Ministry of the Priests of the Sacred Heart (SCJ) 7963 S. 116TH STREET · FRANKLIN, WI 414-425-1114 · Fax 414-425-2527 www.stmoftours.org Email: [email protected]

Mass time: Daily - 8am; Tudor Oaks - 9:30am first 3 Wednesdays Saturday - 4pm; Sunday - 8:30 & 10:30am - English; 12:30pm - Vietnamese Holy Days - 8am & 6:30pm - English; 8pm - Vietnamese MARCH 11, 2018

Our Mission Statement

St. Martin of Tours is a vibrant, welcoming Roman Catholic Community, accepting the call and challenge of through the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

We commit ourselves to the Word of God through Eucharistic worship, lifelong Catholic education and formation, and works of justice and stewardship.

Following the example of our patron saint, Martin of Tours, we proclaim the Kingdom of God through our generosity, love, and service to one another and our neighbors.

Welcome to St. Martin of Tours Parish

We are happy that you decided to worship with us. If you are visiting just for today, we pray that God will be with you on your journey. If you are seeking a church home, we would be happy to welcome you into our parish community. If you are interested in joining our parish family, please call the parish office. Food Pantry Needs Donations can be dropped in the bin in the church hallway when you come for mass or the parish office, thank you for your support!! Please no canned vegetables, we have an abundance! Baptism – Three month preparation for children Cooking Oil Flour Sugar Ketchup Syrup Cake Mixes of registered parishioners. Adults are asked to Evaporated Milk White Rice Tomato Paste & Sauce complete the RCIA. Beef Stew Salad Dressing - Ranch & Italian First Eucharist – Second graders prepare the entire year to receive their First Eucharist in 40 cans for Your Food Pantry Donations spring. Adults are asked to complete the RCIA. Food All donations to the 40 Cans for Lent food drive Reconciliation – Saturdays 3 to 3:40pm, or by Drive remain with the St. Martin of Tours food pantry appointment.

and are distributed to those in need in our servicing Confirmation – High School Juniors prepare zip codes of 53129, 53130, 53132, 53150, 53154, the entire year for Confirmation in spring. and 53215. Adults are asked to complete the RCIA. Thank You for your donations Marriage – Six month preparation period for St. Martin of Tours & Knights of registered parishioners. A date will be set after Columbus Council 4580 your first appointment.

Holy Orders – Please contact any member of the Pastoral Staff. Special Needs Resource Fair A Special Needs resource fair will be held to share community resources Anointing of the Sick – We welcome the available to individuals and families with special needs. The fair will be opportunity to visit sick, homebound or hospitalized parishioners. April 21, 2018 from 10am-1pm at St. Luke Catholic Church Carpenter Hall at 18000 W Greenfield Ave in Brookfield. The fair will feature PARISH STAFF over 30 representatives from community organizations, 3 guest speakers office hours - 8am-4pm - Monday-Friday that are sure to inspire, food truck, and wheel chair obstacle course, in Pastor addition to resources/materials to help those most in need. Visit our Fr. Terence Langley, SCJ ...... 414-209-7677 website at http://stlukebrookfield.org/special-needs-resource-fair to get the latest line-up. For information you can contact the church at Associate Pastor 262-782-0032 or [email protected]. Fr. Joseph Quang Tran, SCJ ...... 414-209-7676

Rice Bowls still available in the narthex by Deacon the welcome desk. Please convert your Dn. Linh Bruno Nguyen and Dn. Chuck Schneider gifts to checks payable to St. Martin of Tours for easier counting, on the memo line SCJ Vocation Office write “CRS Rice Bowl” and return by Holy 414-427-4279 or 800-609-5559 www.scjvocation.org Thursday. Pastoral Associate Br. Duane Lemke, SCJ Parish StewardshipSteward of Treasure Music Director Week of 07/01/17- March YTD Mary MacDonald 03/04/18 03/04/18 Budget Envelopes & Plate $ 14,641 $565,890 $633,790 Parish/School Bookkeeper Gail Benke ...... 414-209-7682 R&M, Energy $ 475 $ 28,511 $ 30,570 Total $ 15,116 $594,401 $664,360 Christian Formation Director

Michelle Kreuser ...... 414-209-7684 For Those in Need - $ 1,400; Mortgage Balance - $ 55,519 Administrative Assistant Thank You for your generous donations! Diane Winkowski ...... 414-209-7678 Please do not use staples or tape to seal your envelopes School Principal Paul Hohl ...... 414-209-7674

Calendar Raffle drawings on: School Admin Assistant/Marketing Manager Sherry Marino ...... 414-209-7673 02 /26/18 - Chrystine Baker - $25 Custodians 02/28/18 - Clare Gawronski - $25 Tom Breeden ...... 414-209-7680 03/02/18 - William Smith - $25

PAGE 2 ST. MARTIN OF TOURS · FRANKLIN, WI Saturday, March 17th Intentions & Readings 4:00pm - Lector: John Stolowski Ministers of Hospitality: Monday, March 12th - Chapel Bill & Ginny Serchen, Lynette Blaser, Rick Slama, Is 65:17-21; Ps 30:2 and 4, 5-6, 11-12a and Dave Goehring, Tim Duellman, Joan Sell 13b [2a]; Jn 4:43-54 8:00 am † Virginia Wojciechowski - Family Sunday, March 18th - Fifth Sunday of Lent; 8:30 am - Lector: Barb Geiger Tuesday, March 13th - Church Ministers of Hospitality: Ez 47:1-9, 12; Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9 [8]; Tim & Rebbeca Stache, Jim Wier, Kathy David, Jn 5:1-16 John & Diane Winkowski 8:00 am † Al Rindfleisch - Larry and Alice Palank 10:30 am - Lector: Mary Karolewicz Ministers of Hospitality: Wednesday, March 14th - Chapel and Fred & Rose Crnkovich, Floyd Nalencz, Ramona Bosch, Tudor Oaks (9:30am) Dave & Cindy Flynn, John & Michelle Robb Is 49:8-15; Ps 145:8-9, 13cd-14, 17-18 [8a]; Jn 5:17-30 Sanctuary Lamp Sponsors 8:00 am † Bonnie Jachowicz - If you would like to sponsor the sanctuary lamp in the Church Orleane and Mary or Chapel for one month for your special intention the 9:30am † Charlotte Niklewicz - CSC suggested donation is $40 per intention. You can drop a

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Saturday, March 17th Jer 11:18-20; Ps 7:2-3, 9bc-10, 11-12 [2a]; We need sacristans! Jn 7:40-53 – St. Patrick, Bishop; St. Patrick's Day If you have ever wondered what a sacristans does now is your 4:00 pm † All Parishioners Living and Dead opportunity to shadow one and see if it is a ministry for you!!! Any one can be a sacristan. Our long time sacristans have, or would like to, Sunday, March 18th retire and we need people to replace them. Things sacristans do: Jer 31:31-34; Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 14-15 [12a]; As needed - Lock/Unlock doors; Turn on/off lights Heb 5:7-9; Jn 12:20-33 All preparations for Mass; Light candles on the altar 8:30 am † Connie Inicis - Family Turn on sound system during the week 10:30 am † Marge Schlintz - Family If interested contact Fr. Terry, parish office, or talk to a sacristan. 12:30 pm †

Born to Eternal Life Please remember in your prayers Keith Balcerowski Anita Beaudry

St. Francis de Sales said: “The bed of the sick is an Liz Beihoff; Ron & Grace Belair; George Bemis; Pat Boyer; William & Evangeline Burch; altar of sacrifice.” Aiden Busch; Dolores Capocci; Brian Connelly; Sheri Coulter; Ken Deehr; Robin & Sue Ditsworth; Ken & Pat Friedewald; Mary Jo Froehlig; JJ Grant; Jan Grant; Lee Guse; Pearl Hauser; Joseph Heil; Hannah Hiegel; Carol Holterman; Thomas Huckstorf; Mildred Janz; Arline Jasinski; Duane Johnson; Joseph Kathrein; Sandra Kazmarek; Calvin Kindler; Richard Klein; Don & David LaCombe; Judy Lauber; Melissa Leighton; Mary Leinonen; Fulton & Theodore Mantoan; Pauline Marek; Janis & Laurie Mayer; Donna Melka; Colleen Mitchell; Chris Mulloy; Addison Myles; Eileen Nowicki; Janet Parker; Eileen Poblocki; Bruce Rebholz; Patti Reikowski; Glenn Richlen; Sam & Theresa Ricco; Nancy Rohde; Karen Rueth; Nathan Scherer; Gene Schwartz; John Srok; Mike Theys; Henry Thomsen; Joseph Walkowski; Claudette Warnke; Agnes Waterman; Beverly Wilkowiak; Dolores Zaeske; Vanessa Zelazny; Rosalie Zilvitis; Helen Zunk

MARCH 11, 2018 · FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT PAGE 3 Grand March News! Pastoral Council and Trustee Election Time Representatives of the Dinner It’s time again for Pastoral Council elections and Trustee Secretary. The term of two and Auction committee will be in current council members is expiring soon so it is time to begin the election process to the Narthex taking dinner replace them. The Council term is for 3 years and Trustee is 2. Are you interested in serving your parish and fellow parishioners? reservations, accepting gift baskets and other auction Information regarding eligibility and qualities of a council member, as well as what it donations, and signing up means to serve on the council will be at the welcome desk starting March 17. The volunteers to help make the process of nominating yourself or someone else (with their consent) will be April 7 night of April 14 a success. We through 22. Forms will be available at the welcome desk and on the parish website. are going to make it as easy as Nominees will be published in the bulletin and on the website during the month of May possible for you to attend the and the election will be June 2/3.

Grand March Dinner and Please give prayerful consideration to using your talents to serve God and your Auction Spring Fling! parish family. Should you have any questions feel free to stop by the welcome desk Email Beth Rydeski at or contact Bernie Farrell, chairman of the election committee at 414-305-8522. [email protected] with any questions. St. Mary’s Young at Heart Dinner price - $40 per person, Thursday, April 19th ~ Break out your Badger Red and join St. Mary’s Young at table of 8 for $300 unless you Heart as we travel to enjoy the UW Madison Spring Band Concert. Dinner at the prefer the sponsor opportunity. Great Dane will be enjoyed before we head to the Kohl Center and experience all the excitement! Call Polly Oldenburg today for more details 262-894-6450. St. Martin of Tours Building People Power - Save The Date! School Invites You….. Common Ground is celebrating its 10-year anniversary and Saturday, March 24, 2018, 5-7pm Homemade St. Martin of Tours has been a founding member since the for All U Can Eat beginning! We join with over 40,000 people from over 50 Spaghetti and Meatballs, churches, schools, and neighborhood organizations that work Homemade Fettuccini Alfredo, toward igniting positive change within the greater Fresh Salad and Italian Bread, Milwaukee area. Common Ground has a strong history of facilitating Delicious Desserts and Coffee significant and meaningful improvements within our community such as Wine, Beer, Soft Drinks, Bottled summer jobs for youth, health insurance cooperative, clean water, Water available for purchase rebuilding neighborhoods, reducing gun violence, and creating safe play $10 per adult; $7 per child (10 and under) spaces. Join us in celebrating 10 years of change through action! Take-outs available 10- Year De legates’ Assembly is Sunday, April 29, 2018, 3:30 -5pm Italian Community Center, 631 E Chicago Street, Milwaukee St. Joseph’s Day Celebration St. Martin of Tours has committed to have at least 10 people attend. The St. Martin of Tours school students invite RSVP to Mike Karolewicz, Human Concerns, (414) 529-5195 you to join them in celebrating St. Joseph’s Day. Jo in us for lunch Thursday March 15, 11am to noon in the cafeteria. You can Holy Land Pilgrimage bring a special dish to share representing St. Alphonsus Parish is making a trip to the Holy Land in late your family’s ethnicity or just come and enjoy October 2018. This journey will include visits to the holy sites and the food and company. All are welcome!! daily Mass. For a brochure or more information, contact St. Contact Victoria Thebert 414-425-9448 or Alphonsus Parish, 414-421-2442 or [email protected]. [email protected] if you wish to celebrate this special day with us. Ryan’s Well The school’s second graders preparing for 2nd Annual Hunt – Sunday, March 18 First Holy Communion are working on a Join us after the 10:30am mass near the baseball fields (back service project donating money to Ryan’s . Well. A boy named Ryan helped create this corner of the parking lot) Hunt begins approximately 11:45am. project so people in Africa would have clean The field will be separated by age groups to keep our hunters water. Any donations would be helpful. safe and offer all our children . Concessions available for Checks should be made payable to Ryan’s purchase. Check out our craft table and other event activities Well or Seton and can be dropped in the while we wait for the hunt to begin. Contact Michelle Kreuser for collection or at the parish or school offices. more information or if you have questions, 414-209-7684. Thank you for supporting our school!

PAGE 4 ST. MARTIN OF TOURS · FRANKLIN, WI The Call and Parish Calendar - 2018 Challenge March 12 - 6:15pm - Religious Ed 7:30pm - Basketball Practice by Pat Boyer March 13 - 5:30pm - Baseball Practice 6:30pm - Choir Rehearsal I mistakenly submitted the February 4 7pm - Basketball Practice column for March 4. So last week ended up March 14 - 6pm - Baseball Practice / Prayer Shawl Ministry being a “rerun”. Here is what I meant to March 15 - 5:30pm - Basketball Practice publish for March 4: 6pm - Stations of the Cross What I wrote about the last 4 weeks were 7pm - Softball Practice general descriptions of the Mass, the ceremony March 17/18 - Egg Roll Sales & Troop 531 Popcorn Sale as it was being developed in the first couple of March 18 - 9am - Life Teen Session hundred years AD. About the year 225 we 11:45am - Easter have a first written text of the Eucharistic March 19 - 6:15pm - Religious Ed prayer. It was in a treatise called the Apostolic March 20 - 6pm - Baseball Practice Tradition by a man called Hippolytus of Rome. 6:30pm - Choir Practice There is very familiar text in this document: 7pm - Cluster Communal Penance Service “To him (the bishop) then the deacons shall bring March 21 - 6pm - Baseball Practice the offering, and he, laying his hand upon it, with March 22 - 6pm - Stations of the Cross all the presbytery, shall say as the thanksgiving: 7pm - Softball Practice / Grand March Meeting The Lord be with you . March 23/24 - 7pm - Vietnamese Lenten Retreat And all shall say, March 24 - 5pm - Dinner Fundraiser And with thy spirit . Lift up your hearts. We lift them up unto the Lord . How is Your Lenten Journey going? Let us give thanks to the Lord. Like every Lent, we started out with lots of enthusiasm about what we were It is meet and right. going to do to make this a more meaningful Lent. Here at our parish, we And then he shall proceed immediately: promoted the “One Percent Challenge” to get to know Jesus better. This We give thee thanks, O God… ” suggests we spend the first 15 minutes of our day in prayer and include a Script ure reading listed on the card. That is working well for some, but it The structure of the Eucharistic prayer was really doesn’t take all that much effort. It might be helpful if we let being developed starting as a prayer to God the Father, mentioning the , with Scripture give us more active suggestions for becoming better . One such reading is from Luke 6:36-38. Jesus giving thanks, blessing the bread and wine and telling us to take and eat and drink. “Jesus said to his disciples: “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Stop Finally the exhortation to “Do this in memory of judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be me.” This Apostolic Tradition is the earliest condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give and gifts will be written version, which was written in Greek, given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down and over- even though Hippolytus was Roman. There flowing will be poured into your lap. For the measure with which you were soon other versions in different languages measure will, in return, be measured out to you.” and other countries in the third century. Wow! Those are powerful words! How often do we consider we ourselves In 1570 Pope Pius V published the Roman Missal , the Latin Mass. The invention of the will be judged in the same way we judge others? Before we can really printing press helped to make the Mass improve, we need to clean out our bad habits – not only the big evil acts, but the harder task of dealing with my thoughts and words. celebrated more uniformly throughout the world. After Vatican II we have another major In a recent homily by Fr. Jim Schroeder, SCJ, he says: : “Why is this so change in the published Roman Missal by Pope important? Because Jesus came to teach us that God is love, a trinity of Paul VI in 1970. Hippolytus’s Apostolic persons in love, and we are to grow into that reality. We are to orient our Tradition had been lost for centuries. Found lives to love and to resist any system that stifles love. Anything we do that again it was incorporated in the 1970 Missal. harms the communion of love needs to be changed or we are acting It may be troublesome to some that there against our deepest nature and against God. This means that all the were different versions of the Mass but if you judgmental condemning and all the gossiping and bad-mouthing has got to look at a copy of The Order of the Mass you go. What a great job of transformation before us! will see that today we have 4 versions of the Eucharistic Prayer. The first is a survivor of the “As we enter into Eucharist, we encounter Christ who always has room for us Latin Mass and the second is an adaptation of in His heart. He offers Himself to fill our minds with His love. He offers the Apostolic Tradition (and is also the shortest Himself as food and drink to make sacred our mouth and tongue, to make version). The third is a modern version and the us a temple of His loving Spirit. This is the base of our power to change fourth is based on liturgies in the Eastern rites. and of our hope. For this, let us give thanks.”

Do you notice the differences in the Masses? With this kind of encouragement, we can use this Lent to make [source: History of the Mass by Robert Cabie] improvements in our life.

MARCH 11, 2018 · FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT PAGE 5

Ý Cầu Nguyện Trong Tuần Cầu xin cho Giáo Hội chân nhận sự cấp “ Thiên Chúa đã bách của việc đào tạo khả năng phân định sai Con Ngài đến thiêng liêng, trên cả hai bình diện cá nhân và cộng đoàn. để thế gian nhờ

Con Ngài mà Chúa Nhật thứ Tư Mùa Chay Ngày 11 tháng 3 Năm 2018 được cứu độ.” (Áo Tím) Ga 3, 14 -21 Thừa Tác Viên Lê Toàn, Đinh T Quang, Thánh Thể Mỹ Trang, Nguyễn Phương, Trần Hiệp, Vũ Tuyết Hồng

Giúp Lễ: Trần Kiệt, Hugo Trần Nguyễn Thaiton, Suy niệm: Trần Thùy Trinh - Chỉ trong mấy câu Ga 3,14 21, tình yêu của Thiên Chúa Ba Ngôi đối với loài Đọc Lời Chúa: Nguyễn Thaiton, Lê Terry người được khẳng định với sự tha thiết lạ lùng và điều kiện phải theo để được Lời Nguyện: Nguyễn Tống hưởng nhờ tình yêu đó cũng được xác nhận hết sức rõ ràng. Đứng trước mạc khải vĩ đại và trực tiếp này về Thiên Chúa, chúng ta không còn có thể tránh né mà nói Dâng Lễ Vật: GĐ A/C Thành & Nga rằng Thiên Chúa chỉ là một sức mạnh mơ hồ và xa cách với chúng ta. Đức Giêsu, Làm Thức Ăn GĐ Phạm Tiến & Duyên Đấng Chịu Đóng Đinh, cũng không phải chỉ là một tư tưởng hay một lý thuyết, Cho Các Em một giả thuyết hoặc một chuyện hão huyền trên mây trên gió, mà là một thực tại ********************************* lịch sử đích thực. Do đó, tình yêu của Thiên Chúa rất thực hữu! Chúa Nhật thứ Năm Mùa Chay

Ngày 18 tháng 3 Năm 2018 Chuẩn Bị Trong Mùa Chay: (Áo Tím)

Thừa Tác Viên Nguyễn K Hoàng, Lê Sơn, Chặng Đàng Thánh Giá : Trong các Chúa Nhật mùa chay, bắt đầu vào lúc 12 Thánh Thể Trần M Tâm, Phạm Thanh Sơn, giờ trưa trước thánh lễ, Cộng Đoàn sẽ có chặng đàng thánh giá tưởng niệm Đặng Đào, Nguyễn Thị Cúc. cuộc thương khó Chúa Giêsu Kitô, chịu khổ hình cứu chuộc nhân loại. Kính Giúp Lễ: Lê Q Brian , Lê V Brian mời CĐ đến sớm để cùng nhau suy gẩm mầu nhiệm này. Nguyễn Minh Paul, Trần Kinh Kha Bí Tích Hòa Giải : Cha Quản Nhiệm sẽ ngồi tòa giải tội trước thánh lễ vào Đọc Lời Chúa: anh Nguyễn Hoàng, anh Đỗ Huy các Chúa Nhật mùa chay và vào lúc 6:30pm trước lúc tĩnh tâm (ngày 23 và 24 tháng 3). Xin mọi người chuẩn bị tâm hồn trong sạch đón Chúa Phục Lời Nguyện: chị Lê Oanh

Sinh. Dâng Lễ Vật: GĐ A/C Hùng & Lan Vũ

Làm Thức Ăn GĐ Nguyễn Simon & Vy Lịch Sinh Hoạt Cộng Đoàn Giáo Xứ :. Cho Các Em

********************************* Ngày 11 tháng 3: Chúa Nhật thứ Tư Mùa Chay. SAVING TIME BEGINS, xin điều chỉnh đồng hồ thêm 1 tiếng trước khi đi ngủ ngày thứ Bảy để đi lễ Chúa Nhật Lễ Lá đúng giờ. Sau thánh lễ sẽ có chương trình trao đổi, học hỏi Lời Chúa và đời Ngày 25 tháng 3 Năm 2018 (Áo Đỏ) sống gia đình với cha Viên lúc 2pm. Thừa Tác Viên Nguyễn N Tâm, Bùi Hiệp, Cộng Đoàn sẽ làm chả giò gây quỹ hai ngày: thứ Bảy 17 tháng 3 bắt đầu lúc 9am Thánh Thể Đinh T. Công, Nguyễn H. Vân, Ng T. Lệ Khanh, Ng Bảo Hương và Chúa Nhật 18 tháng 3 đầu lúc lúc 7am. Xin Cộng Đoàn đến giúp một tay. Giúp Lễ: Nguyễn Paul, Trần Khang Ngày 18 tháng 3: Chúa Nhật thứ Năm Mùa Chay. Sau thánh lễ, kính mời quý CĐ Nguyễn Jimmy, Nguyễn Jackie

ở lại phụ giúp một tay làm Mồ Chúa . Xin chân thành cám ơn. Đọc Lời Chúa: chị Hoan Châu, anh Trần Thành

Ngày 23 và 24 tháng 3 tức là hai ngày thứ Sáu và thứ Bảy Cộng Đoàn sẽ có tĩnh Lời Nguyện: chị Lê Loan

tâm Mùa Chay bắt đầu vào lúc 7pm do cha Thắng giảng thuyết. Kính Dâng Lễ Vật: cô Đỗ Lý mời quý Cộng Đoàn tham gia đầy đủ, chuẩn bị tâm hồn đón Chúa Phục Sinh. Làm Thức Ăn GĐ Trần Thành& Trần Nga Cho Các Em

NGÀY 11 THÁNG 3 NĂM 2018 · CHÚA NHẬT THỨ TƯ MÙA CHAY TRANG 6 Cái Tách Thân Thương

Thánh Phanxico Assisi, nhân vật chính trong quyển tiểu thuyết: "Người nghèo của Chúa" do văn sĩ Hy Lạp Nikos Kazantakis biên soạn, đã kể cho huynh Lêô nghe câu chuyện như sau:

Có" một vị ẩn sĩ nọ được nhìn thấy Chúa, nhưng không bao giờ đạt được ước nguyện. Vẫn còn một cái gì vướng mắc trong cái nhìn khiến ông không thể nào nhìn thấy Chúa được. Càng cố gắng đọc kinh cầu nguyện bao nhiêu, càng ăn chay hãm mình bao nhiêu, ông càng thất vọng bấy nhiêu. Ông vẫn không hiểu đâu là chướng ngại khiến ông không thể trông thấy Chúa được.

Thế rồi, một buổi sáng nọ, khi vừa ra khỏi giường, ông bỗng reo hò sung sướng, thì ra ông đã tìm ra lý do. Ðó là một cái tách uống nước nhỏ, nhưng rất đẹp mà gia đình đã tặng cho ông. Ðây là kỉ niệm duy nhất của gia đình mà ông cố gắng gìn giữ như một báu vật. Và dĩ nhiên, đây cũng là của cải trần thế duy nhất mà ông còn bám víu vào.

Không một chút do dự luyến tiếc, vị ẩn sĩ cầm lấy chiếc tách thân yêu ném xuống nền nhà: Từng mảnh vụn vỡ ra, từng luyến tiếc tan vỡ… Vị ẩn sĩ ngước nhìn lên, và sáng hôm sau ông đã nhìn thấy Chúa".

Sách xuất hành đoạn 33 từ câu 18 đến câu 23 thuật lại rằng: một hôm Môisen thưa với Chúa rằng ông ước ao được nhìn thấy Dung Nhan Ngài. Lúc bấy giờ Chúa mới trả lời cho Môisen: "Không ai có thể nhìn thấy Ta mà vẫn còn sống". Liền sau đó, Thiên Chúa bảo Môisen nấp sau một tảng đá lớn để chỉ nhìn thấy sau lưng của Ngài mà thôi.

Khao khát được nhìn thấy Chúa: đó cũng phải là ước mơ duy nhất của người tín hữu Kitô. Chúng ta được tạo thành cho Chúa, chúng ta chỉ được yên nghỉ khi được ngắm dung nhan Ngài mà thôi! Nhưng không ai có thể nhìn thấy nhan Chúa mà vẫn còn sống. Ðiều đó có nghĩa là nỗi khao khát được thấy Chúa chỉ lớn lên trong chúng ta khi chúng ta biết dẹp bỏ những vướng bận và vướng ngại trong chúng ta... Chúa Giêsu nói với chúng ta rằng: của cải chúng ta ở đâu thì tâm trí chúng ta cũng ở đó. Nếu chúng chạy theo tiền của, danh vọng, lạc thú thì lòng trí chúng ta sẽ không muốn tưởng nghĩ đến Chúa. Có chết đi cho bản thân, chúng ta mới khao khát gặp gỡ Chúa... Thiên Chúa cho chúng ta thấy được đằng sau lưng của Ngài, phải chăng đó không phải là sự hiện diện và tác động của Chúa trong các biến cố và những gặp gỡ của chúng ta với tha nhân?... Có ra khỏi chúng ta, chúng ta mới có thể nhìn thấy bóng dáng của Chúa trong các biến cố của cuộc sống chúng ta. Có ra khỏi chúng ta, chúng ta mới thấy được sự hiện diện của Chúa trong người anh em của chúng ta.

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