In the life of faith, we often puzzled by the phenomenon that is sometimes bizarre but real. For example, we look at the Christians who so diligently to church, diligently following the spiritual deepening spiritual fellowship, praying diligently and reading, even the church and parish became a second home. But in socio-civic life everyday lacked the 'heart' against one another. In fact they are often labeled as people who do not have compassion for other people.
Instead, we find also those Christians who in the exercise of faith rarely go to church, never took part in environmental activities, never read the Bible and never even pray at all. But this guy was so good against one another. Like to help others who are suffering, to help those in need and also actively involved in socio-civic activities.
The question we could emerge, which is it, where appropriate. Which one should we choose, the first or the second? I will not answer what is right or what is right, but rather wants to invite colleagues to see ourselves each. What I want to lift the look of this phenomenon is the extent of my everyday life also reflects my faith life. Or the extent to which I was an adult in the spiritual. Is it spiritual maturity can be measured ?. If you can what can we use to measure spiritual maturity. Is not a question of faith is a very personal matter.
Problem of the relation between me and God. Who is to gauge whether I really believe in or mature in living the faith or not? Which can measure the maturity is to me personally. This is true, because it's not just a matter of mere spiritual cultivation, but also a matter of embodiment, the spiritual maturity can be measured in terms of motivation, but also its realization. We believe that 'faith without works is dead'.
According to experts spiritualist, we can measure our spiritual maturity of some of these indications.
v There is a strong desire or longing hearts determined to be 'holy' than just experiencing temporary happiness in life.
v Has the virtue to always willing to give and to give than to receive and to be given or even demanding.
v Always felt honored when given the opportunity to serve than to be served.
v Always experiencing happiness in his personal life, both born like any mind.
v Always feel blessed, always feel grateful for the gift you have received, from the always feel less and want more than what is required.
v Able to accept everything with the attitude of 'what is' 'Nrima pandum ing' of the ambition to have everything and demanding others to be just like him.
v Always live in a world of love, everything is measured by love.
This is an indication that can be used to measure whether I've felt reaching 'spiritual maturity', according to the Christian faith that I believe. The above case will never happen if we feel confident that I have always tried to be on track seven this indication.
Does being a saint is really a longing of every human being. Does God wants us to be holy or ....? The answer lies in the hearts of each of us, but when we return to the invitation of Jesus himself the "Be ye perfect as the Father is perfect existence", then we would nod that perfection of life, or chastity is the ultimate goal of every person who recognizes himself as a disciple of Christ , Because in fact God calls us to be holy. The size of our spiritual perfection is 'to be like Christ' in all aspects of his life. Hopefully, this handy little afterthought.
Happy days and Sunday.
In Christ.
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Rabu, 30 September 2015
ALL PROPHECY FULFILLED IN JESUS CHRIST
Jesus Christ was sent by God to redeem us and to inform us of his happy news. "... All of whom Moses in the law and the prophets, we have ketemukan is Jesus, son of Joseph from Nazareth." (John 1:45). One of the most powerful arguments to highlight the mission of Jesus is that all prophecy has been fulfilled in Him.
I. The origins. In accordance with the prophecy that is the promised Messiah is the son of Abraham from the line of Judah and David. Matthew describes the lineage that began with Abraham and ends with Joseph the husband of Mary, who gave birth to Jesus who is called Christ. (Matthew 1:16). According to the Jewish interpretation, the true Jesus son of David, because Joseph, the head of the family in which he was born, comes from David. The first Christian generation was generally aware that he is descended from Judah. (Heb 7:14)
Isaiah prophesied that the Messiah would be born of a virgin. "Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son." (Matthew 1:23). Also the birthplace of the Messiah known with certainty. Scripture says that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from Bethlehem, where David was. (John 7:42). That's where Herod sent the Magi from the east and it was based on the prophecy of Micah. "And thou Bethlehem, are by no means least ... because of you will come a ruler." (Matthew 2: 6)
There is another one prophecy that says that the Messiah would come from Nazareth: "Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene." (Matthew 2:23)
II. The years of the First. The incidence of which is very important during the short settlement in Bethlehem is the arrival of the Magi. They came to worship the Child Jesus and hand offering. Thus again the prophecy fulfilled. (Isaiah 72:10). While the sad event, is the murder of the children of Bethlehem, is the fulfillment of the prophecy of Jeremiah. (Jer 31:15)
III. Pioneers. Malachi prophesied that a pilot will precede the coming of the Messiah. (Mal 3: 1). About this pioneering, Isaiah said; "A voice cries, 'Prepare in the wilderness the way for the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God! Every valley shall be closed, and every mountain and hill leveled; hilly land should be flat ground, and ground grooved into the plains; then the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; indeed, the Lord himself has spoken. "(Isaiah 40: 3-5)
It is already fulfilled in John the Baptist. He uses the words clearly. He did not ask for respect for the Messiah for himself. "I am not the Christ" (John 1:20), but the voice of one crying in the wilderness as prophesied by the prophet Isaiah.
Jesus himself testified, that what was foretold by the prophet Malachi has been fulfilled in John. "... About whom it is written: Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee." (Matthew 11:10)
IV. King. There is a prophecy which says that Christ is king, priest and prophet. Christ present themselves as king. In front of the judge he admitted that he was the king. "You say that I am a king." (John 18:36). The public views him as king: "You are the king of Israel." (John 1:49), and His enemies use the same word to mock him, when he relies weak helpless on the cross. "Others he saved, but himself he can not save! He is King of Israel? Well he came down from the cross and we will believe in him." (Matthew 27:42)
V. Imam. Christ appeared as a priest. At the time Christ gave His life on the cross, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. We have a great High Priest, Jesus. (Heb 4:14). He is the mediator of a new covenant. (Heb 9:15). It has been established with an oath by Him who said to Him: "The Lord has sworn and will not change: You are a priest for ever." (Heb 7:21)
Ordinary mind is not able to see the prophecy was fulfilled in Christ. Only trust can see the death of Christ on the cross as a sacrifice of a Priest. He himself had said earlier, that he came to give his life a ransom for many. (Matthew 20:28). And because of the sacrifices that he dedicate to remove sin. (Heb 9:26). He is the High Priest, Priest Mahasempurna, because he offered himself to God as a sacrifice without blemish. (Heb 9:14). And since by one offering He has perfected forever those whom He sanctified. (Heb 10:14)
VI. Prophet. Christ is shown as a prophet. He was a prophet not only because of the prophecy that he did, but mainly because he came in the name of God to deliver a message to humans. I am come in my Father's name (John 5:43), and what I heard from him that I speak to the world (Jn 8:26). So he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. (Mark 1:22). Through his work, is the miracle of His, He invited the audience to believe in his message.
VII. Servant of Allah. Messiah is described as a king with spiritual and religious power. It is displayed as a priest who volunteered and stoic self-sacrifice and surrender to the ferocity of his enemies for the sake of the happiness of his people. He is also shown as a prophet ideal, as another Moses, who faithfully and without hesitation, but also with humility and gentle running his mission and energetically defending his people. He is the herald of divine happiness. "Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me; He has sent me to bring good news to the poor, to help the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and release to the prisoners from the prison, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. "(Isa 61: 1-2 ). That is the picture of Jesus. And as it goes is said in the Gospel; "She closed the book, gave it back to the officer, and sat down; and the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him. Then he began to teach them saying: 'Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. "And all the people of him and were amazed at the beautiful words spoken to Him." (Luke 4: 20-22)
VIII. Humiliation. A description of the Messiah is not only showed bright aspects. There is also a prophecy that talks about the resistance, opposition, rejection, ending the misery and death of Christ. Though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they did not believe in him, so that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: "Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah also said: "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them." It is said by Isaiah, because he saw his glory and spoke about him. (Jn 12: 37-41)
New Testament see Christ as the stone that was rejected by the builders, but which has become the cornerstone (Matthew 21:42) and whoever falls on this stone, he will be destroyed and the people who struck the rock, he will be crushed (Matt 21: 44).
IX. Last days. Some key events towards the end of his life showed again that the prophecies have been fulfilled everything. Jesus rode a donkey was hailed in Jerusalem (Matthew 21: 5). Betrayal and thirty pieces of silver, and death is accepted without complaint: As a sheep He was led to the slaughter (Acts 8:32). His scourging must suffer; He is a worm and not a man (Ps 22: 7). He was treated as criminals. He was despised, his clothes and divided his cloak drawn, satisfied his thirst with vinegar, his stomach stabbed and traitor of his death.
X. Glory. The resurrection of Christ was prophesied as well. On the day of Pentecost, St. Peter wearing Psalm 16 to Christ: "... my body also will live in hope, because you will not abandon me to the grave, and not let your Holy One to see corruption." (Acts 2: 26-27 ). Also the ascension of Christ was prophesied in the Book of Psalms: "The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet." (Acts 2: 34-35)
After that tersebarlah Kingdom of Christ to the whole world. This also has been mentioned in the prophecies, which is often talked about the universal kingdom of God's anointed man. His kingdom is a kingdom of grace. The kingdom is not limited to Israel. "Too little thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel. But I will make you a light to the nations so that salvation from me to the ends of the earth. "(Isa 49: 6). Everything that has been fulfilled in Christ and in all those who gathered in the Church. St. Paul saw the beginning of the fulfillment of prophecy that says: "Praise God, O ye Gentiles, praise him, all ye nations." (Rom 15:11)
XI. Conclusion. Jesus Christ is the promised Redeemer. Because in Him have fulfilled everything that has been foretold. No one else, both before and after he can say this about him. Christ Himself said: "For if you believed Moses, you would believe would also unto me, for he wrote about me." (John 5:46)
Source: I Believe p. 31-35 work of Father Herman Embruiru, SVD.
I. The origins. In accordance with the prophecy that is the promised Messiah is the son of Abraham from the line of Judah and David. Matthew describes the lineage that began with Abraham and ends with Joseph the husband of Mary, who gave birth to Jesus who is called Christ. (Matthew 1:16). According to the Jewish interpretation, the true Jesus son of David, because Joseph, the head of the family in which he was born, comes from David. The first Christian generation was generally aware that he is descended from Judah. (Heb 7:14)
Isaiah prophesied that the Messiah would be born of a virgin. "Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son." (Matthew 1:23). Also the birthplace of the Messiah known with certainty. Scripture says that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from Bethlehem, where David was. (John 7:42). That's where Herod sent the Magi from the east and it was based on the prophecy of Micah. "And thou Bethlehem, are by no means least ... because of you will come a ruler." (Matthew 2: 6)
There is another one prophecy that says that the Messiah would come from Nazareth: "Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene." (Matthew 2:23)
II. The years of the First. The incidence of which is very important during the short settlement in Bethlehem is the arrival of the Magi. They came to worship the Child Jesus and hand offering. Thus again the prophecy fulfilled. (Isaiah 72:10). While the sad event, is the murder of the children of Bethlehem, is the fulfillment of the prophecy of Jeremiah. (Jer 31:15)
III. Pioneers. Malachi prophesied that a pilot will precede the coming of the Messiah. (Mal 3: 1). About this pioneering, Isaiah said; "A voice cries, 'Prepare in the wilderness the way for the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God! Every valley shall be closed, and every mountain and hill leveled; hilly land should be flat ground, and ground grooved into the plains; then the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; indeed, the Lord himself has spoken. "(Isaiah 40: 3-5)
It is already fulfilled in John the Baptist. He uses the words clearly. He did not ask for respect for the Messiah for himself. "I am not the Christ" (John 1:20), but the voice of one crying in the wilderness as prophesied by the prophet Isaiah.
Jesus himself testified, that what was foretold by the prophet Malachi has been fulfilled in John. "... About whom it is written: Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee." (Matthew 11:10)
IV. King. There is a prophecy which says that Christ is king, priest and prophet. Christ present themselves as king. In front of the judge he admitted that he was the king. "You say that I am a king." (John 18:36). The public views him as king: "You are the king of Israel." (John 1:49), and His enemies use the same word to mock him, when he relies weak helpless on the cross. "Others he saved, but himself he can not save! He is King of Israel? Well he came down from the cross and we will believe in him." (Matthew 27:42)
V. Imam. Christ appeared as a priest. At the time Christ gave His life on the cross, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. We have a great High Priest, Jesus. (Heb 4:14). He is the mediator of a new covenant. (Heb 9:15). It has been established with an oath by Him who said to Him: "The Lord has sworn and will not change: You are a priest for ever." (Heb 7:21)
Ordinary mind is not able to see the prophecy was fulfilled in Christ. Only trust can see the death of Christ on the cross as a sacrifice of a Priest. He himself had said earlier, that he came to give his life a ransom for many. (Matthew 20:28). And because of the sacrifices that he dedicate to remove sin. (Heb 9:26). He is the High Priest, Priest Mahasempurna, because he offered himself to God as a sacrifice without blemish. (Heb 9:14). And since by one offering He has perfected forever those whom He sanctified. (Heb 10:14)
VI. Prophet. Christ is shown as a prophet. He was a prophet not only because of the prophecy that he did, but mainly because he came in the name of God to deliver a message to humans. I am come in my Father's name (John 5:43), and what I heard from him that I speak to the world (Jn 8:26). So he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. (Mark 1:22). Through his work, is the miracle of His, He invited the audience to believe in his message.
VII. Servant of Allah. Messiah is described as a king with spiritual and religious power. It is displayed as a priest who volunteered and stoic self-sacrifice and surrender to the ferocity of his enemies for the sake of the happiness of his people. He is also shown as a prophet ideal, as another Moses, who faithfully and without hesitation, but also with humility and gentle running his mission and energetically defending his people. He is the herald of divine happiness. "Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me; He has sent me to bring good news to the poor, to help the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and release to the prisoners from the prison, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. "(Isa 61: 1-2 ). That is the picture of Jesus. And as it goes is said in the Gospel; "She closed the book, gave it back to the officer, and sat down; and the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him. Then he began to teach them saying: 'Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. "And all the people of him and were amazed at the beautiful words spoken to Him." (Luke 4: 20-22)
VIII. Humiliation. A description of the Messiah is not only showed bright aspects. There is also a prophecy that talks about the resistance, opposition, rejection, ending the misery and death of Christ. Though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they did not believe in him, so that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: "Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah also said: "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them." It is said by Isaiah, because he saw his glory and spoke about him. (Jn 12: 37-41)
New Testament see Christ as the stone that was rejected by the builders, but which has become the cornerstone (Matthew 21:42) and whoever falls on this stone, he will be destroyed and the people who struck the rock, he will be crushed (Matt 21: 44).
IX. Last days. Some key events towards the end of his life showed again that the prophecies have been fulfilled everything. Jesus rode a donkey was hailed in Jerusalem (Matthew 21: 5). Betrayal and thirty pieces of silver, and death is accepted without complaint: As a sheep He was led to the slaughter (Acts 8:32). His scourging must suffer; He is a worm and not a man (Ps 22: 7). He was treated as criminals. He was despised, his clothes and divided his cloak drawn, satisfied his thirst with vinegar, his stomach stabbed and traitor of his death.
X. Glory. The resurrection of Christ was prophesied as well. On the day of Pentecost, St. Peter wearing Psalm 16 to Christ: "... my body also will live in hope, because you will not abandon me to the grave, and not let your Holy One to see corruption." (Acts 2: 26-27 ). Also the ascension of Christ was prophesied in the Book of Psalms: "The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet." (Acts 2: 34-35)
After that tersebarlah Kingdom of Christ to the whole world. This also has been mentioned in the prophecies, which is often talked about the universal kingdom of God's anointed man. His kingdom is a kingdom of grace. The kingdom is not limited to Israel. "Too little thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel. But I will make you a light to the nations so that salvation from me to the ends of the earth. "(Isa 49: 6). Everything that has been fulfilled in Christ and in all those who gathered in the Church. St. Paul saw the beginning of the fulfillment of prophecy that says: "Praise God, O ye Gentiles, praise him, all ye nations." (Rom 15:11)
XI. Conclusion. Jesus Christ is the promised Redeemer. Because in Him have fulfilled everything that has been foretold. No one else, both before and after he can say this about him. Christ Himself said: "For if you believed Moses, you would believe would also unto me, for he wrote about me." (John 5:46)
Source: I Believe p. 31-35 work of Father Herman Embruiru, SVD.
Selasa, 29 September 2015
TOUCH JESUS IN THE EUCHARIST
I met Jesus in two ways it. And I remember once again the story of the woman who touched Jesus' cloak tassels. Now I want to tell some of the events that can explain the idea of this gospel.
One is the story of a young priest. He called me. From his tone seemed that he was very anxious and scared. He just knows that his voice had cancer membrane and within three weeks he had to undergo surgery to lift the membrane. He said that he was desperate. Just six years ago he was ordained.
When I prayed with him, I feel God wants me to talk to him about the Eucharist. I said, "Father, I can pray with Pastor now over the phone. But this morning Father would not meet Jesus?
Did not Father met with him every morning? "I did not know that the priest does not celebrate the Eucharist every day.
I told him, "Father, every day if Father celebrated the Eucharist, if Father took the sacred Host, eat, Father met Jesus. The woman in the Gospel just touch the hem of His garment. Father touched Him and receive Him into the body. Father accepts I told her, "Go and meet Jesus in the Eucharist. I can not tell anyone that someone will be healed as he had hoped, because I am not God. But Jesus will give strength to the mother to face whatever happens in life mother. If he wants to bring mother through the door of death, he will give grace so that it will be the mother road travel without fear. And if He willed mother continues to live, he will give me the grace to live. "Without my knowledge, he also looking for the pastor Father Kevin and say equal to him.
I asked him, "What teijadi?" And he said, "Look. This morning I was looking for a sister. I go to Mass as Sister say. When I go forward to receive communion, I said to myself, 'I'm going to meet Jesus. I will accept him dalarn hand and I will ask him for help. " Mother was a Catholic who often menyarnbut communion. But this time he looked at the Sacred Host and said, "I know you are really present. Today take this fear from me. If you are pleased, heal me. Do something for me." Then he told my, "When I put the Host on the tongue and swallowed it, I felt that something was burning tenggorakanku and down into the stomach. I saw her swollen stomach and lost."
The woman was cured. I do not know how many of us who celebrate the Eucharist only physically present, without faith, with hope, without being conscious of what we are doing. Maybe we go to Mass just because they want to get something and we do not thank God or praise Him because He has given himself to us.
Faith is a decision. We must fight. Maybe people say, "I do not understand the Mass. I do not feel anything, but I believe it." as food. There is nothing better than going to him. Please beg Jesus to heal Pastor. "I heard him crying. He kept saying to me," Sister, thank you, thank you. "
Three weeks later, she went to the hospital to undergo surgery. A few days later she called me, told me that he does not have the surgery. The doctors did not find his voice again kankemya and membranes clean.
Even I never knew his name. About a year later I heard ten pliers him through a friend of his. Before her illness, this is no longer a priest to celebrate the Eucharist except on Sundays. In this he was very reckless. God used this experience to change his life. Sarna once he recovered, but not just physically. He became a priest whose life centered on the Eucharist. For him the Eucharist becomes an opportunity to meet with the living Jesus, like the woman at the well told in John 4. He met Jesus at the well that is most abundant. There we can drink and will not experience thirst. Indeed, miracles are still happening, another healing story related to the Eucharist took place in Sydney, Australia. A woman comes to the Father Kevin and I talked. He met me and asked me to pray with him. He is desperate because of cancer in the stomach. His stomach becomes very large because of swelling. The doctors say that it is useless inoperable because the cancer has spread to everywhere.
I know that this afternoon there is a Mass, then I told him that I would pray bersarnanya. I said also that he went to Mass and ask Jesus to give him tunity harbor. The master himself is the fear of death.
He said, "Sister, I was scared to death. May God take this fear of me!" If we attend the mass with the right attitude, our lives will change. The churches are often filled with people coming in and then go home alone still equal, then people ask, "What did Jesus come? Did he fulfill his promise?" Or maybe we do not have faith hopeful that let him touch our lives and meet our needs? Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is Jesus gave healing in the Gospels. Then He must fulfill his promise to meet the needs of his people. We can blame the pastor if we lack faith. We said pastor drab, not charismatic, too hard, too scared. But actually because not there. Problem truth is our faith. True, if the pastor has a strong faith, it is very advantageous in worship. That is why in my ministry to priests, I always challenging pastors to believe more strongly. We must look beyond ourselves and humanity pastor. Then we can see and understand what is done by the priest at Mass. As a Catholic I taboo that I should not put a priest between myself and Jesus in the Eucharist.
The Church requires that we attend rnisa not because Jesus needs us. But as a good mother, the Church saw that we mernbutuhkan rnampu Bread of Life that we live in a world that hates us rnenurut Jesus himself as the equal world has hated Him. We need to be strengthened in our journey. Eating for our souls and our bodies: this is given by Jesus to us in mass.
source: Miracles in the Modern era
Rewritten by: Elisabeth SW - Solo
One is the story of a young priest. He called me. From his tone seemed that he was very anxious and scared. He just knows that his voice had cancer membrane and within three weeks he had to undergo surgery to lift the membrane. He said that he was desperate. Just six years ago he was ordained.
When I prayed with him, I feel God wants me to talk to him about the Eucharist. I said, "Father, I can pray with Pastor now over the phone. But this morning Father would not meet Jesus?
Did not Father met with him every morning? "I did not know that the priest does not celebrate the Eucharist every day.
I told him, "Father, every day if Father celebrated the Eucharist, if Father took the sacred Host, eat, Father met Jesus. The woman in the Gospel just touch the hem of His garment. Father touched Him and receive Him into the body. Father accepts I told her, "Go and meet Jesus in the Eucharist. I can not tell anyone that someone will be healed as he had hoped, because I am not God. But Jesus will give strength to the mother to face whatever happens in life mother. If he wants to bring mother through the door of death, he will give grace so that it will be the mother road travel without fear. And if He willed mother continues to live, he will give me the grace to live. "Without my knowledge, he also looking for the pastor Father Kevin and say equal to him.
I asked him, "What teijadi?" And he said, "Look. This morning I was looking for a sister. I go to Mass as Sister say. When I go forward to receive communion, I said to myself, 'I'm going to meet Jesus. I will accept him dalarn hand and I will ask him for help. " Mother was a Catholic who often menyarnbut communion. But this time he looked at the Sacred Host and said, "I know you are really present. Today take this fear from me. If you are pleased, heal me. Do something for me." Then he told my, "When I put the Host on the tongue and swallowed it, I felt that something was burning tenggorakanku and down into the stomach. I saw her swollen stomach and lost."
The woman was cured. I do not know how many of us who celebrate the Eucharist only physically present, without faith, with hope, without being conscious of what we are doing. Maybe we go to Mass just because they want to get something and we do not thank God or praise Him because He has given himself to us.
Faith is a decision. We must fight. Maybe people say, "I do not understand the Mass. I do not feel anything, but I believe it." as food. There is nothing better than going to him. Please beg Jesus to heal Pastor. "I heard him crying. He kept saying to me," Sister, thank you, thank you. "
Three weeks later, she went to the hospital to undergo surgery. A few days later she called me, told me that he does not have the surgery. The doctors did not find his voice again kankemya and membranes clean.
Even I never knew his name. About a year later I heard ten pliers him through a friend of his. Before her illness, this is no longer a priest to celebrate the Eucharist except on Sundays. In this he was very reckless. God used this experience to change his life. Sarna once he recovered, but not just physically. He became a priest whose life centered on the Eucharist. For him the Eucharist becomes an opportunity to meet with the living Jesus, like the woman at the well told in John 4. He met Jesus at the well that is most abundant. There we can drink and will not experience thirst. Indeed, miracles are still happening, another healing story related to the Eucharist took place in Sydney, Australia. A woman comes to the Father Kevin and I talked. He met me and asked me to pray with him. He is desperate because of cancer in the stomach. His stomach becomes very large because of swelling. The doctors say that it is useless inoperable because the cancer has spread to everywhere.
I know that this afternoon there is a Mass, then I told him that I would pray bersarnanya. I said also that he went to Mass and ask Jesus to give him tunity harbor. The master himself is the fear of death.
He said, "Sister, I was scared to death. May God take this fear of me!" If we attend the mass with the right attitude, our lives will change. The churches are often filled with people coming in and then go home alone still equal, then people ask, "What did Jesus come? Did he fulfill his promise?" Or maybe we do not have faith hopeful that let him touch our lives and meet our needs? Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is Jesus gave healing in the Gospels. Then He must fulfill his promise to meet the needs of his people. We can blame the pastor if we lack faith. We said pastor drab, not charismatic, too hard, too scared. But actually because not there. Problem truth is our faith. True, if the pastor has a strong faith, it is very advantageous in worship. That is why in my ministry to priests, I always challenging pastors to believe more strongly. We must look beyond ourselves and humanity pastor. Then we can see and understand what is done by the priest at Mass. As a Catholic I taboo that I should not put a priest between myself and Jesus in the Eucharist.
The Church requires that we attend rnisa not because Jesus needs us. But as a good mother, the Church saw that we mernbutuhkan rnampu Bread of Life that we live in a world that hates us rnenurut Jesus himself as the equal world has hated Him. We need to be strengthened in our journey. Eating for our souls and our bodies: this is given by Jesus to us in mass.
source: Miracles in the Modern era
Rewritten by: Elisabeth SW - Solo
Minggu, 27 September 2015
MUSED THE HOLY TRINITY
The mystery of God the Holy Trinity is not easy to understand. Many books have been written by theologians about the triune God; but none of them are actually able to explain it completely.
From the beginning of this reflection I remind you all, that this reflection must be hard to digest.
Put it this way:
Humans since time immemorial have always wanted to know about God. Who is the real God? With the help of the mind kodratinya, it turns out humans can know God with certainty through all what is in the universe. It turns out when people open to truth and beauty, he can arrive at a true recognition of God. By using his reason properly, humans can recognize God as Creator, as the Almighty, the Good and The Merciful.
But there is still a knowledge of God, which can not be accomplished man with his own power, which is possible only when we know God revealed them to us. Thankfully God is pleased revealed himself to us through Jesus Christ.
Among the many knowledge of God presented Christ to us, there is one truth that is so large, a great mystery of the Self God revealed in Christ to us. Great Mystery is not yet known in Old Testament times, and never will we know if Jesus did not submit it to us. Great Mystery is this: that God is only one, but in the one God there are three Yourself, namely: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Great mystery is called: God the Holy Trinity.
How is it possible: one but three, three but only one?
From the revelation of Christ, revealed to us that God the Father loves God the Son, and God the Son loves the Father. Father and Son in love with a love that has no beginning and no end, infinite love, love the unexpected magnitude. So immeasurable love of God the Father to God the Son, and so unfathomable love of God the Son to the Father, so that their great love that is reciprocal and mutually precede a private one as well, which is called the Holy Spirit. God the Holy Spirit from the eternal is what unites the Father and God the Son, so that without beginning and without end God is one as God Almighty Love.
Revelation of Christ presented to us, it becomes obvious that the one who is in God there are three, but KeallahanNya only one. Because the Godhead is only one, then the one Person who can not be divorced or separated than the other private. Self whole God the Father is in God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Self whole God the Son is also in God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. And so is the whole of God the Holy Spirit dwells also in the Self God the Father and God the Son. Not a private one is outside the other private. Each in a unified whole, from eternity to eternity. Each of these are not mutually resolve. The three persons of the same eternal, equal His power and His holiness as large.
The truth of this faith in the Triune God is the greatest mystery of all mysteries of our faith. This mystery is so great, so we will never be able to understand it. However the extent of the information given on this mystery, everything could never reveal the contents of the whole mystery to us.
Then, why God revealed this mystery kepadakita, if after all we will never fully understand the mystery?
The mystery of the triune God in fact is not a truth to be understood, but to be believed, and moreover to be lived and experienced. God revealed this mystery is not to confuse us, nor to complicate our faith. God revealed them so that we begin to live it and experience it in this life.
What is a live and experience it?
God turns life is to live in love, even God is love. And it turns out he is calling us to enter into His own life, which from the beginning of endless life in love. We are called to take part in God's great love. So it is clear the mystery of the triune God revealed to us that, since the world is preparing to live in love, because only by doing so can we enter into God's own life. Unity of life in the love that exists in three Persons of God was supposed to be a model of unity alive among us humans since in this world.
In the Book of Genesis is written like this: "God said: 'Let us make man in our image". God created human beings in His image turns, as being virtuous and self-determining. The image of God is to live in love. Above all creatures, we humans are much disanggupkan God to love and be loved by consciously and with free will. That is our image, and that is our call. Even more than that we are called to take part later in life the love of God himself.
How sublime dignity of our humanity, and how great the responsibility entrusted to us by God. Then the Feast of the Holy Trinity actually reminds us of the noble dignity of our humanity, invites us back to live in love. We came from divine love, and we should live in the divine love, and thus we shall be reunited with divine love.
So let always open our hearts to the love that meets the Triune God fills our hearts as well. Let us not deny the noble dignity of our humanity, the dignity that invites to love. Whatever the differences that exist among us, whether it's tribal and ethnic differences, differences in status, educational differences, etc., should not deny the dignity of all that we are created in the image of God, to live in unity martabatuntuk love.
Musings by Father Leo Sipahutar OFM.Cap.
Posted by Indonesian Papist
Pax et bonum
From the beginning of this reflection I remind you all, that this reflection must be hard to digest.
Humans since time immemorial have always wanted to know about God. Who is the real God? With the help of the mind kodratinya, it turns out humans can know God with certainty through all what is in the universe. It turns out when people open to truth and beauty, he can arrive at a true recognition of God. By using his reason properly, humans can recognize God as Creator, as the Almighty, the Good and The Merciful.
But there is still a knowledge of God, which can not be accomplished man with his own power, which is possible only when we know God revealed them to us. Thankfully God is pleased revealed himself to us through Jesus Christ.
Among the many knowledge of God presented Christ to us, there is one truth that is so large, a great mystery of the Self God revealed in Christ to us. Great Mystery is not yet known in Old Testament times, and never will we know if Jesus did not submit it to us. Great Mystery is this: that God is only one, but in the one God there are three Yourself, namely: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Great mystery is called: God the Holy Trinity.
How is it possible: one but three, three but only one?
From the revelation of Christ, revealed to us that God the Father loves God the Son, and God the Son loves the Father. Father and Son in love with a love that has no beginning and no end, infinite love, love the unexpected magnitude. So immeasurable love of God the Father to God the Son, and so unfathomable love of God the Son to the Father, so that their great love that is reciprocal and mutually precede a private one as well, which is called the Holy Spirit. God the Holy Spirit from the eternal is what unites the Father and God the Son, so that without beginning and without end God is one as God Almighty Love.
Revelation of Christ presented to us, it becomes obvious that the one who is in God there are three, but KeallahanNya only one. Because the Godhead is only one, then the one Person who can not be divorced or separated than the other private. Self whole God the Father is in God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Self whole God the Son is also in God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. And so is the whole of God the Holy Spirit dwells also in the Self God the Father and God the Son. Not a private one is outside the other private. Each in a unified whole, from eternity to eternity. Each of these are not mutually resolve. The three persons of the same eternal, equal His power and His holiness as large.
The truth of this faith in the Triune God is the greatest mystery of all mysteries of our faith. This mystery is so great, so we will never be able to understand it. However the extent of the information given on this mystery, everything could never reveal the contents of the whole mystery to us.
Then, why God revealed this mystery kepadakita, if after all we will never fully understand the mystery?
The mystery of the triune God in fact is not a truth to be understood, but to be believed, and moreover to be lived and experienced. God revealed this mystery is not to confuse us, nor to complicate our faith. God revealed them so that we begin to live it and experience it in this life.
What is a live and experience it?
God turns life is to live in love, even God is love. And it turns out he is calling us to enter into His own life, which from the beginning of endless life in love. We are called to take part in God's great love. So it is clear the mystery of the triune God revealed to us that, since the world is preparing to live in love, because only by doing so can we enter into God's own life. Unity of life in the love that exists in three Persons of God was supposed to be a model of unity alive among us humans since in this world.
In the Book of Genesis is written like this: "God said: 'Let us make man in our image". God created human beings in His image turns, as being virtuous and self-determining. The image of God is to live in love. Above all creatures, we humans are much disanggupkan God to love and be loved by consciously and with free will. That is our image, and that is our call. Even more than that we are called to take part later in life the love of God himself.
How sublime dignity of our humanity, and how great the responsibility entrusted to us by God. Then the Feast of the Holy Trinity actually reminds us of the noble dignity of our humanity, invites us back to live in love. We came from divine love, and we should live in the divine love, and thus we shall be reunited with divine love.
So let always open our hearts to the love that meets the Triune God fills our hearts as well. Let us not deny the noble dignity of our humanity, the dignity that invites to love. Whatever the differences that exist among us, whether it's tribal and ethnic differences, differences in status, educational differences, etc., should not deny the dignity of all that we are created in the image of God, to live in unity martabatuntuk love.
Musings by Father Leo Sipahutar OFM.Cap.
Posted by Indonesian Papist
Pax et bonum
Senin, 07 September 2015
DIG THE MEANING OF CELEBRATION OF FAITH
Sow Lord Word of Life
Instill Your Word in our hearts
In order for us to know You
In order for us to live in Thee
So we would not go astray road
So that we unite
Who will sing the verse above with steady if not those who feel themselves people of faith? Could the people shouted "Long live Christ" with all my heart if you do not have faith?
FAITH: THE GRACE OF THE BOAST
Our faith needs to be nourished, so as not withered and dry. It means that faith needs to be nurtured and cultivated. Our faith in the risen Christ needs to be maintained so as not to fade. Faith is a gift, like a seed that is ready to grow and become big.But when the seed was not maintained, he will not be able to survive, let alone grow, it becomes withered and dry. If it does not grow, how will bear fruit?
Because faith is grace, then we need to accept and nurture it with pride. A believer would be proud of his faith. Still remember the solicitation priest after the consecration in the Holy Eucharist? "Magnify our faith!" Then the people answered unanimously, "Lord, you are already dead, Lord, you now live, Thou the Saviour: Come, O Jesus the Lord." Pride Catholics his faith was evident in the phrase. We believe that the great mystery of God, because it is our faith was supreme, and it is appropriate that we praised in mind, with words and deeds.
Since the beginning of the Church seems to have realized the importance of maintaining the faith of the people. Therefore, a wide range of business done. All good effort ever undertaken was well maintained, and a tradition of faith. Tradition is not just a habit of popping, but it's worth the tradition for the faithful because deliver people to the Lord. From there the Church today finds itself so rich in tradition, that every noble effort to rescue the mystery of the Divine as well celebrate it with pride. The pride of the Church will be very beautiful faith recorded in the poem Praise Easter Vigil: "Shout! Sing a happy song for Christ who redeemed us, thank God, we are risen with Christ ... "
EXPRESSING AND CELEBRATING FAITH
We can not see faith or the depth of one's faith. Who can see are the signs someone is believed, for example, he gathered and prayed together with his sisters. Difficult to understand when people who claim to believe, but it never seemed to come together and pray together with his brother and sisters. In togetherness that every believer personally enriching and mutually reinforce each other. Prayer becomes an expression of faith that is sufficient to maintain and foster the spirit of community togetherness allied because of the same faith. In prayer it is also unity with God finds its meaning.
But also difficult to understand when someone claiming to believe but our words and actions do not reflect what it is placed.There may be people who are eager to follow rituals, but in everyday life, it makes other people angry. Others angry not because he says or does truth as taught by Jesus, but because the words and actions precisely the opposite of that should be done by people of faith. When this happens there seems to be lost in that person. It lost its meaning does religious rituals. It could be that he is not aware of the meaning of the celebration of faith does?
Generally expression of the Church's faith in the form of prayer, confession, petition, gestures, and others, formulated and laid out carefully, not arbitrary. That meant that anyone who follows the celebration / worship together the inspiration and develop spiritually in the true faith. Therefore, if each person concerned and involved actively in the whole celebration it with all your heart, mind and strength, he actually gained a lot of things that are important for the development of life.
Celebration of faith is the celebration of a meeting between mankind by the Creator. It becomes a real encounter when opening human hearts to welcome his presence in the celebration. When the encounter that happened, it would become the heart of every personal desire to return to celebrate. People celebrate faith not out of obligation, but because of a deep longing to meet God who loves.
Celebration arranged in such a way that reflects the love and respect the people of God. All parts of the ceremony prepared and organized as possible. No wonder that today we encounter the Church is rich with glorious works that characterize the celebration of faith: songs, music, dance, architecture, gestures, and others. Everything was organized and carried out by the people so that the celebration of God's encounter with majestic, graceful, solemn, pleasing to God and bring mercy to His Church. The closer the people of the Lord, naturally the more he longs to meet with him in the celebration. The more often people celebrate the encounter with the Lord the greater love of God in him. The more the magnitude of the love of God in him made him more joy. The greater the joy in the people, the greater the longing to share the joy with other relatives.
CELEBRATING THE SPIRIT OF CELEBRATION TO LIFE DAILY
James said: "If it is not accompanied pebuatan faith, then that faith is essentially dead" [James 2:17]. If the celebration of faith just a celebration without any follow-ups, the celebration that will never change anything, dead. The spirit contained in the formulation of the faith, homilies, prayers, calls lead us to act on the basis of love. The symbols we use to remind us that the God we believe in fact present a real role in our daily lives. God is not far away from our lives, only prayer. Celebration of our faith will be complete when the animating spirit of celebration and encourage us to make it happen in daily life.
Celebration of faith that is loaded with meaning not first intended solely for the sake of the celebration. But the celebration of faith is also expected to bring about change for man and his world. To the celebration, people bring all the effort and work, complaints and requests, but also the desire to obtain confirmation and a new spirit for tread life full of twists. Therefore, the scope of the celebration of faith that is broad, stretching limitless. All aspects of human life are present and presented in prayer together in the celebration. Thus, the celebration of faith can never be separated from the daily life of the people. There was never a celebration if there are no daily lives. Similarly, daily life has no meaning without celebration. Celebrations affirm the meaning of life for us.
Celebration finished, people go back to daily life, hanging back with the family, community, society, and all the routines and problems. Values beautifully sown in the celebration are now embedded in the hearts of the people and brought into daily life.Need struggle and loyalty to guard it. In the experience of the people, the values themselves not only need to be maintained, contrary to power that enables each person to face the challenges of life. The people become more resilient, patient, passionate, honest, generous, and loyal. Concern and the spirit of community service to those in need is also increasing and resilient.
Faith that we might be wiser, open, humble, and not easily offended. The people became ready to do service to anyone when the words of Jesus echoing in his heart: "I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to Me" [Matthew 25:40]. This is the spirit derived from the celebration of the faith community. Perhaps we do not realize, but the power was there and move us. The more open our hearts, the power of the Spirit of God is manifest charms in our lives. The Spirit transforms us from day to day.
The spirit of celebration of faith that is embedded in the heart should also have an impact on the field of devotion. God we believe not only in the church building. It also permeates the whole of our lives. The Spirit of God not only works in celebration of his people, but also in the stretch of the events of our daily lives. His echoes the same power we feel in the celebration, also works admirably in place and other circumstances.
We glorify God in the celebration, is the same God as the God who accompanies and protects us. It is also the God who gives us the strength to work. It comprehends all movements and our hearts content. We can not deceive him. Perhaps the most often: we fool ourselves with falsehood, dishonesty, oppression and injustice against our neighbor. When we do it there. If he is, why are you silent? Because he respects their choice. Now, if we know that He respects us, how should we honor Him?What is unashamedly committed offenses against the law of His love? Or pretend to be a good person before him? If so let us consider the advice of the Church: "... because people are worried about a wave of the sea, which swayed to and fro by the wind. Let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. For double minded man is unstable in all his life " [Jas 1: 6b-8] . Furthermore, we are also reminded: "But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only; because if not so deceive yourselves " [Yak1: 22]. In short, we are invited to build integrity [personal integrity] and credibility [trustworthy] by faith. Secondly it is of capital importance for us to bear witness to Christ in our communities.
In celebration of our faith, God gives His Spirit. And especially in the Eucharist, Jesus gives his Body and Blood itself in the form of bread and wine. He did it as a sign of His love for us. His body we eat blend with the rest of us. He is in us, and we are in Him. That means we become part of him that is holy, loving, obedient to the Father, caring, ready to serve ..., well, we must also think, behave and act like Jesus himself. "Me want to be like you Jesus, enhanced pobud ..." That means we have to keep ourselves well holiness in thought, word, and deed. When Jesus gave His entire self for us, what can we give him? When we share our love with our neighbor, that is where we embody the spirit of our Eucharist.
RENEWAL never BROKE
Without a doubt, our faith in Christ encourages us to create a good atmosphere for everyone to grow as whole human beings.Jesus never taught us to be the people that selfish. We can notice how the formulation of the prayer which he passed on to us: "Our Father who art in heaven ... Give us sustenance ... and forgive our faults ..." Jesus taught us to pray as a community. He showed that God is the Father of all human beings. He encouraged us to bring others in our prayers, not praying for themselves only. Forgive others, it's not an easy action. But forgiveness is an essential part of our human dignity.Forgiveness is our effort to maintain the sanctity of our dignity as God's image. Forgiveness allows for reconciliation. No peace without forgiveness. Likewise, if God does not forgive us, then we may not be able to make peace with God. Therefore, Jesus taught us to open our hearts and forgive others guilty. At the same time when we forgive, we are also open to forgiveness of God for us. "... And where sin abounded, grace did abound, ..." [Rom 5: 20a], that the grace of forgiveness.
In a story about the Good Samaritan [see Luke 10: 25-37], Jesus taught us to be the people who care. Celebrate faith, prayer, it is good, but it must also be accompanied by concrete actions. If God alone is very concerned with people who are weak, poor, and oppressed his people should too.
Celebrating faith may be easy, if you just follow, especially if only passively: come, sit, silent, once completed home. But not as easy to interpret and make it happen in life. Maintaining faith is not easy. Silent or simply follow a routine is not how to maintain good faith. Faith is a talent that needs to be duplicated with active measures. Like a knife, sharpened increasingly frequent, increasingly sharp. So how to maintain good faith? The answer abound can be found in Scripture, Tradition, and the teaching of our Church.
Celebrating faith means willing to continuously renew life, never stopped. Why is that? Because we realize that we are sinners who only rely on the mercy of God. If we already feel themselves holy, has no sin, we no longer need to celebrate the faith. But really we do not sin again? How will we get the mercy of God if we do not want to admit our sins? How God will give His grace if we do not open our hearts and accept Him? Christ came into the world to call people sinners. ***
* P. Ferry Indrianto, SS.CC is Parish Priest St. Gabriel, Bandung
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