29/05/2012
PENSAMENTOS INSPIRADOS À PROCURA DE DEUS
À procura de Deus
Não
olhes tanto para o céu.
O
teu Deus está em ti.
jma Pensamentos inspirados
Evangelho diário e comentário
T. Comum – VIII Semana
Evangelho: Mc 10, 28-31
28 Pedro
começou a dizer-lhe: «Eis que deixámos tudo e Te seguimos». 29 Jesus
respondeu: «Em verdade vos digo: Ninguém há que tenha deixado a casa, os
irmãos, as irmãs, o pai, a mãe, os filhos, ou as terras, por causa de Mim e do
Evangelho, 30 que não receba o cêntuplo, mesmo nesta vida, em casas,
irmãos, irmãs, mães, filhos, e terras, juntamente com as perseguições, e no
tempo futuro a vida eterna. 31 Porém, muitos dos primeiros serão os
últimos, e os últimos serão os primeiros».
Comentário:
Não temos que ter medo
de dar, de darmo-nos a nós mesmos a algo tão apaixonante e a Alguém que é tão bom ‘patrão’.
O serviço é apaixonante porque exige todo o
coração, qualidades e potências para ter eficácia.
O ‘patrão’, ou seja, Aquele para Quem
trabalhamos pagará o serviço com extraordinária prodigalidade infinitamente
desproporcionada com o mérito que possamos ter.
Assim, acontece aos que se dedicam a trabalhar
para o Reino de Deus.
Servir, meus filhos, é o que é próprio de nós.
Textos de S. Josemaria
No
meio do júbilo da festa, em Caná, só Maria nota a falta de vinho... Até aos
mais pequenos pormenores de serviço chega a alma quando vive, como Ela,
apaixonadamente atenta ao próximo, por Deus. (Sulco, 631)
Servir,
servir, filhos meus, é o que é próprio de nós. Sermos criados de todos, para
que nos nossos dias o povo fiel aumente em mérito e número.
Olhai
para Maria. Nunca criatura alguma se entregou com mais humildade aos desígnios
de Deus. A humildade da ancilla Domini, da escrava do Senhor, é a razão que nos
leva a invocá-la como causa nostrae laetitiae, causa da nossa alegria. Eva,
depois de pecar por querer, na sua loucura, igualar-se a Deus, escondia-se do
Senhor e envergonhava-se: estava triste. Maria, ao confessar-se escrava do Senhor,
é feita Mãe do Verbo divino e enche-se de alegria. Que este seu júbilo de boa
Mãe se nos pegue a todos nós; que saiamos nisto a Ela – a Santa Maria – e assim
nos pareceremos mais com Cristo. (Amigos de Deus, 108–109)
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Informação do Opus Dei na Internet
Faith
Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD good ?
Student : Sure.
Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?
Student : Yes.
Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?
(Student was silent.)
Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Is satan good ?
Student : No.
Professor: Where does satan come from ?
Student : From … GOD …
Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?
Student : Yes.
Professor: So who created evil ?
(Student did not answer.)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them ?
(Student had no answer.)
Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?
Student : No , sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student : Yes.
Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.
Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isn’t.
(The lecture theater became very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)
Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?
Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, well you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?
Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?
Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.
Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)
Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class was in uproar.)
Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
(The class broke out into laughter. )
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.
Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.
By the way, that student was EINSTEIN.
P.S.
I believe you have enjoyed the conversation. And if so, you’ll probably want your friends / colleagues to enjoy the same, won’t you?
Forward this to increase their knowledge … or FAITH.
Leitura espiritual para 29 Mai 2012
Não abandones a tua leitura espiritual.
A leitura tem feito muitos santos.
(S. josemaria, Caminho 116)
Está aconselhada a leitura espiritual diária de mais ou menos 15 minutos. Além da leitura do novo testamento, (seguiu-se o esquema usado por P. M. Martinez em “NOVO TESTAMENTO” Editorial A. O. - Braga) devem usar-se textos devidamente aprovados. Não deve ser leitura apressada, para “cumprir horário”, mas com vagar, meditando, para que o que lemos seja alimento para a nossa alma.
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