Tiga RenHar. Selasa. 26 Juli 2016.

CINTAI orang tua anda dan perlakukan mereka dengan penuh kasih sayang karena anda hanya akan mengetahui nilai mereka ketika anda melihat kursi mereka yang kosong.

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*⭕Mutiara Iman*

MELIHAT DAN MENDENGAR

26 Juli 2016

_"Tetapi berbahagialah matamu karena melihat dan telingamu karena mendengar"_
(Mat 13:16)

Lectio
Sir 44:1,10-15; Mzm 132:11, 13-14, 17-18; Mat 13:16-17

Di suatu pertemuan wilayah, sang ketua mengajak umat untuk jalan pagi bersama sambil berolahraga. Keesokan paginya mereka pun berkumpul dan berjalan bersama, melewati suatu daerah yang sedikit kumuh yang padat dengan penduduk, termasuk wanita dan anak-anak kecil. Ketika melihat umat wilayah berjalan pagi, mereka memberikan senyum ramah.

Setelah kembali ke rumah, Sony salah satu umat berkata kepada Beny Ketua Wilayah :
"Pak Ben, saya melihat banyak orang yang bisa kita bantu. Bagaimana kalau kita membuat nasi bungkus dan membagikannya pada mereka setiap pagi?"

Lalu terdiamlah Beny dan berkata :
"Kamu bisa melihat sesuatu yang tidak kami lihat, sehingga bisa menggerakkan hati untuk menolong sesama. Saya salut!"

Yesus berkata kepada murid-murid-Nya :
"Tetapi berbahagialah matamu karena melihat dan telingamu karena mendengar."

Ketika kita melihat dan mendengar, kita akan mampu melakukan kasih.

Oratio
Ya Tuhan, tambahkanlah iman kami. Amin

Missio
_Marilah kita melakukan karya kerahiman dengan melihat sesama dengan mata hati dan mendengar sesama dengan telinga hati._

*Have a Blessed Tuesday.*

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Saints Joachim and Anne, Parents of Our Lady.
Matthew 13:36-43.

Tuesday 26th July.


His disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the  field."

He answered, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world, and the good seed means the sons of the kingdom; the weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sowed them is the devil."
Our Lord was explaining the parable of the weeds.
(You'll  find it in the commentary of last Saturday's Gospel, alternative to the feast of St Bridget).

A man had sown good seed, but whilst he was sleeping "his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat."
So when the plants sprouted, the weeds appeared also.

In our world today the weeds live with the wheat as well, the good with the evil, and Our Lord wants it to be so.

Why?

For just one single reason: for our own good.
We benefit from that struggle against evil. We may not understand it; but that's because we are not God.

A child was raising silkworms. When the butterflies started to break out of their cocoons and start  flying, he saw that one of them was struggling for a long time to open the cocoon.

It struggled for more than a day until he decided to help it. And with his fingers, he opened the cocoon and released the butterfly.

The result was that the butterfly could never  fly because it didn't have to  fight like the others to open the cocoon.

That struggle would have given strength to its wings in order to fly.

But if you take away the fight ...
you take away the capacity to fly.

All saints have encountered difficulties but it was only when they faced them and fought hard that they became the saints that we know.

Saints, like heroes, can't be such unless they experience difficulties.

In the fire of tribulation saints were forged. Diocletian's and Nero's persecutions produced thousands of martyrs.

The wars and persecutions of the 20th century have provided more martyrs than all the previous 20 centuries put together.

Holiness has always blossomed amongst difficulties and persecutions...

why should it be different for you and me?

But we haven't been left alone.
God is with us.

Mary, my Mother, Help of Christians, help me to grow in holiness in the middle of the difficulties that your Son has allowed me to undergo.

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Tips of the day:
day 1422 .

Setiap agama dan kepercayaan tidak bisa lepas dari doa.

Ada yang memberikan sesaji.
Ada yang membakar dupa.
Ada yang sembayang lima waktu, dll.
Doa merupakan bahasa universal yang dilakukan manusia untuk 'mencuri' perhatian Tuhan.

Ada sebuah kesadaran bahwa kita membutuhkan pertolongan dari kuasa Yang Diatas.

Ketika kita menepis tangan Tuhan dan tidak menggunakan hak kita sebagai anak untuk datang meminta pertolongan kepada Bapa di surga, kita sebenarnya sudah meremehkan Tuhan.
Kita punya Tuhan yang kaya dengan berkat, tapi pada saat yang sama kita miskin mukjizat.

"Pada tahun ketiga puluh sembilan pemerintahannya Asa menderita sakit pada kakinya yang kemudian menjadi semakin parah. Namun dalam kesakitannya itu ia tidak mencari pertolongan TUHAN, tetapi pertolongan tabib-tabib."
(2 Tawarikh 16:12).

Selamat pagi sahabat,
have a blessed day!