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Saturday, September 08, 2018
Sept 8, 2018
MARY’S ACTIONS
Matt 1: 1-16, 18-23


Some of my friends have a good example in our daily life. Their example is about more actions than words. They are different from my others friends who talk more than actions. The first group usually has a silent attitude very high. Meanwhile, the second group usually has a contrary; no time to silent, always has the topic to talk or discuss. 

In today's (celebration of the Birthday/nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary) Gospel, we listen to the nativity of Jesus. Mary in this event takes the important ruler. She talks little and if we observe in the whole gospel, we find little event when Mary says something. Only in some moments like in Cana, etc. Mary is like the first group of my friend. She is a quiet person, loved silent. In the silent, she listens to the instructions of the Angle. She follows it step by step until the plan of God happens in the world. The Word of God becomes Flash in the story of humanity.

We can imitate Mary in her silent life. We don’t need to talk more. We just need to act more. And silent is the best moment to think about what will we do. The plan of God for us is like the plan of God for Mary. It comes in silent and we must respond it in silent. Silent is Mary’s action in this Gospel. Let us learn from Mary to become a silent person so that we can listen to the Word of God, we can know the plan of God for us, we can act as God instructs us to follow Him.

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Friday, September 07, 2018
Sep 7, 2018
FASTING AS A PREPARATION
Luke 5: 33-39

My Italian friends talk to me that, the best wine is the old wine. But, I never distinguish between the old and new wine. For me, I just only enjoy the wine putting on the table. I can say which is good and not but I never complain about it. They talk more about the preparation to get the old wine and I talk more about my preparation to enjoy that wine.

In today’s Gospel, we listen to Jesus who talks to the Scribe and Pharisees. Jesus stresses more about interior spiritual than exterior spiritual. What we look in daily life is more exterior than interior. The Pharisees and Scribe are the same as us who like to see the exterior spiritual.

When they see something that out of the religious law, they like to judge it. They look at Jesus’ disciples who don't fast like the disciples of John the Baptist. For them, this is out of the ordinary life. Jesus asks them to see the interior spirituality and not only the exterior.

Jesus in today’s Gospel is really a reformer who bring the new idea. Fasting for Him is a preparation for welcoming God. Like for us practice fasting before Easter and Christmas. The main purpose of this spiritual fasting is to prepare ourselves to receive our Lord Jesus Christ.

So, if we are with Jesus we don't need to fast. When are we with God? When we pray, when we talk to Him personally, when we meditate His Word, when we serve the others. Many occasion could be the time with God. So, at that time we don’t need to fast. We fast before these activities. On the other word, fasting is our personal preparation.

Fasting in this sense means not only don’t eat some kinds of food or reduce some habits but really is an interior preparation. We can consider the time before attending the mass as a spiritual fasting.

Let us prepare ourselves to welcome God in our interior life.




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Thursday, September 06, 2018
Sept 6, 2018
TOUCHED BY JESUS
Luke 5: 1-11

One of my friends in Philippine always talks to me about the Jeepney. He said that he likes to use Jeepney because he wants to be touched by the other people, especially by the girl. He was joking to me but I think it is true. As a man, he surely wants to touch and to be touched by the girl.

In the Gospel, we see how Peter touched by Jesus. He was almost not in hoping to get fish. One night they got nothing. But in that morning, Jesus asked him to low the net. For sure that by the obedience he put the net. What will happen? Peter was very happy. Finally, they get a lot of fish. Abundance in quantity.

Peter is not only touched but also changed by Jesus. His mentality is really changed. From the despair to the hope. From sadness to joy. Peter is able to let himself guide by Jesus. Jesus, in fact, able to transform us in His way. That is what Peter did.

So, touched by Jesus means not only physically touching but also affect on the mentality. Peter was happy getting a lot of fish but he will get a lot of joyful moment with Jesus.

When am I touched spiritually by Jesus?
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Wednesday, September 05, 2018
Sept 5, 2018
KNOWN BY DEMON
Luke 4: 38-44


If we do the best, even the bad man will know us. All the people want to know who is the actor of this good things. On the contrary, if we do the horrible thing, many people will ridicule us.

In the Gospel who demon knows Jesus. "You are the Son of God," said Demon. The Demon said this after seeing Jesus heal the sick people. Jesus had dawned the good thing so that even the Demon knew it very well.

Imagine when we do good things, many people come to give us support.

The mission of Jesus in the world is to bring good news to all people. One of this good news is healing the sick people. Here, sick means both physic and spiritual. Jesus today heal both sides of the sick people.

This mission comes from His Father. That’s why Jesus doesn’t stop in one place but continue to bring good news to the other places. Of course, many people to do it again and again but Jesus cannot do it. He must go to the others and important also to go to the desert place where He can pray.

The healing needs the new spirit from the Father. This spirit can come from the spiritual experience for example in the prayer. That’s why Jesus after healing go to pray.

Do we want to heal by Jesus?
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Tuesday, September 04, 2018
Sept 4, 2018
ADMIRE ABOUT JESUS
Luke 4: 31-37

I never live with Jesus but I know him through pictures, photo, paintings, etc. I always admire about Him when I see the pictures about Him. When I arrived in Italy in 2013, I always admired the art of Italy. There, we can see how to admire the work of human through the arts. In this arts, there are many pictures and paintings about Jesus with their things that make the visitors feel admire.

The today’s Gospel talks about the teaching of Jesus in Capernaum. The audience was astonished by it because Jesus teaches them not like the leaders of Jews who talk about the religious tradition. Jesus teaches them with authority and I think with simple words so that the people can understand it. The authority of Jesus makes the Satan goes out from the man in Synagogue.  It means that Jesus is really powerful. Even the people were astonished about this action of Jesus with his authority.

Jesus shows us his mission include to pull out the Satan. When are we admire about Jesus or his teaching? What kind of Satan that stays in yourself or in myself? Do we want to let Jesus comes to bring out our Satan?

Jesus, help us to admire your teaching.  
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Monday, July 16, 2018

BUNDA PENUH CINTA


Paus Fransiskus sering mendengungkan ide tentang Gereja sebagai Ibu. Dalam bahasa Barat—seperti Italia—Gereja berpredikat feminim. “La Chiesa” dalam bahasa Italia. Predikat feminim ini sama dengan predikat Maria atau “La Madre”. Memang Bunda Maria dan Gereja adalah Ibu bagi semua orang. Paus berkomentar, “Maria adalah Bunda yang Allah inginkan pada Gereja: Ibu yang lemah lembut, rendah hati, miskin material, dan kaya akan cinta.” Mari belajar dari Bunda Maria dan Gereja sebagai Ibu.
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Monday, April 23, 2018

ANAK ZAMAN NOW



Begitu istilah keren sekarang: anak-anak zaman now alias sekarang. Mereka yang hidup sekarang banyak maunya, banyak inginnya, banyak mintanya. Apalagi untuk mereka yang orang tuanya cukup berada, apa saja yang diminta boleh jadi bisa dipenuhi. Anak-anak ini bahkan tidak bisa lagi menahan keinginannya untuk sesuatu yang baru. Orang tua mereka sebaliknya tidak tahu lagi membedakan permintaan anak yang mesti dipenuhi dan yang tidak perlu dipenuhi. Karena hal ini, anak-anak zaman now kadang-kadang tidak bahagia. Dia tidak bisa berkreasi seperti anak-anak kampung yang bermain misalnya dengan mainan alam atau mainan sosial. Di sini anak-anak diperkenalkan dengan alam dan lingkungan sosial. Paus Fransiskus punya perhatian besar untuk anak-anak zaman now. Katanya, “Mari kita berdoa untuk anak-anak yang tidak dibiarkan lahir, yang menangis karena lapar, yang bermain bukan dengan mainan anak-anak tetapi dengan senjata.” Doa yang indah dan perhatian yang nyata. Mari didik anak-anak kita dengan bijaksana.
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Monday, April 23, 2018
MEREKA YANG BERBEDA DENGAN KITA



Perbedaan selalu indah jika kita bisa menerimanya. Namun, sering kali kita sulit menerima berbagai perbedaan: ras, warna kulit, budaya, tutur kata, perilaku, kondisi fisik, dan sebagainya. Hanya mereka yang bijaksana mampu menerima dan bisa hidup dalam perbedaan. Boleh jadi kita belum sampai pada sikap bijaksana ini. Paus Fransiskus mengatakan, “Kebijaksanaan Allah membantu kita bagaimana merangkul dan menerima mereka yang bertindak dan berpikir dengan cara yang berbeda dengan kita.” Semoga kita makin bijaksana dengan bantuan Allah.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

SAAT IMAN JADI NYATA


Banyak orang yang beriman tetapi sedikit yang menyatakan imannya dalam perbuatan. Iman bukan soal ‘saya mengaku beriman’ atau beriman dalam pikiran. Iman seperti ini adalah iman yang abstrak. Iman mesti jadi nyata, mesti menjadi konkret alias iman konkret. Paus Fransiskus mengatakan, “Iman menjadi nyata ketika dikonkretkan (dinyatakan) dalam cinta, khususnya dalam pelayanan terhadap saudara dan saudari yang berada dalam kesulitan.” Mereka ini kiranya membutuhkan bantuan kita. Maka, nyatakanlah imanmu dalam pelayanan kepada mereka.
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Friday, April 06, 2018
April 5, 2018
FOUR FOREVER


There was a little change today. Our friend Giulio, the Italian, left us. He will continue his course of language in another place. We were sad because we became four students also. Giulio was very progress than us in class but he needs the skill of writing. He wanted to develop this skill. One time he said that he wanted to learn more about grammar but here there was not possible to it. The other students have the other need. For me for example, I need the skill of speaking, to improve my opinion, to write my homily and that present it in front of the flack.

Let Giulio go and we continue our class. The first lesson today was about the reading and speaking. We read together the article teacher gave us some days ago and we discussed it. The other activity was the presentation of our article. I presented the article from The Jakarta Post. The article talks about the traveling in Bali.

In the afternoon with Ms. Irin, we talked about speaking but with the other activity. The first activity was the introduction of our self with the little game. The game explained the three animals who represent our characters. I choose hen, peacock, and ant. The Hen is the symbol of passion to share, the peacock is the symbol of beauty and the ant is symbol of work together or social life.


The second activity was listening and taking down the note of the video. 
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Thursday, April 05, 2018
Aril 4, 2018
NEW FACE AGAIN



Our Class has something new in these two days. Today, we had a new student. She is Chinese and comes from the other class. She changes with one of our friend who was here yesterday. I am happily welcoming this new friend. Now, our class consists of five students always: 1 for Italian, Indonesian and Taiwan, 2 from China.


The other new face is our teacher, Mrs. Tina. She teaches reading and writing. For today, she teaches very well. I don’t know in future days. I hope she can continue like this so that we, the students, can develop our skill in this subject.
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Wednesday, April 04, 2018
April 3, 2018
NEW FACES OF THE SECOND MODULE

Foto saat akhir modul yang lalu

I like to notice our new friends today. They come from Taiwan and Japan. All of them are very young. The Japanese, Ken, is a new graduate. He comes here to study English because he wants to find the job in Canada. The Taiwanese, in another part, is a student at the university. He also is a teacher in the junior high school in Taipei. He said that he teached only for making money. So, even though he teaches Mathematics, Geography, and Story, none of these is interesting for him.

I am happy because we will have new experiences with them. We others come from the last module: Giulio, Sr Giovanna and me. Meeting these new friends, I miss our friends of the last module: Bocong and Ivan from China, Haruko and Seta from Japan. We spent five weeks with them. There was the best moment of our journey during this module. I hope also we have the other best moment in this new module.

The other new face is our teacher, Mrs. Sherlinda. Today we teach us about speaking and reading. I think, in this module, she and Mrs. Irin (from the last module) will accompany us on this subject. Mrs. Julia and the other new teach us about writing.

I hope in this module, I can get the new input especially to develop my skill in reading, speaking, listening, and writing. I like to underline the subject writing because this is I need now.
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Friday, February 09, 2018
THE DRIVER PRUDENTLY
 
PICTURE: pixabayfree
If two days past, we take the public transportation, today we use the private transportation. One driver came to bring us to the sister’s house. It’s very interesting experience.

The driver was ready in front of our gate when we went out. Then, we started our trip. During the trip, I felt strange with this trip. Maybe the driver is new. He didn’t know the street. Sometimes, he would go to the right but Father Cesar stopped him. No way to the right. We must take the left.

I think he is a new driver. He drives very slowly and more prudently. We were late for some minutes. The phone rang when we were on the trip again.

Finally, we arrived at the sister’s house. This is the sister of Saint Augustinian. The female branch of the Augustinian congregation.

When we came back, the other driver drove the car. With him, I felt good. More security than the other. Thanks for your help. 


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Wednesday, February 07, 2018
PRIMA DEL NATALE



I fillipini hanno la tradizione interessante prima del natale. Per loro, il giorno di natale è una festa ordinaria. Ma, prima del natale è la festa extraordinaria. Una delle feste ordinarie è ‘il christmas party’, come la chiamanao loro.

Questa festa coinvolge anche i bambini. Oltre ad andare nelle case per raccogliere i soldi, c’è anche la festa propria. Balano, cantano, giocano, mangiano, ecc. Qui, nella foto, ci sono i bambini organizzatti dagli adulti festegganno il christmas party.

Sono contenti tutti sia bambini che adulti. Per loro, questa è la festa di natale. La messa di natale è un’altra cosa. Non possono mancare questa prima. Forse troppo presto per giudicare la loro tradizione. Una cosa importante qui è la gioia della festa.

La gioia è il motivo principale—credo—di questa festa. Il nome di christmas party, lo mettono per dare un valore profondo di questa festa. Ma, il contenuto è lo stesso cioè la gioia.


Questa succede prima di natale. Il natale comunque è la festa della gioia. Non c’è il natale senza la gioia.
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Wednesday, February 07, 2018
TRAVEL IS MONEY
 
PICTURE: traffic in Bangkok, pixabayfree
A long time ago, there was a famous quotation, time is money. I think many people know it. It means the time must be used well so that we get much money. If not, the time goes on and we produce nothing. We can not produce many things in short time. For the businessmen, the time is very precious.   

Today, I see many people move rapidly. It does either pedestrians or passenger’s bus. The other side, the bus move rapidly.

I think, in this case, the travel is money. The driver moves rapidly so that he can get much money. The people must conform to the bus rhythm. This is Philippine’s style. Let’s go on and take care.


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Tuesday, February 06, 2018
SERVANT FOR ALL LIFE
PICTURE: aleteia.org

Service in religious life should be for a lifetime. Nobody can say, I'm religious / only for a few years. This thing should clear before perpetual profession. If one arrives at the last stage of basic training ie perpetual profession, he or she has already made the final decision for her life.

I'm happy yesterday when I saw the nun playing the organ in the church. She is old. Take the pillow with you into the carriage. With her physical limitation, she put herself at the service. It is an example for all of us especially religious and religious. The service is limited in this case.


Thanks nun and the Augustinian nuns of Maligaya, Quezon City, Philippines.
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Tuesday, February 06, 2018
NEW TRAVEL IN THIS WEEK
 
PICTURE: caranddiver.com
There is a new trip in this week. Father Cesar invite me to participate in the mass out of the community. Usually, it is in the religious house like the sisters, the school, etc. Today is the first day.

I am happy because I can see the new world of my life. Seeing the beauty of the service in the church. Following him, for me, is a good experience. I must learn many things from him an for the others, arrived before me.

Today, I learn how to move from our house to the Augustinians’ sister. It is far because we took the public transportations. First, we took the tricycle, the Philippine style of motorcycle, and then took the jeep.

It is very interesting for the first time like this. I think I will find my way in the next time. I don’t think to follow him always. Maybe, this is the occasion to prepare me for this service.


Thanks to you my brothers. You gave me the good occasion to learn many things.
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