Para sahabat JTMI yang terkasih, berikut ini adalah homily PF dalam acara
Misa Rabu Abu kemarin. Dari sumber : Vatican Radio
Perhatikanlah bahwa tidak ada kata ‘pertobatan’ dan ‘dosa’ yang diucapkan
olehnya.
Kita tidak usah heran.
Pernahkah para sahabat
mendengar seorang imam (yang masih setia kepada Tuhan) mengabaikan atau
meniadakan kata ‘dosa’ dan ‘pertobatan’ pada kotbah mereka pada masa Puasa? Begitulah
PF telah melakukan segala hal untuk membuang segala pikiran tentang ‘dosa’ dan ‘pertobatan’
yang sangat diperlukan, dari homilinya, dan menggantikannya dengan mempromosikan
tindakan belas kasih kepada siapa saja, yang sebenarnya ‘belas kasih ini tidak
lain adalah sikap permisiv atau
sikap serba membolehkan dalam segala hal,
dimana hal ini adalah kebablasan. Homili PF ini diselimuti oleh sikap
keprihatinan kepada sesama dalam urusan duniawi mereka. Bukan urusan Surgawi atau
urusan rohani mereka. Betapa mudahnya orang-orang yang tak beriman atau yang lemah
imannya untuk ditipu oleh agama Freemason ciptaan manusia, yang diilhami oleh setan.
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis celebrated Holy Mass for Ash Wednesday at the
Basilica of Santa Sabina on the Aventine hill in Rome.
Dibawah ini
adalah homili PF yang di-translate ke dalam bahasa Inggris.
“Return to me with all your heart… return to the Lord” (Jl 2:12, 13).
The prophet Joel makes this plea to the people in the Lord’s name. No one
should feel excluded: “Assemble the aged, gather the children, even infants at
the breast, the bridegroom… and the bride” (v. 16). All the faithful
people are summoned to come and worship their God, “for he is gracious and
merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love” (v. 13).
We too want to take up this appeal; we want to return to the merciful
heart of the Father. In this season of grace that begins today, we once again
turn our eyes to his mercy. Lent is a path: it leads to the triumph of
mercy over all that would crush us or reduce us to something unworthy of our
dignity as God’s children. Lent is the road leading from slavery to
freedom, from suffering to joy, from death to life. The mark of the ashes
with which we set out reminds us of our origin: we were taken from the earth,
we are made of dust. True, yet we are dust in the loving hands of God,
who has breathed his spirit of life upon each one of us, and still wants to do
so. He wants to keep giving us that breath of life that saves us from
every other type of breath: the stifling asphyxia brought on by our
selfishness, the stifling asphyxia generated by petty ambition and silent
indifference – an asphyxia that smothers the spirit, narrows our horizons and
slows the beating of our hearts. The breath of God’s life saves us from
this asphyxia that dampens our faith, cools our charity and strangles every
hope. To experience Lent is to yearn for this breath of life that our Father
unceasingly offers us amid the mire of our history.
The breath of God’s life sets us free from the asphyxia that so often we
fail to notice, or become so used to that it seems normal, even when its
effects are felt. We think it is normal because we have grown so
accustomed to breathing air in which hope has dissipated, the air of glumness
and resignation, the stifling air of panic and hostility.
Lent is the time for saying no. No to the spiritual asphyxia born of
the pollution caused by indifference, by thinking that other people’s lives are
not my concern, and by every attempt to trivialize life, especially the lives
of those whose flesh is burdened by so much superficiality. Lent means
saying no to the toxic pollution of empty and meaningless words, of harsh and
hasty criticism, of simplistic analyses that fail to grasp the complexity of
problems, especially the problems of those who suffer the most. Lent is
the time to say no to the asphyxia of a prayer that soothes our conscience, of
an almsgiving that leaves us self-satisfied, of a fasting that makes us feel
good. Lent is the time to say no to the asphyxia born of relationships
that exclude, that try to find God while avoiding the wounds of Christ present
in the wounds of his brothers and sisters: in a word, all those forms of
spirituality that reduce the faith to a ghetto culture, a culture of exclusion.
Lent is a time for remembering. It is the time to reflect and ask
ourselves what we would be if God had closed his doors to us. What would
we be without his mercy that never tires of forgiving us and always gives us
the chance to begin anew? Lent is the time to ask ourselves where we
would be without the help of so many people who in a thousand quiet ways have
stretched out their hands and in very concrete ways given us hope and enabled
us to make a new beginning.
Lent is the time to start breathing again. It is the time to open
our hearts to the breath of the One capable of turning our dust into
humanity. It is not the time to rend our garments before the evil all
around us, but instead to make room in our life for all the good we are able to
do. It is a time to set aside everything that isolates us, encloses us
and paralyzes us. Lent is a time of compassion, when, with the Psalmist,
we can say: “Restore to us the joy of your salvation, sustain in us a willing
spirit”, so that by our lives we may declare your praise (cf. Ps 51:12.15), and
our dust – by the power of your breath of life – may become a “dust of love”.
01/03/2017 17:30
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