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Some Christians are committing great sins that take them
away from the true Church which preach about the sufficiently apparent good. In
some ordeal, the doctrine appears satisfying but in the long run destroys our
life as to some of the Protestants, the chance to unburden our problems is
withheld since they don’t believe in confession unlike the Catholics, hence by
confessing, one may be relieved of psychosomatic disease where enduring this,
it takes place eventually that the illness of the mind is transformed to an
ailment of the body.

Repressing the chance to obtain absolution and purifying
when one confesses make one a liar with him confining to himself the evil he
had done blocking the very opportunity to be honest than to act appeasing his
mind as to put it to rest by erasing the guilt, and obtaining not only
forgiveness but one’s very own salvation.

Since
to others, it is all right to sin even if hiding his sins in the absence of
confession hardens one, it supports that we justify what we commit. In the
temptation of Jesus, the first one is the temptation to eat bread, second is
the asking for a sign, and third is the possession of power. In this case
according to St. Thomas Aquinas, virtue stands in the middle. The defect lies
in one having the excess of wealth and others, that one may be tempted as he
may exclude himself from the nature of being human formed for the glory of God
though weak and frail, and be inhuman or turn himself a beast in his words and
actions, even in disposition. In this case, one even justifies his incapacity
to renounce temptation.

A
hungry person would do everything in exchange for the food that he may eat and
may fill his belly, especially the last piece of bread that may suffice his
hunger. In the case of the journey of the Israelites into the desert, the
Israelites complained to God of what food to eat, unlike Jesus that he did not
complain and instead became like a lamb in the slaughter opening not his mouth
but submits to his destiny to die in the cross, same with the lamb silent while
being wounded in the neck.

By
filling our hunger, we are replenished of our physical nourishment, but to
Jesus, to him, he has food to eat that the disciples knew not. He has the following
adjoining utterance to say, “Man does not live by bread alone that he may eat
of it, but he lives in every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Obsession
is itself gluttony that you are attached to material things than what can
nourish your spiritual self or your soul and spirit, and not only your very own
body.

Aside
from the bread, which serves as food, it is a common failure of insight to
think that man can be happy if he has many possessions, or if one maintains and
keeps to himself his riches, not thinking that one problem of health concern
can destroy his life which is all that he is concerned of. Here enters a big
reality that we must face that we must heed God and feel our need of Him, and
it is all Him that we can have for our recourse to save our life more than all
those other petty concerns.

“Sudo
Dios pasta,” a Latin word which means, “We only need God, only God,” opens an
aperture to the grand abyss of insights and inspirations usually supplied to us
by the Holy Spirit infilling or in dwelling. In the second temptation, the
Devil asked Jesus to throw himself (Jesus) down from the parapet of the temple
where he and the Devil are standing, with an added allurement that if Jesus
will succumb to temptation, according to the Devil with him quoting from the
word of God, his (Jesus’) angels will catch him and that not even the sole of
the feet of Jesus will be hurt grinded in the stones. This is the asking for a
sign that angels will rescue or take recourse. Likewise Jesus replied, “Do not put
God into the test,” with the word “God” referring to himself or his spiritual
being, the spirit Holy Ghost which is the spirit of him and the Father, as they
share one spirit (Isaiah 11:2; Malachi 2:15).

The
Devil will really lure Jesus in the event that he gives in to the Devil’s
temptation just like some of us deprived of a descent occupation as we can’t
find job, or has sickness that could no longer be healed, unlike others that
they can eat what they want even to their gluttony and is uncaring of other’s
welfare. Being attacked by the Devil, we should open our mind in order to stand
still and reach out for God’s hands and come to him that being once blind we
may be able to see and see in abundance the flood of insights and believe that
Jesus is our healer.

That
is all you should care for; that healing takes place if we believe in God. We
all have God and our chance to be healed for God can do great miracles, even to
the most depressing of all illness, as with oil we are anointed symbolizing oil
as the Holy Ghost that burns possessed in our hearts. You don’t own the Holy
Ghost if you will not recognize His power, in the same way that we acknowledge
the power of God in our lives. To the woman bleeding for years, this is what
Jesus said, “Woman, it is your faith that heals you.” To Jairus, he said, “Just
have faith.” In accordance with this, Jairus’ daughter was brought to life.

Jesus
regarded to himself as God as he says, “Do not put God into the test,’ speaking
blatantly to Satan. Jesus is God that can make us whole. Let us pray to Jesus
for healing.

-Jyotisman Nearu Upendra.

After Jesus was baptized, in the wilderness where the
Spirit led him to, he has to face temptations of the Devil. The first
temptation is for Jesus to transform into a non-human, that he may become God.
If one takes away his humanity and changed it to being God, he sins for only
the Lord Almighty is God.

Likewise though the nature of Jesus is discreet, with the
oneness of God maintained in the Old Testament, Jesus sharing the same spirit
Holy Ghost with the Father makes him and the Father one in substance and
spirit, as Adam and Eve shares the same spirit before they ate the fruit from
the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Thus Jesus in oneness with the Father
though in one accord, does not divide them even if they can be distinguished
apart, and the same applies with the Holy Spirit, making them having individual
nature, a threefold-natured God having three assertions but do share in one
Divinity or Deity.

If you are hungry, your tendency is to eat, just like any
other living being. But in the turn of events, if Jesus had turned the stone to
bread to feed his hungry belly, he will thus destroy his being human by
becoming a non-human. This would also make him proud before the Devil in the event
that he uses his (Jesus’) power just to satisfy his hunger. If we may recall,
Adam and Eve sins in this way because had Jesus yielded to the Devil’s wishes,
he in the event would do it for pride which is far from his character
especially on his nature being God. Others can’t comprehend Jesus having two
natures, 100% human and 100% Divine. Likewise Jesus does not only share one
spirit with the Father (Malachi 2:15 - “Did he not make one being with flesh
and spirit: and what does that one require but godly offspring?”), but the
Father is pleased much with him that he allows that in him all fullness of the
Godhead should dwell even bodily for he is the expressed image of the Father
having the Father’s spirit (Isaiah 11:2) possessing him with Jesus being God in
appearance since the beginning.

Conversion also means a going back to your humanity that
is to be holy and perfect human being created in the image and likeness of God.
The sin of rape robs you out of your humanity by being selfish, greedy, violent
and has a mind that destroys another person forgetting that we are created for
one another, thus making one dehumanized, losing respect to others, especially
respect to himself and having without dignity. Because of sin, people are
sometimes losing their stateliness and are dehumanized, maybe because they were
molested in the time of their childhood, and don’t care of themselves anymore,
thus they to be reshaped need to be whole, as someone should give counsel to
mend their souls as to recreate their respect to their selves.

According to St. Ireneaus, “the Glory of God is man fully
human and fully alive.” This is being hindered by the sin of commission and the
sins of omission. We need to be free of spiritual and material bondage. We need
to cleanse our soul and whole being, which had been a haven of devils taking
office in our body with all their evils. By renouncing all evil, we reject all
sorts of devils and their evil. By rejecting their (the devils’) temptation and
praying that the Holy Spirit will empower us, the church in this earth will be
cleanse and not only our own bodies and souls. We should be thankful that we
have intelligent priests sharing us this wisdom, which we impart also to
others, to mention amongst is Fr. Joey.

“We should rejoice over the victor of Christ against the
Devil’s temptation,” said one of my favorite priests, Fr. Jesse Guillergan
Jr. in his talk in the Charismatic
prayer meeting. To him, if we put to reality the life we live, we face so many
temptations like money, power, fame which instead of bringing something good to
man, to others it became the basis that can lead them to sin. With wit and
holiness, he quoted, “What profit should a man will obtain if he gains the
whole world but lose in the process his own soul not thinking of God anymore
with him being self-sufficient.”

The God who suffices us with bread somehow is the one who
leads us away from sin in the event of temptation, that to our understanding
when we are in such an ordeal we remember that perhaps we are invited to fast
and to pray. St. Leo the Great carefully articulates that what is being
emphasized during the Holy Week is not the abstinence from food but the
exercising of our will if we may do so with courage in order for us to fight
temptation. To him, we should work out penance and conquer temptation, where we
are invited to reject sin and reconcile ourselves back to God.

To avoid temptation, it is our duty to do penance just to
cling to God and approach to decorum where we have to study the word of God. In
one of the ideas shared by Fr. Jesse to us after him reading the Bible,
according to him, “Man is created by receiving God’s breath into his (man’s)
nostrils.” Likewise Adam and Eve after enjoying paradise were tempted, that
according to the Devil’s enticement, if they will eat of the fruit from the
tree of knowledge of good and evil, they would be like God knowing what is good
and what is evil. Because they succumbing to the Devil’s temptation, they
spoiled their human nature making it wounded human nature, thus a need arise to
reconcile with God and a need to have a mediator which Christ’s role later
enters.

We should regain our nature as human by admitting our sins
and confessing these to the priests that we may obtain health, after that that
we may have cleanse our souls through the sacrament of penance and heal it of
our wounds by receiving the Holy Communion. If we are stressed because of
problems coming our way we need to refresh our minds through renunciation of
our sins in order to prepare for the infilling or dwelling in of the Holy
Spirit.

- Jyotisman Nearu Upendra 

Sa buhay na espiritual, hindi sa lahat nang oras ay
nakadepende ka sa bawat kapitulo o versiculo ng bibliya. Darating rin ang
panahon na isasabuhay mo yan, na hindi ka na babanggit ng numero ng versiculo
kundi huhugutin mo ang iyong karanasan o isipin hindi sa pagsasalarawan ng
bawat verse number kundi and pagbahagi hango sa tunay na nangyayari
ngayon sa iyo na kahalintulad nang mga praktikal na pangyayari tulad na lang
halimbawa ng kwentong nabubuo sa pag hithit ng isang stick na sigarilyo.

Isipin
mo nga, ni hindi ka nga marunong mag prito ng sarili mong itlog na makakain,
iisipin mo pa ang problema na kasinlaki ng problema ng mundo, tama ba yun? Kaya
mo ba na lumikha ng isang elepante, o punuin ng mga tanim ang mundo? Alam ko
may mga kaya kang gawin, pero paano mo susulusyunan ang problema kung ang
sarili mo nga ay misteryo na hindi mo maintindihan, tapos tutuklasin mo pa ang
misteryo ng pagkaDiyos ng Diyos? Ni sariling brip mo nga di mo matahi, sarili
mo di mo mapatawad o napatawad mo na ba ang Diyos o ang iyong kapwa. May puwang
pa ba sa pagpapatawad dyan sa puso mo?

Ano
ba ang kulay ng iyong kaluluwa o ano ba ang kwento na nabubuo sa isang basong
alak o sa isang lapis o ballpen? Ano ang mga pinagtagpi-tagping pangyayari o
kwento ng barkada nyo? Mayroon ba tayong mapupulot na aral sa grupo nyo? O may
puwang pa kaya ang Diyos sa puso ng bawat isa sa atin? Mga katanungan patungkol
sa pag harap sa ating mga sariling problema na praktikal na nangyayari sa
buhay, mga kaalaman na tunay lang na nangyayari ngayon sa ating mga sarili. Di
bale na muna yung problema na labas sa sarili mo. Puede na siguro kahit
problema na lang muna ng pami-pamilya natin. Kaya mo bang magsimula doon, o sa
banda pa roon, o dito kaya sa puso mo? O baka napalitan na ng puso ng saging
yung tangan-tangan mo at naging tagay tagay mo na lamang?

Sino
ka ba na magbahagi ng isang pilosopiya ni hindi mo nga alam kung anong klaseng
taktika ang tutularan upang mabuo ang sarili mong respeto at prinsipyo,
problema pa kaya ng bayan ang ipupokpok mo sa ulo mo? Wala namang masama sa
pakikilahok, ngunit tingnan nga natin ang mga nagyayari sa araw-araw, patayan,
pakikiapid, pag-aaway sa pamilya, droga, prostitusyon. Ni sarili nga nating
makukutkot na tsitsaron, hindi pa natin mapagdugtong-dugtong ang mga haka-haka
o isipin na nabubuo bago mo maubos ang tsitsaron.

Alam
nyo ba na kung hahayaan lang natin na sugatan tayo ng ating kapwa hindi sa
pisikal kundi sa pamamaraan ng mga salita na huhugutin nila mula sa puso nila basi
sa nakikita nila sa yo noon o ngayon man, ang sugat na yun ang syang hihilum sa
sugatan mong kaluluwa. Bakit, may karapatan ka bang magalit, ni sarili mo nga
hindi mo mapagaling? Maghihilum lang ang mga sugat, sugat sa kapwa sugat kung
hahayaan mong tulungan ka ng iyong kapwa sa pamamaraang pagtatagpi-tagpi ng
kwento o pag yurak sa dangal mo na sya namang nabuo basi sa kanilang nakikita,
na tutulong sa yo na mabuo ang sarili mo. Yun nga, ang pagsugat ang gamot sa
sarili mong mga sugat. Hindi na lalaslasin mo ang sarili mong pulso, kundi
hayaan mong makinig sa mga haka-haka o paghusga ng iba kung ano ang kanilang
sulusyon dyan sa problema mo.

Ang
Diyos mo ang sya ring huhugas sa mga kasalanan mo matapos na hinayaan mong
laitin ka ng kapwa mo tao. Bakit ka pipiyok, eh hindi ka naman manok? Ang sa
akin lang, may karapatan ka bang magalit eh ikaw rin ang gumawa ng sarili mong
problema at hindi itong mga humuhusga sa yo? Kahit si Pilato nga naghugas ng
kamay, sisisihin mo pa ba itong mga tumutulong lang sa yo na buuin ang sarili
mo, nang sa pumuti naman ang kaluluwa mo?

Mga
pagbubulay-bulay bago ang pagpapatawad, mga isipin maging sa tahimik na
pamamaraan. Hindi na kailangan na payuhan ka. Problema mo, lusutan mo.

-Jyotisman Nearu Upendra