I-Apocalypse, ngu-Michael D. O'Brien
Kwathi seziphelile izinsuku eziyisikhombisa.
amanzi kazamcolo afika emhlabeni.
(UGenesise 7: 10)
I ngifuna ukukhuluma ngokusuka enhliziyweni umzuzwana ukubekisa lonke lolu chungechunge.
Iminyaka emithathu edlule ibe wuhambo olumangalisayo kimi, ebengingakaze ngihlose ukuluqala. Angisho ukuthi ngingumprofethi… nje isithunywa sevangeli esilula esizwa ubizo lokukhanyisa kancane kulezi zinsuku esiphila kuzo kanye nezinsuku ezizayo. Akudingeki ukuthi kushiwo, lo kube ngumsebenzi omkhulu, futhi owenziwa ngokwesaba okukhulu nangokuthuthumela. Okungenani lokho engabelana ngakho nabaprofethi! Kepha futhi kwenziwa ngokusekelwa okukhulu komkhuleko iningi lenu elinikele ngomusa kimi. Ngiyayizwa. Ngiyayidinga. Futhi ngiyabonga kakhulu.
Izehlakalo zezikhathi zokuphela, njengoba zembulwe kumprofethi uDaniel, zazizobekwa uphawu kuze kube yisikhathi sokuphela. Ngisho noJesu akazange abavulele labo bafundi bakhe lezo zimpawu, futhi wayezibophezela ekunikezeni izexwayiso ezithile futhi ekhomba nezimpawu ezithile ezazizofika. Asiphutha-ke lapho sibheka lezi zimpawu njengoba iNkosi yethu isiyaleze ukuthi senze kanjalo lapho ithi, “bhekani futhi nithandaze,” futhi futhi,
Lapho nibona lezi zinto zenzeka, yazini ukuthi umbuso kaNkulunkulu useduze. (Luka 21:31)
OFata Besonto nabo basinikeza ukulandelana kwezikhathi okugcwalise izikhala ngandlela thile. Ezikhathini zethu, uNkulunkulu uthumele abaprofethi abaningi, kubandakanya noMama Wakhe, ebiza isintu ukuba silungiselele izinsizi ezinkulu futhi ekugcineni, ukunqoba okukhulu, okuqhubeka kukhanyisa “izimpawu zezikhathi.”
Ngocingo lwangaphakathi olusizwe ngumkhuleko kanye nezibani ezithile ezingifikele, ngithuthukise ngokubhala lokho engibona sengathi iNkosi ikucela kimi — okungukuthi, ukubeka ukulandelana kwezenzakalo kusekelwe ku-Passion kaKristu, ngoba kuyimfundiso yeSonto ukuthi uMzimba Wakhe uzolandela ezinyathelweni zaKhe (ICatechism yeSonto LamaKatolika 677). Lokhu kubalwa kwezikhathi, njengoba ngathola, kugeleza ngokufana nombono kaSt. Okuvelayo ukulandelana kwezenzakalo ezisuka emiBhalweni ezihambisana nesiprofetho esiyiqiniso. Noma kunjalo, kufanele sikukhumbule lokho sibona kufiphele njengasesibukweni — futhi nesikhathi kuyimfihlakalo. Ngaphezu kwalokho, umBhalo unendlela yokuziphindaphinda njengokuvunguza, futhi ngaleyo ndlela, ingahunyushwa futhi isetshenziswe kuzo zonke izizukulwane.
Ngibona kufiphele. Angizazi lezi zinto ngokuqinisekile, kepha ngizinikele ngokwezibani engizinikiwe, njengoba zibonwa ngokuqondiswa ngokomoya, nangokuzithoba okuphelele ekuhlakanipheni kweSonto.
IZINHLUNGU ZOMSEBENZI
Njengoba nje owesifazane okhulelwe ezwa ukuhlinzwa okungekho emthethweni kukho konke ukukhulelwa kwakhe, kanjalo nomhlaba nawo wezwa izinhlungu zokubeletha zamanga selokhu kwenyuka uKrestu. Izimpi, indlala, nezinhlupho sezifikile zadlula. Izinhlungu zokubeletha ezingamanga, kufaka phakathi isicanucanu nokukhathala, zingahlala izinyanga eziyisishiyagalolunye zokukhulelwa. Eqinisweni, bayindlela yomzimba yesikhathi eside yokulungiselela ubunzima be real umsebenzi. Kodwa izinhlungu zangempela zokubeletha zihlala kuphela amahora, isikhathi esifushane uma kuqhathaniswa.
Imvamisa uphawu lokuthi owesifazane useqalile ukubeletha kweqiniso ukuthi "amanzi akhe ayabhidlika. ”Ngokunjalo nolwandle seluqalile ukukhuphuka, futhi namanzi asephule izingqimba zethu ezingxenyeni zemvelo (cabanga ngeSiphepho uKatrina, iAsia Tsunami, iMynamar, isikhukhula sakamuva sase-Iowa, njll.) okuhlangenwe nakho kowesifazane, kuzokwenza ukuthi umzimba wakhe uthuthumela futhi uthuthumela. Kanjalo futhi, umhlaba usuqala ukuzamazama ngobuningi obukhulayo nangokuqina, "ububula" njengoba uSt. Paul ebeka, elindele "ukwambulwa kwabantwana bakaNkulunkulu" (Rom 8:19).
Ngikholwa wukuthi izinhlungu zokubeletha umhlaba obhekene nazo manje ziyizinto ezingokoqobo, iziqalo ze ukusebenza kanzima. Kungukuzalwa kuka “inani eliphelele labezizwe. ” Owesifazane weSambulo ubeletha lo "mntwana wesilisa" evula indlela yokuba wonke u-Israyeli asindiswe.
“Ukufakwa ngokuphelele” kwamaJuda ekusindisweni kukaMesiya, ngemuva “kwenani eliphelele labezizwe”, kuzokwenza Abantu bakaNkulunkulu bakwazi ukuthola “isilinganiso sobukhulu bokugcwala kukaKristu”, lapho “ UNkulunkulu angaba yikho konke kubo bonke ”. -Catechism weSonto LamaKatolika,n. 674
Lesi yisikhathi esibucayi esesingenile, isikhathi sokuhlala sisangulukile futhi siqaphile njengoba izinhlungu zokubeletha zikhula futhi iSonto liqala ukwehla umsele wokuzalwa.
UMKHONDO WOKUZALWA
Ngikholwa ukuthi ukukhanya kukhombisa ukuqala okusondele kwe- “Icala Leminyaka Eyisikhombisa. ” Izofika ngesikhathi sezinxushunxushu, okungukuthi, ngesikhathi sokusebenza kanzima kwe Izimpawu zeSambulo.
Njengoba ngibhala Ukwehlukaniswa Kwezimpawu, Ngikholwa ukuthi uPhawu lokuqala seluvele luphuliwe.
Ngabona, bheka, nanto ihhashi elimhlophe, nomgibeli walo ephethe umnsalo. Wanikwa umqhele, futhi wagibela phambili enqoba ukuqhubekisela phambili ukunqoba kwakhe. (IsAm 6: 2)
Okungukuthi, abaningi sebebhekene nokuKhanya noma ukuvuka emiphefumulweni yabo njengoMgibeli, uPapa Pius XII amchaza njengoJesu, ohlaba izinhliziyo zabo ngemicibisholo yothando nesihe efuna ukunqoba okuningi. Maduze, lo Mkhweli uzozibonakalisa emhlabeni. Kepha okokuqala, ezinye iziMpawu zizokwaphulwa kuqala ngeSibili:
Kwaphuma elinye ihhashi, elibomvu. Umgibeli wayo wanikwa amandla okususa ukuthula emhlabeni, ukuze abantu babulalane. Futhi wanikwa inkemba enkulu. (IsAm 6: 4)
Lokhu kuqubuka kodlame nezinxushunxushu okuyimpi nokuvukela umbuso kanye nemiphumela yazo elandelayo kuyisijeziso, umuntu azilethele sona, njengoba kwabikezelwa ngu-Blessed Anna Maria Taigi:
UNkulunkulu uzothumela izijeziso ezimbili: eyodwa izoba sesimweni sezimpi, ukuvukelwa, nobunye ububi; kuyakusuka emhlabeni. Enye izothunyelwa ivela ezulwini. -Isiprofetho samaKatolika, Yves Dupont, Tan Books (1970), ikhasi. 44-45
Futhi masingasho ukuthi nguNkulunkulu osijezisa ngale ndlela; Ngokuphambene nalokho ngabantu uqobo abalungiselela ukujeziswa kwabo. Ngomusa wakhe uNkulunkulu uyasixwayisa futhi usibizele endleleni eyiyo, ebe ehlonipha inkululeko asinike yona; yingakho abantu benesibopho. - Sr. Lucia, omunye wababonisi bakaFatima, encwadini ayibhalele uBaba oNgcwele, ngoMeyi 12, 1982.
Izimpawu ezilandelayo zibonakala ziyizithelo zoLwesibili: Uphawu lwesiThathu luyaphulwa — ukuwa kwezomnotho kanye nokwabiwa kokudla; owesine, inhlupho, indlala, nobudlova obengeziwe; okwesihlanu, ukushushiswa okwengeziwe kweSonto — konke okubonakala kuyimiphumela yokuwohloka komphakathi ngemuva kwempi. Lokhu kushushiswa kwamaKrestu, ngiyakholelwa, kuzoba yisithelo somthetho wamasosha ozofakwa emazweni amaningi njengesilinganiso "sokuphepha kwesizwe". Kepha lokhu kuzosetshenziswa njengephambili "lokuqoqa" labo abadala "ukuphazamiseka komphakathi." Futhi, ngaphandle kokungena ngokuningiliziwe, umthombo wendlala nezinhlupho kungaba ngowemvelo noma wemvelaphi engabazisayo, eyenziwe yilabo abathatha "ukulawula kwabantu" njengegunya labo.
Kuyoba khona ukuzamazama komhlaba okunamandla, indlala, nezifo ezindaweni ngezindawo; futhi izinto ezesabekayo nezibonakaliso ezinamandla zizovela ezulwini. (Luka 21:11)
Bese kuthi, uPhawu lwesiThupha luyaphulwa— “izimpawu ezivela esibhakabhakeni":
Ngabuka ngenkathi ivula uphawu lwesithupha, kwaba khona ukuzamazama komhlaba okukhulu; ilanga laphenduka laba mnyama njengendwangu yesaka emnyama nenyanga yonke yaba njengegazi. Izinkanyezi esibhakabhakeni zawela emhlabeni njengamakhiwane angavuthiwe azanyazanyiswa esihlahleni kunomoya onamandla. (IsAm 6: 12-13)
UPHAWU LWESITHUPHA
Okwenzekayo ngokulandelayo kuzwakala kakhulu njengokukhanya:
Khona-ke isibhakabhaka sahlukaniswa njengomqulu odwenguliwe ugoqeka, futhi zonke izintaba neziqhingi zasuswa endaweni yazo. Amakhosi omhlaba, izicukuthwane, izikhulu zamasosha, abacebile, abanamandla, nazo zonke izigqila nabantu abakhululekile bazifihla emihumeni naphakathi kwamadwala asezintabeni. Bakhala ezintabeni nasemadwaleni, bathi: “Welani phezu kwethu, nisifihle ebusweni balowo ohlezi esihlalweni sobukhosi nasolakeni lweWundlu, ngokuba usuku olukhulu lolaka lwabo selufikile; ngubani ongamelana nalo na? ? ” (IsAm 6: 14-17)
Ama-mystics asitshela ukuthi kwabanye abantu, lokhu kuKhanya noma Isixwayiso kuzofana "nokwahlulela okuncane," kubhekwe njengokungathi "ulaka lukaNkulunkulu" ukuze kulungiswe onembeza babo. Umbono weSiphambano, obangela usizi nehlazo elinje kubakhileyo emhlabeni, lowo “weWundlu limi, kungathi lihlatshiwe” (IsAm 5: 6).
Lapho-ke isibonakaliso esikhulu sesiphambano sizovela esibhakabhakeni. Ekuvulekeni lapho izandla nezinyawo zoMsindisi abethelwe khona kuzophuma izibani ezinkulu. -Idayari kaSt. Faustina,n. 83
Ngiyakuthululela phezu kwendlu kaDavide naphezu kwabakhileyo eJerusalema umoya womusa nokunxusa; futhi bazombheka lowo abamgwazile, futhi bazomkhalela njengalokhu kulilela indodana ezelwe yodwa, futhi bayomkhalela njengalowo olilela izibulo lakhe. (Zak 12: 10-11)
Ngempela, i-Illumination ixwayisa ngokusondela Usuku lweNkosi lapho uKristu ezofika “njengesela ebusuku” ezokwahlulela Ukuphila. Njengoba ukuzamazama komhlaba kuhambisane nokufa kukaJesu esiphambanweni, kanjalo nokuKhanya kwesiphambano esibhakabhakeni kuzophelezelwa Ukuzamazama Okukhulu.
UKUNYAKAZELA OKUKHULU
Sibona lokhu kuzamazama okukhulu kwenzeka lapho uJesu engena eJerusalema ngeNtshisekelo Yakhe. Wamukelwa ngamagatsha esundu nokumemeza "Hosana kuNdodana kaDavide." Ngokunjalo futhi, uSt. John futhi unombono emva kokuvulwa koPhawu lwesiThupha lapho abona khona isixuku sabantu bephethe amagatsha esundu bememeza bethi: “Insindiso ivela kuNkulunkulu wethu.”
Kodwa kwaze kwaba yilapho iJerusalema lizamazama ukuthi wonke umuntu uphume ezibuza ukuthi ngubani lo muntu:
Kuthe engena eJerusalema, umuzi wonke wanyakaziswa, wathi: “Ngubani lo?” Izixuku zaphendula zathi: “Lo ungumprofethi, uJesu waseNazaretha laseGalile.” (Math 21:10)
Abantu abaningi kakhulu, lapho bevuswe yilokhu kukhanya, bazokwethuka badideke futhi bazobuza, “Ubani lo?” Lokhu ukuvangela okusha esikulungiselelwa. Kepha futhi kuzoqala isigaba esisha se- ukulwa. Ngenkathi insali yamakholwa imemeza ukuthi uJesu unguMesiya, abanye bazothi Ungumprofethi nje. Kule ndima evela kuMathewu, sibona ukusikisela kweMpi, ka Umgunyathi Ozayo lapho abaprofethi bamanga beNkathi Entsha beyohlwanyela izimangalo ezingamanga ngoKristu, futhi ngaleyo ndlela, iBandla Lakhe.
Kepha kuzoba nesibonakaliso esengeziwe sokusiza abakholwayo: uMfazi weSambulo.
UKUKHANYA NOMUNTU WESIFAZANE
Njengoba uMary wayemi ngaphansi kweSiphambano okokuqala, futhi, uzobe ekhona ngaphansi kweSiphambano Sokukhanyisa. Ngakho-ke uPhawu lwesiThupha kanye neSambulo 11:19 kubukeka kuchaza umcimbi ofanayo ngezindlela ezimbili ezihlukene:
Ngemuva kwalokho kwavulwa ithempeli likaNkulunkulu ezulwini, kwabonakala umphongolo wesivumelwano sakhe ethempelini. Kwaba nemibani, ukuduma, nokuduma kwezulu, i ukuzamazama komhlaba, nesichotho esinamandla.
Umphongolo wokuqala wesivumelwano owakhiwa uDavide wawufihlwe emhumeni umprofethi uJeremiya. Uthe indawo yokucasha ngeke ivezwe kuze kube yisikhathi esithile ngokuzayo:
Indawo kufanele ihlale ingaziwa kuze kube yilapho uNkulunkulu eqoqa abantu bakhe futhi ubakhombisa umusa. (2 Macc 2: 7)
Ukukhanya is ihora lomusa, ingxenye yoSuku Lomusa olwandulela uSuku Lwezobulungiswa. Futhi ngalelo hora lomusa sizobona uMphongolo ethempelini likaNkulunkulu.
UMariya, lapho iNkosi uqobo isanda kwenza ikhaya lakhe, uyindodakazi yeZiyoni uqobo, umphongolo wesivumelwano, indawo lapho inkazimulo yeNkosi ihlala khona. -Catechism weSonto LamaKatolika, n. 2676
KUNGANI UMARIYA?
Umphongolo weSivumelwano Esisha, uMariya, ubonakala ethempelini; kodwa kumi enkabeni yalo yiWundlu likaNkulunkulu:
Ngasengibona kumi phakathi kwesihlalo sobukhosi lezidalwa ezine eziphilayo labadala, iWundlu limi, kungathi lihlatshiwe. (IsAm. 5: 6)
Kungani iSt John ingagxili kakhulu kwiWundlu kunomphongolo? Impendulo ithi uJesu usevele wabhekana neSilo futhi wanqoba. ISt. John's Apocalypse ibhalelwe ukulungiselela iSonto ngeNtshisekelo yakhe. Manje Umzimba Wakhe iSonto, nalo elifanekiselwa uMfazi, kufanele libhekane naleli Silo, lichoboze ikhanda lalo njengoba kwakuprofethiwe:
Ngiyakubeka ubutha phakathi kwakho nowesifazane, nenzalo yakho, nenzalo yakhe; yona iyakukuchoboza ikhanda, wena uyimele isithende sayo. (UGenesise 3:15; IDouay-Rheims)
Owesifazane bobabili uMariya neSonto. Futhi uMariya u…
… ISonto lokuqala nowesifazane weSidlo. —UKhadinali Marc Ouellet, I-Magnificat: Ukuvula Umgubho Nomhlahlandlela Ongokomoya for the 49th Eucharistic Congress, ikhasi 164
Umbono kaSt. John ekugcineni ungukunqoba kweSonto, okuwukunqoba kwe-Immafculate Heart kanye ne-Sacred Heart kaJesu, yize ukunqoba kweSonto kungeke kugcwaliseke ngokuphelele kuze kube sekupheleni kwesikhathi:
Ukunqoba kombuso kaKristu ngeke kwenzeke ngaphandle kokuhlaselwa kokugcina ngamandla wobubi. -CCC, 680
UJESU FUTHI UMARIYA
Ngakho-ke, sithola lesi sibonakaliso esikabili sikaMary neSiphambano sifanekiselwa ezikhathini zanamuhla selokhu aqala ukubonakala kuCatherine Labouré futhi wacela ukuthi kushaywe iMedal Miral (ngezansi kwesobunxele). UMary ungaphambili kwendondo ne- ukukhanya kukaKristu isuka ezandleni zayo nangemuva kwayo; ngemuva kwendondo kuneSiphambano.
Qhathanisa indlela okusolakala ukuthi wavela ngayo ku-Ida Peerdeman eminyakeni engaphezu kwengama-50 kamuva esithombeni (ngakwesokudla) esathola imvume esemthethweni yeSonto:
Futhi nasi isithombe esivela ezibukweni ezivunyiwe ze-Akita, Japan:
Lezi zithombe zikaMariya ziyizimpawu ezinamandla "zempikiswano yokugcina" ephambi kweSonto: uthando lwakhe, ukufa, nokukhazimuliswa:
ISonto lizongena enkazimulweni yombuso kuphela ngaleli Phasika lokugcina, lapho lizolandela iNkosi yalo ekufeni nasekuvukeni kwalo. -Ikhathekizimu leSonto LamaKatolika, hhayi. 677
Ngakho-ke, i-Illumination iyi- asayine iSonto ukuthi icala lakhe Elikhulu selifikile, kodwa ikakhulukazi, ukuthi yena ukuqinisekiswa sekuntwela ezansi… ukuthi yena kungukuqala kweNkathi entsha.
ISonto, elakhiwa abakhethiweyo, kufanelekile ukuthi liguqulwe njengokusa noma kokusa… Kuzoba usuku oluphelele kuye lapho ekhanya ngokukhanya okuhle kokukhanya kwangaphakathi. —St. UGregory the Great, uPapa; Imfundo yamahora, Umq. III, k. 308 (bona futhi Ikhandlela Elishunqayo futhi Ukulungiselela Umshado ukuqonda ubumbano lwezinkampani oluyimfihlo, oluzokwandulelwa “ubusuku obumnyama bomphefumulo” beBandla.)
Lokhu kuchaza ngokufanele iNkathi Yokuthula, noma “usuku lokuphumula” lapho uKristu ebusa ngabangcwele Bakhe ngaphakathi ebunyeni obujulile obuyimfihlakalo.
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