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“Ndimbonile,” wasebeza wathi cwaka. “Ndibone uMama oSikelelweyo.”
Labamba izandla zam, lithe gwantyi iinyembezi emehlweni alo, lathethela phantsi lathi, “Enkosi ngokummema.” Ngokwenene, ekuqaleni kobo busuku, ndamema uMama oSikelelwe ukuba abe kunye nathi, ukuze asifundise kwaye asikhokele njengoMama olungileyo. Ndithe ndisathetha ngorhatya, lo mama wathi uwavule amehlo, wabe uLethu ehleli ecaleni kwakhe enxibe ingubo eblue. Ngoku, ebambekile, lo mfazi wayemana ephinda-phinda, “Ndambona… ndambona… Enkosi."
Kwimizuzu embalwa kamva, emva kokuba eli bhinqa limkile, kweza enye indoda kum, intsonkotha endandiyazi ngokobuqu kangangeminyaka eliqela. Ukusukela oko wafumana inguquko enkulu, unesiphiwo sokubona iNkosi yethu kunye nabangcwele ngamaxesha amaninzi. Wathi kum, “Umama wethu ebekhona.” Ndancuma ndathi, “Uphi?” Walatha kwiNgcwele. "Wayeguqe esibingelelweni phambi koNyana wakhe ngexesha lokunqula." Ewe, yintoni enye enokulindela ukuba iNenekazi Lethu lenze.
Kwiingokuhlwa ezilishumi elinesibini kamva, kwimishini yokugqibela, ndandigqibezela ukukhangela isandi sam ngelixa abantu befaka iSivumo kunye nomthandazo. Ndithe ndakugqiba ndaqalisa indlela eya ngasemva. Kodwa ngequbuliso, lo mnqweno mkhulu wandifikela wokuhamba phakathi kwabantu, ndibabulise, yaye ukuchukumisa bona. Ndenjenjalo ke. Ndandisonganyelwa luthando olukhulu kubo… babekhangeleka bediniwe, besoyika, amatakane amancinane afuna ukukhokelwa. Kwaye bendifuna nje ukubabamba ndibazise ukuba bayathandwa.
Yayiyingokuhlwa enamandla. Emva koko, sithe sisapakisha impahla, ndaphinda ndambona umhlobo wam, lo ungowam. Ndamphulula egxeni. "Ke, ngaba iNenekazi lethu laphinda lavela kwakhona ngokuhlwanje?" Wanikina intloko wathi, “Hayi khange ndimbone. Kodwa ndambona uYesu.” Ndancuma ndathi, “Uphi?”
“Owu, Wayehamba nje phakathi kwabantu kwaye ebachukumisa.”
UKUBAMBA...
Iingcinga ezimbalwa zithi qatha engqondweni. Eyokuqala kukuba uYesu ufuna ukusebenzisa wena nam ukuba zibe zizandla neenyawo zaKhe, amehlo, iindlebe, nemilebe yaKhe. Ngaba ‘asingomzimba kaKristu’? Ngoko kutheni sicinga ngenye indlela? KwiNew American Bible, isiphelo esifutshane seVangeli kaMarko sithi:
…Emva koko uYesu ngokwakhe, ngabo, wathumela ukusuka empuma ukuya entshona isibhengezo esingcwele nesingenakonakala sosindiso olungunaphakade. ( IZenzo 16:20 )
Nangona kunjalo, ndicinga ukuba kukho ukungaqondi kakuhle phakathi kwamaKatolika amaninzi ukuba uYesu "uchukumisa" kuphela 
ububingeleli bomthendeleko okanye abo banothando lwemimangaliso, ukuphilisa, nokunye okunjalo. Kodwa enyanisweni, zonke UmKristu obhaptiziweyo unamandla, isidima, kunye ebiza ukuze babe zizixhobo zobomi obuNgcwele ngaphakathi kwabo. Eli lilizwi likaThixo:
Nabani na okholwayo aze abhaptizwe uya kusindiswa… baya kubeka izandla phezu kwemilwelwe, kwaye baya kuphila. ( Marko 16:18 )
Esona sifo sikhulu namhlanje seso intliziyo. Akuzange nanini na ngaphambili ihlabathi libe “lidityanisiwe” kangaka, kodwa libe lahlulwe kangaka; ngoko “ngokunxibelelana” ukanti ayikaphathwa.
Ukusetyenziswa okwandisiweyo konxibelelwano lwe-elektroniki kwezinye iimeko kubangele ngokumangalisayo ukubekwa wedwa okukhulu… —UPOPE BENEDICT XVI, intetho eCaweni yaseSt. Joseph, ngoAprili 8, 2008, Yorkville, New York; I-Arhente yeendaba yamaKatolika
Ngaloo ndlela, enye inkalo ye I-Counter-Revolution sibizelwa kuyo imfuneko yokuphuma kule Ntlango yeTekhnoloji kwaye ube yindawo yokuphumla bukaKristu kwabanye. Kufuneka silumkele 
“Ukuthanjiswa” koMoya oyiNgcwele—uvakalelo ekukuphela komthandazo onokuthi wondle—kwaye ke uhambe ngolo babalo njengoko iNkosi iyalela. Kwaye le "touch" yokuphilisa inokuthatha iindlela ezininzi: ukubakho nje komnye, ukumamela omnye, ukuvuma ubukho bomnye, uncumo, isenzo esincinci sobubele okanye inkonzo, kwaye xa ixesha lilungile, ukwabelana ngeenyaniso zenyaniso. IVangeli.
ICawe kuya kufuneka iqalise wonke umntu - ababingeleli, inkolo kunye namarhamente - kobu "bugcisa bokukhapha" obusifundisa ukukhulula iimbadada zethu phambi komhlaba ongcwele womnye (cf. Ex 3:5). Isantya soku kukhapha kufuneka sizinzile kwaye siqinisekise, sibonise ukusondela kwethu kunye nokujonga kwethu ngovelwano okukwaphilisayo, okukhululayo kunye nokukhuthaza ukukhula kubomi bobuKristu. -UPAPA UFRANCIS, U-Evangelii Gaudium, n. I-169
Kwaye uBawo Oyingcwele wongeza ukuba oku akukona nje ukuzenza thina okanye abanye bazive belungile. Endaweni yoko,
Nangona kuvakala kucacile, ukuhambisana ngokomoya kufuneka kukhokele abanye basondele ngakumbi kuThixo, esifumana inkululeko yokwenene kuye. Abanye abantu bacinga ukuba bakhululekile ukuba bangamnqanda uThixo; Bayasilela ukubona ukuba bahlala beziinkedama, bengenakuzinceda, bengenamakhaya. Bayayeka ukuba ngabahambi ngezonqulo kwaye baba ngabakhukulisi, bezulazula ngeenxa zonke kubo kwaye bangaze baye ndawo. Ukuhamba nabo kuya kuba yinto engenzi nto ukuba iya kuba luhlobo lonyango oluxhasa ukuzibandakanya kwabo kwaye bayeke ukuba ngabahambi noKristu kuYise. -U-Evangelii Gaudium, n. I-170
…KWAYE UKUCHUKUMEKA
Ingcinga yesibini ethi qatha engqondweni yeyokuba uYesu weza emhlabeni enyameni ngokuchanekileyo ukuze asichukumise! Akazange andise phezulu efini, evakalisa ukuba uBukumkani bukaThixo bukufuphi. Akazange azifihle kwiimbombo zendlu kaThixo. Kunoko, uYesu, uThixo-umntu, waba njengathi ukuze simchukumise. Kwaye 
ngoko, abelusi abanukayo bawubamba umzimba wosana lwakhe. UMariya wamncancisa. UJosefu wamgquma phantsi kwesilevu sakhe. Umprofeti uSimeyon wamgona ezingalweni zakhe. Abantwana bakhwela ethangeni laKhe. I
Umpostile uYohane waphumla esifubeni sakhe. Amajoni amaRoma abamba iingalo nemilenze Yakhe, eyibophelela emnqamlezweni. waza uTomas wasolula isandla sakhe ecaleni lakhe, wawachukumisa amanxeba akhe. Ewe, eli yayilicebo lonke kwasekuqaleni—ukuze mna nawe sichukumise amanxeba aKhe, kuba kufunyanwa kubo uthando olungenammiselo, inceba nosindiso olungenakufikeleleka.
Kodwa uhlatywe ngenxa yezono zethu, watyunyuzwa ngenxa yobugwenxa bethu. Wasithwala isohlwayo esiphilisayo, ngemivumbo yakhe saphiliswa thina. ( Isaya 53:5 )
Siwachukumisa amanxeba kaKristu ukholo-ngethemba lokuba uyandithanda kwaye akasoze andishiye, nangona izono zam zimbi. Kwaye, yonke imihla kwi-Eucharist eNgcwele, Uyasolula aze asichukumise kwakhona, ngokwasemzimbeni, ngokusondeleyo, ngokubonakalayo. Apho, kuloo Host incinane, kukuchukunyiswa kwaLowo ukuthandileyo kwada kwasekupheleni.
Elokuvala, ndifuna ukucaphula umhlobo wam ovutha ngumsindo, uDaniel O'Connor, umyeni notata oselula onomoya wenguqu ka-St. Maximilian Kolbe… laa mfundisi uchuku kwakhe waphilisa abaninzi kwinkampu yoxinaniso yase-Auschwitz. UYesu wathembisa ukuba uya “vula iingcango zeNceba” phambi kokuba umnyango woBulungisa kufuneka uvuleke. Kukolu lindelo awathi uDaniyeli waprofeta ngalo:
Ndibize ngokuba ndiyaphambana, kodwa ndiyakholwa ngenene nje ehamba ezitratweni ethandaza ngoku ingakwazi ukufezekisa oko kwakukhe kwathatha uMthendeleko we-Ekaristi ukuba uphunyezwe. Ndiyakholelwa ngokwenene ukuba, ukuba uhlala kwintando kaThixo kwaye unqwenela ukubhengeza iNceba kaThixo, esithi "uThixo akusikelele" emntwini unokufezekisa into ebikade ithatha ixesha elide intshumayelo ifezekise. Ndiyakholelwa ngokwenene ukuba ukunika umntu a ikhadi Divine Mercy elula (okanye ukuyibeka nje ndaweni ithile) inokwenza emphefumlweni into ebikhe yafuna ukumeyisela ukuba afunde incwadi ende. Ndiyakholelwa ngokwenene ukuba, nokuba kuthi iinzame zethu zibonakala zingonelanga, zilusizi, kwaye zincinci, ukuba nangona kunjalo ngomthandazo wethu kwiNtando yobuThixo, singaba ngabalamleli kunye nabavangeli basemazweni embalini. Ngaba ke ngoko kufuneka siyeke ubuncinci? Akunjalongo noko. Kodwa masithembe ukuba nezi zenzo zincinci kwicala lethu ngokwenene zinokubakho kwaye ziyakuphindaphindwa kangangamawaka, kwaye loo ntembeko mayimisele iqondo lempembelelo yethu yokuthembeka kwaye sihoye isimemo esikhulu kangaka. Kulula kuthi ukuthetha “Kwiat.” Masiwuthethe lo [Nyaka weNceba]. -Isusela "Kwaye ke iqala", Disemba 8, 2015; dsdoconnor.com
Ngaba uyakuba kukuchukunyiswa kwaKhe?
Ndibethelelwe emnqamlezweni noKristu; ndidla ubomi ke ayisendim, nguKristu ke oselesidla ubomi kum. Ububele bakho makwazeke kubo bonke. ( Gal 2:19-20; Fil 4:5 )
KUFUNDWA NGOKUBA
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Usikelele, kwaye enkosi.
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