Ezinyathelweni zikaSt

USt. John uphumule esifubeni sikaKristu, (UJohn 13: 23)

 

AS ufunda lokhu, ngisendizeni ebheke eZweni Elingcwele ukuze ngiqale uhambo lokuya ezindaweni ezingcwele. Ngizothatha izinsuku eziyishumi nambili ezilandelayo ukuncika esifubeni sikaKristu eSidlweni Sakhe Sokugcina… ukungena eGetsemane ukuze “ngibuke futhi ngithandaze”… futhi ngime ngithule eKhalvari ukuthola amandla eSiphambanweni naseNkosikazini Yethu. Lokhu kuzoba ukubhala kwami ​​kokugcina ngize ngibuye.

Insimu yaseGetsemane yindawo emele indawo lapho uJesu ekugcineni ayengena khona. Kungabonakala ukuthi iSonto, nalo, selifikile kule ndawo.

… Ukuvota emhlabeni wonke manje sekukhombisa ukuthi inkolo yamaKhatholika uqobo iya ngokuya ibonwa, hhayi njengethonya lokuhle emhlabeni, kepha, njengamandla okhohlakele. Yilapho esikhona manje. —UDkt. URobert Moynihan, "Izincwadi", ngoFebhuwari 26th, 2019

Ngenkathi ngithandaza ngokuthi yini okufanele ngigxile kuyo kuleli sonto elizayo, ngabona ukuthi kufanele landela ezinyathelweni zikaSt. Nakhu ukuthi kungani: uzosifundisa ukuthi singahlala kanjani sithembekile lapho konke okunye, kufaka phakathi "uPeter," kubonakala kunesixakaxaka.

Ngaphambi nje kokungena eNsimini, uJesu wathi:

“Simoni, Simoni, bheka, uSathane unifunile ukuba anihluze njengokolweni, kepha ngithandazile ukuba ukukholwa kwenu kungapheli; futhi lapho usubuyile, kufanele uqinise abafowenu. ” (Luka 22: 31-32)

NgokomBhalo, bonke abaPhostoli babaleka eNsimini ngenkathi kufika uJudas namasosha. Futhi nokho, uJohn yedwa ubuyele ezinyaweni zesiphambano, emi eceleni kukaMama kaJesu. Kungani, noma, Kanjani ngabe wahlala ethembekile kwaze kwaba sekupheleni azi, naye, ngabe wayengabethelwa…?

 

UJOHANE OQONDANAYO

EVangelini lakhe, uJohn uyalandisa:

UJesu wakhathazeka kakhulu, wafakaza wathi: “Ngiqinisile, ngiqinisile, ngithi kuwe: Omunye kini uzakungikhaphela.” Abafundi babukana, beswela ukuthi usho ukuthini. Omunye wabafundi bakhe, uJesu ayemthanda, wayehlezi eceleni kukaJesu. (Johane 13: 21-23)

Ubuciko obungcwele kuwo wonke la makhulu eminyaka buveze uJohn encike esifubeni sikaKristu, ecabanga ngeNkosi Yakhe, elalele ukushaya kweNhliziyo Yakhe Engcwele. ^[1]isib. Johane 13:25 Lapha, bafowethu nodadewethu, kunokhiye woku Kanjani USt.John wayezothola indlela eya eGolgotha ​​ukuze abambe iqhaza kuMdlandla weNkosi: Ngokujula nokuhlala ubuhlobo bomuntu siqu noJesu, ondliwe ngumkhuleko wokucabangisisa, uSt. John waqiniswa ukushaya kwenhliziyo kwe Uthando oluphelele.

Akukho ukwesaba othandweni, kepha uthando olupheleleyo luyaxosha ukwesaba. (1 Johane 4:18)

Ngenkathi uJesu ememezela ukuthi omunye wabafundi uzomkhaphela, qaphela ukuthi uSt.John akazange acabange ukubuza ngubani. Kwakungokulalela ukushukunyiswa kukaPetru kuphela lapho uJohn abuza khona.

USimon Peter wamnqekuzisa ikhanda efuna ukuthola ukuthi usho ukuthini. Wancika esifubeni sikaJesu, wathi kuye: “Nkosi, ngubani na?” UJesu waphendula wathi: Nguye engimnika ucezwana emva kokulugcobhoza. (Johane 13: 24-26)

Yebo, omunye owayehlanganyela esidlweni soMthendeleko. Singafunda okuningi kulokhu, ngakho ake sihlale lapha umzuzwana.

Njengoba nje uSt.John engazange athathwe futhi alahlekelwe ukuthula kwakhe lapho ekhona UJuda—“impisi” esigungwini sabaphathi — nathi ngokunjalo, kufanele sigcine amehlo ethu ethe njo kuJesu futhi singalahlekelwa ukuthula kwethu. UJohn wayengaboni iso noma efihla ikhanda lakhe esihlabathini sobugwala. Impendulo yakhe yayihlakaniphile, yagcwala isibindi sokholo…

… Ukwethembela okungasekelwe emibonweni yabantu noma ekubikezelweni kodwa kuNkulunkulu, "uNkulunkulu ophilayo." UPAPA BENEDICT XVI, Homily, Ephreli 2, 2009; L'Osservatore Romano, Ngo-Ephreli 8, i-2009

Ngokudabukisayo abanye namuhla, njengabanye abaPhostoli, sebesuse amehlo abo kuKristu bagxila “ezinkingeni”. Kunzima ukuthi lapho iBarque of Peter ifakwa kuhlu, amagagasi amakhulu empikiswano ewela phezu kwezitezi zakhe.

Kwaqubuka isivunguvungu esikhulu elwandle, umkhumbi waze wagcwala amaza… Bafika bamvusa uJesu, bathi, “Nkosi, sisindise! Siyabhubha! ” Wathi kubo: “Yini ukuba nitatazele, nina bokukholwa okuncane?” (Math 8: 25-26)

We kumele gcina amehlo ethu kuJesu, sithembele ecebeni Lakhe nasekuphatheni kwakhe. Vikela iqiniso? Impela — ikakhulukazi uma abelusi bethu bengekho.

Vuma Ukholo! Konke, hhayi ingxenye yako! Vikela lokhu kukholwa, njengoba kwenzeka kithi, ngendlela yeSiko: ukukholwa okuphelele! —I-POPE FRANCIS, I-Zenit.org, Januwari 10, 2014

Kepha usebenze njengejaji nejaji labo? Kunento exakile eyenzekayo njengamanje lapho, ngaphandle kokuthi umuntu ahlasele abefundisi futhi alahle “uPapa wokudideka”… khona-ke umuntu ungaphansi kweKhatholika ngandlela thile.

[UMama wethu] uhlala ekhuluma ngalokho okufanele sikwenzele [abapristi]. Abakudingi ukuba wahlulele futhi ubasole; badinga imithandazo yakho nothando lwakho, ngoba uNkulunkulu uzobahlulela njengoba babenjalo njengabapristi, kepha uNkulunkulu uzokwahlulela ngendlela owenza ngayo kubapristi bakho. —UMirjana Soldo, umboni waseMedjugorje, lapho iVatican isanda kuvumela khona uhambo olungcwele olusemthethweni futhi yamisa owayo uMbhishobhi Omkhulu

Ingozi ukuwela ogibeni olufanayo abaningi ababenalo esikhathini esedlule: ukumemezela ngokuzithoba ukuthi ngubani "uJudas". KuMartin Luther, kwakunguPapa — futhi umlando utshela bonke abanye. Umkhuleko nokuqonda akunakuba sebubhulini; kumele sihlale siqonda nge “umqondo kaKristu,” okungukuthi, neSonto — ngaphandle kwalokho umuntu angahle alandele ezinyathelweni zikaLuther engahlosile, hhayi ekaJohane. ^[2]Abambalwa baye "baqonda" ukuthi lokho okubizwa ngokuthi "iSt. Gallen Mafia ”—iqembu lamakhadinali abathuthukayo ababefuna uJorge Bergoglio akhethwe esikhundleni sobupapa phakathi nomhlangano kaKhadinali Ratzinger — nabo baye bangenela ekukhetheni uPapa Francis. Amanye amaKatolika anqume ngokungahambisani, ngaphandle kwegunya noma yini, ukuthi ukhetho lwakhe aluvumelekile. Iqiniso lokuthi akekho noyedwa kwabakhadinali abali-115 abamkhethile oye waphakamisa okuningi okunjalo, akuzange kukuphazamise ukuphenywa kwabo. Kodwa-ke, noma ngabe umuntu ucwaninga kangakanani, athandaze futhi akhombise kangakanani, ngeke enze isimemezelo esinjalo ngaphandle kweMagisterium. Ngaphandle kwalokho, singahle siqale ngokungazi senze umsebenzi kaSathane, owokuhlukanisa. Ngaphezu kwalokho, umuntu onjalo kumele futhi abuze ukuthi ukhetho lukaPapa Benedict lwalungavumelekile yini. Empeleni, wesimanje ukuthambekela kwakusezingeni eliphakeme lapho kukhethwa uJohn Paul II, okwathatha amavoti amaningi ngaphambi kokuba kukhethwe upapa. Mhlawumbe sidinga ukubuyela emuva sibuze ukuthi ukuphazanyiswa kokhetho kuhlukanisa amavoti kuzona zombili lezo zikhetho, ngakho-ke, opapa abathathu bokugcina bangabaphikisi. Njengoba ukwazi ukubona, lona umgodi wonogwaja. Umuntu kumele ngaso sonke isikhathi aqonde “ngomqondo weSonto” —kwaye ake uJesu — hhayi imibono yokuziphendukezela eyimfihlo — aveze ukuthi ngubani uJuda phakathi kwethu, hleze nathi ngokwethu sigwetshwe ngokwahlulela ngokungafanele. 

USt. Catherine waseSiena kukhulunywa kaningi ngalezi zinsuku njengomuntu owayengasabi ukubhekana nopapa. Kepha abagxeki abanawo iphuzu elisemqoka: akazange aphule ukuhlangana naye, ingasaphathwa eyokusebenza njengomthombo woqhekeko ngokutshala ukungabaza egunyeni lakhe futhi ngaleyo ndlela anciphise inhlonipho ekweletwa ihhovisi lakhe.

Noma ngabe upapa akenzanga njengo "sweet Christ emhlabeni," uCatherine wayekholelwa ukuthi abathembekile kufanele bamphathe ngenhlonipho nangokulalela abazokukhombisa kuJesu uqobo. "Noma ngabe ubenguDeveli osesimweni somuntu, bekungafanele ukuthi siphakamise amakhanda ethu simelane naye - kodwa silale ngokuthula silale esifubeni sakhe." Wabhalela abakwaFlorentines, ababevukela uPapa Gregory XI: “Lowo ovukela uBaba wethu, uKristu osemhlabeni, ugwetshelwe ukufa, ngoba lokho esikwenza kuye, sikwenza nakuKristu ezulwini - sidumisa uKristu uma sihlonipha upapa, simhlazisa uKristu uma siphoxa upapa…  -Kusuka kuCatherine waseSiena ka-Anne Baldwin: A Biography. IHuntington, IN: I-OSV Publishing, 1987, amakhasi 95-6

… Ngakho-ke zijwayeze futhi ukubheke noma yini abakutshela yona, kodwa hhayi abakwenzayo; ngoba bayashumayela, kepha abakwenzi. (Mathewu 23: 3)

Uma nicabanga ukuthi nginenkinga kwabanye benu ngenxa yokunganaki okunobuthi, ngilahlekelwa ukwethembela ezithembisweni zikaKristu Petrine, futhi ngihlale ngiya kuleli papa ngokusebenzisa "i-hermeneutic yokusola", funda ku:

Noma ngabe uPapa ubenguSathane osesimweni somuntu, bekungafanele simvuse ngamakhanda ... Ngazi kahle ukuthi abaningi bayazivikela ngokuzigabisa: “Bakhohlakele kakhulu, futhi basebenza yonke inhlobo yobubi!” Kepha uNkulunkulu usiyalezile ukuthi, noma ngabe abapristi, abefundisi, noChrist-on-Earth babengamademoni asemzimbeni wenyama, siyabalalela futhi sibathobele, hhayi ngenxa yabo, kodwa ngenxa kaNkulunkulu, nangokulalela Yena . —USt. UCatherine waseSiena, SCS, k. 201-202, k. 222, (ocashunwe ku I-Apostolic Digest, kaMichael Malone, Incwadi 5: "The Book of Obedience", Isahluko 1: "Ayikho Insindiso Ngaphandle Kokuzithoba KuPapa")

Onilalelayo uyangilalela nami. Lowo onilahlayo uyangilahla. Futhi lowo ongilahlayo wenqaba lowo ongithumileyo. (Luka 10:16)

 

UJOHANE OLELE

Yize kunjalo, uJohn walala Ensimini kanye noPeter noJames, njengoba kunjalo nanamuhla.

Ubuthongo bethu phambi kukaNkulunkulu busenza singabunaki ububi: asimuzwa uNkulunkulu ngoba asifuni ukuphazanyiswa, ngakho-ke sihlala singenandaba nobubi… ukulala kwabafundi akuyona inkinga yalowo mzuzu owodwa, kunokuba kube ngumlando wonke; 'ubuthongo' bungobethu, bethu abangafuni ukubona amandla aphelele wobubi futhi abafuni ukungena ku-Passion yakhe. —UPOPE BENEDICT XVI, iCatholic News Agency, iVictoria City, ngo-Ephreli 20, 2011, General Audience

Lapho onogada befika, abafundi babaleka ngezinxushunxushu, ukwesaba nokudideka. Kungani? Kwakungesiye yini uJohane owayethe njo amehlo akhe ethe njo kuJesu? Kwenzenjani?

Lapho ebona uPetru eqala ukubaleka, bese kuba nguJakobe, bese kuba abanye… walandela isixuku. Bonke bakhohlwa ukuthi uJesu wayesekhona.

IBarque of Peter ayifani neminye imikhumbi. IBarque of Peter, yize igagasi, ihlala iqinile ngoba uJesu ungaphakathi, futhi akasoze ayishiya. —UKhadinali uLouis Raphael Sako, uMbhishobhi omkhulu wamaKaledi eBaghdad, e-Iraq; Novemba 11, 2018, "Vikela Isonto Kulabo Abafuna Ukuliqeda", umagazine

UJohn nabaPhostoli babaleka ngoba bengabalekanga “Qaphela futhi uthandaze” njengokutsho kweNkosi kubo. ^[3]isib. Marku 14:38 Ngokubuka kuza ulwazi; ngomthandazo kuza ukuhlakanipha futhi ukuqonda. Ngakho-ke, ngaphandle komkhuleko, ulwazi alukwazi ukuhlala lungelutho kuphela, kepha lungaba ngumhlabathi wesitha ukuhlwanyela ukhula lokudideka, ukungabaza nokwesaba. 

Ngimcabanga nje uJohn ebuka buqamama, elunguza ngemuva kwesihlahla bese ezibuza: “Kungani ngivele ngabalekela uJesu? Kungani ngesaba futhi nginokholo oluncane kangaka? Kungani ngabalandela abanye? Kungani ngazivumela ukuthi ngikhohliswe ngicabange njengabanye? Kungani ngavumela lokhu kucindezela kontanga? Kungani ngiziphatha njengabo? Kungani nginamahloni okuhlala noJesu? Kungani ebonakala engenamandla futhi engenamandla manje? Nokho, ngiyazi ukuthi Akayona. Leli hlazo nalo livunyelwe eNtandweni Yakhe Engcwele. Themba, John, nje ukwethemba…. "

Ngesinye isikhathi, wadonsa umoya kakhulu futhi waphinde wabheka kuMsindisi wakhe. 

 

UJOHANE OTHOBEKAYO

Wacabangani uJohane ngenkathi izindaba zihamba emoyeni opholile wasebusuku wokuthi uPetru akagcinanga ngokubaleka, kodwa waphika uJesu amahlandla amathathu? Ngabe uJohn wayengaphinde athembe uPetru 'njengedwala' ngesikhathi le ndoda iyikho kuyaxakaniseka? Ngemuva kwakho konke, ngesinye isikhathi, uPeter wazama ukuvimbela i-Passion (Math 16:23); washo izinto ezingasile "ngaphandle kwekhafu" (Math 17: 4); ukholo lwakhe lwantengantenga (Math 14:30); wayeyisoni esivunyelwe (Luka 5: 8); izinhloso zakhe ezinhle zazingezasemhlabeni (Johane 18:10); wakuphika lokho (Marku 14:72); wayezodala ukudideka kwezimfundiso (Gal 2:14); bese ubonakala sengathi ungumzenzisi, ushumayela ngokumelene nento ayenzile! (2 Pet 2: 1)

Mhlawumbe kuphuma ebumnyameni, izwi eli-raspy lahleba endlebeni kaJohn: “Uma uPetru ebonakala enjengenhlabathi kunedwala, kanti noJesu wakho ushaywa, egconwa futhi ekhafulelwa… mhlawumbe yonke le nto ingamanga amakhulu?” Futhi ukholo lukaJohane lwazanyazanyiswa. 

Kepha ayizange iphulwe.

Wavala amehlo akhe waphinde wabhekisa amehlo akhe angaphakathi kuJesu… Izimfundiso zakhe, isibonelo Sakhe, izethembiso Zakhe… indlela ayesanda kuzigeza ngayo izinyawo zabo, ethi, “Izinhliziyo zenu mazingakhathazeki… kholwani nakimi”… ^[4]John 14: 1 futhi ngalokho, uJohn wasukuma, wazixubha, waphendula wathi: “Buyela emva kwami ​​Sathane! ”

Ephendulela amehlo akhe eNtabeni iKalvari, kungenzeka ukuthi uJohane wathi: “Kungenzeka ukuthi uPetru“ uyidwala ”kodwa UJesu uyiNkosi yami. ” Ngalokho, wasuka waya eGolgotha ​​azi ukuthi kulapho iNkosi yakhe izokuba khona maduze.

 

UJOHANE OTHEMBEKILEYO

Ngakusasa, isibhakabhaka sasumnyama. Umhlaba wawuzamazama. Ukuhlekwa usulu, inzondo, nobudlova kwase kukhuphuke kwaqina. Kodwa lapho uJohn wayemi ngaphansi kweSiphambano, uMama eseceleni kwakhe.

Abanye bangitshele ukuthi bagcina ngokulambisa amalungu emindeni yabo eSontweni kanti abanye sebevele bahamba. Amahlazo, ukuhlukunyezwa, ukudideka, ukuzenzisa, ukukhashelwa, ubungqingili, ukuxega, ukuthula… bebengasakwazi ukuthatha okunye. Kepha namuhla, isibonelo sikaJohn sisikhombisa enye indlela: ukuhlala noMama, ongumfanekiso weSonto Elimsulwa; nokuhlala noJesu, iBandla labethelwa esiphambanweni. ISonto lingcwele ngasikhathi sinye, nokho ligcwele izoni.

Yebo, uJohn wayemi lapho engakwazi ukucabanga, ukuzwa, nokuqonda… “Isibonakaliso Sokuphikisa” esasilenga phambi kwakhe sasiningi kakhulu ukuba angasiqonda, sasinamandla amakhulu kakhulu kumuntu. Futhi ngokungazelelwe, Izwi lisike emoyeni ophefumulayo:

“Sifazane, bheka, indodana yakho.” Wayesethi kumfundi: “Bheka unyoko.” (Johane 19: 26-27)

Futhi uJohn wezwa sengathi izingalo zakhe zazimzungezile, njengokungathi wayevalelwe emkhunjini. 

Kusukela kulelo hora umfundi wamngenisa endlini yakhe. (Johane 19:27)

UJohn usifundisa ukuthi ukuthatha uMariya njengoMama wethu kuyindlela eqinisekile yokuhlala sithembekile kuJesu. UJohn, ohlanganiswe noMariya (ongumfanekiso weSonto), umele weqiniso insali yomhlambi kaKristu. Lokho kusho ukuthi, kufanele sihlale simunye no- Church, njalo. Ukumbalekela, kungukubalekela uKristu. Emi noMariya, uJohn wembula ukuthi ukuhlala ethembekile kuJesu kusho ukuhlala ukulalela eSontweni, ukuze lihlale lihlanganyela "nomqondo kaKristu" - noma ngabe konke kubonakala kulahlekile futhi kuyihlazo. Ukuhlala neSonto, ukuhlala esiphephelweni sikaNkulunkulu.

Ngoba uSomandla akabakhiphi ngokuphelele abangcwele ekulingweni kwakhe, kodwa uvikela kuphela umuntu wabo wangaphakathi, lapho kuhlala khona ukholo, ukuze ngesilingo sangaphandle bakhule emseni. —USt. Augustine, Idolobha LikaNkulunkulu, Incwadi XX, Ch. 8

Uma kufanele silandele ezinyathelweni zikaJohn, lapho-ke kufanele sithathe uMama Wethu simngenise “ekhaya” lethu njengoJohn. Ngenkathi iSonto lisivikela futhi lisondla ngeqiniso nangamasakramente, uMama Obusisiwe uqobo "uvikela" umuntu wangaphakathi ngokuncenga nangomusa. Njengoba athembisa kuFatima:

Inhliziyo Yami Engasoze Yaba yisiphephelo sakho nendlela ezokuyisa kuNkulunkulu.—Ukuvela kwesibili, ngoJuni 13, 1917, The Revelation of the Two Hearts in Modern Times, www.ewtn.com

Njengoba ngiqhubeka nokuhamba noSt.John eZweni Elingcwele kuleli sonto, mhlawumbe angasifundisa kabanzi. Okwamanje, ngikushiya ngamazwi omunye “uJohn,” no-Our Lady… 

 

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