DI BINTINUEBE DJADUMINGU SIKLO B

Promé Lektura : Isaias 53, 10-11
Salmo : Salmo 33, 4-5, 18-19, 20. 22
Di dos Lektura : Hebreonan 4, 14-16
Evangelio : Marko 10, 35-45


Pa tur hende? El a bini pa duna su bida pa tur hende? I pa terorista- i violadornan, pa ladron i pa bandidunan pa ateonan i esnan ku no sa loke nan ke den bida...? Pa tur hende...?
Nos tin miedu ku ta SI . Hesus a bini p'asina nos tur tin bida i bida den felisidat. Por ta ku hendenan no a deskubrí Dios i ainda no a saboriá e alegria di sinti nan mes ruman di otro, ei ta nan pena i nan tristesa, hopi ta biba odiando òf amargá ku ta meskos ku biba sin ta felis. Esaki ta nos testimonio di kreyentenan den e mundu di awe: Nos mester ta testigu di e amor di Dios ku ta hasi di nos sirbidó di otro.
Ora un hende bisa ku e tabata ke biba manera "e promé kristiannan..." , di bèrdat ta sinti gana di hari, pasobra semper e evangelio di awe ta bin den nos mente. E disipelnan ku a kombibí ku Hesus, ku a skucha su bos direktamente i a kompartí pan kuné; ku a mira su milagernan... no tabata mihó ku nos, kasi lo bisa ku nan no a resaltá pa nan gran fe ni pa nan afan di sirbishi na otro. Un kos ta ... “ta ku Kristu” i otro hopi distinto ta “sigui Kristu”. Ta kere ku e apòstelnan riba e dia ei a keda den e promé parti. Nan tabatin mentalidat di kualke ser humano. Nan tabata buska e mihó puestonan i no di stima mas. Nan tabata kere si pero den sentido di haña rekompensa. Nan tabata pensa si pero ku aktitut di rekohé fruta. Asina nos ta komo hende ora Señor no a yega den nos intimidat.
No laga nos gaña nos mes, nos tur ke pa nan rekonosé nos trabou. Nos sa ku un persona di bèrdat ta trahadó ora e gradisí pa trabou ku a hasi p’e. Únikamente esnan trahadó sa di balorá trabou di e otro. Diferensia den bida kristian ta ku nos trabou no tin ku bai uní únikamente na espektativa di rekonosementu humano. Por ta ku otronan no ta rekonosé bo lucha i trabou, bo sakrifisio i preokupashonnan, pero ki grandi ta di duna bida pa otro sin interes, sin buska rekompensa! Únikamente Dios i abo sa balor di kada kos ku abo a hasi pa otro. Amor di Dios lo ta bo salario i bo rekompensa, bo sindikato i bo reinvindikashon mas urgente.
Gloria humano ta opskuresé gloria di Dios . Si move den kriterionan humano lo bo no komprondé. Mester "nase di nobo". Hopi bia den nos orashon diario nos ta hasi manera e apòstelnan, nos ta bisa Dios kua ta nos proposishonnan, kiko e mester hasi, na lugá di ta nos ta esnan ku ta laga Dios hasi loke mester pa nos.
E otro disipelnan a rabia ku nan pasobra nan tabata buska preferensia. Boso no ta kere ku nan tabata pensa ku tabata inoportuno pidi esaki, sino pasobra kada un tabatin deseo pa nan mes, ku loke e diesnan tambe a demonstrá nan ambishon. Hesus a probechá e okashon para skual nan tur.
Hopi bia den nos Iglesia nos ta mira ehèmpel di hende ku ke sobresalí riba tur otro.
Ora hende ta mira Iglesia nan ta hasié ku kriterionan únikamente humano, di tal manera saserdotenan ta "destiná", ser "obispu" o "vikario" ta un enkargo masha importante, i no bisa nada mes di ser Papa...
Mare nos por transmití na e rumannan ku sirbishi, spesial na esnan mas débil i den nesesidat di sosiedat, ta e kaminda pa hasi Dios presente den nos mundu. Ora nos haña nos mes dilanti di nos Señor, E lo no puntra nos ni e dògmanan, ni di Beibel, ni e mandamentunan i ni sikiera e sakramentunan, sino kon nos a biba den aktitut di sirbishi i disponibilidat. Ta puntra kon ainda tin kristian únikamente preokupá pa e puresa doktrinal ora en realidat Evangelio ta invitá nos na e puresa di bida i di kurason...
Únikamente un kristian ku por sirbi otro ta esun ku tin amor komo meta den su bida. Outoridat, segun Kristu, ta den sirbi e ruman.
E mihó manera di eksperensiá bida ta di sa ku tur loke un hende a biba ta bal la pena, ku el a hasi kada kos na su momento i ku e no a laga asuntunan pendiente pa un mañan ku lo no yega. Tempu di Dios yama "awor".
E apòstelnan tabata ke privilegio pa futuro. Pober di nos si den presente nos no deskubrí ku dor di duna, segun ehèmpel di Hesus, ta nos mihó rekompensa, nos mihó rekonosementu.

First meeting between Holy See and Lefebvrists to take place October 26

Vatican City, Oct 15, 2009 / (CNA).

Several months after Pope Benedict lifted the excommunications of four Society of St. Pius X bishops, the Director of the Holy See's press office, Father Federico Lombardi, announced today that the first meeting with representatives of the society will take place in Rome on Monday, October 26.

The meeting will be attended by a number of individuals, including Archbishop Guido Pozzo, secretary of the Ecclesia Dei Pontifical Commission; Archbishop Luis Ladaria Ferrer, secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF); Dominican Father Charles Morerod, secretary of the International Theological Commission and consultor with the CDF; Archbishop Fernando Ocariz, Vicar General of Opus Dei and consultor with the CDF; and Jesuit Father Karl Josef Becker, also a CDF consultor.

According to Father Lombardi, the meeting will take place at the Palace of the Holy Office, which is where the CDF is housed. “The conversations will focus on open doctrinal questions and will remain confidential. A statement will be released at the conclusion of the meeting,” Lombardi explained.

After Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunications of the four Lefebvrist bishops, the Vatican Secretary State issued a statement on February 4, 2009, explaining a series of demands that the Lefebvrists must meet including “full recognition of the Second Vatican Council” and of the magisteriums of all the Popes since Pius XII.

On March 10, the Holy See released a letter from Pope Benedict XVI to the bishops of world in which he explained the reasons for lifting the excommunication, noting that “until the doctrinal questions are clarified, the Society has no canonical status in the Church, and its ministers – even though they have been freed of the ecclesiastical penalty – do not legitimately exercise any ministry in the Church.”

Despite this clear warning, the Lefebvrist bishops ordained a group of priests at the end of June, which prompted a statement from the Holy See’s Press Office reiterating what the Pope said in his letter to the world's bishops.

Holy See asks sick to pray for priests, beatification of John Paul II

Vatican City, Oct 13, 2009 / (CNA)

Writing in the context of the Year for Priests, Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, the President of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers, has sent a letter to those who are sick and suffering, asking them to pray for priests and the beatification of Pope John Paul II.

The purpose of the Year is to call the whole Christian community to “rediscover the beauty of the priestly vocation and thus to pray for priests,” the archbishop said, noting that this includes the sick.

Archbishop Zimowski reminded sick people in his October 1 letter that priests play an important role in their lives. “A priest at the bedside of a sick person represents Christ himself, the Divine Physician, who is not indifferent to the fate of those who suffer. Indeed, through the sacraments of the Church, administered by a priest, Jesus Christ offers to a sick person healing through reconciliation and the forgiveness of sins, through anointing with holy oil and lastly in the Eucharist, in the viaticum in which Christ himself becomes, as Giovanni Leonardi used to say, ‘the medicine of immortality’ by which ‘we are comforted, nourished, transformed into God, and participants in the divine nature,” he wrote.

The head of the Council for Health Care Workers also pointed out that the conclusion of the Year for Priests coincides with the 25th anniversary of the founding of Pontifical Council. Pope John Paul II, he recalled, founded the Council on the memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes to demonstrate the Church's care for the sick.

“Because of this providential anniversary,” Archbishop Zimowski wrote, “I am near to each one of you and I invite you, dear sick brothers and sisters, to unceasingly address your prayers and the offering up of your sufferings to the Lord of life for the holiness of your well loved priests, so that they can with devotion and pastoral charity perform the ministry that is entrusted to them by Christ, the physician of bodies and souls.”

During the Year for Priests, he encouraged the faithful who are sick and suffering to “rediscover the beauty of the prayer of the Holy Rosary for the spiritual benefit of priests, in a special way during the month of October.” He also exhorted the sick to participate in Mass and adoration of the Eucharist, “every first Thursday and every first Friday of the month, which are respectively dedicated to devotion to the Eucharist and the Sacred Heart of Jesus.”

“I would like to remind you that in praying for priests one can obtain special indulgences this year,” the archbishop added.

Looking ahead to April 2010, the Polish archbishop asked for their prayers for the pilgrimage of hospital chaplains that is being first in the French towns of Lourdes and Ars to mark the Pontifical Council's anniversary.

Archbishop Zimowski summed up his prayer requests by saying, To you, therefore, dear sick and suffering brothers and sisters, I entrust the Church which needs your prayers and sufferings, the person of the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI, and all the bishops and priests in the world, who strive every day for your sanctification. I ask from you a special prayer for priests who are sick and afflicted in their bodies who every day experience, like you, the weight of pain, together with the force of saving grace which comforts and heals the soul.”

The Polish prelate also urged the sick to pray for “the beatification and canonization of the Servant of God John Paul II” recommending that they offer a prayer for the needs of the Church, authored by the late Pontiff.

Benedict XVI: Jesus calls us to the total gift of our lives.

Holy Father canonizes five new saints

Vatican City, Oct 11, 2009 / (CNA).

Today, Pope Benedict XVI canonized five new saints in St. Peter’s Basilica, including Fr. Damian of Molokai. During his homily, the Holy Father noted that all of the saints followed the invitation of Christ: "Come, follow me!"

Speaking to the faithful packed in St. Peter’s Basilica this morning, the Pope described the invitation of Christ saying that he "invites his disciples to the total gift of their lives, without calculation and human self-interest, with a wholehearted faith in God."

This call, the Holy Father continued, is welcome by the saints who "place themselves in humble obedience" to follow the Lord.

They no longer focus on themselves, the Pope explained, but by their "logic of faith," they choose "to go against the trends of the time living according to the Gospel."

Benedict XVI then gave a brief description of each of the five newly-canonized saints: a bishop, a Trappist brother, two priests and a nun.

Archbishop Zygmunt Szczesny Feliński of Warsaw, founder of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary, was committed to evangelization and support for the poor, defending the oppressed during the Russian occupation of Poland, and was sentenced to 20 years in exile in Jaroslaw on the Volga. "His gift of himself to God and man," the Holy Father said in Polish, was "full of confidence and love," and "becomes a shining example for the entire Church."

To those younger generations today who "are not satisfied with what they have," the Pontiff gave the example of Rafael Arnaiz Baron, who came from a wealthy family and was a bit "of a dreamer." He died when he was 27 years old, a Cistercian oblate, considered one of the greatest mystics of the twentieth century.

The Pontiff next spoke of Dominican Father Francisco Coll y Guitard, founder of the Congregation of Dominican Sisters of the Annunciation Blessed Virgin Mary. Through his preaching, the saint spread his love of the Word of God and the Sacrament of Reconciliation among people especially the young.

Father Damian, the famous apostle of lepers, at 23 years of age left Flanders, Belgium to go on a mission to modern day Hawaii. "Not without fear and loathing," Pope Benedict underlined, "Father Damian made the choice to go on the island of Molokai in the service of lepers who were there, abandoned by all. So he exposed himself to the disease of which they suffered. With them he felt at home. The servant of the Word became a suffering servant, leper with the lepers, during the last four years of his life."

He continued, "To follow Christ, Father Damian not only left his homeland, but has also staked his health so he, as the word of Jesus announced in today's Gospel tells us, received eternal life."

The figure of Father Damian, Benedict XVI added, "teaches us to choose the good fight not those that lead to division, but those that gather us together in unity."

And finally, the Pope spoke of St. Mary of the Cross, of the Little Sisters of the Poor, and her "wonderful work to help the most vulnerable elderly." He noted that her initiatives and goals are "still valid today, given that many elderly people suffer from multiple poverty and loneliness, sometimes even being abandoned by their families."

The Pope concluded by inviting all present "to allow themselves to be attracted by the shining example of these saints, to be guided by their teachings so that our entire life becomes a hymn of praise to God's love."

Congolese hostage situation forces bishop to leave synod in Rome

Vatican City, Oct 10, 2009 / (CNA).

A Congolese bishop participating in the Synod for Africa in Rome has had to return home after several of his priests were taken hostage in an attack on a church in his archdiocese.

Archbishop of Bukavu François Xavier Rusengo told the Synod he had to return to the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo because last Friday uniformed men burnt down one of his parishes, attacked priests and took others hostage.

The archdiocese had to pay a huge ransom for the hostages’ release, the Catholic Information Service for Africa (CISA) reports.

“Through these acts, it is the Church, remaining the only support for a terrorized, humiliated, exploited and dominated people who they would reduce to silence. Lord, may your will be done, may your kingdom of peace arrive,” Archbishop Rusengo said on Tuesday.

The synod issued a statement of solidarity with the archbishop and the Christians of Bukavu. The statement expressed hope that “reconciliation and the Good News of the Gospel” may be welcomed as the path to achieve conditions of human life founded on justice and reinforced by peace, “a gift from God.”

According to CISA, the synod also called on the Congolese government to do everything possible to restore a just order and to guarantee the peace necessary for a normal life.

DI BINTIOCHO DJADUMINGU SIKLO B

Promé Lektura : Sabiduria 7, 7-11
Salmo : Salmo 90, 12-17
Di dos Lektura : Hebreonan 4, 12-13
Evangelio : Marko 10, 17-30


E esena di e hòmber riku ku nos a skucha awe a laga nos, sin duda, ku un sentimentu di duele. Tabata un enkuentro kasi kasual, esun di e hòmber ku a kore bai kontra Kristu pa puntr’é: "Maestro, kiko mi mester hasi pa mi haña bida eterno?” Na promé momento, nos ta sinti nos mes konmoví pa e pregunta aki. Sinseridat i generosidat di e hòmber ei bon i honrado ta impreshoná nos den forma grato. Kristu ta kontest’é ku pa alkansá bida eterno mester kumpli ku mandamentunan di Dios, i E ta menshoná nan. E hòmber ta kontesta ku semper for di su hubentut ela tené su mes na nan. E ora ei Kristu ta mir’é ku amor i ta bis’é: "Un kos so bo falta. Bai i bende loke bo tin i duna hende pober e plaka i lo bo tin tesoro den shelu. Despues bin i sigui Mi". Pero ora e hòmber a tende e palabranan aki ela bira tristu i a kana bai, pasobra e tabatin hopi rikesa. Loke a kuminsá siendo un esena felis, a konkluí ku un final tristu. Di e hòmber riku ei evangelio no a ni sikiera a warda e nòmber. Tabata un vokashon frakasá, un potensial santu, un ehèmpel ku awe nos lo a proklamá, si su reakshon riba e invitashon di Señor tabata otro.

Pa ser kristian no ta sufisiente pa ta bon, honrado, den sentido di kumpli ku mandamentunan di Dios. Tin un dimenshon nobo, ku mester preokupá nos i ta e generosidat di e kurason na kua Kristu ta yama nos. Evangelio ta un vokashon eksigente ku no ta kumpli únikamente ku atené na mandamentu. Kristianismo ta poseé un dimenshon sosial, hopi bia ignorá, ora nos limitá nos mes na un simpel pietismo, fe komprondé komo simpel práktika di e debernan religioso. Awe nos mester puntra nos mes ku tur sinseridat: kon mi a yega na e bienesnan ku mi ta poseé i ki uso mi ta duna nan? Inhustisia di plaka ta sintá hopi biaha tantu den orígen komo den fin ku nos ta dun'é.

Despues di e esena e hòmber riku ku a alehá su mes tur tristu, Kristu ta pronunsiá un di e frasenan mas fuerte di e evangelio: "Ki difísil ta pa esnan ku tin rikesa drenta den e Reino di Dios". No tin resentimentu den e palabranan aki. Ni tampoko nan ta un yamada insensato pa un lucha di klase, sino un atvertensia serio pa duna rikesa su berdadero dimenshon sosial i kristian. Di akuerdo ku pensamentu di Kristu, na unda malisia esensial di plaka ta sinta? Dikon "ta mas fásil pa un kamel pasa dor di wowo di un angua ku pa un riku drenta den Reino di Dios"? Peliger di plaka ta ku fásilmente e ta hasi kurason di hende egoista, e ta hasié insensibel pa doló di otro, e ta hasi ku no ta preokupá mas pa suerte di otro, e ta priva hende di sentido di hustisia. Plaka ademas ta profundamente malu si a yega n’e a kosto di doló di e próhimo òf si e ta fruta di inhustisia òf eksplotashon. Si ami ta gosa di komodidat, si mi tin un bon kuenta di banko, pero si e ta a kosto di a paga insufisiente salario, mi no tin ningun derecho riba uso di e bienesnan ei. Den e kaso aki, ya no ta kestion di perfekshon, sino di hustisia pa duna bèk loke no ta pertenesé na mi. Pero, ken ta kapas di rekonosé ku nan rikesa ta fruta di un piká sosial? Mashá poko ta esnan ku tin e kurashi pa rekonosé esaki i pa aktua konforme tal konvikshon. Reakshon normal di e riku dilanti e palabranan aki di Kristu ta di ignorá nan, talbes sinti su mes tristu i den hopi kaso, di tilda esun ku ta proklamá e doktrina di Kristu relashoná ku rikesa komo ekstremista.

Rumannan, e hòmber riku a alehá su mes ku tristesa for di Kristu pasobra e tabata biba mashá mará na su rikesa. E no tabata mal hende, e tabata tené su mes na e mandamentunan, e tabata ke poseé Reino di Dios, pero e tabata katibu di su plaka. Kristu ke pa nos ta liber, pa nos sa di kompartí i duna, no pegá na bienesnan ku ta pasa. Awe, ku tur sinseridat di nos kurason, laga nos hasi nos mes e pregunta aki: Ami ta biba e disposishon interior aki di generosidat, di renunsia.... mi por kompartí mi poseshonnan ku otro. Laga nos siña biba manera e promé kristiannan, a lo ménos den spiritu, ku nan no tabata konsiderá nada komo kos propio, sino ku nan tabata poseé tur kos den komun. Solamente asina, siendo liber di paden, nos lo ta riba kaminda di e Reino di Dios i nos lo logra e berdadero pas di kurason.