Selasa 09 Februari 2016

Pekan Biasa V
1Raj 8:22-23.27-30; Mzm 84:3.4.5.10.11; Mrk 7:1-13

“Bonum et malum – Kebaikan dan kejahatan”.

Hati yang tulus melahirkan kebaikan, tapi hati yang penuh akal bulus melahirkan kejahatan. Bukankah dunia kita marak oleh ”kejahatan” ketika hukum semarak dipermainkan dan ketulusan berarak dipinggirkan? Jelasnya, kita mengalami apa yang disebut Vaclav Havel, ”the aesthetics of banality” (pendangkalan makna), ketika kita juga hidup dan beriman dalam suatu kesadaran palsu karena iman kita terpisah dari hidup harian dan nurani.

Dalam bacaan hari ini, banyak orang Yahudi menjadi orang ”legalistis”, yang hatinya penuh basa-basi, yang cuma sibuk perihal luaran seputar hukum ”najis/halal”. 

Sebaliknya, Yesus menjadi orang “realistis”, yang hatinya asli bersaksi, yang berani menyingkap makna terdalam dari sebuah hukum.

BagiNya: yang menajiskan bukan makanan yang masuk ke dalam tubuh/tangan yang digunakan u/memasukkannya; tapi rasa - prasangka/niat buruk yang keluar dari hati – pikiran dan mulut kita (bdk.Mat 15:11-20).

Disinilah, Yesus ajak kita untuk selalu menjadi orang yang “ERI": "Evaluatif - Reflektif - Instrospektif”, sehingga bisa memelihara “kebaikan/bonum”dan menanggalkan “kejahatan/malum” secara mendalam - bukan hanya permukaan; secara total - bukan hanya dangkal/banal/menurut ukuran ritual belaka.

Bukankah sikap hati yang selalu "evaluatif – reflektif dan instrospektif" akan selalu melahirkan kebaikan dan ketulusan hidup yang nyata dalam berpikir –berkata dan bertindak?

Ya, Yesus ajak kita menjadi orang yang “munajat” (mendekat sepenuh hati padaNya) bukan “munafik” (mendekat penuh basa-basi padaNya), yang seperti kuburan: yang luarnya putih tapi dalamnya busuk, penuh tulang belulang.

Munafik sendiri (منافق,) adalah terminologi untuk merujuk pada mereka yang suka berpura-pura mengikuti ajaranNya tapi sebenarnya tidak mengakui dan tidak melakukan dalam kenyataan hidupnya.

Dalam buku saya, “TANDA” (RJK, Kanisius), adapun 3 indikasi orang yang munafik, al:

MUlutnya pedas, 
NAlurinya iri hati, 
FIKirannya negatif”.

Bagaimana dengan isi hati dan hidup kita sendiri?

“Taufik masuk Kopassus - Sikap munafik dibenci Yesus.”

Salam HIKers,
Tuhan memberkati & Bunda merestui
Fiat Lux!@RmJostKokoh
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NB:
1.
“Philosophia - Pecinta kebijaksanaan.”
Inilah yang diwartakan Yesus ketika menegur sikap orang Yahudi, yang menyamakan ajaran tradisi manusia dengan ajaran Tuhan; dan dengan demikian malahan tidak menangkap esensi/prinsip dasar ajaran Tuhan yang penuh kasih.

Adapun ‘tradisi’ yang dibicarakan di sini bukanlah tradisi suci para rasul, yang justru bersumber dari ajaran Yesus dan Gereja Perdana, melainkan tradisi manusia yang berasal dari ajaran adat istiadat nenek moyang bangsa Yahudi (tradisi rabinis) yang mengambil kebiasaan kuno pada zaman itu.

Jelasnya, orang Farisi dan para ahli Taurat menjadi tidak bijaksana karena bermental tradisionalis dan legalis (Mat 5:27-28; 6:1-7; Yoh 1:13; 3:3-6; Mat 5:20; Yes 1:11; Am 4:4-5).

Tercandra, bahwa orang legalis seperti itu kerap memuliakan Allah dengan bibir, sedangkan hati mereka jauh dari Allah; dari luar mereka tampaknya benar, tetapi hatinya sama sekali tidak mengasihi Allah.

Ya, Yesus jelas mengecam ketidaktulusan dan kemunafikan kaum Farisi seperti ini. Perkataan dalam kitab nabi Yesaya (Yes 19:13), yang mengecam ketidaktulusan orang-orang sejamannya di dalam menyembah Tuhan, menjadi relevan untuk dihubungkan dengan sikap kaum Farisi yang menentang Yesus ini.

Dalam semangat mereka untuk mempertahankan tradisi-tradisi yang berasal dari pendangan- pandangan para guru/rabbi mereka di zaman dahulu, mereka malah mengabaikan kewajiban-kewajiban yang lebih mendasar dari hukum Tuhan.

Bagaimana dengan kita?

"Dari Cisantana ke Pasar Koja -
Jadilah bijaksana dan bersahaja."

Salam HIKers,
Tuhan memberkati & Bunda merestui
Fiat Lux!@RmJostKokoh

2.Tuesday, 9 February 
"Rejecting the commandments of God"
Scripture: Mark 7:1-13
Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands, observing the tradition of the elders; and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they purify themselves; and there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pots and vessels of bronze.) And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled?"

And he said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, `This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.' You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men." And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition! For Moses said, `Honor your father and your mother'; and, `He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die'; but you say, `If a man tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is Corban' (that is, given to God) - then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do."

Meditation
What makes a person unclean or unfit to offer God acceptable worship? The Jews went to great pains to ensure that their worship would conform to the instructions which God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai. God's call to his people was a call to holiness: "be holy, for I am holy" (Leviticus 11:44; 19:2). In their zeal for holiness many elders developed elaborate traditions which became a burden for the people to carry out in their everyday lives. The Scribes and Pharisees were upset with Jesus because he allowed his disciples to break with their ritual traditions by eating with unclean hands. They sent a delegation all the way from Jerusalem to Galilee to bring their accusation in a face-to-face confrontation with Jesus.

Jesus dealt with their accusation by going to the heart of the matter - by looking at God's intention and purpose for the commandments. Jesus gave an example of how their use of ritual tradition excused them from fulfilling the commandment to honor one's father and mother. If someone wanted to avoid the duty of financially providing for their parents in old age or sickness they could say that their money or goods were an offering "given over to God" and thus exempt from any claim of charity or duty to help others. They broke God's law to fulfill a law of their own making. Jesus explained that they void God's command because they allowed their hearts and minds to be clouded by their own notions of religion.

Jesus accused them specifically of two things. First of hypocrisy. Like actors, who put on a show, they appear to obey God's word in their external practices while they inwardly harbor evil desires and intentions. Secondly, he accused them of abandoning God's word by substituting their own arguments and ingenious interpretations for what God requires. They listened to clever arguments rather than to God's word. Jesus refers them to the prophecy of Isaiah (29:31) where the prophet accuses the people of his day for honoring God with their lips while their hearts went astray because of disobedience to God's laws.

If we listen to God's word with faith and reverence, it will both enlighten our mind and purify our heart - thus enabling us to better understand how he wants us to love and obey him. The Lord invites us to draw near to him and to feast at his banquet table. Do you approach with a clean heart and mind? Ask the Lord to cleanse and renew you with the purifying fire of his Holy Spirit.

"Lord Jesus, let the fire of your Holy Spirit cleanse my mind and my heart that I may love you purely and serve you worthily."

Psalm 84:1-5, 9-10
How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of 
hosts! 
My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the 
LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the 
living God. 
Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow 
a nest for herself, where she may lay her 
young, at your altars, O LORD of hosts, my 
King and my God. 
Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever 
singing your praise! Selah 
Blessed are the men whose strength is in you, in 
whose heart are the highways to Zion.
Behold our shield, O God; look upon the face of 
your anointed! 
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand 
elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in 
the house of my God than dwell in the tents of 
wickedness.

Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers
"Christ says, 'Care for the poor' (Matthew 19:21; Mark 10:21; Luke 14:13); Mammon says, 'Take away even those things the poor possess.' Christ says, 'Empty yourself of what you have' (Matthew 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23); Mammon says, 'Take also what they possess.' Do you see the opposition, the strife between them? See how it is that one cannot obey both, but must reject one?... Christ says, 'None of you can become my disciple if you do not give up all your possessions' (Luke 14:33); Mammon says, 'Take the bread from the hungry.' Christ says, 'Cover the naked' (Matthew 25:34-40; Isaiah 58:7); the other says, 'Strip the naked.' Christ says, 'You shall not turn away from your own family (Isaiah 58:7), and those of your own house' (1 Timothy 5:8; Galatians 6:10); Mammon says, 'You shall not show mercy to those of your own family. Though you see your mother or your father in want, despise them' (Mark 7:11)." 
(John of Chrysostom, 347-407 A.D., excerpt from Homilies on Philippians 6.25)

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