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21 September 2016

_"..Aku datang bukan memanggil orang benar, malainkan orang berdosa"_
(Mat 9:13)

Lectio
Ef 4:1-7, 11-13; Mzm 19:2-3,4-5; Mat 9:9-13.

Suatu malam Bruder Petrus sedang menunggu bus di halte. Lalu seorang pemuda datang. Setelah melihat sekilas Bruder merasa anak muda ini sedang mabok. Kemudian anak itu yang bernama Yansen berkata :
"Mas, mengapa dunia ini kejam?"

Bruder menjawab :
"Mengapa kejam Mas?"

Yansen menjawab :
"Mengapa saya hidup miskin?
Semakin mencari uang, semakin saya masuk dalam gelapnya dosa.
Saya mau minta tolong kepada siapa lagi?"

Bruder pun menjawab :
"Apakah kamu pernah minta tolong pada Tuhan?"

Yansen kaget dengan jawaban Bruder, lalu melanjutkan :
"Apakah saya layak?
Karena hidupku sudah kotor?"

Dengan semangat Bruder menjawab :
"Justru Tuhan datang untuk kita orang berdosa.
Pulanglah kepada-Nya.
Mohon ampun dan hiduplah dengan damai.
Uang hanya bisa membuat kamu hidup, tetapi kamu perlu mencari yang bisa memberikan kehidupan."

Maka dengan semangat Yansen berkata :
"Kok saya begitu bersemangat. Perkataan Mas benar sekali.
Saya akan bertobat dan kembali kepada-Nya supaya bisa mendapatkan kehidupan."

Yesus berkata :
"Aku datang bukan memanggil orang benar, melainkan orang berdosa."

Setiap kita orang berdosa, dipanggil oleh Tuhan untuk bertobat.

Oratio
Ya Tuhanku dan Allahku. Amin.

Missio
_Marilah kita melakukan karya kerahiman dengan setia mendengar panggilan Tuhan dengan pertobatan._

*Have a Blessed Wednesday.*

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St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist.
Wednesday 21st September.
Matthew 9:9-13.

As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, "Follow me."

And he rose and followed him...

And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

  But when he heard it, he said, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.' For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."

Thank you, Matthew, for your story; because it is you who writes your own story. Thank you, because you were a sinner and became an Apostle. And that is very encouraging for me because I'm a sinner and have to become an Apostle.

Thank you, Matthew, because you were a publican who was lining his pockets with the money of the Jews, but when Jesus called you, you were ready to leave everything and follow Him.

Thank you, Matthew, because you could have stayed where you were thinking that it was crazy to leave your job, your money, your plans and your future... but you were brave enough to follow Jesus instead. And I give thanks with you to Jesus because He knew you well and was aware of the great things that you could do. While on that day some of the Jews looked at you with disdain, that Jew, Jesus of Nazareth, passed by your tax office and smiled at you. He stood there, gazing at you with affection, a loving look, the like of which a publican in Palestine had probably never experienced.
And you couldn't look anywhere else.
That loving face of Jesus was inviting you to do something special with your life.

You weren't happy and Jesus offered you Happiness.
  You were wasting your life and Jesus invited you to do something great with it.
  You only loved your money but Jesus helped you to expand your heart to love God and others more than yourself.
  Your talents were wasted in that tax office and millions of souls were waiting for you.

Thank you, Matthew, because you said 'yes' to Jesus.

Mary, Queen of the Apostles, help me to have the courage to say 'yes' to Him as well, and become a saint, like you, like St Matthew.

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Commentary of the day :

Saint Irenaeus of Lyons (c.130-c.208), Bishop, theologian and martyr
Against the heresies, III, 11,8 ; 9,1

One of the first historical testimonies to the evangelists

The apostles, those who all as one and each in particular possessed the Good News of God, went to the ends of the earth proclaiming the news of all the blessings God sends us and announcing heaven's peace towards men (Lk 2,14).

Specifically, Matthew produced a written form of the gospel for the Hebrews in their own language , while Peter and Paul evangelised Rome and founded the Church there.

After their deaths, Mark, who was Peter's disciple and interpreter (1Pt 5,13), also handed down Peter's preaching to us in writing. Likewise Luke, Paul's companion, set downin a book the gospel preached by the latter. And then John, the disciple of the Lord, the one who leaned back on his breast (Jn 13,25), also published the gospel during his stay at Ephesus.

In his gospel Matthew relates the genealogy of Christ as man:
"The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham: now this is how the birth of Christ came about" (Mt 1,1... 18).

  Thus this gospel presents Christ in human form, which is why it always represents Christ as being moved by sentiments of humility and remaining a man of gentleness...

  The apostle Matthew knows none but one and the same God who promised Abraham that he would multiply his descendants like the stars in the sky (Gen 15,5) and who, through his Son, Jesus Christ, has called us from the worship of stones to knowledge of him (Mt 3,9) in such a way that "those who were no people have become his people, and she who was unloved has become beloved" (cf. Hos 2,25; Rom 9,25).

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Tips of the day: day 1471.

Pengalaman yang menyenangkan tidak selalu sempurna dan lengkap
- pengalaman yang menyedihkan tidak pernah tanpa ada nilainya.

Dalam pengalaman yang menyedihkan kita perlu mencari kasih karunia Allah dan
  dalam pengalaman yang membahagiakan kita perlu bersyukur dengan tulus.

Jadi kesusahan perlu ditransformasi sedangkan sukacita patut disyukuri.

Berharaplah kepada Allah agar dapat menyambut hal-hal baik dengan sederhana dan menyambut hal-hal yang sulit dengan keteguhan hati.

Sukacita punya banyak kecemasan - kesedihan memiliki manisnya juga. "Sebagaimana engkau tidak mengetahui jalan angin dan tulang-tulang dalam rahim seorang perempuan yang mengandung, demikian juga engkau tidak mengetahui pekerjaan Allah yang melakukan segala sesuatu."
(Pengkhotbah 11:5).

Selamat pagi sahabat, have a blessed day!

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