Martha E. Driscoll, OCSO
Bab 4: Mendekati Mazmur Melalui Lectio (Mazmur 62)
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(Hak Cipta: Pertapaan Bunda Pemersatu Gedono. Penyalin: Herman SSCG)
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(Hak Cipta: Pertapaan Bunda Pemersatu Gedono. Penyalin: Herman SSCG)
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(Hak Cipta: Pertapaan Bunda Pemersatu Gedono. Penyalin: Herman SSCG)
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(Hak Cipta: Pertapaan Bunda Pemersatu Gedono. Penyalin: Herman SSCG)
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(Hak Cipta: Pertapaan Bunda Pemersatu Gedono. Penyalin: Herman SSCG)
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Ketika saya diminta mensharingkan pengalaman akan Ibadat Harian kepada para Frater Diosesan di Seminari Tinggi Kentungan, pengalaman akan Ibadat Harian, saya bertanya diri harus bicara apa? Tangan saya kosong. Saya masih belum bisa berdoa, belum bisa menghayati ibadat harian dengan betul, meskipun Ekaristi dan Ibadat adalah pusat hidup saya - 3 jam sehari.
Karena itu undangan untuk memberi latihan dan inspirasi kepada para Frater itu saya terima sebagai petunjuk Tuhan bagi saya dan komunitas Gedono untuk lebih memperdalam Ibadat Harian itu sendiri.
Seringkali orang mengatakan bahwa, sulit untuk akrab dengan ibadat. Yang lain lagi mengatakan bahwa mereka terlalu sibuk dan tidak ada waktu untuk ofisi. Kemudian mendoakan ibadat, kadang menjadi rutin, kering, tak menyenangkan. Lebih-lebih ada masalah distraksi, pikiran yang berlari-lari, kurang bisa konsentrasi. Kalau ibadat didoakan bersama lebih baik, tetapi lalu muncul macam-macam gangguan karena selera yang berbeda-beda, irama yang terlalu cepat, terlalu lamban, kurang memuaskan. Maka ada pertanyaan: “Bagaimana menjadi akrab dengan Ibadat Harian?”
Saya punya kesan bahwa mungkin saya diminta memberi metode yang dapat menjamin adanya pengalaman enak untuk menghayati Ibadat Harian - baik yang didoakan bersama maupun sendirian - secara instan. Kalau itu yang diharapkan, saya tidak dapat memenuhinya. Saya tidak mampu untuk itu. Tetapi saya dapat mensharingkan, memberi sedikit renungan, juga beberapa petunjuk praktis, dan mungkin dapat membangkitkan pertanyaan dan kerinduan. Komunitas Gedono ikut menyiapkan presentasi ini melalui refleksi dan diskusi seluruh komunitas.
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(Hak Cipta: Pertapaan Bunda Pemersatu Gedono. Penyalin: Herman SSCG)
Fides et Ratio
On the Relationship Between Faith and Reason
By Pope John Paul II
1. In both East and West, we may trace a journey which has led humanity down the centuries to meet and engage truth more and more deeply. It is a journey which has unfolded -- as it must -- within the horizon of personal self-consciousness: the more human beings know reality and the world, the more they know themselves in their uniqueness, with the question of the meaning of things and of their very existence becoming ever more pressing. This is why all that is the object of our knowledge becomes a part of our life. The admonition Know yourself was carved on the temple portal at Delphi, as testimony to a basic truth to be adopted as a minimal norm by those who seek to set themselves apart from the rest of creation as "human beings", that is as those who "know themselves".
Moreover, a cursory glance at ancient history shows clearly how in a different parts of the world, with their different cultures, there arise at the same time the fundamental questions which pervade human life: Who am I? Where have I come from and where am I going? Why is there evil? What is there after this life? These are the questions which we find in the sacred writings of Israel, as also in the Veda and the Avesta; we find them in the writings of Confucius and Lao-Tze, and in the preaching of Tirthankara and Buddha; they appear in the poetry of Homer and in the tragedies of Euripides and Sophocles, as they do in the philosophical writings of Plato and Aristotle. They are questions which have their common source in the quest for meaning which has always compelled the human heart. In fact, the answer given to these questions decides the direction which people seek to give to their lives.
Fides et Ratio
On the Relationship Between Faith and Reason
By Pope John Paul II
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth -- in a word, to know himself -- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves (cf. Ex 33:18; Ps 27:8-9; 63:2-3; Jn 14:8; 1 Jn 3:2).