KUPHELA umfundi:
Kungani abapristi besifunda bethule kangaka ngalezi zikhathi? Kubonakala kimi ukuthi abefundisi bethu kumele ngabe bayasihola… kepha ama-99% athule… kungani bathule… ??? Kungani abantu abaningi kangaka belele? Kungani bengavuki? Ngiyabona ukuthi kwenzekani futhi angikhethekile… kungani abanye bengakwazi? Kufana negunya elivela eZulwini elithunyelwe ukuba livuke futhi libone ukuthi isikhathi sini… kepha bambalwa kuphela abaphaphile futhi bambalwa abasabelayo.
Impendulo yami ngukuthi kungani umangele? Uma kungenzeka ukuthi siphila “ezikhathini zokuphela” (hhayi ukuphela komhlaba, kepha “isikhathi” sokuphela) njengoba iningi labapapa babebonakala becabanga njengoPius X, uPaul V, noJohn Paul II, uma kungenjalo wethula uBaba oNgcwele, khona-ke lezi zinsuku zizoba njengoba nje umBhalo wathi kuzoba njalo.
IZINSUKU ZONOWA
UNowa akazange awakhe umkhumbi ngobusuku obubodwa. Kwakungathatha isikhathi esiyiminyaka eyikhulu. Ngicabanga ukuthi sekunesikhathi esingakanani u-Our Lady evela eFatima… 1917. Lokho, kwabanye, isikhathi “eside”.
Ngesikhathi sokwakha, abaningi babezombuka uNowa futhi athi uyahlanya, uyakhohlisa, uphambene. Abanye kungenzeka babethukile, futhi babona ukuthi mhlawumbe babephikisana nomthetho obhalwe ezinhliziyweni zabo…. kodwa njengoba amashumi eminyaka ayeqhubeka, futhi kungenzeki lutho, ngokushesha bamziba uNowa ngokuphelele, yize umkhumbi wawusenjalo ngokusobala nansuku zonke phambi kwamehlo abo. Futhi abanye balandela konke okwenziwa nguNowa, bemgcona, bemhlambalaza, benza noma yini okusemandleni ukufakazela ukuthi wayengeyena nje umuntu wokukhohlisa, kodwa nokuthi uNkulunkulu wakhe wayengekho, futhi umhlaba uzoqhubeka njengenjwayelo.
Lokho kufana ngqo nezikhathi zethu. Yebo, uMama wethu Obusisiwe ubelokhu evela amashumi amaningi eminyaka, amakhulu eminyaka ngisho. Abaningi baye bacabanga ukuthi izibuko ezingokoqobo ziyimbudane noma okungenani azisebenzi. Abanye bayizwile imilayezo yabo, futhi okwesikhashana, bayilandela ngenkathi beguqula izimpilo zabo… kepha njengoba isikhathi sihambile, futhi izici ezingokwesiprofetho zisamele zifezeke ngokuphelele, balele, kwesinye isikhathi babuyela emuva ekucabangeni nasemisebenzini yezwe. Futhi abanye babuke izibuko ngokucophelela, bashicilela izincwadi nezindatshana ngaso sonke isikhathi ukuze benze iphutha, sola ababonayo, nakwabanye, sebenzisa lokhu njengethuba lokuhlasela oThembekile.
UJesu wathi, ngaphambi kokubuya Kwakhe, umhlaba uzoba “njengasezinsukwini zikaNowa”(ULuka 17:26). Okungukuthi, bambalwa kakhulu abangakulungela izehlakalo eziningi ezizonyakazisa umhlaba, lezo zinhlungu zokubeletha kanye nezehlakalo ezizolandela. Ngesikhathi sikaNowa, eziyisishiyagalombili ezweni lonke kwase kumi ngomumo.
Bayisishiyagalombili kuphela abagibela umkhumbi.
OKUSELELE
Ngenkathi kuzalwa uJesu, bambalwa kuphela abelusi kanye nezihlakaniphi ezimbalwa ezaMbingelela, yize iziphrofetho zabikezela ukuthi uMesiya wayezozalelwa eBetlehema, futhi uHerode nabanye babelindele ukuza Kwakhe okuseduze. Ngisho nezinkanyezi zazibikezela izimpawu.
Lapho uJesu efa futhi evuka futhi, wagcwalisa iziprofetho ezingaba ngu-400 emBhalweni ezabhalwa emakhulwini eminyaka ngaphambi kwakhe ezazikhona ekubonakaleni okuphelele kwabaholi bamaJuda. Kodwa kwakunguJohn kuphela, uMama kaKrestu, nodadewabo ababemi ngaphansi kweSiphambano… kuphela abesifazane abambalwa ababesethuneni ngosuku lwesithathu.
Kanjalo futhi, njengoba Umdlandla weSonto sekusondele, “abalandeli” eSontweni bazoba mbalwa futhi babe mbalwa. USt. Paul wathi empeleni kuzoba nokuhlubuka, ukuwa okukhulu okholweni (2 Thes 2). UJesu uqobo wathi ukuza koSuku lweNkosi kuzoqhutshwa ngabaningi abalele (Math 25), futhi waxwayisa abaPhostoli ukuba "bahlale bephapheme!" Ngokufanayo, uSt. Peter wanxusa amakholwa ukuba "ahlale ehlile futhi ephapheme." Akufanele kusimangaze ukuthi, noma ngabe “uMphongolo weSivumelwano Esisha” ubonakala ngokugcwele, abaningi, abaningi balele, abakhohlwa, noma abanandaba nje.
ISANDLA SIKANKULUNKULU SIPhezu KWAKHO KONKE
Bafowethu nodadewethu, ngizwa kwabaningi “abaprofethi” uNkulunkulu angixhume nabo, abanye abayimfihlakalo, abanye ababhali, abanye abapristi… futhi ngaphandle kokukhetha, “izwi” ukuthi eminye imicimbi ebalulekile iyeza ezophonsa umhlaba ube nezinxushunxushu ezinkulu… imimoya emikhulu ye Isiphepho Esikhulu ukuthi izwe libheke (bheka Isiprofetho ERoma - Ingxenye VI). Futhi nokho, uPapa Paul VI uyaqhubeka namanje ukubeka konke ngombono:
Kwesinye isikhathi ngifunda isigaba seVangeli sezikhathi zokuphela futhi ngifakazela ukuthi, ngalesi sikhathi, ezinye izimpawu zalokhu kuphuma ziyavela. Ngabe sesiseduze nokuphela? Lokhu ngeke sazi. Kufanele ngaso sonke isikhathi sizibambe sikulungele, kepha konke kungahlala isikhathi eside kakhulu okwamanje. —I-POPE PAUL VI, Imfihlo Paul VI, UJean Guitton, k. 152-153, Reference (7), k. ix.
Yebo, kubonakala sengathi abaningi abazi, abathandi, noma abakwazi ukubona lokho okuye kwashiwo ngokucacile ngopapa, okukhulunywa nguMama Wethu Obusisiwe, futhi kwabikezelwa emBhalweni Ongcwele. Kepha uma kwenzeka labo do bona ucabange ukuthi kungenxa yokuthi bakhethekile, badinga ukubona ngokuthobeka ukuthi bayabona ngesizathu. Kusukela ekubhalweni kwami, Ithemba liyasa:
Bancane, ningacabangi ukuthi ngoba nina, insali, nibancane ngenani kusho ukuthi nikhethekile. Kunalokho, ukhethiwe. Ukhethiwe ukuletha Izindaba Ezinhle emhlabeni ngehora elibekiwe. Lokhu kungukunqoba inhliziyo yami ekulindele ngokulangazela okukhulu. Konke sekuhleliwe manje. Konke kuhamba. Isandla seNdodana yami sikulungele ukuhamba ngendlela yobukhosi. Linake izwi lami. Nginilungiselela, bancane bami, ngaleli Hora Elikhulu Lomusa. UJesu uyeza, eza njengokuKhanya, ezovusa imiphefumulo ecwile ebumnyameni. Ngoba ubumnyama bukhulu, kodwa ukukhanya kukhulu kakhulu. Lapho uJesu efika, okuningi kuzovela ekukhanyeni, futhi ubumnyama buyohlakazeka. Kungaleso sikhathi-ke lapho uzobe uthunyelwa, njengabaPhostoli bakudala, ukuqoqela imiphefumulo ezingutsheni zami zoMama. Linda. Konke sekumi ngomumo. Bhekani futhi nithandaze. Ungalokothi ulahle ithemba, ngoba uNkulunkulu uthanda wonke umuntu.
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