Personal Notes of Duckjesui
lukisan Albert Chevallier Tayler, The Christmas Tree, 1911
The great light will shine on the people who walked in darkness and on the people who dwell in the land of the shadow of the death
(Isaiah 9: 1-6)
One of the beauties of Christmas is the presence of a Christmas tree. It is put in every place in order to feel the presence of the greatest glee of Christmas. When Christmas is coming soon, people are busy preparing it. Continue reading “The Wondrous Message of Christmas Tree”
Lukisan John Constable, Cottages and Windmill Drawn
5th Sunday of Lent
Ezekiel 37: 12-14
Roma 8:8-11
John 11: 3-45
Who is not fear of death? Naturally, man is fear of it. It is the final of worldly life. Then life is measured up by the time in which we change become old, get ill, or experience an accident leading to death like all the rest of the creatures. None can escape from the dead so that it seems so powerful it comes upon everything that has life. Continue reading “Come Forth Lazarus: It is call to life”
lukisan John Constable, Old Sarum
Yesaya 58: 1-9a
Pada suatu ketika ada seorang yang hidupnya sangat bermatiraga. Ia tidak mau makan atau minum meskipun berada di bawah panas terik matahari. Tampaknya cara hidupnya mendapat restu dari surga karena ada sebuah bintang yang sangat cemerlang bersinar di atas gunung yang terletak dekat dengan tempat itu. Bintang itu dapat dilihat oleh semua orang bahkan di siang hari bolong, meskipun tidak ada orang tahu mengapa ada bintang seperti itu. Continue reading “Puasa, Doa dan Amal Kasih: Tiga Bintang di Langit Hati”
Lukisan Cesare Auguste Detti, She picked Her Favorite
Year B
13th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Wisdom 1:13-15; 2:23-24
Corinthians 8:7.9.13-15
Mark 5:21-43
Do not be afraid; just have faith
Today, from the gospel we have seen two amazing moments of faith: the faith of the woman who had suffered a hemorrhage bringing to health and the faith of Jairus saving her daughter from the dead. Continue reading “Faith: The Way to Miracle”
Lukisan Edouard Manet, Monet In His Studio Boat, 1874
Matius 20: 1-16
Keadilan memang buta tetapi bisa melihat di dalam kegelapan
Konon Abunawas menemukan timbangan yang aneh. Timbangan itu sebenarnya milik kafilah yang datang ke kota Baghdad dan kemudian tertinggal. Lantas ditemukan dan diambil oleh Abunawas. Continue reading “Keadilan Tuhan”
Lukisan Marinus van Reymerswaele, The Unjust Steward
Lukas 16: 1-9
Mengemis aku malu, mencangkul aku tidak dapat
Lirik lagu Time oleh grup Hootie and the Blowfish:
Waktu mengapa engkau menghukumku
Seperti sebuah gelombang yang menerpa pantai
Engkau menghapus semua mimpiku
Lukisan Henry John Yeend King, Feeding the Geese
Year B
First Sunday of Advent
Isaiah 63:16b-17, 19b; 64:2-7
I Corinthians 1:3-9
Mark 13: 33-37
In Italy, Tivoli there is a beautiful garden called Villa d’Este. This 16th-century villa is home to incredible flowers and also has 51 fountains. They complete each other to design the garden Villa d’Este. At night under the shining moon, we can feel the silence of the beauty of it. The flowers blossoming with their colors decorate the silence of the night of Tivoli. In the morning, they just bloom enjoying the shining sun. They blossom patiently to their time and as if the beauty of the garden is waiting for them in hope and in silence either in the evening, or at midnight or at cockcrow or in the morning, or at noon. Continue reading “Waiting for the Lord Jesus Christ”
Painting: Paul Cézanne, Village Pêcheurs à l'Estaque, 1870
Year C
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10
Hebrew 12: 1-4
Luke 12:49-53
Do you think that I have come to establish peace on earth?
The Story of Fire
Many, many years ago people did not have warm, cozy houses like ours to live in. They lived in caves where it was both dark and cold. Once when a great storm was raging a tree was struck by lightning and the flash set it on fire. It happened to fall near a cave where some of the cave people were hiding. They were frightened at first and huddled in a group. After the storm was over they ventured out to look at the burning tree. One of them took a burning branch and brought it into the cave. They discovered that it made the cave both warm and light. They wanted the fire to keep on burning so they fed it with sticks and dry leaves. From this time on fire became a great blessing to man[1] Continue reading “Fire of Truth”
Lukisan Jessie Edwards
Kebijaksanaan 6:12-16
1 Thessalonika 4:13-18
Mateus 25:1-13
Tuan, tuan, bukakanlah kami pintu! Aku berkata kepadamu, sesungguhnya aku tidak mengenal kamu.
Lukisan Edouard Manet, A Bar at the Follies Bergere, 1882
Filipi 2: 1-4
Lukas 14: 12-14
Apabila engkau mengadakan perjamuan siang atau perjamuan malam, jangalah engkau mengundang sahabat-sahabatmu atau saudar-saudaramu atau kaum keluargamu atau tetangga-tetanggamu yang kaya, karena mereka akan membalasnya dengan mengundang engkau pula dan dengan demikian engkau mendapat balasnya.