AS umzimba ufuna ukutya ukuze ufumane amandla, nawo ngokunjalo umphefumlo ufuna ukutya kokomoya ukuze unyuke Intaba Yokholo. Ukutya kubalulekile emzimbeni njengomphefumlo. Kodwa kuthekani ngomphefumlo?
UKUTYA KOKOMOYA
Ukusuka kwiCatechism:
Umthandazo bubomi bentliziyo entsha. —CCC, n. 2697
Ukuba umthandazo bubomi bentliziyo entsha, ngoko kukufa kwentliziyo entsha akukho mthandazoNjengokungabikho kokutya kulamba umzimba. Oku kuyasicacisa ukuba kutheni uninzi lwethu singamaKatolika singanyuki intaba, singakhuli ebungcweleni nasekulungeni. Siza kwiMisa rhoqo ngeCawa, siphose iibhokhwe ezimbini ebhasikithini, kwaye silibale ngoThixo iveki yonke. Umphefumlo, uswele ukutya kokomoya, uqala ukufa.
UBawo unqwenela a ulwalamano lomntu nathi, bantwana baKhe. Ulwalamano lobuqu lungaphezulu kokucela nje uThixo entliziyweni yakho…
… Umthandazo is abaphilayo ulwalamano abantwana bakaThixo kuYise… -I-CCC, n.2565
Umthandazo lulwalamano lobuqu noThixo! Akukho mthandazo? Akukho buhlobo.
UKUDIBANA NOTHANDO
Rhoqo, siwubona umthandazo njengomsebenzi, okanye ubukhulu becala, isiko elifunekayo. Kukude kakhulu kunoko.
Umthandazo kukuhlangana kukaThixo nokunxanwa kwethu. UThixo unxanelwe ukuba simnxanelwe. -CCC, n. I-2560
UThixo unxanelwe uthando lwakho! Nditsho neengelosi ziqubuda phambi kwale mfihlakalo, imfihlakalo kaThixo ongapheliyo othandana nendalo yakhe egqibeleleyo. Umthandazo ke ubeka ngamazwi into enxanelwe umphefumlo wethu: uthando… Uthando! Uthixo Luthando! Nathi sinxanelwe uThixo, nokuba siyazi okanye asazi. Nje ukuba ndifumanise ukuba uyandithanda ngobomi baKhe kwaye akazukuphinda alubuyise olo thando, ndiye ndiqale ukuthetha naye kuba andimoyiki. Oku themba utshintsha ulwimi lomthandazo (yiyo loo nto ibizwa ngokuba yi "Ntaba Yokholo"). Ayisengombandela wokuphindaphinda amagama owomileyo okanye ukucengceleza izicatshulwa zemibongo… iba yintshukumo yentliziyo, umanyano lweentliziyo, ukunxanelwa ukwanelisa unxano.
Ewe, uThixo ufuna thandaza ngentliziyo. Thetha naye njengokuba ubuya kwenza kumhlobo wakho. Yi le yakhe isimemo:
Ndikubize abahlobo… awuselilo ikhoboka, kodwa usengumntwana. (Yohane 15:15; Gal 4: 7)
Umthandazo, utsho uSt. Teresa waseAvila,
… Kukwabelana ngokusondeleyo phakathi kwabahlobo ababini. Kuthetha ukuthatha ixesha rhoqo ukuba wedwa naLowo usithandayo.
UMTHANDAZO OSUKA entliziyweni
Xa uthandaza ngokusuka entliziyweni, uyazivulela kuMoya oyiNgcwele is uthando lukaThixo olambele unxanelwe lona. Njengokuba ungeke utye ukutya ungakhange uvule umlomo wakho, kuya kufuneka uyivule intliziyo yakho ukuze ufumane amandla kunye nobabalo loMoya oyiNgcwele oyimfuneko ukuze unyuke iNtaba yokholo:
Umthandazo uhambela kubabalo esilufunayo… -I-CCC, n.2010
Ngaba uyakubona ngoku ukubaluleka kokuba ngumphefumlo womthandazo? Thandaza ngokusuka entliziyweni, kwaye uthandaza ngendlela elungileyo. Thandaza rhoqo, kwaye uya kufunda ukuthandaza rhoqo.
Ulinde ntoni ke? Yicime ikhompyutha yakho, uye kwigumbi lakho elingaphakathi, uthandaze.
Lowo unguLuthando ulindile.
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