Monday, August 10, 2009

Señor ta bon bin purba i mira.

Señor ki grandi Bo sabidoria ta. Bo krea mundu i tur kos ku tin den dje. Bo a plania delaster un detaye pa asina hende por tin un bida felis. Señor Bo a bendishoná mi ku un famia pa mi siña e balornan di bida. Bo a bendishoná mi ku maestro nan ku ta entrega hopi di nan tempu pa logra siña mi lo nesesario pa un mihó futuro. Bo a bendishoná mi ku un pastor ku ta guia mi spiritualmente pa kada dia konosé bo bondat mas. Señor mi sa ku bo no ta nenga bo yu nan loke ta bon pa nan. P’esei Señor mi ta pidi bo yena mi ku bo sabidoria pa mi por pasa mi estudionan ku éksito. Laga bo Spiritu Santu yena mi ku Bo donnan pa mi por tin un bon balanse entre mi bida intelektual i mi bida spiritual. Señor mi ta pidi bo esaki pa ku konvikshon mi por bisa tur kaminda ku Abo Señor ta bon. I asina mi por invitá otro nan pa nan tambe bin purba i mira bo bondat i amor. Amèn

Saturday, August 1, 2009

The Will of God

I always recall that wonderful phrase of St. Paul, "This is the will of God, your sanctification."...It does not only mean that it is God's Will we should be holy, but that our holiness will be the doing of His Will. God's Will is shown to us in many ways. We are born into this world, and the Will of God is around us - even before our birth. We are born surrounded by the Will of God and that Will now is going to be our sanctification. God's Will is manifested to us even by what we are ourselves. We are not angels. Had we been angels, our eternity would have been settled by one act. We are human beings with that strange wedlock between body and soul. That is the Will of God. Our very body is the Will of God, and our sanctification depends on our accepting the Will of God with regard to our body and our soul. Do not think, dear children in Jesus Christ, do not think that it is always easy to do the Will of God.
(Vincent McNabb)

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Faith

Faith is a man's response to God, who reveals Himself and gives Himself to man, at the same time He brings man a superabundant light as he searches for the ultimate meaning of his life.This implicates the search of man for the meaning of his life, the revelation of God to man and finally the response of man to God which I will explain further.

The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God, and God never ceases to draw man to himself. Throughout history, men have given expression to their quest for God in their religious beliefs and behavior such as prayer, meditations, rituals, sacrifices, etc. But this intimate and vital bond of man to God can be forgotten, overlooked or even rejected by man for different causes. Although man can forget God or reject Him, He never ceases to call every man to seek Him, so he can find life and happiness in Him.
Created in God's image and called to know and love Him, the person who seeks God discovers certain ways of coming to know Him. These ways of getting to know God can be by looking at His creation or His works

But there is another order of knowledge. God has revealed himself and given himself through a free decision. He reveals the mystery, his plans by sending his beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. God has been revealing himself to man throughout history. He manifested Himself to our first parents, spoke to them and after the first fall, He promised them salvation (Gen 3:15) and offered them his covenant. God made an everlasting covenant with Noah and with all his living beings( Gen 9:9-16) God chose Abaraham and made a covenant with him and his descendants. By the covenant God formed his people, Isreal, and revealed his law through Moses. Through the prophets, he prepared them to accept the salvation destined for everyone. Finally, God fully revealed Himself by sending his own Son, Jesus Christ, in whom he established his covenant for ever. The Son is the Father's definitive Word, there are no further Revelation after him.

God desires "all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth" (1 Tim 2:4) : that is of Jesus Christ( Jn 14:6). In keeping with the Lord's command, the Gospel has been handed on in two ways:orally and writing. Thus, the apostles handed on what Christ entrusted to them by their preaching and writing, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, to all generations, until Christ returns in Glory.

Thus, man responds to God because of God's revelation and by faith. The latter is when man completely submits his intellect and his will to God. The man gives his acceptance to God, the revealer. The Bible call this human response to God, "the obedience of faith" ( Rom 1:5, Rom 16:26)

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

"Ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers" (Matthew 9:38)

One day I was pondering over what I could do to save souls; a phrase from the Gospel showed me a clear light: Jesus said to his disciples, pointing to the fields of ripe corn, «Look up and see the fields ripe for harvest» (Jn 4,35) and a little later, "The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers".(Mtw 9:37-38) How mysterious it is! Is not Jesus all-powerful? Do not creatures belong to Him who made them? Why then does Jesus say: "Pray the master of the harvest to send out laborers ... "? Why? ...
Ah! Jesus has so incomprehensible a love for us, that He wants us to have a share with Him in the salvation of souls. He wants to do nothing without us. The creator of the universe waits for the prayer of a poor little soul to save other souls redeemed like itself at the price of all His blood.
Our vocation, yours and mine, is not to go harvesting in the fields of ripe corn; Jesus does not say to us; "Lower your eyes, look at the fields, and go and reap them"; our mission is still loftier. Here are Jesus' words: "Lift up your eyes and see .... " See how in my Heaven there are places empty; it is for you to fill them ... each one of you is my Moses praying on the mountain (Ex 17,8f.); ask Me for laborers and I shall send them, I await only a prayer, a sigh from your heart!
Taken from Letter 135 of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus (1873-1897)

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Friday, July 3, 2009

E Pastor Amabel

Si e pastor ta sakrifiká su mes, e ta bira un sakrifisio pa nos.

Si e pastor ta saka tempu pa tur, e ta tuma muchu tempu di nos.

Si e pastor ta ofresé su mes, e no ta duna nos un chèns.

Si e pastor ta kompartí su mes, e ta papia di su mes muchu.

Si e pastor ta lesa hopi, e no tin tempu pa hende.

Si e pastor no ta lesa, e no ta altanto.

Si e pastor ta duna di su mes, e ta muchu personal.

Si e pastor ta soda hopi, e mester a bebe ayera.

Si e pastor ta kompartí bèrdat, e ta muchu dirèkt.

Si e pastor ta pone muchu tempu na algu e ta lubidá riba otro kos.

Si e pastor puntra algu e ke sa muchu kos.

Si e pastor ta amabel ku mucha e ta un pedifil.

Si e pastor ta papia ku hende hòmber e ta gay.

Si e pastor invitá hende muhé e ta peligroso.

Si e pastor duna hende grandi kabes di boto e ta probechadó.

Awor si e pastor no tei mas, kiko abo ta hasi?

Thursday, June 25, 2009