11. Only in love can I find you, my God.
In love the gates of my soul spring
open,
allowing me to breathe a new air of
freedom
and forget my own petty self.
In love my whole being streams forth
out of the rigid confines of
narrowness and anxious self-assertion,
which makes me a prisoner of my own
poverty and emptiness.
In love all the powers of my soul
flow out toward you,
wanting never more to return,
but to lose themselves completely in
you,
since by your love you are the inmost
center of my heart,
closer to me than I am to myself.
God of My Life - Karl Rahner
Hanya dalam cinta aku dapat
menemukan-Mu, Tuhanku.
Dalam cinta, gerbang jiwaku terbuka, membuatku
menghirup udara kebebasan baru
dan melupakan diriku sendiri yang
lemah.
Dalam cinta, keseluruhan diriku
mengalir keluar dari batasan-batasan yang kaku dan kecemasan diri yang
membuatku menjadi tawanan dalam kemiskinan dan kekosonganku.
Dalam cinta, semua kekuatan jiwaku
mengalir keluar menuju Engkau,
tidak ingin kembali lagi, tetapi
hilang seluruhnya di dalam Engkau,
karena dengan cinta-Mu, Engkaulah
pusat hatiku, lebih dekat kepada diriku daripada diriku sendiri.
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12.
What, O good and loving Lord,
Wilt Thou have this creature do?
This Thy slave, a sinner too,
Waiting till she hears Thy word?
With Thy will in close accord,
Sweetest Love, I come to Thee:
What wilt Thou have done with me?
Take, O Lord, my loving heart:
See, I yield it to Thee whole,
With my body, life and soul
And my nature’s every part.
Sweetest Spouse, my Life Thou art;
I have given myself to Thee:
What wilt Thou have done with me?
Let me live, or let me die;
Give me sickness, give me health;
Give me poverty or wealth;
Let me strive or peaceful lie.
Weakness give or strength supply–
I accept it all of Thee:
What wilt Thou have done with me?
-
St.
Teresa of Avila
-
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Apakah,
Oh Tuhan yang baik dan penyayang..
Apakah yang Kau inginkan kulakukan ?
Aku hamba-Mu yang berdosa,
menantikan sabda-Mu.
Kasih termanis,
aku datang kepada-Mu,
Apakah yang akan Kau perbuat denganku
?
Ambillah, Oh Tuhan, hatiku.
Kuberikan kepada-Mu semuanya,
seluruh tubuh, hidup dan jiwaku.
Kekasih termanis, pujaan hidupku,
kuberikan diriku kepada-Mu,
Apakah yang akan Kau perbuat denganku
?
Beri aku hidup, atau mati;
Beri aku sakit, atau sehat;
Beri aku kemiskinan, atau kemakmuran;
Biarkan aku kesusahan, atau
kedamaian;
Kelemahan, atau kekuatan;
Kuterima dari-Mu semuanya.
Apakah yang Kau perbuat denganku ?
- Teresa dari Avila
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13.
O my soul, what are you doing?
Are you not aware that God sees you
always?
You can never hide yourself from His
sight.
O Father, have pity on us
because we are blind and in darkness.
Drive out the darkness and give me
light.
Melt the ice of my self-love and
kindle in me the fire of Your charity.
St. Catherine of Siena
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Oh jiwaku,
apakah yang kau perbuat?
Tidak sadarkah kau,
Allah melihatmu setiap saat?
Kau tak pernah dapat menyembunyikan
diri
dari pandangan-Nya.
O Bapa, kasihanilah kami,
karena kami buta
dan ada dalam kegelapan.
Usirlah kegelapan ini
dan berilah terang,
luruhkan cinta diri kami yang dingin
dan nyalakanlah dalam diriku,
api kebaikan-Mu.
- St. Katarina dari Siena
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14.
We beseech You, Master, to be our
helper and protector.
Save the afflicted among us; have
mercy on the lowly;
Raise up the fallen; appear to the
needy; heal the ungodly;
Restore the wanderers of Your people;
Feed the hungry; ransom our
prisoners;
Raise up the sick; comfort the
faint-hearted.
St Clement of Rome, 1st century-101
AD
========
Kami mohon kepada-Mu ya Bapa,
Jadilah penolong dan pelindung kami.
Selamatkanlah yang menderita,
Kasihanilah yang papa,
Bangkitkanlah yang jatuh,
Tunjukkan diri-Mu pada yang butuh,
Sembuhkan yang palsu,
Pulangkan yang menjauh,
Kenyangkan yang lapar,
Bebaskan yang ditawan,
Kuatkan yang sakit,
Hiburlah yang pedih hati.
- St. Klemens dari Roma (35 - 101
Masehi)
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15.
Be kind to Your little children,
Lord; that is what we ask of You as their Tutor, You the Father, Israel’s
guide; Son, yes, but Father as well. Grant that by doing what You told us to
do, we may achieve a faithful likeness to the Image and, as far as is possible
for us, may find in You a good God and a lenient Judge.
May we all live in the peace that
comes from You. May we journey towards Your city, sailing through the waters of
sin untouched by the waves, borne tranquilly along by the Holy Spirit, Your
Wisdom beyond all telling. Night and day until the last day of all, may our
praises give You thanks, our thanksgiving praise You: You who alone are both
Father and Son, Son and Father, the Son who is our Tutor and our Teacher,
together with the Holy Spirit.
St Clement of Alexandria, 150-215 AD
===============
Berbaiklah kepada anak-anak-Mu ya
Tuhan,
inilah yang kami minta dari-Mu
sebagai Guru,
Engkaulah Bapa, Penuntun Israel;
Putra, sekaligus Bapa.
Karuniakanlah, bahwa dengan
melaksanakan perintah-Mu,
kami semakin mirip dengan
gambaran-Mu,
dan memungkinkan kami menemukan Tuhan
dan baik
dan Hakim yang sabar di dalam Engkau.
Biar kami semua hidup dalam damai
yang berasal dari-Mu,
Biar perjalanan kami menuju kota-Mu,
berlayar melalui lautan kedosaan,
dengan ketenangan bersama Roh Kudus, dalam kebijaksanaan-Mu.
Malam dan hari.. sampai pada hari
terakhir, saat kami memuji dan bersyukur kepada-Mu :
Engkau Sendiri, Sang Bapa dan Putra,
Putra dan Bapa, Putra yang Guru kami, bersama dengan Roh Kudus.
- St. Klemens dari Alexandria
(150-215 Masehi)
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16.
O Lord, accept me in penitence.
O Lord, leave me not.
O Lord, lead me not into temptation.
O Lord, grant me good thoughts.
O Lord, grant me tears and
remembrance of death and compunction.
O Lord, grant me the thought of
confessing my sins.
O Lord, grant me humility, chastity
and obedience.
O Lord, grant me patience, courage
and meekness.
O Lord, plant in me the root of all
blessings, the fear of You in my heart.
O Lord, grant me to love You with all
my mind and soul, and always to do Your will.
O Lord, protect me from certain
people, and demons, and passions, and from every other harmful thing.
O Lord, You know that You act as You
will;
may Your will be also in me, a
sinner,
for blessed art You forever. Amen.
- St John Chrysostom, 344-407 AD
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17.
Lord, deprive me not of Your heavenly
joys.
Lord, deliver me from eternal
torments.
Lord, if I have sinned in mind or
thought,
in word or deed, forgive me.
Lord, deliver me from all ignorance,
forgetfulness, cowardice and stony insensibility.
Lord, deliver me from every
temptation.
Lord, enlighten my heart which evil
desires have darkened.
Lord, I being human have sinned, but
You being the generous God, have mercy on me, knowing the sickness of my soul.
Lord, send Your grace to my help,
that I may glorify Your holy Name.
Lord Jesus Christ, write me Your
servant in the Book of Life, and grant me a good end.
O Lord my God, even though I have
done nothing good in Your sight, yet grant me by Your grace to make a good
start.
Lord, sprinkle into my heart the dew
of Your grace.
Lord of heaven and earth remember me,
Your sinful servant, shameful and unclean, in Your Kingdom. Amen.
- St John Chrysostom (344-407 AD)
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18.
I appeal to you, Lord,
God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of
Jacob and Israel,
You the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
Infinitely merciful as You are,
it is Your will that we should learn to
know You. You made heaven and earth, You rule supreme over all that is.
You are the true, the only God; there
is no other god above You.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ and the
gifts of the Holy Spirit, grant that all who read what I have written here may
know You, because You alone are God;
let them draw strength from You;
keep them from all teaching that is
heretical, irreligious or godless.
St. Irenaeus of Lyons, 130-202 AD
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19.
My Lord God, I have no idea where I
am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it
will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the
fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am
actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to
please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all
that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything
apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will
lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always
though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever
with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”
― Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude
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20.
Jesus, I feel within me
a great desire to please you,
But, at the same time,
I feel totally incapable of doing
this
without your special light and help,
which I can expect only from you.
Accomplish your will within me,
even in spite of me.
- St. Claude de la Colombière
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