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WE baphila ezikhathini eziyingozi. Kepha bambalwa labo abakuqaphelayo. Lokhu engikhuluma ngakho akusona usongo lobuphekula, ukuguquka kwesimo sezulu, noma impi yenuzi, kepha into ecashile futhi ecashile. Ukuqhubekela phambili kwesitha esesivele sitholile indawo emakhaya amaningi nasezinhliziyweni futhi silawula ukubhubhisa okwesabekayo njengoba kusakazeka emhlabeni wonke:
Noise.
Ngikhuluma ngomsindo womoya. Umsindo ozwakale kakhulu emphefumulweni, ovala izindlebe enhliziyweni, kuthi uma nje usungena, ufiphaze izwi likaNkulunkulu, ushaye unembeza unembeza, futhi uphuphuthekise amehlo ukuze abone okungokoqobo. Ingesinye sezitha eziyingozi kakhulu zesikhathi sethu ngoba, ngenkathi impi nodlame zilimaza umzimba, umsindo ungumbulali womphefumulo. Futhi umphefumulo ovale izwi likaNkulunkulu uzibeka engcupheni yokungaphinde umuzwe ingunaphakade.
umsindo
Lesi sitha besilokhu siqamekela, kepha mhlawumbe hhayi ngaphezulu kwanamuhla. UMphostoli uSt John wakuxwayisa lokho umsindo kungukubika komoya womphikukristu:
Ungawuthandi umhlaba noma izinto zomhlaba. Uma umuntu ethanda umhlaba, uthando lukaYise alukho kuye. Ngoba konke okusezweni, inkanuko yenyama, ukuheha kwamehlo, nokuphila kokuzenzisa, akuveli kuBaba kepha kuvela ezweni. Nokho umhlaba nokuyenga kwawo kuyadlula. Kepha owenza intando kaNkulunkulu uhlala kuze kube phakade. Bantwana, yihora lokugcina leli; futhi njengoba nje nizwile ukuthi umphikukristu uyeza, ngakho manje sekuvele abaphikukristu abaningi. (1 Johane 2: 15-18)
Inkanuko yenyama, ukuheha amehlo, impilo yokuzidla. Lezi yizindlela lapho ubunikazi namandla kuqondisa ukuqhuma komsindo esintwini esingaqaphile.
UMSINDO WENKANUKO
Umuntu akakwazi ukungena kwi-inthanethi, adlule esikhumulweni sezindiza, noma amane athenge okuthengwayo ngaphandle kokuhlaselwa ngomsindo wenkanuko. Amadoda, ngaphezu kwabesifazane, athinteka kulokhu ngoba kunempendulo enamandla yamakhemikhali emadodeni. Wumsindo owesabekayo, ngoba awudonsi amehlo kuphela, kodwa nomzimba womuntu usendleleni yawo. Ukusikisela nanamuhla ukuthi owesifazane ogqoke uhhafu akanasizotha noma akafanelekile kuzodida isimanga uma engadelelwa. Sekuyinto eyamukelekayo emphakathini, futhi eminyakeni emincane nencane, ukwenza ucansi kanye nokuzimisela komzimba. Akusona isitsha sokudlulisa, ngesizotha nangesisa senhliziyo, iqiniso lokuthi umuntu ungubani ngokweqiniso, kepha selibe yisikhulisa-zwi esikhuza umyalezo osontekile: lokho kugcwaliseka kuvela ekugcineni kwezocansi nobulili, hhayi kuMdali. Lo msindo uwodwa, manje osakazwa ngemifanekiso nezilimi ezingahlanzekile cishe kuzo zonke izingxenye zomphakathi wanamuhla, wenza okuningi ukubhubhisa imiphefumulo kunanoma yimuphi omunye.
UMSINDO WOKUTHANDA
Ngokukhethekile emazweni aseNtshonalanga, umsindo wokuthanda izinto ezibonakalayo — ukuheha izinto ezintsha — ufinyelele esicongweni esivala izindlebe, kodwa bambalwa abamelene nawo. Ama-ipad, ama-ipod, ama-ibook, ama-iphone, ama-ifashions, ama-iireirement plans… Ngisho neziqu ngokwazo ziveza okuthile ngengozi engaba khona ebalekela isidingo sokunethezeka komuntu siqu, ukwenza lula nokuzithokozisa. Konke kumayelana nokuthi "Mina", hhayi umfowethu odinga usizo. Ukuthunyelwa kokukhiqizwa emhlabeni wesithathu 
amazwe (okuvame ukuletha ukungabi nabulungisa ngokwawo ngeholo elibuhlungu) alethe i-tsunami yezimpahla eziphansi, ezandulelwa amagagasi okukhangisa okungapheli okuzibeka wena, hhayi umakhelwane womuntu, phezu kwe-totem yezinto eziza kuqala.
Kepha umsindo uthathe ithoni ehlukile futhi ecashile osukwini lwethu. I-inthanethi nobuchwepheshe obungenazintambo buhlala busebenzisa inqwaba yencazelo ephezulu yombala, izindaba, inhlebo, izithombe, amavidiyo, izimpahla, izinsiza — konke kusekhondweni elihlukanisiwe. Kungumxube ophelele wobukhazikhazi nobukhazikhazi ukugcina imiphefumulo ijabule — futhi imvamisa iyizithulu ngendlala nokoma emiphefumulweni yabo okweqile, ngoNkulunkulu.
Asinakuphika ukuthi izinguquko ezisheshayo ezenzeka emhlabeni wethu nazo ziveza ezinye zezimpawu eziphazamisayo zokuqhekeka nokubuyela emuva ebuntwini obubodwa. Ukusetshenziswa okwandayo kwezokuxhumana ngogesi kwezinye izimo kuyindida okuholele ekuhlukanisweni okukhulu… —UPOPE BENEDICT XVI, inkulumo eSontweni i-St Joseph's, ngo-Ephreli 8, 2008, Yorkville, eNew York; I-Catholic News Agency
UMSINDO WOKUQHUBEKA
USt. John uxwayisa ngesilingo "sokuziqhenya ngempilo." Lokhu akugcini nje ngokufuna ukuceba noma ukuduma. Namuhla, kuthathe isilingo esinobuqili ngokwengeziwe, futhi, ngokusebenzisa ubuchwepheshe. "Ezomphakathi 
ukuxhumana ", ngenkathi kuvame ukukhonza ukuxhuma abangani nomndeni wakudala, nakho kungena ebuntwini obusha. Ngezinsizakalo zokuxhumana ezifana ne-Facebook noma i-Twitter, umkhuba ukubeka yonke imicabango nezenzo zakho lapho ukuze izwe libone, kukhuthaza ukuthambekela okukhulayo of narcissism (self-absorption) .Lokhu kuphikisana ngqo nefa elicebile lomoya labaNgcwele lapho izingxoxo zokungenzi lutho kanye nobuqili okufanele kugwenywe, njengoba behlakulela umoya wobuzwe nokunganaki.
ISIKO LENHLIZIYO
Vele, wonke lo msindo akumele uthathwe njengobubi ngokuphelele. Umzimba womuntu kanye nezocansi kuyizipho ezivela kuNkulunkulu, akusona isithiyo esiyihlazo noma esingcolile. Izinto ezibonakalayo azilungile futhi azimbi, zimane nje… size sizibeke e-altare lezinhliziyo zethu sizenze izithombe. Futhi i-intanethi ingasetshenziselwa okuhle.
Endlini yaseNazaretha nasenkonzweni kaJesu, kwakukhona 
njalo umsindo wangemuva emhlabeni. UJesu waze wangena 'emphandwini wezingonyama,' edla nabathelisi nezifebe. Kodwa wakwenza lokho ngoba wayehlala njalo enakekela ukugcinwa kwenhliziyo. St. Paul wabhala,
Ningalingisi leli banga, kodwa niguqulwe isimo ngokwenziwa ibe ntsha ingqondo yenu… (Rom 12: 2)
Ukugcinwa kwenhliziyo kusho ukuthi angigxilile ezintweni zomhlaba, ekuzivumelaniseni nezindlela zalo zokungamhloniphi uNkulunkulu, kodwa eMbusweni, izindlela zikaNkulunkulu. Kusho ukuthola kabusha injongo yokuphila nokuvumelanisa izinhloso zami nakho…
… Masisuse yonke imithwalo nezono ezisinamathele futhi siphikelele ekugijimeni umjaho ophambi kwethu ngenkathi sigcine amehlo ethu ethe njo kuJesu, umholi nomphelelisi wokholo. (Heb 12: 1-2)
Ezithembisweni zethu zokubhabhadiswa, siyathembisa ukuthi "sizokwenqaba ubukhazikhazi bokubi, futhi senqabe ukulawulwa yisono" Ukugcinwa kwenhliziyo kusho ukugwema leso sinyathelo sokuqala esibulalayo: ukumunca ubukhazikhazi bobubi, okuthi, uma sithatha isicupho, kuholele ekutheni sazi kahle ngaso.
… Wonke umuntu owenza isono uyisigqila sesono. (Johane 8:34)
UJesu wayehamba phakathi kwabantu abanesono, kepha wamgcina uHi
inhliziyo engavikelekile ngokuqhubeka nokufuna kuqala intando kaBaba. Wahamba eqinisweni lokuthi abesifazane babengezona izinto, kepha ukubonakaliswa komfanekiso waKhe uqobo; eqinisweni ukuthi izinto ezibonakalayo kumele zisetshenziselwe ukukhazimulisa uNkulunkulu nokwenza okuhle kwabanye; futhi ngokuba mncane, ukuthobeka, nokufihlwa, emnene futhi emnene ngenhliziyo, uJesu wavika amandla omhlaba nodumo abanye ababengamnika lona.
UKUGCINA ISIKO LEMIQONDO
Ku-Act of Contrition yendabuko ethandazelwe Isivumo seSakramente, umuntu unquma 'ukungabe esona futhi nokugwema ithuba eliseduze lokona.' Ukugcinwa kwenhliziyo kusho ukugwema hhayi nje isono uqobo, kepha lezo zingibe ezaziwayo ezingangenza ngiwele esonweni. "Yenza akukho ukuhlinzekelwa kwenyama, "kusho uSt. Paul (bheka Ingwe Esibayeni.) Umngane wami omuhle uthi ubengakaze adle amaswidi noma abephuze utshwala eminyakeni edlule. "Nginobuntu obuluthayo," esho. "Uma ngidla ikhukhi elilodwa, ngifuna isikhwama sonke." Ukwethembeka okuqabulayo. Indoda evikela ngisho nesikhathi esiseduze sesono — futhi ungayibona inkululeko emehlweni akhe.
Ukufisa
Eminyakeni eminingi edlule, umuntu esisebenza naye eshadile wayehalela abesifazane ababehamba ngendlela. Ebona ukungabambi kwami iqhaza, waqukula wathi, "Umuntu usengabuka imenyu ngaphandle koku-oda!" Kepha uJesu washo okuhluke kakhulu:
… Wonke umuntu obuka owesifazane ngokumkhanuka usephingile naye enhliziyweni yakhe. (Math.5: 28)
Ngokwesiko lethu lezithombe zocansi, umuntu wesilisa angagcina kanjani angaweli esonweni sokuphinga ngamehlo akhe? Impendulo ukubeka imenyu kude 
konke ndawonye. Okokuqala, abesifazane abayizinto, izimpahla okufanele ziphathwe. Lokhu kungukubonakaliswa okuhle koMdali oNgcwele: ubulili babo, obuvezwe njengesamukeli sembewu enikeza impilo, isithombe seBandla, okuyisamukeli seZwi likaNkulunkulu elinikeza impilo. Ngakho-ke, ngisho nokugqoka okungenasizotha noma ukubukeka kobulili kuwugibe; ngumthambeka oshelelayo oholela ekufuneni okungaphezulu nangaphezulu. Okudingekayo-ke ukugcina ukugcinwa kwamehlo:
Isibani somzimba iso. Uma iso lakho liphilile, umzimba wakho wonke uyakugcwala ukukhanya; kepha uma iso lakho lilibi, uzakuba semzimbeni wakho wonke ebumnyameni. (Math 6: 22-23)
Iso "libi" uma silivumela ukuba likhazinyuliswe "ubukhazikhazi bokubi": uma silivumela ukuba lizule egumbini, uma sisebenzisa izembozo zikamagazini, izithombe eziseceleni ze-inthanethi, noma sibuka ama-movie noma imibukiso engamukeleki .
Susa amehlo akho kowesifazane omuhle; ungabuboni ubuhle benkosikazi yomunye —— ngobuhle besifazane abaningi bayabhubha, ngoba inkanuko yabo ivutha njengomlilo. (USiraki 9: 8)
Akuyona inkinga ngaleso sikhathi ukuthi nje ugweme izithombe ezingcolile, kepha zonke izinhlobo zokuziphatha okubi. Kusho ukuthi — kwamanye amadoda afunda lokhu — ukuguqulwa okuphelele kwengqondo ukuthi abesifazane babonwa kanjani nokuthi sizibona kanjani thina — okuhlukile esikufakazelayo ukuthi, empeleni, kusibamba, futhi kusidonsele osizini lwesono.
Ukuthanda izinto ezibonakalayo
Umuntu angabhala incwadi ekhuluma ngobuphofu. Kepha uSt.Paul mhlawumbe ukufingqa kahle kakhulu:
Uma sinokudla nokokwembatha, sizokwaneliswa yilokho. Labo abafuna ukuceba bawela esilingweni nasogibeni nasezifisweni eziningi zobuwula nezilimazayo, ezibacwilisa ekubhujisweni nasekubhujisweni. (1 Thim 6: 8-9)
Silahlekelwa ilungelo lokugcina inhliziyo ngokuhlala sithenga okuthile okungcono, kokuhle kakhulu okulandelayo. 
Omunye weMiyalo ukungafisi izinto zomakhelwane wami. Isizathu, uJesu waxwayisa, ukuthi umuntu akakwazi ukwahlukanisa inhliziyo yakhe phakathi kukaNkulunkulu nemamon (impahla).
Akekho ongakhonza amakhosi amabili. Uyozonda enye athande enye, noma azinikele kokunye adelele enye. (Math 6:24)
Ukugcina inhliziyo kushiwo ukuthola, ikakhulukazi, lokho esikutholayo kudingeka kunalokho thina ufuna, hhayi ukuziqongelela kepha kwabelana nabanye, ikakhulukazi abampofu.
Ingcebo enkulu oyibekele futhi wavumela ukuthi ibole lapho bekufanele ubanike izipho abampofu, izingubo ezingadingekile obenazo futhi uncamela ukuzibona zidliwa amabhu kunokugqoka abampofu, negolide nesiliva ukhethe ukubona ukulala ungasebenzi kunokuthi uchithe ukudla kwabampofu, zonke lezi zinto, ngithi, zizofakaza ngokumelene nawe ngoSuku Lokwahlulela. —USt. URobert Bellarmine, Ukuhlakanipha Kwabangcwele, UJill Haakadels, k. 166
Ukuzenzela
Ukugcinwa kwenhliziyo futhi kusho ukuqapha amazwi ethu, ukuba nawo ukugcina ulimi lwethu. Ngoba ulimi lunamandla okwakha noma okubhidliza, ukubamba noma ukukhulula. Imvamisa, sisebenzisa ulimi ngokuziqhenya, sithi (noma sithayipha) lokhu noma lokho ngethemba lokuzenza sibonakale sibaluleke kakhulu kunathi, noma ukujabulisa abanye, ukuthola ukuvunywa kwabo. Ngezinye izikhathi, simane sidedele udonga lwamagama ukuze sizijabulise ngokuxoxa ngokungenzi lutho.
Kukhona igama ngokomoya ngokomoya elibizwa ngokuthi "izinkumbulo." Kusho ukukhumbula nje ukuthi ngihlale ngikhona ebukhoneni bukaNkulunkulu, nokuthi ngaso sonke isikhathi uyinhloso yami nokugcwaliseka kwazo zonke izifiso zami. Kusho ukubona ukuthi intando yaKhe ingukudla kwami, nokuthi, njengenceku yaKhe, ngibizelwe ukuMlandela endleleni yesisa senhliziyo. Ukukhumbula-ke, kusho ukuthi "ngiyaziqoqa" lapho ngilahlekelwe ilungelo lokugcina inhliziyo yami, ngithemba umusa nentethelelo yaKhe, futhi ngiyazibophezela ekumthandeni nasekumsebenzeleni umzuzu wamanje ngayo yonke inhliziyo yami, umphefumulo, ingqondo namandla.
Uma kukhulunywa ngezingosi zokuxhumana nabantu, kufanele siqaphele. Ingabe kuthobekile ukunamathisela izithombe zami eziveza ize yami? Lapho ngi "tweet" kwabanye, ngabe ngisho okuthile okudingekayo noma cha? Ngabe ngikhuthaza ukuhleba noma ukuchitha isikhathi somunye?
Ngiyakutshela, ngosuku lokwahlulelwa abantu bayolandisa ngawo wonke amagama abawanakayo abawakhulumayo. (Math 12:36)
Cabanga ngenhliziyo yakho njengesithando somlilo. Umlomo wakho umnyango. Njalo lapho uvula umnyango, uvumela ukushisa kuphume. Uma uvala umnyango, ugcina ukhunjulwa ebukhoneni bukaNkulunkulu, umlilo wothando lwaKhe olungcwele uzokhula uvuthe kakhulu ukuze kuthi, uma isikhathi silungile, amazwi akho asebenze ukwakha, ukukhulula, kanye nokwenza lula ukuphulukiswa kwabanye — ukuze Efudumele abanye ngothando lukaNkulunkulu. Ngalezo zikhathi, noma sikhuluma, ngoba kusezwini loThando, kuyasebenza ukubamba imililo ngaphakathi. Ngaphandle kwalokho, umphefumulo wethu, nowabanye, uyagodola lapho sigcina umnyango uvulekile kungenamqondo noma s
ingxoxo ejabulisayo.
Ukuziphatha okubi noma yikuphi ukungcola noma ukuhaha akumele kukhulunywe ngisho naphakathi kwenu, njengoba kufanelekile phakathi kwabangcwele, kungabi namanyala noma inkulumo eyisilima noma eyinhlamba, engafanelekile, kodwa kunalokho, ukubonga. (Efe 5: 3-4)
Abezizwe nabahambi
Ukugcina ukugcinwa kwenhliziyo kuzwakala kungaphandle futhi kuphambene namasiko. Siphila ezweni eligqugquzela abantu ukuthi bazame inqwaba yezenzo zocansi nezindlela zokuphila, bazinamathele kuyo yonke i-YouTube, bafune ukucula noma ukudansa i- "Idol", futhi "babekezelele" noma yini nanoma ngubani (ngaphandle kwamaKatolika) . Ngokwala lolu hlobo lomsindo, uJesu wathi sizobukeka siyinqaba emehlweni omhlaba; ukuthi bazosishushisa, basihleke usulu, basikhiphe inyumbazane futhi basizonde ngoba ukukhanya kwamakholwa kuzokhipha ubumnyama kwabanye.
Ngoba wonke umuntu owenza izinto ezimbi uzonda ukukhanya futhi akezi ekukhanyeni, ukuze imisebenzi yakhe ingadalulwa. (Johane 3:20)
Ukugcina inhliziyo, ngakho-ke, akusiwo umkhuba osuphelelwe yisikhathi weminyaka edlule, kodwa umgwaqo ongaguquguquki, weqiniso, futhi omncane oholela ezulwini. Kungukuthi bambalwa kuphela abazimisele ukuyithatha, ukumelana nomsindo ukuze bezwe izwi likaNkulunkulu eliholela ekuphileni okuphakade.
Ngoba lapho kukhona ingcebo yakho, lapho iyakuba khona nenhliziyo yakho… Ngenani ngesango elincane; ngoba isango libanzi nomgwaqo obanzi oholela ekubhujisweni, futhi baningi abangena ngawo. Lincane kangakanani isango futhi liminyanise umgwaqo oholela ekuphileni. Futhi labo abawutholayo bambalwa. (Math 6:21; 7: 13-14)
Uthando lwezinto zomhlaba luhlobo lwesikhathi sezinyoni, esibamba umphefumulo futhi sikuvimbele ukundizela kuNkulunkulu. —U-Augustine weMvubu, Ukuhlakanipha Kwabangcwele, UJill Haakadels, k. 164
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