Since Christmas we are informed by Jesus Christ (via Evv etc...)
1.) God has a new name: "Jahwe-Emmanuel"
2. The Heaven is open cf. Baptism, Stefanus etc...
it means: the fullness of Life is for everybody now a real chance
3. There is a new Life-Style, the Christian one,
who is engaged with the redemption work "here + now".
The New Year 2018 will be opened soon as a New Chance
to accept at least these 3 points:
You are invited A) to discover God as Emmanuel
B) to make steps into the fullness of Life
C) to participate with the ongoing redemption .
The new Chance "2018" offers you - to accept this invitation -
12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8760 hours, 525'600 minutes, 31'536'000 Seconds
It may be for you a creative year where you bring in your best for a Christian world.
But for 2018 I also wish you the great insight:
"Once in Heaven, You can do what you like.
Here on earth we can't do what we like - we have to make heaven;
if not, we get hell.
Thanks for going with me through 2017 I hope we go together in 2018
and please accept the Blessings of the new Emmanuel-God:
as a constructive Events - Energy
as a Challenge to live salutary human relationships and
as a enlightenment in the darkness of our time.
Vic. Hans Leu
Who gives them the Authority
to tell us something ????
Mt 21.23-27
JvN puts the question: Who gave Authority to John the Baptist? Heaven or Man ?
Priests and Elders are afraid to give answer: "we do not know" !
Great question until today: Who gave JvN the Authority for his message and his behaviour ?
Why JvN is reluctant to give a clear answer? why he is refusing to answer ???
Because the questioning group is exactly refusing him Authority.
Sorry; the Church has (on the place of JvN) the answer: The Holy God gives Authority !!!
But this is a 50% answer... Sorry: Something is missing !!!
1. Mary has given him the Authority (right and duty) to live...
2. St. Joseph has given him the Authority to survive...
3. John the Baptist has given him the authority to be baptised...
4. The Apostles have given him the authority to proclaim...
In the Old Testament: the Authority is in the hands of the Jahwe-God
In the New Testament: the Authority is "incarnated".
After Christmas 2017 our Church may learn again to accept that the Holy Spirit is poured out and therefore the Authority of God is also incarnated.
The old slogan: "God or man" is slowly going to end into the fact: "God + Man."
This changing is the Mystery of Christmas...
Did you expect it
what Is 64.3-8 proclaims ?:
Lord-God,
You are the potter
we the clay
we are all the work
of your hand.
waiting actively for the right sound...
As we go to celebrate ADVENT (Sun 1 B / 03.12.17) Paulus remind us that we have received a lot of Graces - we are all the work of your hand - and we may be thankful
(1. Co 1.3-9).
As we are enriched clay Mk-Jesus asks us (13.33-37) stay awake !
Wait actively for the return of Jesus Christ, for the "coming of God".
The background of this call is the fact, that Jesus and in Him God is coming.
It's a nice picture to see God is coming in all his Creation - pls stay awake.
The "coming of God" into our brain + heart + hand is for all of us a wonderful
enriching Gift - because it means: Grace + Love + Mercy + Freedom + Justice +
Peace + Redemption + Forgiveness - ... all these values are to be seen as coming,
to enrich all of us, the clay in the hand of God.
In our human reality:
If "something" is coming and we don't see it, we don't hear it, we don't feel it -
it will not touch us. Only the one who is attentive will discover what riches are on the way
to fulfil our heart - ergo: pls stay awake.
If our senses, our brains + our hearts are awake - open, welcoming, receptive -
we may become very rich: full of Grace, like Mary, like the Saints...
For the Advent 2017:
Start to exercise your openness, your welcoming life-style;
learn to receive all the Gifts on the way to your heart.
If you come to the Church... why not welcome the other people (also coming)... ?
why not open the ears for the Word of God... ?
why not receive the Holy Bread to become "bread for others" ... ?
why not accept the blessing (to get the feeling that you are blessed)... ?
why not follow the sending to bring the Grace of God to the people wherever you go ?
ADVENT is exercise to expect, to become receptive, conceptive, acceptive...
welcoming... ADVENT is expecting strongly what is really coming; stay awake...
As we go to end the Church-Year 16/17
some people celebrate Christ the King (Sun 34 A)
other people celebrate the right Judge (Mt 25.31-46)
Since last Sunday ( 33 A / Mt 25.14-30) we know again: God has disappeared and
given his property (Grace + Creation + Evolution etc...) into the hands of mankind.
And Jesus reminds us: in the Kingdom of God all what is done (with the quality as a
reality) has to be done on the human level. The Creator (and the Saviour at his right side) are hidden in the Incarnation. Therefore the human activities are between humans -
not between Human + God.
If you look for a relationship, for a good deed, for a revenge, for a help, for a grace -
it's to be done on the human level. The human level (what happen between human's)
is counted by God as the decisive reality.
A relationship with God must be expressed, performed between humans. A prayer to God - if not expressed between humans - is only a relation between you and your imagination.
Why did we celebrate the Church-Year? To keep Jesus Christ alive between us
and for the world and to incarnate the Mystery of God into our time-space. Only
as we do it together, express it in our human relationship, the Church-Year will become
an effective reality - stimulating the world-development in the right direction - blessed
by the Creator and by the Judge-King.
After the celebration of the end - we start to wait actively again.
For this "Sunday of the poor"
Sun 33 A / 19.Nov. 2017
it is important to know:
God is pouring out like the rain,
like the sunlight, like the stars -
wealth !!!
The great Q is "what are we going,
to do with all this given wealth ???
because - keep in mind - Mt 25.14
God has entrusted his property
(Grace, wealth, healing etc...)
to his servants.
1) The Artist Elisia Nghidishange (EN) declares: "The pursuit of riches and wealth
is something that drives both rich and poor" ( cf. the Namibian 131017 p "arts").
I'm glad to see rich and poor on the same level: "the pursuit of wealth".
2) EN asks: "why are we fighting for wealth?" I think the answer is clear:
it's a nature given to us... it's a call establish by evolution... and it's a vocation,
given by God the Creator. Never forget: God has promised: there is fullness of life,
there is GRACE in abundance, there is Creation in superfluity.
3) EN meditate: "What is the cost of wealth?" I like to answer: It depends very much on HOW you make yourself wealthy !!!
Today we already know the best answer for what to do with the great wealth:
1. Again + again we have to discover all the wealth poured out into this world.
2. We have to make a plan, a strategy, a conference ... what to do together...
3. We know there is no other way then SHARING... we must find out a win-win-
strategy: " God has given five talents... and I have made five more".
That's the right thing to do....
You see all the time: "true love shows itself in action".
sensible...
32. Sun A / Ev-Mt 25.1-13 / sensible
The parable of the 10 bm-ladies is a clear call "stay awake". It means this Sunday will remind us: Advent-ure is everyday: birth + death, pain + joy, light + darkness, the time, the chance, the realisation ... the resurrection and the fullness of life ... all is on the way, all is coming... arrival. God on the way... that's "la forza del destino" , fate/destiny ...
and we people - as clever/as sensible - as the oil-ladies - we stay awake (24/7) ! ?
The Christian Call: "stay awake" / "becoming aware" / "be-clear-present" is to learn:
1. The intention / the decision "to stay awake" is needed, very good, is a condition -
but it's not enough.
2. The "stay awake" needs rearmament, means... exercises in careful perception etc...
(today for the light: not coal, not oil but solar-power - economical thinking -
(today for your health: the right food; for your communication: the social media
3. The fact of waiting... all is uncertain... to learn to carry the uncertainty...
"on the way" means: not yet here; maybe delay...
4. The fact of surprise... life is in every case full of surprises... and you are clever to make you sensible and somehow prepared for...
My dear bm-lady! I wish to see you as a sensible one / thanks.
Next Sunday something new: Pope Francis has declared the 19.11.2017 as
the first world-day of the poor (1 Joh 3.18). An awareness-campaign ???
31. Sun A / Ev-Mt 23.1-12 / how difficult !!!
How it's in the Kingdom of God ? If you feel you have the vocation and the knowledge
and the duty to preach the LAW (chair of Moses : it may be as a Bishop, a Priest, a Deacon, a Sister or a Cp) - that's not so bad, it's tolerable - and people may listen to you
bc it's good to know the Law! but your chair-position is only tolerable under the condition
that you do what you preach.
For JoN lies the real problem in the fact, that there is a great difference between what they say and what they do. They say "be humble" but they seek great attraction for themselves.
This gap, contradiction, abyss, difference between the words, the deeds - this is the main problem for Jesus. In Jesus' view : the thoughts,the words, the deeds must be compatible.
Such a person is healthy and will not be occupied by an unclean spirit. Such a person is effective and will do great wonders. I hope if the Church declares somebody as a holy one, the Church will examine exactly this compatibility. If you master me - and I have to call you master, you have exulted yourself over me and you must be humbled by my resistance - and we cannot love each other. You have not to master me, not to teach me, not to father me - (also not by the "power invested in me" ); respect me and that's all: you are not my master, teacher, father - only the mystery of God has the right and the duty to master,
teach, father me. The duty and salvation of love is between us only possible if we humble ourselves. I have not and you have not to master, to teach, to father.
We have to learn to love by thoughts, words, deeds cf. Paulus: 1 Thess 2.1-19
