500 years of Christianity
merchandise for example that is not bad in itself to
5 part reflection
“Gifted to Give”
The gift of the Christian Faith
The Four Encounters in 1521
The 1565 follow-up
2021, 500 years later
Gifted to give – Matthew 10:8b
from the mission discourse in the gospel of saint
Matthew it is part of the instruction of Jesus to his
apostles when he sends them out on a mission
He says: “without cost you have received without
cost you are to give”
5 part reflection
 “Gifted to Give”
 The gift of the Christian Faith
 The Four Encounters in 1521
 The 1565 follow-up
 2021, 500 years later
GIFTED TO GIVE
Without cost you have received without cost you
are to give meaning Jesus is defining for us a gift as
that which you receive without cost that is what it
means to be gifted you received without cost and as
that also which you give without cost and that is
what the second part is about gifted to give well we
have to make clear that it is not a gift when the
receiver has to pay for it or it is not a gift when the
giver demands payment for it. It is not a gift when
the giver expects something in return or when the
receiver feels entitled to the gift you don't call that
a gift maybe you will call it a reward or a payment
but don't call it a gift it is a gift when the receiver
feels grateful for it not entitled to it grateful for it
and is thereby motivated to reciprocate by sharing
it take note um I am not denigrating you know the
value of quid pro something for something meaning
an equivalent amount of goods in exchange for
demand or to expect just payment or just
compensation for goods and services there's
nothing essentially bad about that that is part of
human business and human transactions but let's
make it clear that is not what gift is about it is not a
gift when the giver has a hidden agenda or an
ulterior motive for the giving or when the receiver is
held captive by the giver through the gift the so-
called gift we must call as paid as paid not all gifts
are gifts
not all gifts are gifts if it is given for a prize or in
exchange for something then it is not a gift it is a
commodity or a merchandise for sale or for barter
if it is given with a hidden agenda that is even worse
sometimes you know the agenda can be economic
or political or sometimes even a sexual agenda then
if it is given with a hidden agenda
it is not a gift it is a trap it is a bait there is an old
saying i'm sure you're familiar with it “beware of
the Greeks bearing gifts” well i do not mean to be
racist when i say that it's just a quotation that has a
literary background and i am sure you know the
literary background to it that Trojan horse
THE GIFT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH
Issue: was Christianity a gift or a mere tool for
colonial rule? i am sure not everyone will agree with
us about celebrating 2021 or commemorating 1521
in fact there are some historians who would simply
say oh come on you know the Christianity brought
by the Spaniards was just a tool for colonial rule
well maybe if you agree that Christianity was
nothing but a tool a political tool or a tool for
colonial rule then maybe if that is how you look at it
then you will not regard it as a gift you will probably
talk about Christianity as something similar to the
Trojan horse.
Question: come we eventually got rid of the Spanish
colonial rule but we kept the Christian faith? how
come that could only mean that even the natives of
this of these islands learned to distinguish between
faith and politics you know i mean they were not
dumb people they were also intelligent and i am
sure they were also discerning the movements of
these strangers who came to these islands i think
they also distinguished between the political
agenda of the colonists and the evangelizing
mission of the missionaries of course they came
together that is why it is easy to equate them with
one another they are colonists and the missionaries
we rejected we ended up rejecting the politics but
we kept the faith and for me for me that could only
mean we recognized it as a gift and we recognize
this as a gift not from Spain but as a gift from God
maybe through Spain but not from Spain you know
because we kicked out Spain after all after we we
had a revolution against Spanish colonial rule
so we need to clarify 500 year of what? because
we're saying we're celebrating 500th year of
Christianity what is it about the fifth about 1521
that we are commemorating well i would like to put
it very simply it's the 500th year since the first
contact of the natives of these islands that would
later be called the Philippines with Christians or
with Christianity with Christians from Spain and
Portugal in the person of Magellan and all who were
part of the Magellan expedition of 1521. and so are
we you know are we going to say 2021 is the 500th
year of evangelization? that's another touchy issue
for some church historians even but i would dare
say yes why not 500 years somehow of
evangelization but with a lot of qualification on the
significance of what exactly happened in 1521
because we celebrated 1965 as the 400th year of
evangelization that was to commemorate 1565 the
1565 legaspi expedition and that expedition came
with the first group of Augustinian missionaries with
the express mandate to evangelize and this group
departed not from spain by the way but from
mexico which was then called new spain or la
nueva espana the 1521 magellan expedition had no
such mandate to engage in evangelizing mission like
i said they departed from spain while uh you know
the other the 1565 departed from new spain or
mexico and the objective of the Magellan
expedition was not really to evangelize but to find a
new westward route to the moluccas the spice
islands and by the way it's important to note that uh
all the members of the crew were christians they
were all christians majority of them were lay
christians maybe portuguese christians Spanish
christians or italian even like the chronicler picafeta
was Italian uh but also a christian with the
exception of one ordained priest well historians tell
us there were other priests but they perished they
did not they did not arrive in these islands with
machelan so isa lang ang pari nila father pedro de
valderrama acting as a chaplain of the expedition
and who is magellan well magellan was a christian
portuguese captain who transferred political loyalty
from portugal to spain in exchange for the financing
of his experimental westward voyage to the
moluccas he was trying to get the support of the
Portuguese monarch but he didn't get it and so he
defected from the Portuguese king and you know
became loyal to the spanish monarchy because it
was the spanish monarch that financed the
expedition you know he was the first he was the
very first to propose to follow the opposite routes
not the eastward route but the westward route
through the pacific ocean in order to reach the
moluccas the spice islands and so he succeeded in a
way because he was the first european to reach asia
through the south pacific ocean before magellan
nobody else has attempted to do that that is why
the whole strait is named after Magellan who is
magellan again well let's call a spade spain he was
not a missionary he was a mercenary and he was
doing this for pay you know but there is something
that puzzles me about magellan's behavior when he
came to these islands he suddenly shifted to being a
missionary when he met the natives of samar leyte
sometimes you know i ask myself the question what
was in the mind of Magellan? that was not his work
that wasn't his business in these islands what was in
his mind? what got into him that made him shift
from mercenary work to missionary work my only
answer to that is your guess is as good as mine of
course the typical question would be he was doing
it for an economic or political agenda well
remember his true destination was the malukas
they were just passing through so what motivated
him to sort of behave like a missionary and i will
explain to you in what way he shifted somehow
from being mercenary to missionary in his dealings
with the natives of samar leite and cebu so as i said
he was just passing through and to the natives the
first natives who met with the expedition of
magellan you know these people from far away
Europe were just strangers what were they they
were playing strangers who came and were in dire
needs imagine they had just crossed the south
pacific ocean and survived it when they left there
were there were five ships but only three of the
ships survived one got shipwrecked and the other
deserted them and halfway through the voyage
there was even a mutiny that's why magellan even
had to execute some of these rebellious members
of the expedition several of them died they weren't
able to last through the journey many of them
when they arrived were very sick they were tired
weary and sea beaten they were hungry and thirsty
and you know they needed new provisions in order
to reach the real destination which was the malukas
so dumada and they were just passing through and
before they actually reached the islands we now call
the philippines they pass through the marianas
islands but they were immediately unwelcome
there you know they were met with bose and
arrows by the uh by the chamorros and so when
they arrived in the visayas and upper Mindanao
they they were very afraid they were anxious you
know they were not sure because the natives of
these islands and they saw that some islands were
quite well inhabited populated you know busy
islands but they were not sure and they saw that
many of these people were tattooed natives you
know would these natives be friendly or hostile i'm
sure they were afraid would they provide them
temporary shelter would they be kind or unkind to
them well in tagalog you would call the situation of
magellan's expedition do you remember what we
dramatized during Christmas they were in search of
a shelter in their time of need you know
evangelization can happen only in the context of
dialogue and in filipino you know if you are seeking
shelter you present yourself as a human being in
fact when we knock at the door that is what we say
and if if the homeowner is convinced that you are
really tahu he would say tulupo so this is the
dynamics that took place between magellan's crew
and the natives of these islands i would think of
magellan as strangers you know his company his
group was a group of strangers these are the basic
rules for strangers seeking shelter and for the
prospective hosts who are of course naturally
cautious because they do not know yet what your
objective is so in tagalog we would say and what is
the best expression and i'd like to propose that
evangelization begins with that that evangelization
cannot be true cannot be real if it doesn't begin
with you remember even in the story of saint luke
uh on the infancy narrative the holy family was
unwelcome you know they came as unwelcome
strangers being uh but they were seeking shelter
and no one would open their doors to them except
the lowly shepherds and when finally they find
shelter in the company of the lowly
shepherds
luke tells us that the angels in heaven
sung the gloria
and the angels said glory to god
in the highest and on earth peace to
people
of good will meaning
the lowly who respond with good will
they are the very first to receive
the good news that is how the gospel is
laid out in the gospel of
saint luke the good will of the lowly of the christian faith were sown by god

shepherds through the instrumentality of european

which you know the the good will of christians

opening a door to strangers who are in who were both flawed and holy sinful and

need saintly

evangelization begins with that it missionaries and mercenaries

begins with a basic exchange of good magellan is usually credited for

will discovering

in dialogue and good will is the only the philippines you know from the

fertile ground mercenary point of view

for the seeds of the good news of the we might say he discovered a potential

kingdom of god colony

let me repeat that good will is the only for the spanish monarchy

fertile ground whom he was working for

for the seeds of the good news i think and from the missionary point of view

that is what luke is trying to insinuate what i believe he discovered

with was a fertile ground for the seeds

angels singing glory to god in the of the christian faith we cannot

highest and on earth separate magellan the mercenary and the

peace peace to people of good magellan the missionary

will these people of goodwill are the you know it's one human being and

recipients of the good news that is the case with you know with all

now let's go straight to the 500th year of us

of christianity in the philippines we you know we are always a mixture of

say saints and sinners

we celebrate the 500th year meaning 2021 now let me move to the four important

is the 500th year encounters

of becoming a field for the seeds so that we will be able to situate

of the gospel how the seeds in these four encounters where we might
believe uh really happened in la pullappu i don't

the fertile ground of goodwill even want to call

was laid out and became what happened in la pullappu a battle i

became open or welcoming i would rather call it an

to the seeds of the gospel ambush an ambush

so we're going to highlight the four okay now we talk about the first

important encounters encounter this happened on march

that took place in 1521 and 18 1521 at homeon hon

uh reported within 46 days because island in summer meaning

remember they arrived on march 16 1521 magellan you know they had arrived

but they departed departed on may 1 but they were not coming out of their

1521 then the departure was not very ship they moved their ship you know

pleasant quite a distance from an island

so for encounters first with the because they're observing around they

fishermen from summer they had already seen li masawa but

the second is the encounter with the two because they saw that it was very

brothers the chieftain colombo populated

of limasawa and siagu of umi was they avoided it and went to a

bhutuan and the third is the encounter less populated

with the chieftain island and that's which happened to have

of cebu two springs by the way

and lastly the tragic encounter with the then they were looking for fresh water

chief taints of maktan and they were surprised they were in the

and i'm talking about sula and la pulafu ship

unfortunately most of us know only we they were in the ship and suddenly there

probably never many of you probably was this boat

never heard about sula but this bunker with nine fishermen

he is an important figure approaching the ship

who would make you understand what suddenly they they felt afraid because
uh you know they were thinking that they they were bringing some gifts of fish

might be attacked by these natives pan wine

that's why they were already holding on tuba fruits and coconuts

to their swords and of course they were raving about the

but you know magellan told his men to coconuts because

put down their swords they were delicious and these people

when he noticed that these this men they were longing for fresh water they had

were just not drunk you know

plain fishermen that they were just real fresh water and now they're

curious they were approaching the ship drinking delicious coconut

and they probably wanted to know who was juice you know you will keep hearing

in the ship and magellan welcomed them about coconut juice it became a token of

in the ship and they were friendship between

pleasantly surprised that magellan was magellan's men and and the natives

very nice to them so after that first brief encounter on

he served them food and he gave gifts march 22

to them some tokens a four days later as promised the natives

red cap looking glass combs came back

bells ivory little things little in two boats with more coconuts and

trinkets you know oranges and they were even bringing

and apparently the native fishermen were a rooster down no and and so

very happy magellan felt more more comfortable you

that they were treated in a friendly way know with the natives

by these strangers they not only moored close to the island

so what do they do the fishermen they actually went

because they're touched by the the warm to the island and they sought the

and the friendly demeanor of magellan assistance of the natives there

they reciprocated to attend to their sick companions

they also gave gifts a tent in order to attend to their sick

companions magellan

and they got fresh water from the he was bringing a bar of gold and a

springs in homanhon basket of ginger

island now we talk about the second according to pigafetta meaning

encounter he gave payment he was trying to pay

the second encounter took place on march them

28th with and how did magellan react to that he

two chieftains colombo of limasawa declined

and thiago with one now first columbu the payment meaning he wanted to make it

so kolambu was in a boat and he clear

approached the ship they were gifts and somehow

just like the first encounter he was in that broke the ice so on march 29 on

a boat good friday

and majellan you know also responded in magellan sent enrique to the island

a friendly way the island in order to buy some

he was asking kolambu to get into the provisions

ship and colombo visited them reciprocated

but colombo stayed in his boat the visit

and asked some of his men to enter the so magellan sent people to the island

ship by the way i should tell you about

but he was very formal meaning enrique

he was very cautious he was trying to enrique you know he was the slave of

play it magellan

by ear magellan you know gave gifts and this name was a native of malacca

and but kulambu tried to maintain his meaning he was a malay you know and and

dignity this malay

and you know what colombo did when his was serving as an interpreter to them

men came down yeah

and they were bringing tokens given by i would wonder if they really understood
each other to the interpretation for these two chief things you know that

of enrique because it's like uh

making a cebuano and a that shiago was really from both one and

speaker of bahasa indonesia talk to each in fact

other no he's called amur by the way no i wonder

they probably understood about 50 or 40 if he was

but i do not think they understood each a muslim and uh magellan

other really a hundred percent at least was the chieftain of limasawa so he

it's a lot better invited them over

than communicating between the the to limasawa and he prepared a friendly

malays banquet for them

and the spaniards no so and picafeta would be raving about the

colombo visited them in the ship and friendly meals that they were having

this time he entered the ship he did not together

stay in the boat not natural look overnight stay

and he was bringing gifts he was and then they returned to their ship

bringing gifts um next thiago

of cooked rice on china dishes and the brother of colombo would visit

cooked fish magellan again

as well and other good things you know it would be a friendly encounter

food and the captain you know the climax of the first two encounters

showed gratitude he was so touched by is actually

the gesture of welcome he reciprocated the first mass at limasawa on easter

with more gifts and he even sunday of 1521

served refreshments in the ship and that happened on march 31.

and then colombo invited them to the you might be wondering why why

island you know the cbcp has proposed to

he tried to explain to them that common celebrate

hon was just a hunting ground for or to inaugurate our 500th year of
christianity course we will help you

uh uh to commemorate the first mass on and so they assisted them the tayo

april 4. well because march 31 in 1521 silent platform

was an easter sunday actually celebrate and not only did they do that they

and it's not the date but the day the slaughtered two

significance of the day pigs as gift for their newfound friends

which was an easter sunday and that they were really

easter sunday treating magellan and his companions as

was also the occasion for the first friends

encounter of the natives with the first and not only did they do all of that

christian icon which they even

is the planting of the cross joined them in their uh in their

so let's review what happened uh celebration of the mass

in this uh the cla this climax of the and pigafetta was saying they found it a

first two encounters no bit amusing

so um this the gestures of that you know they were doing sabinyan

friendship uh you know happened really what we were doing

on march 31 15 21 like you know there was a ritual that we

uh on that first mass know did when we kissed the cross

and his brother rahasyagu assisted them they also kissed the cross when we knelt

in constructing a platform as a venue at the consecration

for the mass they also knelt at the consecration and

because magellan told them that they even folded their hands

were celebrating a very i am sure that was a gesture of

important occasion you know for the friendship

christian faith as far as colombo and siagu and his

and that they wanted a place where they families

could worship and were concerned meaning it was a sign or

colombo and sea who said of course of a show of respect

for the faith of these guests who were trading

strangers where we could get more provisions

whom they were assisting and then because we are on our way to

magellan said the moluccas and we need more provisions

you know we would like to plant a symbol and of course not only to malukas we

you know and we'd like it to be have to return to spain so that will

a kind of a token of our friendship and require

it's the cross and thiago and colombo a lot of food and drink

said said oh yes yes you know you go to cebu

oh that would be wonderful yes we will cebu is a very busy port

assist you and if you want i will even accompany

they try to find the highest point of you

the island where they could plant and he did on april 7

the cross now the third encounter colombo colombo introduced magellan to

so first the fishermen of samar second raha humabon of cebu

columbu and shiago uh in limasawa and rahuman was very formal you know

the third encounter now in cebu with rahuman was very businesslike

raha huma and this took place of course you know the one who was doing

on april 7th the question was this all the

the captain when i say captain i'm uh interpreting so that they could

talking about magellan communicate

dakapitan said to colombo you know well was actually the interpreter

with all due respect i'm happy you know enrique

that you have been assisting us helping and through enrique magellan tried to

us negotiate you know

even providing food for us but we need and i don't know if enrique had the

more food permission you know of magellan

and we don't want to burden you too much everything that he was saying uh but

is there a place or a port here for enrique went out of his way you know to
insist to human contacts which was for the natives a

that they should not be made to pay the gesture

port tax of their friendship so it is expected

of cebu khumabon was saying you are that on both sides para pakiram

strangers here you're visitors you're and baga they were trying to feel they

bringing merchandise you have to pay their way with each other

a poor tax and enrique on behalf of trying to see what is the gesture or

magellan said token of friendship

if we are friends why will you make us in their culture you know and when

pay tax you know magellan

and he says if you waive the tax saw that the gesture was an exchange of

the port tax then we will blood or blood compact

promise you you know protection from then he submitted himself to it and i'd

your enemies like to believe

and you know ah that's good so that when the natives joined them in

give in the mancha okay now we're not their own

talking about gifts anymore we're liturgy or religious uh celebration

talking about it was for them also an expression

queen pro you know you demand a token of friendship

you know to be given a special privilege april 9 tuesday

so who is called the moro they assure the

all right i will give in to your request captain

but uh that will come with a prize that that humabon was preparing more

you know and uh kumamon for his part food provisions for them as they

started offering gifts so he also requested and take note

expressed some friendship he is not supposed to be demanding it as

and he welcomed them with a banquet and a gift but

they did a little bit of a ritual called rather as i know

the blood uh merchandise meaning uh magellan was

going to pay for it so human would and so here is what pigafetta narrates

prepare no

the food provision but magellan had to let me quote directly from him no and

pay for it of course when i read pigafeta i also

now during that time uh pigafetta tells take him with a grain of salt because i

us that that magellan you know know that he is making this as a report

who became really very friendly in to the king and trying to impress as

particular well no

with columbus and siagu began to well he said each of us wept

induce them to become christians for the joy which we felt at the

the mercenary start is starting to goodwill

behave like a missionary of these people and the captain told

i would expect the priest to do that see them not to become christians

pedro de valderama from fear of of of us or

but no it's not the priest who does it just to please us

it's the capitan but sabanya if they wish to become

magellan he tries to induce them to christian

become christians they must do so willingly and

and you know what they answered and they for the love of god for even though they

were very nice they were very kind should not become

they said if the captain christian no displeasure would be done

could send two men later on to teach to them

us and to show us the christian faith we would be done then but those who became

would be christian

more than interested to listen would be more loved and better treated

and the capital was very pleasantly than others this is you know the

surprised narration

that they showed interest in the of pigafetta their their reaction

christian faith it was so heartwarming on the part of

these relationship you know because remember

of these lay christians you know to all of this is being mediated by an

realize that their friends were interpreter called enrique

interested and so what follows is an exchange of

in their faith and magellan was actually gifts

now starting to gifts would prepare

induce them to become christians baskets of rice pigs goats

and the natives thou said they cried out fouls and he wasn't asking for payment

with one voice they did not wish to for it

become christians only from fear he was giving it as gift and in fact he

nor from complacence but of was even saying

their free will well you know i found it very funny the way

let's take it you know at its face value pigafetta

this is pigafetta was describing the

trying to tell us that the natives you the apologies being expressed by colombo

know really responded very you know for the for his humble gifts

positively to the invitation to please accept my humble gifts and

join the christian faith then the magellan of course

captain dao with reciprocated it what did he give for

tears in his eyes embraced them and colombo

after peace was concluded he gave fine cloth red cap glasses

the captain had refreshments served cups of carved glass you know and very

to them there after peace had been precious things that they were bringing

concluded with them

i'd like to believe that this was being from spain and now

interpreted pigafetta you know got an idea

by the two brothers as some kind of a from that because because he saw that

peace path the dynamics between magellan and

a gesture or a ceiling of a friendly columbu and chiago was really really

very friendly which we have for you evening

he was so enthused by that and he went magellan is trying to to be friendly

out of his way to suggest to the captain with human in the same way that he was

[Music] very friendly

seems to be a very important figure and with kolambu and his brother on april

what did magellan prepare a turkish 10th wednesday

style robe and he says one of our companions died

of yellow and violet silk red cap and we need your help we would like to

fine pieces of glass and a silver give him a decent christian burial

dish according to pigafetta and it was wonderful because human

and pikafeta explains to humabun responded positively

through the interpreter enrique he helped them and they also asked

that let me quote it was not kumabon to secure the merchandise that

as a return for his present which he had they were intending to sell

previously sent in cebu and that's when they explained

to the capitan but he was giving this to homabon

for the affection you know since cebu is a very busy port

which he bore him did you notice that there is a lot of buying and selling

but when it is a gift it should be a happening here we would also do

gift when it is merchant dies it is a some selling because we have merchandise

merchandise parang with us

it's gentleman's agreement but it is the says oh yes go ahead go ahead and he had

gift their merchandise

usually that seals the friendship and secured and magellan dispatched four of

pikapeta is explaining his men to do the business of selling

for on behalf of the captain at a just price and pigafetta describes

through the mediation of enrique the the sibuanos this way let me quote him

interpreter directly and sabinya

this is a token of our affection you know samina these people they live
with justice london scaffolding in on an open space

and good weight and measure loving peace and his family

and are people who love ease and so he wanted to prepare a platform in

pleasure cebu

a nice description of the cebuanos by and it was going to be celebrated young

pigafetta na no doubt that baptism

sebuanos live with justice and on the third sunday of easter and that

they do good business meaning hindi and fell

the daya on april 14 the following day

good weight and good measure and they so the climax of the third encounter

are peace loving which is with humabon

and they also love ease and pleasure in the company of colombo and siago

easy life first baptism the baptism

on april 12th which was a friday and let me describe how this whole thing

night industrial happened okay april 14th sunday

you know for metal and iron and other actually individual

big goods they gave us gold and sabini the captain and the king and he's

pigafetta talking about human

and for the other small and sundry goods they sat on two chairs and through the

they gave us rice pigs goats and interpreter the captain began to

other provisions again incite human to the faith of jesus

i would call this barter but christ

the babayan bins they gave us 10 weights he did that earlier with colombo and

of gold thiago

for 14 pounds of iron wow now he is doing it right on the day of

no 10 weights of gold for april 14 you know

14 pounds of iron so telegon it's a trying to incite suma khanna

business it's business going on on april and he's talking to raha human

13th saturday and the capitan dao took rahuma

by the hand wow holding hands basila the facility the total number of

and they walked about on the scaffolding individuals that were baptized

you know he would give him the name on april 14th wow

carlos i cannot imagine how pedro de valderama

because he's an important figure and the did all of it

king of spain is king carlos eight hundred persons the young silent

and his brother he would name him and eight hundred persons

fernando on the third sunday of easter april

and colombo would be named juan fourteen

and his brother youmoro will be men women and children

named cristobal and the the women were given christian

you know the the way the quick way in names the wife of humans

which the wife of or the daughter of human was

things developed you know i i am more called catalina

inclined to believe and the wife of kulambu was called

that on the part of human it was really isabel

he was looking at it as a peace patch now the santonino okay

is a bit like blood compact for them he cross the planting of the cross is

was trying to seal a friendship associated with the first mass of

remember you know masawa on march 31 itunes

father pedro de valderrama ended up santo nino gifting of the santo nino is

baptizing connected to the first baptisms on april

first si humabon and 49 other men in the 14

morning third sunday of easter and let me quote

so cinque directly

and 40 women companions in the afternoon from pigafetta pigafetta says during

so cincuentas omaga 41 in the afternoon that time

that's they showed her meaning my wife okuma

91 people within that particular sunday an image of our blessed mother of our
lady know that

made of wood holding her little child at some point in the history of spain

and you know quite a big

a cross after she was baptized uh part of their country was conquered

itunes by muslims known by the moors

begged them means she begged us so angsabini pigafeta in one of these

to give her the little little wooden boy islands

to put in place of her idols we planted a cross and i think is

meaning santoni pala binigai sakanya referring to li masawa

was actually attached to the madonna and because the people were gentiles if they

child had been moros

she didn't want the whole madonna and they should have erected a column as a

child she only wanted sign of hardness of heart

the child because the more sansabiniya are more

because difficult to convert

to put in place of her anitos than the gentiles so i

now within eight days from april 14 to am inclined to believe that most of the

22 people they encountered

all the inhabitants of the island thou were not muslims were not morals

were baptized the only one that pigafetta refers to as

and some belonging to the neighboring amoro

islands was the brother of columbu who is shiago

and by the way no pigafetta knows the and who turned out to be very friendly

distinction between the gentiles and allowed himself also to be baptized

and the moors and i would understand by pedro de valderrama let me continue

this because of his reading pigafeta

spanish background no well pigafeta is let me quote him the captain general

italian but went ashore every day so after the

he's doing this for spain and and you easter

after the baptism on april 14 proudly

uh every day the kakaroo showing the captain the santo nino that

and the captain general went down ashore she received as gift

in order to attend mass on the same through

platform i'm glad you like my gift you know of

every day and many thou of the new the

but newly baptized christians attended infant jesus and henda kapitan

the mass recommended

and the captain during the mass to put the santo nino in place of her

explained anitos

various points of our religion because now it was in remembrance of the

meaning the catechist son of god

i find that a bit amusing you know i'd and ahuana promised to do it

expect that it would be and she said she would take good care of

valderrama but is telling us that the the santo nino

captain himself was catechizing now let me move to the fourth encounter

the newly baptized okay

christians from among the natives bittersweet because it was sweet sweet

what baptism and christianity was really sweet and then suddenly it would turn

all about very bitter it will end up bitterly

you know and then sabini pigafetta one and the fourth encounter will end up in

day tragedy

the queen came meaning see because of two things first the

juana you know the wife of human the treacherous gift

captain on that occasion that we're talking again about gifts no

approved of the gift apparently duma beware of gifts

thinks the treacherous gift of sula who was the

carrying the santoninio she attended other chief thing of bhaktan

she attended the mass and she was angmaktan was ruled not only by one
chieftain there was another chief thing meaning he was trying to give the

he was called rahasullah captain or majella the impression

no and so the first is the treachery of that he and lapu lapu were actually

sula and the second enemies in the same island

is the treachery of enrique and so madjava became overconfident

malika and that caused the turnabout divide and rule you know ah they're not

also from a friend he will become united after all

an enemy let me explain a little bit and one half of this island will side

very quickly now with me because

on april 26 which was a friday rahasullah is on my on my side you know

magellan met and so he was being invited

the son of rahasullah apparently now no the following night to come to

rahasula of maktan sent maktan

his son and his son was bringing with one boat full of men in order to

gifts dalawang kambing goats meet with rahasullah

as gifts there are some historians who so that they together would fight the

suggest that maybe pulappu

rahasullah and lapulapu could have been and but would believe

moros meaning muslims you know the invitation and that very night

because they were not bringing pigs with only 60 armed men

they were offering magellan to goats they would arrive before dawn

they were a token of friendship and and ang bababa

me and here is the message you know would only be 41 of his men the

take note listen carefully rest

message from sula if the captain would would stay in the boat so meaning 19

send him stayed in the boat and 41

the following night one boat full of men went by bankers in order to go to maktan

to give him assistance presumably to meet with rahasullah

he would fight and subdue his rival rahasullah no he wasn't there

these are the troops of la pulapu about and in the afternoon the survivors you

1500 know

soldiers they had created even trenches tried to ask for assistance from human

you know to plead with the people of maktan

so how do we interpret this i don't call to you know to exchange the body of the

it a battle captain

it's a trap ambush because they had the cadaver and captain

and vageland you know um couldn't and the eight other men were

retreat anymore he was were there in maktan and and human

he was trapped it was too late for him mediated

to realize that he had been set up and he tried to reason out with the

by this raha sula it is not true after people of maktan

all if you give us their bodies they are

that sula and were at odds with each willing to exchange them for merchandise

other it's all in yulang ah no

he just sort of deceived him they wanted to keep magellan and his

and that led to the death of magellan companions as trophies you know

and eight of his men and casualties the and of course that was a very tragic

magellan thing they had to

on his side nine zilla along with retreat you know and when they retreated

four of the men of raha humabon of cebu well

in maktan it was so tragic they captain and they had to elect

retreated new captains and they elected two

participate he got wounded my interpretation for this is there is a

in in that ambush you know and rift between the portuguese and the

kumar bonn saw when magellan dao was spaniards among them

was killed and human wept bitterly for i think the portuguese elected duarte

him barbosa

according to magellan and the spaniards elected juan serrano

and of humans so that human would turn

i don't think any one of them wanted to against them he is now a shift you know

give in so from being a facilitator

the portuguese capitan and the spaniard of dialogue he became a facilitator

capitan to replace the one capitan of conflicts that is why on may 1 1521

magellan now in the meantime huma born and this time human is acting

they encounter a problem with the slave very clearly no

enrique human would invite them for dinner

the slave enrique after magellan died in cebu and 26 of them

you know would attend including the two new

talked to barbosa and said sir captains

you know well my master promised me serrano and barbosa i'm a little bit

that pagnamataisa i could be suspicious you know

liberated already so please keep the that there is an inside inside conflict

promise of my master here an inside job

because i want to go back home to among the survivors among the crew of

malacca magellan no

and barbosa says nothing doing no way but anyway that's another story

yes magellan is dead but his wife is altogether

still alive so they are invited to dinner by human

you have to come with us all the way they do not realize that umabon is going

back to spain because your new master to poison them

is going to be the wife of uh of imagine sehuman who had been baptized

magellan baptized as a christian now suddenly

now you know he felt really cheated turning

and because he felt so cheated now he into their enemy and biga feta is

started to betray them wondering

what would enrique do he would poison he was such a friend how could he

the mind suddenly overnight

turn into an enemy what is it not all gifts are gifts some

that enrique told him turned out to be well something like the

is maybe he told him that you know that trojan horse

uh that these survivors and now let's talk about the 1565

among the men of magellan would attack expedition of legaspi

cebu you know and burn their homes etc i hope you understand that it is what

things like this you know i don't know happened in 1521

yeah your guess is going to be as good as reported to the king of spain when

as mine but they returned

the dinner turned out to be a trap and by the way it was through the

and fortunately one of them was able to leadership of el cano that they were

escape able to return

and his name is juan carvalho to spain you know but it would take

well there are a lot of complications you know how many something like uh

that took place in the tragedy but uh 44 years later you know for a follow-up

suffice it to say that this is what to to be sent i called the 1565

happened expedition of legazpi

so 46 days it all 46 days it all a follow-up to the magellan expedition

and in spite of the tragic ending i and take note it is not being sent from

cannot get myself to believe spain

that there was no real friendship that but from mexico and they had

was struck between magellan's men and a special mandate because they were

the natives sending missionaries

the fertile ground of goodwill on which and in the expedition of legaspi

some seeds had been sown haphazardly there would be a whole group of

were just quickly mixed with the weeds augustinian

of treachery missionaries the first with the task to

ill will and hidden agenda evangelize

remember what i say about gifts well and my inclination is the 1565
is really a conscious follow-up to 1521 they did try to baptize people

because pigafetta has narrated to them and these are now a responsibility of

that they baptized the spanish christians no

they baptized oh you know the whole back to the idea of being gifted to give

island what is the gift the gift is the

about you know first day 800 people christian faith

that is quite a responsibility you know like i said if you really believe that

so the christian faith was

i think of 1565 as a follow-up to 1521. nothing but a tool for colonial rule

um i call this the mission you know my then you will really not consider it

question is a gift but i also asked ibak

were some seeds of the gospel somehow if it was just a tool of colonial rule

successfully planted among those natives how come

during those 46 days of their encounter we got rid we got rid of the colonial

with magellan politics of the

and companions in 1521. colonial ruler and we kept the christian

well returning now to the field faith

idea you know they are actually going well for me that could only mean the

back christian

to the field with the hope that even if faith was really regarded

the wheat had been by the natives of this country as a gift

infected by the weeds there is something the gift is the christian faith that has

there is something to harvest that's why been sown

i call the 1565 like grains of wheat albeit by

some kind of a follow-up because they flawed workers

were aware there are no perfect christians you know

the kahikopano even if done haphazardly our all christians will always

and it ended tragically they did try to be a mixture of weeds and weed you know

evangelize the important thing is the sower is god

the sower is god you remember the old and wheat

hymn that says aina you will say some people are

we plough the field and scatter the good innately good and some people are

seed on the ground innately bad

but it is fed and watered by god's now we don't think like that in

almighty hand christianity

the sower is god i think the parable of the weeds and the

this is the reason why i say i think wheat is actually a parable

i think we're thankful for this gift of the ground of the field it is the

because we believe that the giver same field

is god not spain it is god that is planted with wheat and weeds

through spain or through the spaniards and it is like that it is always like

who came here that in every period

who were not necessarily coming with all of history of christianity

the purest of intentions and motives the fields are sown not always

but they were just human beings like you with with with seeds but with wheat with

and me weeds

and it was on the fertile ground of with wheat but also with weeds

plain goodwill we are the field eviks

no not on earth we will always be sown with a

you know they were able to strike a mix of wheat from god

dialogue and weeds from the evil one well

and an exchange of goodwill so no problem we leave the harvesting to

following the parable of the weeds and god

the wheat in matthew chapter 13 let me end now my conclusion 500 years

i'd like to propose that we are not the later

seeds we are the field sorry i've gone a bit over time though i

you know we are the field know you gave me only an

because if we think of people as weeds hour but uh the shadow was topic
so i had to adjust a little bit now the and of course the next question is what

the conclusion is

500 years later here we that good news it is the good news of

are gifted to give jesus

you know and we're trying to and that good news of jesus is we

define our mission uh la lunaitum are all called to be sons and daughters

the final year of preparation for 2021 of god and if we are called to be

is called a year of mission all sons and daughters of god meaning

and uh we're asking ourselves you know we're called to be

with this precious gift that we have brothers and sisters to one another

received we're not called to be slaves and

the gift of the christian faith how do masters to one another

we share this gift we're called to be brothers and sisters

the mission to share as gift the very to one another

faith that we receive from god and so i think that became very clear

as gift what is this mission about very very clear to to the natives you

i think it is important it is important know

for us to to say to ourselves you know that the colonists were behaving like

to define what this mission is about the masters and who were treating the

mission is to share the good news natives like slaves

to evangelize so to evangelize were not of the same mindset as these

doesn't mean to proselytize you know to people who were bringing

evangelize doesn't mean to force your faith in jesus christ who is proclaiming

religion on other people you know a totally new kind of world

to evangelize is to share the gift which he calls the kingdom of god and

the gift that we have received and what which he proclaims as good news

is that gift and the good news is we are all heirs of

it is the gift of the good news of the the kingdom of god

kingdom of god being a family being family to

all human beings fellow human beings and sinful humanity as sons and daughters of

to all fellow adam

creatures i think the natives of this fallen humanity but on the other hand

country christianity is also about our new grace

began to truly appreciate you know and redeemed humanity as sons and

this faith the beauty of the christian daughters of god in the risen christ

faith every bearer of good news is always a

the challenge to live life on earth as mixed of the two

it is in heaven kahitayo even we now

and when does earth become like heaven in 2021 we are bearers of this precious

where when we treat the earth as our gift

common home when we treat every fellow we hold this treasure but this treasure

human being we possess

every fellow creature as a member in our own earthenness

of god's family the church will always be a church of

let me end with this now saints and sinners

we trash your christian faith as a gift the church will always be a combination

and this gift is lived the gift of holiness and wretchedness

of christian life we are the bearers but don't despair we plow the fields and

of a gift saint paul says we hold the scatter the good

thresher seed on the ground but the one who but

in earthen vessels to make it clear to it is fed and watered

us that its surpassing power by god's almighty hand we are the field

comes from god and not from god is the sower and we are grateful

us inevitably for the seeds that are thriving

christian life is always attention that have grown that are bearing fruit

attention between and that now have to be shared

on the one hand our old and our flawed shared to all humankind

and so this is bishop amber david bishop of

the diocese of kalau and it has been a

pleasure

sharing with you on the topic gifted to

give 500 years

of christianity thank you