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Youngblood
The last to know

By Nina R.T. Landicho
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:55:00 10/22/2009

Filed Under: Education, Family, Employment

I am pregnant at 18. What could be worse than that? Being pregnant at
15 or 14? No. Being the last to know.

One fine Saturday morning recently, I was awakened by my mother's
call. My phone said I had missed four earlier calls from her. She
asked me how I was doing in school, and I mentioned happy events that
had transpired, leaving the not-so-happy ones for last. She then asked
me if school pressure and my recent conversion to vegetarianism were
making me lose weight.

Now, my mother is the type who gives her daughter the freedom to learn
things on her own. So her questions about school were too unusual for
me to comprehend. Something must have pushed her to call me. Her last
question about my losing weight was a prelude to breaking the biggest
news of my life: I was pregnant. Without a boyfriend, that is.

I wondered if I was one of the first humans to have mutated on account
of too much pollution and ultraviolet rays. But if that were the case,
surely being able to reproduce asexually couldn't be one of its
effects, I thought.

Since I had gained weight during the summer vacation and took to
wearing loose shirts and half-an-inch-above-the-knee shorts when going
to market, people in our place assumed that I was pregnant. And to
help confirm their worst suspicion, I was rarely seen strutting my
stuff around town.

The news about my "pregnancy" tore my heart. I was afraid it would put
my future in peril. I castigated myself for acting so carelessly and
letting my whims take over my better judgment, and thus getting
pregnant at such a bad time.

To be pregnant at this time would mean that I have to stop school for
a while. That would probably take the life out of me since I love
going to school. School is where I see my dreams beginning to come
true. Listening to lectures from professors who've been there and done
that, wrote this and got that, makes me want all the more to be in
their place some day, empowering young minds and fueling young
ambitions.

Not going to school because of pregnancy would rob me of my only
chance to secure a better life for myself and my family. I know it's
hard to find a job; not getting a degree would make it even harder. I
cannot throw away everything my parents did to send me to a good
university and all the part-time jobs I took to fund extra expenses. I
know that the best thing for me to do is to earn my degree and not
think about things that might distract me from achieving that goal.

Being pregnant at 18 without a job is not something I look forward to.
Just thinking about the high cost of medical care if I want to have a
healthy child is enough to deter me from doing something I deem
irresponsible. If I intend to become a good mother, I will be doing
myself and my future baby a favor by entering into that interesting
stage only when I am ready and able to provide for my child.

But that is me carefully weighing the stakes involved in getting
pregnant. Some people apparently think I am capable of acting
foolishly.

Gossip like this one about me being pregnant shouldn't be taken
seriously, I know. But I can't help but be affected not only because
it concerns me but it is also reflective of a serious problem we have
as a country and as a people.

One doesn't have to check official statistics to know that jobs are
difficult to come by. One can feel it. Since few jobs are available,
people have more time to do other things, like gossip. If people were
engaged in productive pursuits, they would have little time to spread
unverified rumors. And then surely I would not have been worrying
about this nasty "news" being circulated in my barrio.

Maybe if their stomachs weren't making funny noises on account of
hunger, people wouldn't have fabricated such gossip. Hunger does a lot
of funny things to some people. Sometimes it makes them jump to wrong
conclusions based on the flimsiest reasons, like a couple of pounds
gained from sitting on the couch all day watching DVDs and eating so
much nilupak. I suspect that people who feel miserable find comfort in
seeing they are not alone in their misery. Maybe other people's fall,
even if imagined, is a great equalizer. Maybe this is why we love
gossip so much.

Perhaps lack of education makes people prone to gossip. Education
shapes people's mind. A good education makes a good mind, but not
necessarily a good person. However, a good education widens the range
of inferences one can make from certain situations. Had some people
asked me what was really going on, the gossip would have died
instantly, for I would have answered honestly.

A place at the end of the road. That's how a foreigner described our
place many decades ago. Some things have changed since then, but most
have remained. Our barrio no longer is the last place where the bus
stops. However it remains underdeveloped. The people's main sources of
income are cash crops like coconuts, corn, bananas and cacao. Some
households grow their food on their backyard.

To survive in such place is quite easy. If that were the only
consideration, I might decide to raise my child there. We could live
on vegetables and corn. But what if my baby gets sick? The closest the
barrio gets to modern medicine is a trained health care personnel. Our
health center sits pathetically at the heart of the barrio. The
benches are the same benches I sat on when I learned to write my name.
The structure looks like a wooden matchbox, with hints of cement
holding tired boulders together.

When I was in grade school, it seemed to me that our barrio was the
last place in this country to receive books. I had to share my
dog-eared mathematics textbook with a partner and we took turns
bringing it home. I do not know if the situation is still the same
today.

Even though I love the place where I grew up, I cannot blindly praise
everything in it. Going to a university away from my hometown opened
my eyes to the fact that the kind of education being handed down to my
place is not enough. It's not enough to develop citizens who can
reason well and weigh facts carefully and objectively. Aside from
gossip, I believe that lack of education has other heavier
consequences like the quality of participation in matters affecting
the nation.

Since I cannot change the way people see things in our place, I have
resolved to lose weight. This reminds me of what Sallie Tisdale wrote
in an article entitled "A Weight that Women Carry": "If I tell someone
my weight, I change in their eyes: I become bigger or smaller, better
or worse, depending on what that number, my weight, means to them."
Considering how my barrio mates think, if I go back there during the
semestral break sporting a much leaner physique, they could very well
say that I have been sniffing weeds or I have had my imaginary baby
aborted.

How's that for a comeback?

(Nina Rachelle T. Landicho, 19, is a BA Communication Research student
at the University of the Philippines in Diliman.)

Plagiarism... from www.inquirer.net

Plagiarism

The case of tycoon Manuel V. Pangilinan, who was recently involved in
a plagiarism controversy, points up the risk one takes when he enlists
the help of a ghostwriter or an assistant in writing a speech. Unless
his assistant is a very trustworthy person, he cannot be sure that the
former will not commit plagiarism.

To Pangilinan's credit, although the plagiarism was committed by two
Ateneo students who helped him write the speech, he took full and sole
responsibility for the act, and offered to retire as chair of Ateneo
de Manila University's board of trustees.

Pangilinan is not the first to be involved in a plagiarism
controversy, nor will he be the last. William Shakespeare is thought
to have liberally sprinkled his work with ideas borrowed from fellow
playwrights. But one critic said, "If this is plagiarism, perhaps we
need more of it."

T.S. Eliot is thought to have borrowed a big amount of the content of
his poem "The Waste Land" from a lesser known poet, Madison Cawein.

Short story writer Jack London was accused of using other authors'
works as a basis for his own, particularly "The Call of the Wild."

More recently, Alex Haley settled out of court for $650,000 after he
was accused of plagiarizing more than 80 passages of Harold
Courlander's "The African " for his own Pulitzer Prize-winning work,
"Roots."

Authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh accused Dan Brown of using
"the whole architecture" of their "Holy Blood and The Holy Grail"
book.

Plagiarism is the act of passing off as one's own the ideas or
writings of another. The Modern Language Association of the United
States defines plagiarism thus: "To use another's ideas or expressions
in your writings is to plagiarize. Plagiarism, then, constitutes
intellectual theft. …[I]t is a moral and ethical offense rather than a
legal one, since most instances of plagiarism fall outside the scope
of copyright infringement."

Wilson Mizner, a colorful American playwright and raconteur, made this
famous statement: "If you steal from one it's plagiarism; if you steal
from many, it's research."

To avoid the charge of plagiarism, academicians have adopted three
conventions: (1) If you use someone else's ideas, you should cite the
source; (2) If the way you're using the source is unclear, make it
clear; and (3) If you received help from someone in writing the paper
(or report or speech), acknowledge it. Even if one is paraphrasing,
one is still using someone else's ideas and arguments, and must cite
the original work.

A mild form of plagiarism goes on all the time in journalism. News
organizations and reporters save clippings of news stories and
articles and later use them in their stories without acknowledging the
source or sources. Some editors say this is no big deal when the
material being lifted is from one's own paper but it is more serious
when the words and ideas are lifted from other writers and other
papers without credit.

One columnist who was caught plagiarizing some other people's writings
three times said his problem was that he had a photographic memory and
sometimes forgot that he was using other writers' material. The
columnist was asked to stop writing his column after the third
offense.

Government officials, politicians and celebrities are among the people
who frequently use the services of ghostwriters and assistants in
writing articles and speeches and thus run the risk of mouthing
plagiarized passages. They generally want to make their speeches read
and sound well. Some may know how to write good speeches but want to
save time. But they should choose their ghostwriters and assistants
well to avoid the embarrassment of being accused of plagiarism.

In the case of Pangilinan, the fault was that of his assistants, but
he gallantly took full and sole responsibility for the "borrowed"
parts of his speech. Taken as a whole, as he said, the body and
substance of his speech represented his own story and his thoughts.
Even if we excise the plagiarized portions, it is still a good and
inspiring speech for new university graduates.

Be A Sponge And Absorb God’s Blessings! from Bo Sanchez

Be A Sponge And
Absorb God's Blessings!

"Bo, I feel God plays favorites."
"Why do you say that?" I asked my friend.
"Because He doesn't bless me as much as He blesses you!"
That's when I shared to her Matthew 5:45. For he makes his sun to shine on bad and good people alike, and gives rain to those who do good and to those who do evil.
God doesn't play favorites.
I believe God's blessings are everywhere.
Like rain, blessings are poured into your life.
Do you need love? It's out there.
Do you need wisdom? It's out there.
Do you need healing? It's out there.
Do you need miracles? It's out there.
Do you need increase? It's out there.
But why don't we receive them?
Let me tell you why…

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Comedian says sorry to Pacquiao, Filipinos... from ABS-CBN news.com

MANILA, Philippines – Adam Carolla, the American comedian who let out
disparaging remarks against Manny Pacquiao and the Filipinos in a
podcast, has reportedly apologized for "crossing the line."

"Read your comments. Sorry if I offended many of u. I don't preplan my
commentary. I try to be provocative, funny but I crossed the line & im
sorry," Carolla said in his verified Twitter account.
(http://twitter.com/adamCarolla)

Carolla earlier said on-air that 7-division world champion Pacquiao
was illiterate, "brain-damaged" and a "f*****' idiot."

He also attacked Pacquiao's refusal to undergo Olympic-style drug
testing as demanded by undefeated American fighter Floyd Mayweather,
Jr. (Read his comments here: US comedian calls Pacquiao 'illiterate',
bashes Pinoys)

"By the way, I think manny is a great fighter," Carolla added in
another tweet. The American radio personality and television host
currently has 71,277 followers.

Malacañang earlier played down Carolla's tirade against Pacquiao and
the Philippines on Monday.

Deputy presidential spokesman Gary OIivar said the Philippines need
not seek an apology from the comedian since he belongs to a "sick
minority."

Olivar added that Carolla's comments did not carry weight anywhere and
deserved to be ignored.

The American host of "The Adam Carolla Podcast" also told Filipinos to
get a life because he thought that they were all about Pacquiao.

"Here's how you know your country doesn't have a lot going for it—when
everything is about Manny Pacquiao," he went on. "Get a f****n' life
as a country, all you've f****n' got is this illiterate guy who won't
give up blood who happens to smash other guys in the head better than
other people, that's all you have as the Philippines?"

Moreover, he questioned Pacquiao's congressional bid in the May 10
polls and even brought up the issue of sex trade in the country.

"Really, you want some guy with brain damage running your country? Why
don't you get your sh*t together?"

He went on: "They got this and sex tours, that's all they have over
there. Get your sh*t together Philippines. Jesus Christ. I mean,
again, it's fine to be proud of your countrymen. But that's it? That's
all you got?" – With a report from ANC

Adam Carolla's photo courtesy of adamcarolla.com

US comedian calls Pacquiao 'illiterate', bashes Pinoys... from ABS-CBNNEWS.com

US comedian calls Pacquiao 'illiterate', bashes Pinoys

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MANILA, Philippines – An American comedian allegedly hurled racist
comments against Filipinos and pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao
after talks of a Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. bout fizzled out.

In a radio talk show, radio personality Adam Carolla attacked Pacquiao
for refusing to undergo the Olympic-style blood testing, which was
demanded by Mayweather.

"Pacquiao doesn't believe, he says, he doesn't give blood the month of
a fight or a week before a fight because somehow it's gonna weaken him
and what have you," Carolla said in the on-air radio interview,
excerpts of which were aired on ANC's "Dateline Philippines Sunday."

"I gotta tell you, if that was a white fighter and probably even a
black fighter, if the black fighter was from Atlanta or somewhere like
that, someone would go, 'What the f**k are you talking about? Give
your drop of blood. That's not gonna make a difference," Carolla said.

"But because he's from the Philippines and because he's prayin' to
chicken bones and stuff like that, everyone's kinda like, 'Well you
gotta respect him for his belief system.' No you don't. He's a f****n'
idiot," the American comedian continued.

The Pacquiao-Mayweather blockbuster bout, which was originally slated
on March 13, did not push through because of the disagreement on the
blood testing protocol.

Carolla to Filipinos: Get a life

Carolla, a television host and actor who hosts "The Adam Carolla
Podcast," also made disparaging remarks about Filipinos as well as the
Philippines.

"Here's how you know your country doesn't have a lot going for it—when
everything is about Manny Pacquiao," he went on. "Get a f****n' life
as a country, all you've f****n' got is this illiterate guy who won't
give up blood who happens to smash other guys in the head better than
other people, that's all you have as the Philippines?"

He even talked about Pacquiao's bid for the Sarangani Province
congressional seat in the May 10 elections.

"Really, you want some guy with brain damage running your country? Why
don't you get your sh*t together?"

He continued: "They got this and sex tours, that's all they have over
there. Get your sh*t together Philippines. Jesus Christ. I mean,
again, it's fine to be proud of your countrymen. But that's it? That's
all you got?"

Carolla then wondered if there were really "sex tours" in the
Philippines, noting that he would like to be booked in such a tour.

It was his co-host who pointed out that the sex tours are held in
Thailand. "Nah, same difference," commented Carolla.

The co-host even talked about the sex trade in a naval base in the
Philippines where "there were lots of craziness goin' there when the
guys are on shore leave. It's like 20 dollars for the weekend." – With
a report from ANC

Adam Carolla's photo courtesy of adamcarolla.com
as of 04/04/2010 4:43 PM

God's Message For You Today, April 2, 2010

Daily Bible Reflections
for April 2, 2010

Dear choi,
Open Your Heart This Good Friday. This Good Friday, accept His love for you in a fresh way. Ask Him, "Lord, I receive Your embrace."
May you be guided by His directions this Friday!

Praying for you,

Bo Sanchez

2 April
Friday TODAY'S READINGS:

DIDACHE | COMPANION | SABBATH
DIDACHE

GOOD FRIDAY

FRUIT SALAD CHURCH

So let us confidently approach the throne of grace…. – Hebrews 4:16

Have you noticed the split in the assembly during the Mass? Like, before the "Our Father" comes, many of the people remain standing but a significant number will be kneeling down. At least, in our parish, this is what happens in the daily Mass.
In the same celebration, people in the same Catholic church "approach the throne of grace" with different charisms in the faith. Just look at the varied ways we observe Holy Week and you'll know what I mean.
I used to frown on this observation. But come to think of it, it tells a lot about the openness, flexibility and accepting characteristic of our Church. The conservative Opus Dei is in the same boat with the Charismatic movement which is more Pentecostal in their worship.
Want to count the different charisms you can find inside our church? They're numerous but they all blend together in the same worship assembly — the Eucharistic Celebration — like a "fruit salad."
I am certain we taste delicious before the Lord. What other encouragement can we ask for to be confident before our God?Cristy Galang (cristy_cc@yahoo.com)

REFLECTION:
Do I judge people who worship God differently than I do?

Lord, bless me with an open heart and an open mind so that I can be more embracing towards my brothers and sisters in faith. Amen.

Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top
COMPANION

1st READING

This Servant Song of Isaiah paints a pretty grim picture of what happens to a servant of the Lord! It is not a very attractive advertisement for discipleship. However, it is the truth insofar as it tells us that to be a disciple of Jesus is to give all for the sake of the Gospel. Are you up to the task?

Isaiah 52:13-53:12
13 See, my servant shall prosper, he shall be raised high and greatly exalted. 14 Even as many were amazed at him — so marred was his look beyond that of man, and his appearance beyond that of mortals — 15 so shall he startle many nations, because of him kings shall stand speechless; for those who have not been told shall see, those who have not heard shall ponder it. 53: 1 Who would believe what we have heard? To whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2 He grew up like a sapling before him, like a shoot from the parched earth; there was in him no stately bearing to make us look at him, nor appearance that would attract us to him. 3 He was spurned and avoided by men, a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity, one of those from whom men hide their faces, spurned, and we held him in no esteem. 4 Yet it was our infirmities that he bore, our sufferings that he endured, while we thought of him as stricken, as one smitten by God and afflicted. 5 But
he was pierced for our offenses, crushed for our sins, upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole, by his stripes we were healed. 6 We had all gone astray like sheep, each following his own way; but the LORD laid upon him the guilt of us all. 7 Though he was
harshly treated, he submitted and opened not his mouth; like a lamb led to the slaughter or a sheep before the shearers, he was silent and opened not his mouth. 8 Oppressed and condemned, he was taken away, and who would have thought any more of his destiny? When he was cut off from the land of the living, and smitten for the sin of his people, 9 a grave was assigned him among the wicked and a burial place with evildoers, though he had done no wrong nor spoken any falsehood. 10 [But
the LORD was pleased to crush him in infirmity.] If he gives his life as an offering for sin, he shall see his descendants in a long life, and the will of the LORD shall be accomplished through him. 11 Because of his affliction he shall see the light in fullness of days; through his suffering, my servant shall justify many, and their guilt he shall bear. 12 Therefore I will give him his portion among the great, and he shall divide the spoils with the mighty, because he surrendered himself to death and was counted among the wicked; and he shall take away the sins of many, and win pardon
for their offenses.

P S A L M

Psalm 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25
R: Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.
1 [2] In you, O LORD, I take refuge; let me never be put to shame. In your justice rescue me. 5 [6] Into your hands I commend my spirit; you will redeem me, O LORD, O faithful God. (R) 11 [12] For all my foes I am an object of reproach, a laughingstock to my neighbors, and a dread to my friends; they who see me abroad flee from me. 12 [13] I am forgotten like the unremembered dead; I am like a dish that is broken. (R) 14 [15] But my trust is in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God." 15 [16] In your hands is my destiny; rescue me from the clutches of my enemies and my persecutors." (R) 16 [17] Let your face shine upon your servant; save me in your kindness. 24 [25] Take courage and be stout-hearted, all you who hope in the LORD. (R)

2nd READING

We live and stand on the life of Jesus as His disciples. We never stand alone. In fact, we can achieve nothing apart from Him. We are to cooperate with His grace by which we are saved. By this same grace, we are able to imitate Jesus' life of surrender to the Father's will. This is how we share the Gospel to others.

Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9
14 Brothers and sisters: Since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has similarly been tested in every way, yet without sin. 16 So let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and to find grace for timely help. 5: 7 In the days when Christ was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. 8 Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered; 9 and when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.

G O S P E L

The words of Jesus from the cross, "It is accomplished!" tell us exactly what the life of a disciple is in just three simple words. All we have to do is be obedient to God's will so that on Judgment Day we can tell the Father we have done all that He has asked us to do. That is the only path to eternal life.

John 18:1-19:42
1 Jesus went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley to where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. 2 Judas his betrayer also knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with his disciples. 3 So Judas got a band of soldiers and guards from the chief priests and the Pharisees and went there with lanterns, torches, and weapons. 4 Jesus, knowing everything that was going to happen to him, went out and said to them, "Whom are you looking for?" 5 They answered him, "Jesus the Nazorean." He said to them, "I AM." Judas his betrayer was also with them. 6 When he said to them, "I AM," they turned away and fell to the ground. 7 So he again asked them, "Whom are you looking for?" They said, "Jesus the Nazorean." 8 Jesus answered, "I
told you that I AM. So if you are looking for me, let these men go." 9 This was to fulfil what he had said, "I have not lost any of those you gave me." 10 Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, struck the high priest's slave, and cut off his right ear. The slave's name was Malchus. 11 Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword into its scabbard. Shall I not drink the cup that the Father gave me?" 12 So the band of soldiers, the tribune, and the Jewish guards
seized Jesus, bound him, 13 and brought him to Annas first. He was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. 14 It was Caiaphas who had counseled the Jews that it was better that one man should die rather than the people. 15 Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. Now the other disciple was known to the high priest, and he entered the courtyard of the high priest with Jesus. 16 But Peter stood at the gate outside. So the other disciple, the acquaintance of the high priest,
went out and spoke to the gatekeeper and brought Peter in. 17 Then the maid who was the gatekeeper said to Peter, "You are not one of this man's disciples, are you?" He said, "I am not." 18 Now the slaves and the guards were standing around a charcoal fire that they had made, because it was cold, and were warming themselves. Peter was also standing there keeping warm. 19 The high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his doctrine. 20 Jesus answered him,
"I have spoken publicly to the world. I have always taught in a synagogue or in the temple area where all the Jews gather, and in secret I have said nothing. 21 Why ask me? Ask those who heard me what I said to them. They know what I said." 22 When he had said this, one of the temple guards standing there struck Jesus and said, "Is this the way you answer the high priest?" 23 Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken wrongly, testify to the wrong; but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?" 24 Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest. 25 Now Simon Peter was standing there keeping warm. And they said to him, "You are not one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it and said, "I am not." 26 One of the slaves of the high priest, a relative of the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn't I see you in the garden with him?" 27 Again Peter denied it. And immediately the cock crowed. 28 Then they brought Jesus
from Caiaphas to the praetorium. It was morning. And they themselves did not enter the praetorium, in order not to be defiled so that they could eat the Passover. 29 So Pilate came out to them and said, "What charge do you bring [against] this man?" 30 They answered and said to him, "If he were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you." 31 At this, Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." The Jews answered him, "We do not have the right to execute anyone," 32 in order that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled that he said indicating the kind of death he would die. 33 So Pilate went back into the praetorium and summoned Jesus and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" 34 Jesus answered, "Do you say this on your own or have
others told you about me?" 35 Pilate answered, "I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?" 36 Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my attendants [would] be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not here." 37 So Pilate said to him, "Then you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice." 38 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had said this, he again went out to the Jews and said to them, "I find no guilt in him. 39 But you have a custom that I release one prisoner to you at Passover. Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?" 40 They cried out again, "Not this one but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a
revolutionary. 19: 1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged. 2 And the soldiers wove a crown out of thorns and placed it on his head, and clothed him in a purple cloak, 3 and they came to him and said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck him repeatedly. 4 Once more Pilate went out and said to them, "Look, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no guilt in him." 5 So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple cloak. And he said to them, "Behold, the man!" 6 When the chief priests and the guards saw him they cried out, "Crucify him, crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and crucify him. I find no guilt in him." 7 The
Jews answered, "We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God." 8 Now when Pilate heard this statement, he became even more afraid, 9 and went back into the praetorium and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" Jesus did not answer him. 10 So Pilate said to him, "Do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you and I have power to crucify you?" 11 Jesus answered [him], "You would have no
power over me if it had not been given to you from above. For this reason the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin." 12 Consequently, Pilate tried to release him; but the Jews cried out, "If you release him, you are not a Friend of Caesar. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar." 13 When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus out and seated him on the judge's bench in the place called Stone Pavement, in Hebrew, Gabbatha. 14 It was preparation day for Passover, and it was about noon. And he said to the Jews, "Behold,
your king!" 15 They cried out, "Take him away, take him away! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your king?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar." 16 Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, 17 and carrying the cross himself he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull, in Hebrew, Golgotha. 18 There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus in the middle. 19 Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, "Jesus the Nazorean, the King of the Jews." 20 Now many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. 21 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write 'The King of the Jews,' but that he said, 'I am the King of the Jews.' " 22 Pilate answered, "What I have
written, I have written." 23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four shares, a share for each soldier. They also took his tunic, but the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top down. 24 So they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it will be," in order that the passage of scripture might be fulfilled [that says]: "They divided my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots." This is what the soldiers did. 25 Standing by the cross
of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. 26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son." 27 Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his home. 28 After this, aware that everything was now finished, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled, Jesus said, "I thirst." 29 There was a vessel filled with common wine. So they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop and put it up to his mouth. 30 When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, "It is finished." And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit. 31 Now since it was preparation day, in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for the sabbath day of that week was a solemn one, the Jews asked Pilate that their legs be broken and they be taken down. 32 So the soldiers came
and broke the legs of the first and then of the other one who was crucified with Jesus. 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs, 34 but one soldier thrust his lance into his side, and immediately blood and water flowed out. 35 An eyewitness has testified, and his testimony is true; he knows that he is speaking the truth, so that
you also may [come to] believe. 36 For this happened so that the scripture passage might be fulfilled: "Not a bone of it will be broken." 37 And again another passage says: "They will look upon him whom they have pierced." 38 After this, Joseph of Arimathea, secretly a disciple of Jesus for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. And Pilate permitted it. So he came and took his body. 39 Nicodemus, the one who had first come to him at night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about one hundred pounds. 40 They took the body of Jesus and bound it with burial cloths along with the spices, according to the Jewish burial custom. 41 Now in the place where he had been crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been buried. 42 So they laid Jesus there because of the
Jewish preparation day; for the tomb was close by.

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THE AUTHORITY OF SERVICE

I am sure that if we conducted a survey on the type of leadership that people best appreciated and responded to, the authority or leadership of service would win every time. The authority Jesus exercised in His ministry comes to a culmination in today's celebration of His death. That seems like a ridiculous thing to say, but it is true. Jesus' authority is not an authority of domination, but of service — and what greater illustration of His service to humanity is there than His death on the cross through which all of our sins are forgiven?
When I sit down to reflect on the nature of the cross of Jesus, I am always led to a reflection on His exercise of authority as a service to the People of God. Leaders within the Church, whether lay or clerical, would do well to remember this and reflect upon it often. We serve not in order to gain privileges or fame, but to help others attain the fullness of their salvation. The challenge that leaders face in the Church, and particularly in cultures that tend to exalt their clergy or leaders, is to reject such an exaltation and remember that we are called to serve in humility and obedience to God's will.
Jesus is the perfect example of a person who is totally disinterested in acclaim. This is the type of leader we need in today's Church! We live in a time that exalts sportsmen and women, film stars and successful businessmen, and there never seems to be a shortage of people lining up for any praise they can get. However, the Gospel of Christ is different. The Gospel of Christ exalts the lowly and brings the rich and famous down into the dust! I write this reflection at the height of the financial meltdown of Wall Street in 2008 when many of the high-fliers of the 1990s and the early 21st century are having to humble themselves and admit their
mistakes.
Let us pray for the gift of humility as we seek to live humble lives for this is the path of the Gospel.Fr. Steve Tynan, MGL

Reflection Question:
How can I grow in humilty? How can I give a better witness to Gospel values in my life? How can I follow Jesus more closely?

Jesus, You died that we might live. Help me to open my heart to the gift of new life that You offer me. Allow me to live it humbly every day of my life.

St. Urban of Langres, pray for us.

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