INFORMASI PENDIDIKAN

 We are not sure which came first but what we do know is that one leads to the other and we are plagued by these two great sins, and not only us but also the disciples of Jesus.  They envy each other and bicker about who comes first.  But John did not feel threatened or envious of Jesus.  John made it clear that his own mission was meaningless unless it had a divine purpose.  He said that he was not He, not the Messiah that was awaited.  John confessed that he was only a forerunner, a forerunner, a herald.   John was blunt, he knew and realized his true relationship with Jesus.  John liked that, accepted his assignment with pleasure and humbly said, I am not the Messiah but I was sent to go before Him.  It has to get bigger but I have to get smaller.    John reminds us to know Jesus.  He is our Lord and Savior.  Jesus must become increasingly important in our lives.  He must be Lord of our lives.  We have to...

 life is our health.  So people say health is wealth but wealth cannot buy health.  If the purpose of our life is to accumulate wealth at the expense of health then the time has come for us to use that wealth to restore our health.  In the Bible, leprosy is seen as a chronic, contagious disease.  Progressively and slowly the sufferer will die of the disease and also die of isolation.  The leper who approached Jesus because he was desperate and shouted, "Sir, if you want, you can cleanse me.  Jesus is his last hope.  I want you to be clean.  Jesus' answer was astonishing and the leper immediately left the sufferer.  With great compassion and love, Jesus came into the world to offer His healing touch.  Jesus will change us from unclean to clean (clean), from sick to healthy again, from death to life, from the darkness of sin into a shining presence of God.  Jesus came to heal us.  The blood that poured out of His side has th...

 every day because we long for spiritual staple food.  We come to Mass to hear the Word of God and receive it in Holy Communion.  We too experience the power to live in faith and find peace from this noisy and noisy world.  Mass is a celebration of love.  God's love for us, we respond with love and live that love life.  If we diligently come to attend Mass every day, then we will love more and grow in love for God and others.  But if not, we need serious reflection on our spiritual life.  Have I grown to be more loving and forgiving, patient and kind, true to truth and persistent in faith and hope?  As the apostle John said, I love God but hate his brother, he is a liar because he who does not love his brother whom he sees cannot possibly love God whom he does not see.  Let us pray that in attending each Mass we are filled with God's love and by His Spirit we are able to proclaim His love in our daily lives.

Kekudusan keluarga Nasaret ini bukan karena keluarga ini bebas dari segala kesulitan hidup. Juga bukan karena keluarga ini selalu mulus dalam hidupnya. Namun kekudusannya terletak dalam cara mereka menghadapi beragam kesulitan dan cobaan. Tetap sabar dan setia menghayati tugas dan panggilannya. Peristiwa tertinggalnya Yesus di Yerusalem menyisakan cerita indah akan ketaatan dan kesetiaan Maria. Ketika dalam perjalanan pulang  Maria tidak melihat Yesus bersamanya, ia dan Yusuf kembali ke Yerusalem mencari-Nya.  Setelah tiga hari mereka menemukan Yesus sedang bersoal jawab dengan tua-tua agama di Bait Suci. Terjadilah dialog ibu dan anak yang berujung pada kata-kata Yesus yang menusuk hati, “Mengapa kamu mencari Aku? Tidakkah kamu tahu, bahwa Aku harus berada di dalam rumah Bapa-Ku?”   Bunda Maria dan St. Yosep tidak memahami kata-kata Yesus, tapi mereka membiarkanNya memberikan penjelasan mengapa semua itu terjadi. Mereka memberi peluang untuk terjadi dialog yang memungkin...

Welcome  To 2022. The purpose of the new year is not that we should have a new year.  It is that we must have a new soul life.  Life is not about finding yourself.  Life is shaping how to build our relationship with God.  Our current circumstances do not determine where we can go;  they just determine where we start.  As long as I'm still breathing, in my eyes, I'm just getting started.  Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.  An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year roll in.  A pessimist stays awake to make sure the old year passes.  You can't go back and make a new beginning, but you can start with Christ now and make a brand new ending.  The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.  The book is called Opportunity, we can help write that story by setting goals, on those blank pages.  We'll write it down ourselves.  and the first chapter is New ...

Holy Family Feast of Jesus Today we celebrate the feast of the Holy Family, Jesus our Lord with the Blessed Mother Mary and His father Saint Joseph.  This celebration reminds us of the special relationship that our Savior had with those closest to Him in His life on earth, namely the mother who gave birth to Him and the father who cared for Him as his own Son.  The first thing we have to understand is that Almighty and Infinite God actually does not need a family because He existed before all ages and times, was not created and has always existed, not bound by natural laws and regulations.  Having a family is part of the laws of nature and has a parent-child relationship, every family consists of a mother-father nucleus and has children as a result of a blessed union.  But God made Himself part of the Law given to us, was born into a human family, a family consisting of Mary and Joseph, made Himself an integral part of the loving family structure.  He who is God...

After the long preparation and waiting that we experience in Advent, we have finally arrived at the Christmas Vigil Mass.  This evening we gather together as one community and one Church to celebrate the moment of the great appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, when He was born of His Mother Mary in Bethlehem, the city of David more than two millennia ago.  Tonight is the most beautiful night because light and hope are restored to all of us who live in a world full of darkness and sin.  This is the night when the long-awaited salvation finally comes, when God reveals before us His greatest and eternal love, when He shows His love for us which is embodied in the flesh, in Christ Jesus, the Son of Man and the Son of Man.  God, the Divine Word incarnate, is fully God and fully human.  Through Him, God's love becomes very real, and He becomes real, approachable and reachable to us.  The Lord reassured all His people when He told them of ...