Inyaniso iyatyatyamba

ILIZWI NGOKU NGOKUFUNDA KWENKOSI
ngoMeyi 21, 2014
NgoLwesithathu weveki yesihlanu yePasika
Khetha. IMem. UChristopher Magallanes kunye nabahlobo

Imibhalo yeLigugu Apha

UKristu Umdiliya Oyinyani, unknown

NINI U-Yesu wathembisa ukuba uyakuthumela uMoya oyiNgcwele ukuba usikhokelele kuyo yonke inyaniso, oko kwakungathethi ukuba iimfundiso ziya kuza ngokulula ngaphandle kwesidingo sokuqonda, umthandazo, kunye nengxoxo. Oko kuyacaca kufundo lokuqala lwanamhlanje xa uPawulos noBharnabhas befuna abaPostile ukucacisa imiba ethile yomthetho wamaJuda. Ndikhunjuzwa kutshanje ngeemfundiso zika IHumanae Vitae, kunye nendlela ekwakukho ngayo ukungavisisani, ukubonisana, kunye nomthandazo ngaphambi kokuba uPaul VI anike imfundiso yakhe entle. Kwaye ngoku, iSinodi kwiNtsapho iya kubamba kule-Okthobha apho imiba esentliziyweni, kungekuphela kweCawe kuphela kodwa impucuko, ixoxwa ngayo kungekho miphumo mincinci:

The future of the world and of the church passes through the family. —ST. JOHN PAUL II, Apostolic Exhortation, Familiaris Consortio, n. I-170

There were no lone-rangers in the early Church. St. Paul, despite the powerful revelations he received directly from Christ, humbled himself before the Apostles. It says in the first reading:

They were sent on their journey by the Church… they were welcomed by the Church.

This should and must become isekethe for everyone who claims to be a follower of Christ: I go forth ku the bosom of the Church, in obedience to her voice… and I continue to go ukuba her for wisdom, counsel, and nourishment. This is also what it means to “remain in” Christ—to remain in His word. Anyone who does not remain in this word, and out of deliberate carelessness or self-directed arrogance appropriates to themselves the authority to interpret Scripture apart from Sacred Tradition, “will be thrown out like a branch and wither.” For it is noteworthy that Jesus says to the Apostles:

You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you. (Gospel)

That is to say that the “deposit of faith” that Jesus imparted to them is the pure root from which all truth grows. Dogmas are not grafted to the Vine, but i ntyatyambo from the trunk which is already there. The unity of the Church, visibly preserved in the Pope and guarded by Christ’s own charism of infallibility, is closely linked to this “root of truth.”

Jerusalem, built as a city with compact unity. To it the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD. (Today’s Psalm)

This is why, when it comes to the Church’s teachings on marriage, divorce, homosexuality, co-habitation, etc., no bishop—not even the Pope—has the authority to change what the Father Himself has planted through Christ Jesus. This does not mean that there will not be deliberations, disagreements, and discernment as new moral challenges face the Church. But woe to the one who tries to remove a Branch from the Vine, okanye add one that did not spring from the root. ^[1]cf. ISityhi 22: 18-19

Our era needs such wisdom more than bygone ages if the discoveries made by man are to be further humanized. For the future of the world stands in peril unless wiser people are forthcoming. —ST. JOHN PAUL II, Apostolic Exhortation, Familiaris Consortio, n. I-17

This is the hour to pray for the holy priesthood as never before, brothers and sisters, that those in charge of the Father’s Vineyard be faithful gardeners who tend and protect the Vine… not lay the dull axe of presumption and heresy to her.

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