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“Saddest thing in life is wasted talent”


33rd Sunday OT A (Mt 25:14-15)



I.Story: An Eagle’s Egg

                - an eagle’s egg happened to be mixed with chicken eggs. When the eggs were incubated, the eaglet emerged from its  shell together with the chicks. Thinking it was a chick like the others, the eaglet never tried to fly high but was content to run around like the other chicks. One day a man saw the eaglet and recognized it was an eaglet. He coaxed it fly. The eaglet realized that it was not meant simply to run around but to soar. It then started flying.

-          the moral lesson of the story is – we have to see and recognize God’s gift to us and make use of them. Lahat tayo ay binigyan ng Diyos ng blessings, graces and talents. Gamitin natin.


II.Parable of the Talents:
-          today’s parable, parable of the talents, it speaks of two kinds of people:

1.        those who received  God’s gift (blessings, graces and talents)and made good use of them productively. Ginamit at pinaunlad ang mga kaloob ng Diyos sa kanila.

2.        those who received God’s gift but did not use or made good use of them productively. Hindi nila ginamit ang mga kaloob na ibinigay sa kanila ng Diyos.

-          dito, the third servant was punished not for doing something wrong, but for not making his money productive, ibinaon niya lamang sa lupa. It was not his misdeed but his act omission. Hindi dahil sa,ginawa niya, kundi dahil sa, hindi niya ginawa, na dapat ginawa niya.

-          Wala siyang ginawang masama pero wala rin siyang ginawang mabuti.


III.My friends, the same thing with us, maaaring wala tayong ginagawang masama sa buhay natin, pero wala rin tayong ginawang mabuti. Hindi sapat na wala kang ginawang masama, kailanga meron kang gawing mabuti.

-          hindi mahalaga kung malaki o maliit ang ibinigay sa atin ng Diyos, ang mahalaga kung ginamit ba natin at kung papaano natin ginamit.

-          my friends, gamitin natin anuman ang ibinigay ng Diyos sa atin. Not only for our own profit but for the benefit of others. Hindi lamang para sa sarili, higit sa lahat para sa iba. God’s gift becomes productive in the sight of God, only when we use them to benefit others.

-      Let us ask God for the grace to see and recognize His gifts to us. And to use them not only for our own benefit but for the benefit of others.

-          Balang araw hihingi ang Diyos ng pagsusulit, ng accounting. Ang tanong meron na ba tayong maipapakita sa kanya?

-          The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.

“Stop your Murmuring”



19th Sunday O.T B (Jn 6:41)




I.                   “Stop your murmuring!”  Jesus tells us today.

-          ano po ba ang meaning ng salitang to “murmur”  or “murmuring”
-          To murmur is not just too bad mouth somebody.  To murmur is not just to reject somebody.  To murmur is to express disbelief, a strong disbelief about what somebody has said or has done.
-          In the Gospel, it means to express disbelief, a strong disbelief about what God has said or has done.
-          “Murmuring”  sa tagalong ay pabulong bulong, complaining na pabulong bulong.

II.                Dito sa readings, there are two kinds or two types of people who murmur.

1.      First type, the Jews is the Gospel.  They were complaining.  Murmuring to one another, with one another against Jesus.  “Sino ba ito, sino ba sya, di ba yan ang anak ni Maria at ni Jose na karpintero lang.

-          The problem here is that, they were murmuring in the absence of Jesus.  Ang object ng kanilang murmuring is Jesus.  But Jesus was not present.  They were murmuring behind Jesus’s back.  Kaya nainis si Hesus, nairita, “Stop it”.  Stop your murmuring.  If you have something or anything against me, talk to me.  If you have no faith in me, I will prove to you by which you will believe in me.
-          So the first type of murmurers, are people who murmur against person who is not present or  is absent.

2.      Second type is the prophet Elijah, in the first reading.  Elijah was also murmuring against God.  Complaining din nya.  He was tired.  He felt abused and neglected.  He felt taken for granted by no less than God himself.

-          sabi nya, “Lord this is enough, sobrang too much na to, masyadong over na to, take my life.  I want to die.”
-          Dito, ang maganda sa murmuring ni Elijah, was that, when he wanted to murmur he went to the mountain of God and murmur in the presence of God.  He did not do it in the presence of other people.  He did it only in the presence of God.
-          And how did God respond?  God fed him.  God gave him drink, so that he would be refreshed.

III.       My friends, in this life, we have many reasons for being discounted.  We have many reasons for being dissatisfied.  And, indeed, many of our complaints can be valid.  But if we should complain, let us first complain before God.  After that, you will have no reason to complain to other people, because God himself will see what he can do.