Rembrandt van Rinj, 1631, Apotoro Pita Te Tuturi
Tuhinga o mua. BRUNO
ABOUT Tekau ma toru nga tau ki muri, ko taku wahine me au, te hunga Katorika-Katorika, i karangahia ki tetahi whare karakia o nga Kaiiriiri a tetahi hoa o matou he Katorika i mua.
I uru maua ki te karakia o te Ratapu i te ata. Ka tae atu, ka patua tonutia matou e te takirua taiohi. I maranga wawe mai ki a maatau pehea torutoru nga taangata o reira i hoki mai ano ki ta taatau ake pariha Katorika.
I tomo mātou ki te wāhi tapu hou, ā, ka noho ki ō mātou nohoanga. I tīmata te tira waiata ki te ārahi i te whakaminenga ki te karakia. He rite te pakeke o ngā kaiwaiata me ngā kaiwaiata ki a mātou—ā, he tino ātaahua. He mea whakawahi te waiata, ā, he mea whakahihiko te karakia. I muri tata mai, ka tukuna e te minita tana karere me te ngākau nui, te whaikōrero, me te mana.
I muri i te karakia, i whakamōhiotia māua ko taku wahine ki te tini o ngā tāne me ngā wāhine i reira. Nā ngā kanohi ataata, māhana hoki mātou i karanga kia hoki mai, ehara i te mea ki te karakia anake, engari ki te pō whakanui me te karakia a te tāne me te wahine taitamariki, me tētahi atu huihuinga whakamoemiti me te karakia ā-wiki. I rongo māua i te aroha, i te manaakitanga, i te manaakitanga hoki.
I tō mātou taenga ki te motuka hei wehe atu, ko taku ake pariha anake i whakaaro ahau… he ngoikore te puoro, he ngoikore ngā kauwhau, ā, he ngoikore rawa te whai wāhi mai a te hunga whakapono. He rite te pakeke o ngā tāne me ngā wāhine taitamariki ki tō mātou tau? Tata kore rawa i roto i ngā nohoanga. Ko te mea tino mamae ko te mokemoke. He maha ngā wā i mahue atu ai ahau i te Mīsa, he makariri ake i taku haerenga ki roto.
I a māua e haere atu ana, ka mea atu ahau ki taku wahine, "Me hoki mai tāua ki konei. Ka taea e tāua te tango i te Eucharist i te Mīsa o ia rā i te Mane." He takaro noa iho taku. I peia māua ki te kāinga me te pōhēhē, te pouri, me te riri anō hoki.
HE WAIATA
I taua pō, i a au e parai ana i ōku niho i roto i te wharepaku, kāore anō kia ara ake, e mānumanu ana hoki mō ngā mahi o te rā, ka rongo ahau i tētahi reo motuhake i roto i tōku ngākau:
E noho, kia noho marama ki o tuakana, ...
Ka tu, ka titiro, ka whakarongo. Ka tuaruatia te reo:
E noho, kia noho marama ki o tuakana, ...
I miharo ahau. Te hikoi ki raro nei he ahua wahangu, ka kitea e au taku wahine. "E te honi, ki taku titiro kei te hiahia te Atua kia noho tatou ki te Haahi Katorika." I korerotia e ahau ki a ia te mea i tupu, a he rite ki te kotahitanga tino pai mo te rangi o taku ngakau, i whakaae ia.
TE OHO AKE
Engari me mahi tonu te Atua ki ahau. I pouri ahau ki te āhua kino o te Hāhi. Nā te mea i tipu ake ahau i roto i tētahi kāinga i whakamahia ai te kupu "whakapuaki rongopai", i tino mōhio ahau ki te raruraru o te whakapono e koropupū ana i raro i te mata o te Hāhi i Kanata. I tua atu, i tīmata ahau ki te pātai i taku whakapono Katorika… a Meri, te wāhi whakawātea, te pirihi takakau…. e mōhio ana koe, te mea noa.
I muri i ētahi wiki, ka haere mātou ki te kāinga o ōku mātua, he torutoru hāora te tawhiti. I kī mai a Māmā he ataata tāna, me mātaki noa ahau. I noho ko au anake i roto i te rūma noho, ā, ka tīmata te whakarongo ki tētahi minita Perehipitiriana o mua e kōrero ana ki āna... kōrero mō te āhua o tōna whakaaro ko ia te tangata whakaaro nui rawa atu ki te whakahē i te Katorika. Nā tōna riri nui ki ngā kereme a te Katorika, ka whakatau ia ki te whakamārama he hē ā rātou kereme i roto i te hītori me te whakapono. Nā te mea ko te Hāhi Katorika anake te whakapono Karaitiana i whakaako i tērā mana whanautanga kāore i roto i te mahere a te Atua, nō reira he tikanga hē, ka whakaaturia e ia he hē rātou.
Mā te ako matatau i ngā tautohe a te Matua o te Hāhi, ngā whakapono whakapono, me ngā whakaakoranga a te Hāhi, Takuta Scott Hahn i kitea ko te Hāhi Katorika matau. Heoi, kāore tēnei i tahuri i a ia. Nāna anō i nui ake ai tōna riri.
I a Tākuta Hahn e ngana ana ki te wetewete i ia o ngā whakaakoranga o te Hāhi, ka kitea e ia tētahi ia āhuatanga whakamiharo: kāore i taea te whai i ia o ēnei whakaakoranga puta noa i ngā rautau i roto i tētahi mekameka pumau o te Tikanga Tuku Iho ki a te Karaiti me ngā Apotoro, engari he pūtake Paipera whakamiharo anō hoki mō aua whakaakoranga.
tona whakaaturanga tonu. Kāore i taea e ia te whakakahore i te pono i mua i a ia: Ko te Hāhi Katorika te hāhi i whakatūria e te Karaiti i runga i a Pita, te toka. Ahakoa te hiahia o tana wahine, ka huri a Tākuta Hahn hei Katorika, ā, i muri mai ka whai mai tana hoa rangatira, a Kimberly… kātahi ka ngā mano tini o ngā Karaitiana nō ngā hāhi maha, tae atu ki te hinganga nui o ngā minita Porotetana. Ko tana whakaaturanga anake pea te take i nui rawa atu ai te hekenga ki roto i te Hāhi mai i te tau 1500 i te wā i tahuri ai te neke atu i te 9 miriona tāngata Mekihana i te putanga mai o te Wahine Tapu o Guadalupe. (He tārua kore utu o ngā whakaaturanga a Tākuta Hahn e tukuna ana ki konei.)
Kua mutu te ataata. He mea e rere ana i runga i te mata. He roimata e heke ana i ōku paparinga.Ko tōku kāinga tēnei,"I mea ahau ki a au anō. Me te mea nei kua whakaarahia e te Wairua i roto i ahau te mahara o ngā tau e rua mano.
TE KIMI I TE PONO
I akiakihia ahau e tetahi mea i roto i ahau kia keri hohonu. Mō ngā tau e rua i muri mai, i ringihia e au ngā Karaipiture, ngā tuhinga a ngā Matua o te Hāhi, me ngā rauemi nunui i puta ake i roto i tētahi kaupapa "whakapono ā-waha" hou. I hiahia ahau ki te kite, ki te pānui, me te mōhio ki ahau anō he aha te pono.
E maumahara ana ahau i tētahi rā i ahau e piko ana ki te Paipera, ā, ka memeha haere te mamae o te upoko i ahau e ngana ana ki te mārama ki te tūranga o Meri i roto i te Hāhi.He aha te mea mō Meri?"E te Ariki? He aha ia i tino rongonui ai?"
I taua wā tonu, ka pāoro te pere o te tatau i taku whanaunga. Ka pātai mai a Paul, he teina ake i ahau, me pēhea taku noho. I a au e whakamārama ana i taku raruraru o roto, ka noho mārire ia ki runga i te tūru, ka mea mai, "Kāore i te mea whakamiharo kāore tātou e hiahia ki te whakaaroaro i ngā mea katoa—ka taea e tātou whakawhirinaki a Ihu kei te ārahi ia i ngā Apotoro me ō rātou uri ki te pono katoa, pērā i tāna i kī ai.” (John 16: 13)
He wā tino kaha, he whakamārama. I reira tonu ka mōhio ahau ahakoa kāore au i te mārama ki ngā mea katoa, I haumaru ahau i roto i ngā ringa o te Hāhi MatuaI kite ahau mēnā ka waiho te pono mā te katoa e whakaaro i runga i ōna ake "kare", i runga i ōna "whakaaro", i āna rānei e rongo ana i "te Atua e kōrero ana" ki a ia, ka pā mai he raruraru. Ka pā mai he wehewehenga. Ka mano ngā hāhi me ngā mano "pōpa", e kī ana rātou katoa he kore he., e whakaū ana i a tātou ratou kia whai kokonga ki te ponoKa riro i a tātou ngā mea kei a tātou i tēnei rā.
Kāore i roa i muri mai, ka kōrerotia e te Ariki tētahi atu kupu i roto i tōku ngākau, he mārama tonu, he kaha tonu:
He tatau te waiata ki te kauwhau i te rongopai…
I whakatārei au i taku kitā, i waea atu ki ētahi, ā, i tīmata.
