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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

FUNERAL HOMILY


FUNERAL HOMILY
Maayong buntag sa tanan!
I have a question to ask, what is the purpose of creation?
The main purpose of creation is that man will inherit God’s kingdom and to have friendship and fellowship with God.
How to inherit God’s kingdom?  Of course we will undergo first sufferings and death.  LIKE JESUS.
The best analogy of death is an image of a seed...liso...
Kung magtanum tau g liso, ilubong nato siya sa yuta, malata ug ayha pa motubo ug modako, molambo ug mo bloom.
Many people think that the story of human life is...birth...life...and death...for us Christians it is different.
The story is not birth...life...and death...but life...death...and resurrection...
Life is a journey from life to eternal life.  The end of the story is resurrection, a life that has no end.
The farewell that we give to _________today is a temporary farewell; the burial we give to _________is a temporary burial.  He will live! And he will rise!
In the midst of all of this, should we grieve?  Yes, brothers and sisters, it is okay to grieve; it is natural, because we love __________.
Even Christ wept when his friend Lazarus died...and he wept even though he was bring him back to life.
Yes, we Christians grieve.  But we grieve with hope.  It is okay to be sad today that we do not see ______ anymore, but it would be wrong to think we will never seed him again.
It is okay to grieve, but it is wrong to despair.
Christ is alive!  We pray today for ___________that he may complete the journey to heaven.  Pray for him everyday and for yourselves.
Si Florentino nagpuyo sa Valencia, pero dili siya para sa Valencia.
He works at NIA pero dili siya para sa NIA.
He belongs to a certain family but dili siya para sa iyang pamilya.
Si Florentino natawo sa kalibutan dili para sa kalibutan kundili para siya sa GINOO.
Look at him today and say with faith, “_________, you do not belong to death.  You belong to Christ, and so do we.”
Lastly...(sharing of karell ann his daughter)
p.s. “Florentino” Spanish word for “blooming”
challenge then is that let us be blooming here on earth...blooming in following Jesus Christ. AMEN!

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