The Signs of the Times
Demokrasi yang Sopan ala "Ndasmu"!
Jika yang berkata "Ndasmu" adalah orang biasa seperti saya, rakyat kecil tanpa kontribusi publik, mungkin tidak akan menjadi polemik besar. Tetapi, ini menjadi masalah karena justru para pemimpin, terutama presiden dan para menterinya, yang mengatakannya. Mereka adalah figur publik, panutan bagi generasi muda.
Walk Together in the Easter Light
Photo: Bruno van der Kraan. Let us WALK IN EASTER LIGHT: Open Our Eyes – Seeing with Divine Eyes. Let us be grateful for the greatness of God's love, who is willing to sacrifice for our salvation. Happy Easter. GREETINGS TO YOU. ALLELUIA
Yusuf, the Great Silent Man
Photo: Pixabay. St. Joseph is mentioned by the evangelists Matthew and Luke. According to both Gospels, Joseph is a descendant of David: a link between David's royal family and the Messiah. He was a man of faith and trust, knew the divine mysteries, a man of great silence. As the husband of the Virgin Mary, he took the place of the Father in Jesus. We do not know how long Joseph lived. Joseph is last mentioned during his Easter pilgrimage with twelve year old Jesus. Public veneration of St. Joseph started in the West only in the 14/15 centuries. The feast has been on the Roman calendar since 1621. Then Pope Pius IX. declared him the patron saint of the church in 1870.
Not Offerings, but Loyalty
Photo: Picabay. The New Testament emphasizes that God is primarily interested in a relationship with us based on obedience, loyalty, and truth. This means that we should strive to obey God's commands and live according to His will, rather than focusing on external rituals or offerings.
Prayer in the Furnace
Photo: Aaron Burden. Azariah Prayer encourages believers to praise and trust God in all situations, even when things get tough. Such prayer rituals remind us that the Lord is always with us and will guide us through our challenges if we call on and trust in Him.
Go, If Not Found Faith
Photo: Clay Banks. Right from the start it became clear what Jesus expected of His people. He Himself saw His mission first to offer salvation to the Jewish people. He demands faith from His listeners, without evidence and without conditions. Where He did not find faith, all He could do was "go"; then grace becomes judgment.
The Well is Deep
Photo: Sachin Agate. The history of salvation shows that the God of Israel also accepts His people who grumble, challenge and test Him. This acceptance once again shows that he is a God who is faithful to all who believe in him and to those who find it difficult to believe in him.
Praesis ut prosis, non ut imperes
Photo: Catherine Conrad. Jesus himself understood his way as service. Servants who work for many people, yes it means for everyone who risked their lives.
Why was the Prophet Angry?
Photo: Duane Loux. We would not be so naïve as to think that this warning against hypocrisy, against inner deceit, applied only to Jesus' contemporaries. Yes, the reality of the time of Jesus could have happened today.
Love, Fundamental Virtue
Our own experience, which we have made, imposes on us the obligation to eliminate all possible dangers at this point. It would be of great benefit to us, if the ordinance of life issued in one chapter that confessors have nothing to do with nuns except to hear their sins.
God is always more Gracious
Photo: Ben White. God's judgment will be according to human behavior. But by expanding on verse 38 in Luke (compared to Matthew 7:2), the emphasis shifts from violence to God's mercy, from fear to hope. God is always bigger, more generous. - Ex 34:6-7; Matthew 7:1-2; James 2:13; Proverbs 12:14; Mark 4:24.
The Transfiguration in the Middle of the World
Photo: Pixabay. What the disciples saw and heard on the Mount at the moment of the Transfiguration they will only understand after the resurrection of Jesus. Light clouds and voices from clouds confirm Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God (cf. Mt 16:17).
