag-pasimbalo. Diad isabi na Inkioli, sikatayo komon so magmaliw a maliket, aliwan masbilet tan mapaabeban manangasikaso na Dios. Ontan pa komon.
(Based on the Meditation “Stewardship and Conversion” by Archbishop Socrates B. Villegas, DD.)
