"Ukufa okubini" - ukhetho lukaKristu, okanye uMchasi-Kristu ngu-Michael D. O'Brien
Ukupapashwa kokuqala ngoNovemba 29, 2006, ndihlaziye lo mbhalo ubalulekileyo:
AT Ukuqala kobulungiseleli bam malunga neminyaka elishumi elinesine eyadlulayo, ndaba nephupha eliqaqambileyo eliza kuphinda libekho kwiingcinga zam.
Ndandihleli kwindawo yokubuyela umva kunye namanye amaKristu ngequbuliso kwangena iqela lolutsha. Babekwiminyaka yamashumi amabini, abesilisa nabasetyhini, bonke benomtsalane kakhulu. Kwakucacile kum ukuba bathule bethatha le ndlu yokubuyela umva. Ndikhumbula ndifanele ndifayilishe ngaphaya kwabo. Babencumile, kodwa amehlo abo ayebanda. Kwakukho ububi obufihlakeleyo phantsi kobuso babo obuhle, obubonakalayo kunokuba bubonakale.
Into elandelayo endiyikhumbulayo (kubonakala ngathi icandelo eliphakathi lephupha liyacinywa, okanye ngobabalo lukaThixo andinakulikhumbula), ndizifumene ndiphuma ndedwa eluvalelweni. Ndathathwa ndasiwa elebhu yeklinikhi enjenge gumbi elimhlophe elikhanyiswe ngefluorescent. Apho ndafumana umfazi nabantwana bam benamakhoboka otywala, ndibhityile, ndixhatshaziwe.
Ndivukile. Kwaye ndakwenza oko, ndaziva-kwaye andazi ukuba ndazi njani-ndawuva umoya "woMchasi-Kristu" egumbini lam. Ububi babugqithisile, boyikeka kakhulu, bungazange buthelekelelwe, ndade ndalila, “Nkosi, ayinakuba njalo. Akunakuba njalo! Akukho Nkosi… ” Akuzange nanini na ngaphambili okanye ukususela ngoko ndibone ububi obunyulu. Kwaye yayiyingqondo eqinisekileyo yokuba obu bubi babukho, okanye busiza emhlabeni…
Umfazi wam wavuka, esiva ukukhathazeka kwam, wawukhalimela umoya, kwaye uxolo lwaqala ukubuyela.
NGANYE
Ndithathe isigqibo sokwabelana ngeli phupha ngoku, ndikhokelwa ngumphathi womoya wale mibhalo, ngesizathu sokuba uninzi lweempawu kuye kwavela ukuba aba "bantu baselula bahle" bangene kwihlabathi nkqu nakwiCawe uqobo. Abamele abantu abaninzi, kodwa iingcinga ezibonakala zilungile, kodwa ziyingozi. Bangene phantsi kwemixholo efana no "nyamezelwano" nothando, kodwa ziingcinga ezifihla inyani enkulu ebulalayo: ukunyamezelwa kwesono kunye nokwamkelwa kwayo nantoni na uvakalelwa kulungile.
Ngamafutshane, ukuchas 'umthetho.
Ngenxa yoku, ilizwe-eliqaqanjiswe bubuhle bezi ngcamango zibonakala zisengqiqweni waphulukana nemvo yesono. Kungoko ixesha selifikile lokuba abezopolitiko, iijaji, kunye namabhunga olawulo ehlabathi kunye neenkundla zinyanzelise umthetho othi, phantsi kwamagama ekhowudi afana "nokulingana ngokwesini" kunye "netekhnoloji yokuzala," kujongela phantsi iziseko zoluntu: umtshato kunye usapho.
Imeko ebangela ukuba abantu baziphathe kakuhle iye yakhuthaza oko uPope Benedict akubiza ngokuba “bubuzwilakhe” obandayo. “Imilinganiselo” engenabungozi ithabathe indawo yokuziphatha. "Iimvakalelo" zithathe indawo yokholo. Kwaye "ulungelelwaniso" olungalunganga luthathe indawo yesizathu sokwenyani.
Kubonakala ngathi elona xabiso liphela elikhoyo kuluntu lwethu lelo le-ego ezukileyo. -UAloysius Cardinal Ambrozic, UBhishophu Omkhulu waseToronto, eKhanada; Inkolo kunye nokuzuza; Novemba 2006
Okona kusokolisa kukuba ayingobantu abambalwa kuphela abaziqondayo ezi zinto ziphazamisayo, kodwa uninzi lwamaKristu ngoku luyazithatha ezi ngcinga. Abagcini ngokugcwalisa obu buhle buhle-baqala njalo yima emgceni nabo.
Umbuzo ngulo: Ngaba ubuzwilakhe buza kuvuthwa xa kutyhilwa uzwilakhe?
UKUSEBENZA
Anditsho ngokuqinisekileyo ukuba umntu woMchasi-Kristu ukho emhlabeni, nangona uninzi lweemfihlakalo zangoku kunye noopopu bacebisile. Apha, kubonakala ngathi babhekisa "kumchasi-Kristu" ekuthethwa ngaye kuDaniel, uMateyu, iTesalonika kunye neSityhilelo:
… Kukho isizathu esivakalayo soloyiko hleze oku kugwenxa kunokubakho ngokungathi kukungcamla kwangaphambili, kwaye mhlawumbi nokuqala kobubi obugcinelwe imihla yokugqibela; nokuba kungade kubekho umhlaba "uNyana wentshabalalo" athetha ngaye uMpostile. —IIPOPE ST. IPIUS X, E Supremi: Ekubuyiselweni kwezinto zonke kuKristu
Oko kwathethwa ngo-1903. Wayeza kuthini uPius X ukuba ebesaphila namhlanje? Ukuba angangena emakhayeni amaKatolika kwaye abone ukuba yintoni efanelekileyo efanelekileyo kwiithelevishini zabo; ukubona ukuba luhlobo luni lwemfundo yobuKristu ehanjiswa kwizikolo zamaKatolika; luhlobo luni lwentlonipho olunikwa eMiseni; loluphi uhlobo lwenzululwazi efundiswa kwiiyunivesithi zethu zamaKatolika nakwiisemina; yintoni (okanye engashunyayelwayo) epulpitini? Ukubona inqanaba lethu lokushumayela, inzondelelo yethu ngeVangeli, kunye nendlela aphila ngayo umKatolika ophakathi? Ukubona ukuthanda izinto eziphathekayo, inkcitho nokungafani phakathi kwezityebi namahlwempu? Ngaba kukubona umhlaba uthwaxwa yindlala, ukubulawa kwabantu, izifo ezidluliselwa ngeentlobano zesini, uqhawulo-mtshato, ukuqhomfa, ukwamkelwa kwezinye iindlela zokuphila, ulingelo ngemfuza ngobomi, kunye nesidubedube sendalo?
Ucinga ukuba angathini?
IINTSUKU EZININZI
Umpostile uYohane uthi,
Bantwana, lilixa lokugqibela eli; kwaye njengokuba nevayo ukuba umchasi-Kristu uyeza, ngoku sele bebaninzi abachasi-Kristu. Yiyo le nto sisazi ukuba lilixa lokugqibela eli… yonke imimoya engamvumiyo uYesu ayingokaThixo. Lo ngumoya womchasi-Kristu, njengoko uvileyo, uyeza, kodwa sele usehlabathini. (1 Yohane 2:18; 4: 3)
UJohn usixelela ukuba akukho namnye, kodwa abachasi-Kristu abaninzi. Oko sikubonile ngokuthandwa nguNero, uAgasto, uStalin noHitler.
Ngokokuchasa komchasi-Kristu, siye sabona ukuba kwiTestamente eNtsha uhlala ecinga ngezinto ezenzeka ngelo xesha kwimbali. Akanakuphela kwabanye abantu. Ngokukodwa unxiba iimaski ezininzi kwisizukulwana ngasinye. -Cardinal Ratzinger (POPE BENEDICT XVI), Inkolelo ye-Dogmatic Theology, Eschatology 9, UJohann Auer noJoseph Ratzinger, 1988, iphe. 199-200
Ngaba silindele enye? Kwaye ingaba ngabaseki beCawe ekubhekiselwe kubo ngoonobumba abakhulu "A", le Umchasi kristu kwisiTyhilelo 13?
… Phambi kokufika kweNkosi kuya kubakho uwexuko, kwaye umntu ochazwe kakuhle njengendoda “yomthetho”, “unyana wentshabalalo” kufuneka atyhileke, isiko lesiko elizakubiza uMchasi-Kristu. -UPOPE BENEDICT XVI, kubaphulaphuli ngokubanzi, “Nokuba kusekupheleni okanye ngexesha lokunqongophala koxolo: Yiza Nkosi Yesu!”, L'Osservatore Romano, Novemba 12, 2008
Eyona nto iphazamisayo kweli xesha lethu kukuba iimeko ze Ulawulo lwehlabathi liphela ziyakhula zibe sisaqhwithi esifanelekileyo. Ukuqhubeka kwehlabathi kungena kwisiphithiphithi ngenxa yobunqolobi, ukuwa kwezoqoqosho, kunye nengozi ehlaziyiweyo yenyukliya emva koko kudala isithuba kuxolo lwehlabathi-isithuba esinokuthi sigcwaliswe nguThixo, okanye ngento ethile- okanye umntu-Nesisombululo "esitsha".
Kuya kusiba nzima ukungahoyi iinyani eziphambi kwethu.
Kutshanje xa bendise-Europe, bendidibene ngokufutshane no-Sr. Emmanuel, unongendi wase-France woLuntu lwe-Beatitudes. Uyaziwa umhlaba wonke ngokuthe ngqo, ukuthanjiswa, kunye neemfundiso eziphilileyo ngokuguqula, ukuthandaza nokuzila ukutya. Ngesizathu esithile, ndaziva ndinyanzelekile ukuba ndithethe malunga nokuba ngumchasi-Kristu.
“Dade, zininzi izinto ezenzekayo ezibonakala ngathi zibonakalisa ukuba kunokwenzeka komchasi kristu.” Uye wandijonga, encumile, kwaye engaphosanga nesandi waphendula.
“Ngaphandle kokuba sithandaze."
THANDAZA, THANDAZA, THANDAZA
Ngaba umchasi-Kristu unokuthintelwa? Ngaba umthandazo ungamisela elinye ixesha lobubi kwilizwe eliwileyo? UJohn usixelela ukuba baninzi abachasi-Kristu, kwaye siyazi ukuba omnye wabo uza kufikelela kuvuthondaba “kwixesha le-apocalyptic,” kwi "Irhamncwa" lesiTyhilelo 13. Ngaba sikelo xesha? Umbuzo ubalulekile kuba, kunye nolawulo lwalo mntu, ngu Inkohliso enkulu eya kuthi ilahlekise inani elikhulu loluntu…
… Lowo kuza kwakhe kuphuma emandleni kaSathana kuzo zonke izenzo ezinamandla, nangemiqondiso, nangezimanga ezixokayo, nangenkohliso yonke yabo batshabalalayo ngenxa yokuba bengalwamkelanga uthando lwenyaniso ukuze basindiswe. Ke ngoko, uThixo ubathumela amandla okulahlekisa ukuze bakholwe bubuxoki, ukuze bonke abangakholwanga yinyaniso kodwa bavumile ukwenza okubi bagwetywe. (2 Tes 2: 9-12)
Yiyo loo nto kufuneka "sijonge kwaye sithandaze".
Xa umntu ethathela ingqalelo zonke izinto, ukusuka kwimbonakalo kaMama wethu osikelelweyo ("umfazi owambethe ilanga" olwa nenamba); izityhilelo kuSt Faustina ukuba sikwixesha lokugqibela lenceba silungiselela "ukubuya kwesibini"; amazwi awomeleleyo apocalyptic oopopu abaliqela bale mihla, kunye namazwi esiprofetho eemboni eziyinyani kunye neentsomi — kungabonakala ngathi sisesona sizukulwaneni sobo busuku esiqhubeka Usuku lweNkosi.
Singaphendula kule nto iZulu lisitshela yona: Ukuthandaza nokuzila ukutya kunokutshintsha okanye kunciphise ukohlwaya okuzayo kubantu ngokucacileyo abaphambukayo nabavukelayo ngeli xesha kwimbali. Kubonakala ngathi yile nto kanye athe uMama wethu kaFatima usixelele yona, kwaye usixelela kwakhona ngokubonakala kwale mihla: mthandazo kwaye ukuzila ukudla, ukuguqulwa kwaye ukohlwaya, yaye nokholo kuThixo inokutshintsha ikhosi kwimbali. Unako ukuhambisa iintaba.
Kodwa ngaba siphendule ngexesha?
