RenHar. *SALAM MARIA* 21 Desember 2016 . PERSAHABATAN meningkatkan kebahagiaan.

PERSAHABATAN
  meningkatkan kebahagiaan dan
   mengurangi penderitaan,
    dengan cara
     melipatgandakan sukacita dan
      berbagi kesedihan.

*Marcus Tullius Cicero*

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⭕Mutiara Iman

*SALAM MARIA*

21 Desember 2016

_"Diberkatilah engkau di antara semua perempuan dan diberkatilah buah rahimmu"_
(Luk 1:42)

Lectio
Kid 2 8-14 atay Zef 3:14-18a; Mzm 33:2-3,11-12,20-21; Luk 1:39-45.

Selanjutnya Sony bertanya lagi kepada teman-teman KPKS nya :
"Apakah yang akan teman-teman lakukan ketika mau merayakan Natal?"

 
Tresia menjawab :
"Mengaku dosa agar lebih siap ketika merayakan Natal." 

Andaka menjawab :
"Menyiapkan kado natal untuk diberikan kepada saudara-saudari kita yang kurang mampu." 

Hanny menjawab :
"Kalau kami sekeluarga mendekorasi rumah dengan hiasan Natal." 

Basuki menjawab :
"Kami selalu mengunjungi saudara-saudari kami dengan membawa kabar gembira entah bercerita tentang orangtua, anak-anak, dsb."

Elizabet yang penuh dengan Roh Kudus berseru dengan suara nyaring :
"..Siapakah aku ini sampai ibu Tuhanku datang mengunjungi aku?"

Kabar baik adalah mengunjungi saudara untuk saling mendoakan dan memberikan sukacita.

Oratio
Salam Maria 

 Tuhan sertamu,

  terpujilah engkau di antara wanita dan terpujilah buah tubuhmu Yesus....

Amin.

Missio
_Marilah kita mengunjungi saudara kita untuk memberitakan Kabar Baik dan Kabar sukacita._

*Have a Blessed Wednesday.*

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Wednesday, 21st DECEMBER
St Peter Canisius, Priest and Doctor of the Church
Luke 1:39-45.

Elizabeth exclaimed with a loud cry, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 

And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 

For behold, when the voice of your greeting came to my ears, the babe in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfilment of what was spoken to her from the Lord."

"Blessed is she who believed." 

Mary had prophesied that many would call her blessed, and so it is. For centuries, millions of times a day, from all over the world, in all languages, people call her blessed. How did she attract those blessings? 

The last blessing of Elizabeth in today's Gospel explains it: "Blessed is she who believed". 

Yes, Our Lady believed. 

She believed the Prophets, she believe her ancestors, she believed the Angel, but most of all, she believed God. The Incarnation happened because she believed. As a good daughter, she is blessed because she trusted her Father.

In the 1800s, an acrobat named Blondin became famous for crossing Niagara Falls on a tightrope. 

One day a crowd gathered at the falls to see his most dangerous attempt yet. 

He planned to push an empty wheelbarrow across the tightrope. 

The slightest miscalculation could send him plunging to his death in the raging waters 160 feet below. 

Thousands watched breathlessly as he made his way to the other side, oblivious to the roar of the waters. The throng broke into cheers when his feet were firmly planted back on solid ground. 

He then challenged a reporter: 'Do you believe I can do anything on a tightrope?'

 -'Oh yes, Mr Blondin' replied the reporter enthusiastically. 

'Do you believe', continued the acrobat, 'that I can do it with a full wheelbarrow?' 

-'Sure you can!' answered the man with conviction, wanting to see it. 

'In that case', said Blondin, 'get into the wheelbarrow!'

Those who have faith, who trust God, have to prove it with deeds, as Mary did. Blessed are you, Mother, for you believed; blessed because you trusted God and got into the wheelbarrow. And I feel blessed also for being your child; I ask you to intercede for me that I may grow in faith.

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