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\u00a0 Last August 25, Saturday, Diocesan Shrine and Parish of Nuestra Senora de Aranzazu celebrated the Enthronement of Our Lady of Aranzazu where Rev. Fr. Bembol Hiteroza lead the anticipated mass. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 The homily focused in the Gospel Luke 13:22-30. Jesus passed through the town villagers and someone asked him \u201cLord, will only a few people be saved?\u201d Jesus answered, \u201cStrive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 In the passage, Jesus is trying to make them perceive that the way to the never-ending kingdom is through their own desire to be saved by God. But we all know that entering God\u2019s kingdom isn\u2019t that simple, there will be trails that would seem endless but to overcome these challenges into our life, we need to have a strong faith and trust to Him while struggling to overcome every challenge. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 In his homily, Fr. Bembol said that the road to God\u2019s goodness is hard to attain but if you accept to be saved then you will be blessed to be in the Kingdom of God that is full of Holiness and never-ending joy. It is because when you\u2019re dedicated to Him, you will be rewarded by Him. As the road of evilness is easy to follow but when you got there, there will be consequences such as pain and sadness. That\u2019s why we need to strive for His grace and goodness. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 In our existence, it is innate to face challenges but as we overcome those challenges, we learn from it. As we free ourselves form evil, we are slowly reaching God\u2019s Kingdom. That\u2019s why we, the descendants of God must follow Him and trust in Him that he will guide us to his Kingdom if only we show Him that we are willing.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.20.1″] \r\n<\/p>\r[\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_post_nav prev_text=”PREVIOUS ARTICLE” next_text=”NEXT ARTICLE” _builder_version=”3.20.1″ background_color=”rgba(12,113,195,0.55)”] \r\n<\/p>\r[\/et_pb_post_nav][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “The road to God\u2019s goodness is hard to attain but if you accept to be saved then you will be blessed to be in the Kingdom of God”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":38554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aranzazu-news","category-evangelization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ootw-a1P","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aranzazushrine.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/68549253_2550741581651404_2407984358079070208_o.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38559,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38553\/revisions\/38559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}