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Mt 23,9Mt 23,9
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9 Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

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Tudi na zemlji nikomur ne pravite ›oče‹,

kajti eden je vaš Oče, ta, ki je v nebesih.

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Mt 23,1-36Mt 23,1-36
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23 ¹ Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, ² saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat. ³ All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do. ⁴ For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them. ⁵ But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments, ⁶ and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, ⁷ the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’ by men. ⁸ But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers. ⁹ Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven. ¹⁰ Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ. ¹¹ But he who is greatest among you will be your servant. ¹² Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. ¹³ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation. ¹⁴ “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter. Some Greek manuscripts reverse the order of verses ¹³ and ¹⁴, and some omit verse ¹³, numbering verse ¹⁴ as ¹³. ¹⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves. ¹⁶ “Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’ ¹⁷ You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold? ¹⁸ ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated.’ ¹⁹ You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift? ²⁰ He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it. ²¹ He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was living in it. ²² He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it. ²³ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, cumin is an aromatic seed from Cuminum cyminum, resembling caraway in flavor and appearance. It is used as a spice. and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. ²⁴ You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel! ²⁵ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness. TR reads “self-indulgence” instead of “unrighteousness” ²⁶ You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside of it may become clean also. ²⁷ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. ²⁸ Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. ²⁹ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous, ³⁰ and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’ ³¹ Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets. ³² Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. ³³ You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna? ³⁴ Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; ³⁵ that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar. ³⁶ Most assuredly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

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Življenje v naših skupnostih je lahko začetek nebes ali pekla. Začetek pekla so spori, ki prerastejo v sovraštvo. Elizabeth Lukas ugotavlja škodljivost sporov v skupnostih, zlasti v družini:

“Stvari , ki psihično najbolj obremenjujejo, so spori na medčloveškem področju. In psihična obremenjenost se toliko bolj stopnjuje, kolikor bolj gre za osebe, ki so si blizu. Nihče, pa naj bo še tako čvrst v sebi, ni dorasel stalnim konfliktom s tistimi, ki so mu blizu, še zlasti ne konfliktom z družinskimi člani. To nezadržno izpodkoplje njegovo zdravje in življenjsko moč.”

Dober kristjan si prizadeva, da bi svoje mišljenje in ravnanje oblikoval po Kristusovem mišljenju in ravnanju, po njegovi ponižnosti in pokorščini vse do smrti na križu.

Flp 2,5-8Flp 2,5-8
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5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, ⁶ who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider it robbery to be equal with God, ⁷ but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. ⁸ And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

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Če ravna tako, postane drugi Kristus, njegova priča sredi današnjega sveta, ki ne bere drugega evangelija kakor kristjanovo življenje. Kristus v svetniških kristjanih je v vsaki dobi aktualen in zelo vpliven.

Bolj kakor kdajkoli prej se je danes potrebno srečevati s Kristusom najprej v življenju, ne samo pri oltarju. Srečevanje s Kristusom v ubogih, bolnikih, v preganjanih, v skupnostih, ki so zbrane v Njegovem imenu, bo vodilo do srečevanja v zakramentih, Božji besedi, pod podobo kruha. Kristus v ubogih nas neprestano vabi. Pri tem so najbolj ubogi tisti, ki nimajo Boga, kajti On je neizmerno bogastvo.

Kristus živi v naših krščanskih skupnostih, če so res oblikovane po Njegovem Srcu. Sam je zagotovil:

“Kjer sta namreč dva ali so trije zbrani v mojem imenu, tam sem sredi med njimi.“

Mt 18,20Mt 18,20
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20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them.”

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Potrebno je, da smo zbrani v Njegovem imenu. To smo takrat, kadar smo pripravljeni izpolnjevati Njegovo voljo, zlasti glede medsebojne ljubezni in edinosti. Če smo v ljubezni, prinašamo Kristusa današnjemu svetu.  Kristusovo zagotovilo:

“Po tem bodo vsi spoznali, da ste moji učenci, če boste med seboj imeli ljubezen”.

Jn 13,35Jn 13,35
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35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

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Kristus, navzoč v naših skupnostih, je bil, je in bo vedno aktualen. Je tudi najbolj učinkovit oznanjevalec evagelija v današnjem individualističnem času.

Kjub doslej največji naseljenosti našega planeta je človek na njem zelo osamljen. Bežna srečevanja s sočlovekom so nekaj površinskega, njegovo srce pa ostaja prazno, samotno, lačno in žejno ljubezni. Rešitev je v Kristusu, navzočem v človeških skupnostih: v družinah, samostanih, v krščanskih duhovnih gibanjih, po šolah, vaseh, župnijah…

Jezus je vedno znova zelo naglašal medsebojno ljubezen in edinost, kajti oboje je za vsako skupnost nujno potrebno. Nebeškega Očeta je prosil; “da bi bili vsi eno”.

Jn 17,21Jn 17,21
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21 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

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Sam je z umivanjem nog pokazal, da brez služenja ni pravega občestva. Postavil je evharistijo, ki nas vse povezuje v eno. V skupnostih, v katerih vlada medsebojna ljubezen in edinost, smo drug drugemu delček nebes. Tako vnaprej naznanjamo in na začetni način uresničujemo življenje v nebeški bratski in sestrski skupnosti. Po drugem Kristusovem prihodu bomo v polnem in dokončnem ter blaženem občestvu z Bogom in med seboj.

Kjer pa so na dnevnem redu trde besede, prepiri, nerazumevanje in nesprejemanje drug drugega, mržnje, zavist, ljubosumnost in celo sovraštvo, tam so ljudje drug za drugega pekel. 

“Jaz sem za druge pekel, drugi so zame pekel,” je zapisal francoski filozof in dramatik Jean Paul Sartre. Že stari Rimljani so poznali izrek:

“Človek človeku volk.”

Zakaj ne bi bil raje človek človeku raj, brat, sestra, prijatelj?

p. Anton Nadrah, iz knjižice Posvečevanje življenja

Evangelij po Luku

Lk 9,1-6Lk 9,1-6
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9 ¹ He called the twelve TR reads “his twelve disciples” instead of “the twelve” together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. ² He sent them forth to preach the Kingdom of God, and to heal the sick. ³ He said to them, “Take nothing for your journey—neither staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats apiece. ⁴ Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there. ⁵ As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.” ⁶ They departed, and went throughout the villages, preaching the Gospel, and healing everywhere.

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1 Poklical je k sebi dvanajstere ter jim dal moč in oblast nad vsemi demoni in za ozdravljanje bolezni. 2 Poslal jih je oznanjat Božje kraljestvo in ozdravljat bolnike. 3 Rekel jim je: »Ničesar ne jemljite na pot, ne palice ne torbe ne kruha ne denarja; tudi ne imejte dveh oblek. 4 V katero koli hišo stopite, ostanite tam in od tam pojdite dalje. 5 In kjer vas ne sprejmejo, si otresite prah z nog, ko odidete iz tistega kraja, v pričevanje proti njim.« 6 Razšli so se in hodili od vasi do vasi ter povsod oznanjali evangelij in ozdravljali.

Ezr 9,5-9Ezr 9,5-9
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5 At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God; ⁶ and I said, my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up to the heavens. ⁷ Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty to this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day. ⁸ Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage. ⁹ For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the ruins of it, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

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5 Pri večerni daritvi sem se vzdignil od svojega ponižanja ter s pretrganim oblačilom in plaščem pokleknil na kolena in iztegnil svoje roke h GOSPODU, svojemu Bogu. 6 Rekel sem:

Tobit 13,2.6-8Tobit 13,2.6-8
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Izbrana zbirka WEB ne vsebuje vpisane knjigeMesto:

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