Showing posts with label temptation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label temptation. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Our Father

Our Father, Who are in heaven,
Holy be Your Name.
Your Kingdom come.
Your Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our sins,
as we forgive those who sinned us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.



Filipino

Ama Namin
Ama namin sumasalangit ka, sambahin ang ngalan mo, mapasaamin ang kaharian mo. Sundin ang Loob mo dito sa Lupa para ng sa langit, Bigyan mo kami ng aming kakanin sa araw-araw. Patawarin mo kami sa aming mga kasalanan para ng pagpapatawad namin sa nagkakasala sa amin. At ilayo mo kami mo kami sa lahat ng masasama. Amen

Bagama't ang salitang Latin oratio dominica ay matagal ng ginagamit, ang Lord's Prayer" ay hindi naging pamiliar sa England bago mag reformation, Noong Middle Ages ang Ama namin ay palaging dinadasal sa Latin kahit na ng hindi nakapag-aral. Ito ay higit na kilala sa tawag na Pater noster. Ang pangalang "Lord's Prayer" ay inilapi rito dahil ginamit ito ni Jesu Kristo sa kanyang panalangin (bilang paghingi ng kapatawaran ng kasalanan) upang ituro ito sa kanyang mga disipulo.

Maraming pagpahayag at puntos sa kasaysayan at paggamit ng panalanging ito. Sa paggamit ng Ingles na texto na ginagamit ng mga Katoliko, ito ay hindi mula sa
Rheims Testament kundi sa sipi na ipinag-utos sa England sa panahon ng paghahari ni Henry VIII, noong 1549-1552 sa pagninilay sa "Libro ng Pangkaraniwang Panalangin" ( Book of Common Prayer). Mula rito ang siping Katoliko ay nagkakaiba laman sa dalawang particular na pagkakataon: "Which art" ay ginawang moderno "who art", and "in earth" into "on earth".

Ang sipi ay malapit sa pagsasalin ni Tyndale sa Bagong Tipan (Tyndale's New Testament) ay naging katanggap-tanggap sa ordinansa ng 1541. Ang ordinansang ito ay udyok ng maraming uri ng salin o version ng Pater noster, Ave, Sumasampalataya(Creed) at iba pa. Ito ang naging pamantayan (caused) sa utos ng hari upang ang lahat ng mamamayan, vicario (vicars) at kura paroko (curates), na basahin at ituro ang nasabing version. Kaya ang nasabing version ay naging pangkalahatan sa buong bansa sa kanilang panalangin maging sa mga protestante at katoliko
kahit na ang Rheims Testament, noong 1581 at King James's translators, in 1611, ay may pagkakaiba sa pagsasalin ng Mateo 6:9-13,

Ang panalanging ito na mula kay San Lukas 11:2-4 ay ibinigay ni Kristo bilang sagot sa kahilingan ng mga disipulo ay may kaunting pagkakaiba kay San Mateo 6:9-15 na kung saan ipinapakilala sa gitna ng Sermon sa Bundok, ngunit wala naman itong ibang dahilan upang sabihin na ang dalawang ito ay hindi magkatulad. Malaki ang posibilidad na itinuro ni Kristo itong panalangin nang ilang ulit. Mas malapit sa katotohanan na ang Ama namin na makikita sa "Didache" ay katulad ng kay San Mateo na ginamit ng simbahan sa kanyang liturhiya. Walang nakikitang malaking kahalagahan upang sabihin na nagopya ang mga Kristiyano sa panalangin ng mga Hudyo dahil makikita rin ang mga nasasaad dito sa ibang mga panalangin ng mga Hudyo. Dahil sa, una, maliit lamang ang pagkatulad nito at pangalawa, walang maliwanag na ebidensya na ang panalangin ng mga Hudyo ay higit na una kaysa sa turo ni Kristo

Naging pangkaraniwang gamit ito at maraming naisulat sa larangan ng usapin sa panalangin ng Ama namin, kahit na ito simple at natural. Isang malawak na komentaryo rito ay mula sa quasi-official "Catechismus ad parochos", na isinulat noong 1564 sangayon sa batas ng Council of Trent, tungkol sa Ama namin na siyang basehan ng pagsusuri sa lahat ng katolikong katesismo. Maraming puntos ang binigyan pansi tulad ng "Dito sa lupa para ng sa langit" ay hindi lamang nagngahulugan ng isang paghingi upang "mangyari ang Iyong kalooban", ito ay tumutukoy rin sa dalawang bagay na "sambahin ang ngalan Mo" at "mapasaamin ang Kaharian Mo"

Ang kahulugan ng huling kahilingang ito ay lubos na binigyan ng liwanag. Isa kasi sa problema sa pagsasalin ay ang mga salitang artos epiousios na sangayon sa Vulgate mula kay San Lukas ay isinaling "aming kakanin araw-araw", St. Jerome, sa kanyang di malaman na pagkakamali ay binago ang salitang quotidianum sa supersubstantialem ni San Mateo pero iniwan ang quotidianum kay San Lucas. Ang opinyon ng mga makabagong escholar ay ang bagong sipi ay makikita ang salin bilang araw-araw ngunit may komentaryo ito sa panggilid "aming pagkain sa susunod na araw. Habang ang Komite ng mga Amerikano (American Committee) ay nagnais magdagdag ng "aming pangangailangang pagkain". Sa katapusan, ang mas nakakaraming opinyon ay ang pagpahayag na ang huling mga salita ay dapat "iadya mo kami sa masama, ang pagbabagona ngangailangan ng "ngunit"sa halip na "at" na nagsasama sa dalwang kahilingan bilang isa. The doxolohiya "sapagkat sa iyo ang kaharian", etc., ay matatagpuan sa Griegong in textus receptus ay dagdag na lamang sa mga sumunod na salin na siyang ginamit sa salin ng ns of the "Boo of Common Prayer", is undoubtedly an interpolation.

In the liturgy of the Church the Our Father holds a very conspicuous place. Some commentators have erroneously supposed, from a passage in the writings of St. Gregory the Great (Ep., ix, 12), that he believed that the bread and wine of the Eucharist were consecrated in Apostolic times by the recitation of the Our Father alone. But while this is probably not the true meaning of the passage, St. Jerome asserted (Adv. Pelag., iii, 15) that "our Lord Himself taught His disciples that daily in the Sacrifice of His Body they should make bold to say 'Our Father' etc." St. Gregory gave the Pater its present place in the Roman Mass immediately after the Canon and before the fraction, and it was of old the custom that all the congregation should make answer in the words "Sed libera nos a malo". In the Greek liturgies a reader recites the Our Father aloud while the priest and the people repeat it silently. Again in the ritual of baptism the recitation of the Our Father has from the earliest times been a conspicuous feature, and in the Divine Office it recurs repeatedly besides being recited both at the beginning and the end.

In many monastic rules, it was enjoined that the lay brothers, who knew no Latin, instead of the Divine office should say the Lord's Prayer a certain number of times (often amounting to more than a hundred) per diem. To count these repetitions they made use of pebbles or beads strung upon a cord, and this apparatus was commonly known as a "pater-noster", a name which it retained even when such a string of beads was used to count, not Our Fathers, but Hail Marys in reciting Our Lady's Psalter, or in other words in saying the rosary.

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Theologians ussually are quoted saying that this one of the ipssisima verbum Christi, one of the very words of Christ. It is also one of the well and vastly commented by various authors from the theologians of the liberation theology to the conclave of the Opus Dei. One of the prayers that our separated brethren are also using.

Much is to be said about it from the vast resources, however, let me say my piece. The prayer clearly states that forgiveness of God is based on the conditioned of forgiving. TYes, it is ussually the hardest part that we all carry. Being unforgiver and resentful. That is not in the dictionary, but it seems to be easily understood. God give us an example of what a good giver is, yes, even our hatred has to be offered to Him as He offered his to the father so that salvation might be received by mankind.

We must also offer our hatred to God that he could lift the burden in our hearts and give us peace and serenity. The key is on us to open the grace of love, the grace of mercy, so that mercy might be received not only of other people but especially of each and everyone of us. Forgiveness is primarily for the one who forgives rather than of the one forgiven. Certainly, the Lord Jesus Christ in her merciful heart do not want us to further suffer for being unforgivable.

Sunday, April 15, 2007

FIRST STATION: Jesus in the Garden of Olives

FIRST STATION
Jesus in the Garden of Olives

V/. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi.
R/. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum.

From the Gospel according to Luke. 22:39-46

Jesus came out, and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives; and the disciples followed him. And when he came to the place, he said to them, "Pray that you may not enter into temptation." And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw, and knelt down and prayed, "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me; nevertheless not my will but yours be done." And when he rose from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping for sorrow, and he said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation."

MEDITATION

When the veil of darkness descends upon Jerusalem, the olives of Gethsemane even today seem to bring us back, with the rustling of their leaves, to that night of suffering and prayer that Jesus experienced. He stands out, alone, at centre stage, kneeling on the soil of that garden. Like every person facing death, Christ too is filled with anguish; indeed, the original word used by the Evangelist Luke is "agonia", struggle. Jesus' prayer is dramatic, tense as if in combat, and the sweat streaked with blood running down his face is evidence of a harsh, bitter torment.

He cries out to heaven, to that Father who seems mysteriously silent: "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me", the chalice of suffering and death. One dark night, on the banks of a tributary of the Jordan, one of the patriarchs of Israel, Jacob, had also encountered God as someone mysterious, and "wrestled with him until the breaking of the day"[2]. Praying at times of trial is an experience which disturbs the body and soul alike, and Jesus, in the darkness of that evening, "offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death"[3].

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In the Christ of Gethsemane, struggling and filled with anguish, we see ourselves reflected, whenever we pass through the night of searing pain, of separation from friends, of God's silence. In this sense, it has been said that Jesus "will be in agony until the end of the world: we cannot sleep until that moment, for he seeks companionship and comfort"[4], like everyone else who suffers on this earth. In him too, we see our own face, when it is wet with tears and racked by distress.

But Jesus' struggle does not yield to the temptation of despair and surrender, but to a profession of confident trust in the Father and his mysterious plan. In that bitter hour it is the words of the "Our Father" that he holds out to us: "Pray that you may not enter into temptation… Not my will, but yours be done!". And then an angel of consolation, strength and comfort appears, who helps Jesus, and us, to persevere to the end of the journey.

All:

Pater noster, qui es in cælis:
sanctificetur nomen tuum;
adveniat regnum tuum;
fiat voluntas tua, sicut in cælo, et in terra.
Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie;
et dimitte nobis debita nostra,
sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris;
et ne nos inducas in tentationem;
sed libera nos a malo.

Stabat mater dolorosa,
iuxta crucem lacrimosa,
dum pendebat Filius.


[2] Cf. Genesis 32:23-32.
[3] Cf. Hebrews 5:7.
[4] Blaise Pascal, Pensées, No. 555, ed. Brunswieg.

*** Moment of silence

PRESENTATION


OPENING PRAYER


FIRST STATION


SECOND STATION


THIRD STATION


FOURTH STATION


FIFTH STATION


SIXTH STATION


SEVENTH STATION


EIGHTH STATION


NINTH STATION


TENTH STATION


ELEVENTH STATION


TWELFTH STATION


THIRTEENTH STATION


FOURTEENTH STATION


BLESSING

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