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Monday, May 16, 2016
SUASANA PENTEKOSTA DI PARMA TAHUN 2016

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Pentekosta kali ini agak unik. Ini hanya terjadi pada 2016 ini selama saya mengikuti 3 kali pentekosta di kota Parma. Boleh jadi keunikan ini muncul karena saya sudah pindah tugas di paroki yang baru.

Pentekosta adalah perayaan untuk mengenangkan Roh Kudus yang hadir di antara para murid. Dirayakan tepat 50 hari setelah pesta paskah. Sebelum pentekosta ada 1 pesta lagi yakni pada 40 hari setelah paskah. Namanya pesta kenaikan Yesus ke surga. Pesta pentekosta masih terkait dengan pesta kenaikan itu. Logikanya sederhana saja. Yesus naik ke surga (hari kenaikan, biasanya dirayakan pada hari Kamis, 40 hari) dan Roh Kudus turun atas para rasul (penta-e artinya 50, 50 hari). Yesus naik ke surga tetapi Dia tidak meninggalkan para rasul sendirian. Dia mengirim Roh Kudus, paràklito, untuk menemani mereka. Perpisahan Yesus dengan para rasulnya memang meninggalkan kesedihan. Seperti perpisahan seorang anak dengan orang tuanya. Yesus tahu para rasulnya akan sedih setelah kenaikan-Nya ke surga, ke rumah Bapa-Nya. Itulah sebabnya Dia mengirim seorang penghibur. Penghibur itu bernama Roh Kudus atau paràklito yang artinya penghibur.

Perayaan pentekosta kali ini agak unik karena di paroki kami, Paroki Sacre Stimmate ada perayaan Komuni Pertama untuk belasan anak-anak. Mereka menerima komuni pertama tepat pada perayaan pentekosta ini. Unik bukan?

Kami bertiga pergi ke paroki, saya ditemani Pacifique, seperti biasa, dan juga ada Carlos. Lalu, menyusul Pandri yang tiba saat misa berlangsung. Dia sudah mengikuti misa di Paroki St Andrea sebelumnya. Misa di paroki kami berlangsung lama. Hampir 2 jam. Gedung gereja juga padat. Kami saja harus berdiri. Umat yang datang jauh lebih banyak dari Minggu biasanya. Kami memang datang 2 menit menjelang perayaan dimulai. Saya dan Carlos harus menunggu lama sebelum Pacifique datang. Saudara kami yang satu ini memang tidak biasa datang lebih cepat. Belajar kesabaran kala rencana kita tidak tercapai sesuai yang diinginkan.

Ada 4 diakon yang hadir bersama pastor paroki. Dari tempat berdiri, di dekat pintu masuk, kami melihat barisan panjang anak-anak calon komuni pertama. Lalu, disusul para diakon dan pastor paroki. Di bangku pertama dan kedua, di depan altar, sudah duduk para orang tua anak-anak. Dua orang fotografer khusus mengabadikan peristiwa ini. Misa menjadi panjang karena peristiwa khusus ini. Saat komuni, anak-anak penerima komuni pertama didahulukan. Setelahnya baru umat lainnya.

Sengaja dibuat seperti ini. Pastor paroki menginginkan agar peristiwa ini menjadi kenangan yang tidak terlupakan bagi anak-anak. Maka, bersama para katekis dia membuat program ini.

Saya terharu dengan peristiwa ini. Saya ingat kembali peristiwa belasan tahun lalu saat saya menerima komuni pertama di Stasi Lambur. Sungguh pengalaman yang tak terlupakan. Saya yakin, anak-anak ini juga tidak akan melupakan peristiwa khusus ini. Apalagi terjadi pada peristiwa pentekosta. Kiranya Roh Kudus itu akan mengingatkan mereka akan peristiwa ini.

Selamat hari Pentekosta untuk semuanya.

Parma, 15/5/2016

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Monday, May 16, 2016
REGINA CÆLI POPE FRANCIS
Saint Peter's Square
Sunday, 8 May 2016



Dear Brothers and Sisters, Good morning!
Today, in Italy and in other countries, we are celebrating the Ascension of Jesus into Heaven, which occurred 40 days after Easter. Let us contemplate the mystery of Jesus who leaves our earthly space to enter the fullness of the glory of God, taking our humanity with him. In other words, our humanity enters heaven for the first time. The Gospel of Luke describes the reaction of the disciples before the Lord who “parted from them and was carried up into heaven” (24:51). They had no sorrow nor dismay, but “they worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy” (v. 52). It was the return of those who no longer feared the city that had rejected the Master, who had seen Judas’ betrayal and Peter’s denial; who had seen the dispersion of the disciples and the brutality of a power that felt threatened. Since that day, the Apostles and every disciple of Christ have been able to live in Jerusalem and in all cities of the world, even in those most afflicted by injustice and violence, because above every city there is the same heaven and every inhabitant can lift his or her gaze with hope. Jesus, God, is true man, with his human body, he is in heaven! This is our hope, it is still ours, and we are firm in this hope if we look to heaven.

In this heaven lives that God who revealed himself so closely as to take on the face of a man, Jesus of Nazareth. He remains for us always the God-with-us — let us remember this: Emmanuel, God with us — and he never leaves us alone! We can look to heaven in order to recognize our future before us. In the Ascension of Jesus, Crucified and Risen, there is the promise of our participation in the fullness of life with God.

Before departing from his friends, Jesus, referring to the event of his death and Resurrection, said to them: “You are witnesses of these things” (v. 48). In other words the disciples, the Apostles, were witnesses of the death and Resurrection of Christ, on that day, also of the Ascension of Christ. In fact, after seeing their Lord ascend into heaven, the disciples returned to the city as witnesses joyfully proclaiming to all the new life which comes from the Crucified and Risen One, in whose name “repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached to all nations” (cf. v. 47). This is the witness — born not only with words but with everyday life — the witness that every Sunday should flow from our churches so as to enter during the week into homes, offices, schools, meeting and recreational places, hospitals, prisons, homes for the elderly, in places crowded with immigrants, in the peripheries of the city.... We must bear this witness every week: Christ is with us: Jesus rose to heaven, he is with us: Christ lives!

Jesus assured us that in this proclamation and in this witness we shall be “clothed with power from on high” (v. 49), that is, with the power of the Holy Spirit. Here is the secret to this mission: the presence among us of the Risen Lord, who with the gift of the Holy Spirit, continues to open our minds and our hearts, to proclaim his love and his mercy even in the most resistant areas of our cities. The Holy Spirit is the true artisan of the multiform witness that the Church and every baptized person renders in the world. Therefore, we must never neglect to meditate in prayer in order to praise God and invoke the gift of the Holy Spirit. This week, which leads us to the Feast of Pentecost, let us remain spiritually in the Upper Room, together with the Virgin Mary, to receive the Holy Spirit. Let us do so now too, in communion with the faithful gathered in the Shrine of Pompeii for the traditional Supplication.

After the Regina Caeli:
Dear brothers and sisters, today is the 50th World Communications Day, called for by the Second Vatican Council. The Council Fathers, reflecting on the Church of the contemporary world, understood the crucial importance of communications, which “build bridges between individuals and within families, social groups and peoples. This is possible both in the material world and the digital world” (Message 2016). I address a cordial greeting to all those employed in communications, and I hope that our way of communicating in the Church may always have a clear Gospel style, an approach which unites truth and mercy.

Today Mother’s Day is being celebrated in many countries; let us recall with gratitude and affection all mothers — those who are here today in the Square, our mothers, those who are still among us and those who have gone to heaven — entrusting them to Mary, Mother of Jesus. Together, for all mothers, let us pray the Hail Mary....

I wish everyone a happy Sunday. Please, do not forget to pray for me. Enjoy your lunch. Arrivederci!

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Tuesday, May 10, 2016
IL NOME DI DIO E’ MISERICORDIA

Questo libro è bellissimo. È una conversazione fatta dal cuore. La risposta da Papa Francesco alle domande di Andrea mi fa proprio ammirare la figura di Papa Francesco. Ci sono le risposte semplicissime però tocca nel cuore. Le risposte che le troviamo nella nostra vita quotidiana. Papa Francesco non ci da la risposta come dei grandi studiosi teologici ma di un pastore che sa la situazione delle peccore. Veramente semplice da capire anche se a volte difficile da fare. La linguaggio di Papa Francesco anche tocca la vita delle famiglie. Grazie a Andre che ha fatto tante domande. Le domande che entrano da tanti angoli della vita. La famiglia, la morale, la teologia, la bibbia.



Andrea Tornielli è vaticanista, giornalista del quotidiano La Stampa e responsabile del sito web, “Vatican Insider”, collabora con varie riviste italiane e internazionale.

Titolo: FRANCESCO IL NOME DI DIO E’ MISERICORDIOA, una conversazione con Andrea Tornielli
Autore: FRANCESCO (JORGE MARIO BORGOLIO), ANDREA TORNIELLI
Editrice: PIEMME, Milano, 2016
Pagina: 113


Indice


Al lettore. Lo sguardo di Francesco...................................................................... 7
(Andrea Tornielli)

IL NOME DI DIO E’ MISERICORDIA


     I.      Tempo di misericordia................................................................................. 19
    II.        Il dono della confessione............................................................................ 35
  III.        Cercare ogni spiraglio.................................................................................. 45
 IV.        Peccatore, come Simon Pietro.................................................................. 53
   V.        Troppa misericordia?.................................................................................... 63
 VI.        Pastori, non dottori della Legge.............................................................. 69
VII.        Peccatori sì, corrotti no................................................................................ 87
VIII.      Misericordia e compassione...................................................................... 99
  IX.        Per vivere il Giubileo.................................................................................. 105
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