{"id":16393,"date":"2025-03-28T12:39:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/?p=16393"},"modified":"2025-03-28T12:39:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:39:57","slug":"reflection-for-the-fourth-sunday-of-lent-30-march-2025-the-path-to-true-reconciliation-with-ourselves-god-and-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/pt\/reflection-for-the-fourth-sunday-of-lent-30-march-2025-the-path-to-true-reconciliation-with-ourselves-god-and-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflex\u00e3o para o quarto domingo da Quaresma (30 de mar\u00e7o de 2025): o caminho para a verdadeira reconcilia\u00e7\u00e3o, conosco, Deus e a cria\u00e7\u00e3o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph translation-block\"><strong>Primeira Leitura<\/strong>: Josu\u00e9 5,9\u201312; <strong>Salmo Responsorial<\/strong>: Salmo 34,2-3.4-5.6-7; <strong>Segunda Leitura<\/strong>: 2 Cor\u00edntios 5,17-21;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph translation-block\"><strong>Evangelho<\/strong>: Lucas 15:1\u20133, 11b\u201332<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GdeIsa4WMAAes0p-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16394 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GdeIsa4WMAAes0p-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/ajan.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GdeIsa4WMAAes0p-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ajan.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GdeIsa4WMAAes0p-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ajan.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GdeIsa4WMAAes0p-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ajan.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GdeIsa4WMAAes0p-18x12.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/ajan.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GdeIsa4WMAAes0p.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">Pe. Patrice Ndayisenga SJ.<\/strong>, Diretor, Centro Jesu\u00edta Urumuri, Ruanda.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Em 1994, ocorreu um genoc\u00eddio no Ruanda envolvendo principalmente dois grupos \u00e9tnicos. Entre os perpetradores e as v\u00edtimas estavam fi\u00e9is crist\u00e3os e frequentadores regulares da igreja. A Igreja Cat\u00f3lica perdeu os seus membros, entre os quais se encontravam padres e muitos outros indiv\u00edduos de vida consagrada; mas ela tamb\u00e9m contava, entre os seus seguidores, pessoas que tinham grandes responsabilidades no planeamento e execu\u00e7\u00e3o de assassinatos. O caminho assustador para a reconcilia\u00e7\u00e3o ap\u00f3s o genoc\u00eddio girou em torno do desafio de reintegrar os seus membros que foram os perpetradores das atrocidades para os trazer de volta ao mesmo grupo dos sobreviventes das mesmas atrocidades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ao reflectir sobre a imagem do pai misericordioso que a liturgia de hoje nos prop\u00f5e, n\u00e3o posso deixar de recordar a perplexidade e o isolamento da Igreja Cat\u00f3lica ap\u00f3s o genoc\u00eddio no Ruanda. A Igreja era vista como uma v\u00edtima que necessitava de compaix\u00e3o, simpatia e conforto pelos seus filhos e filhas que perderam a vida para os perpetradores do genoc\u00eddio. Ao mesmo tempo, a Igreja foi vista como c\u00famplice, dado o facto de os seus membros, que desempenharam pap\u00e9is significativos na evangeliza\u00e7\u00e3o do Ruanda, terem tamb\u00e9m s\u00e9rias responsabilidades nos assassinatos dos seus concidad\u00e3os.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">Tal como na Igreja Cat\u00f3lica do Ruanda, na leitura do Evangelho, <strong>Lucas 15:1\u20133, 11b\u201332<\/strong>, que relata a <strong>Par\u00e1bola do Filho Pr\u00f3digo<\/strong>, vemos um pai misericordioso dilacerado, abandonado na solid\u00e3o ap\u00f3s o regresso do seu filho pr\u00f3digo. Para al\u00e9m da alegria festiva de boas-vindas, o pai \u00e9 subitamente atra\u00eddo a reconciliar-se com um filho que sempre considerou o seu melhor confidente: \"meu filho, est\u00e1s aqui comigo sempre; tudo o que tenho \u00e9 teu.\" O pai que, por compaix\u00e3o, saiu do seu caminho para organizar um banquete de reconcilia\u00e7\u00e3o para reintegrar o seu filho perdido, sofre a rejei\u00e7\u00e3o de um homem\/filho que considerava um companheiro fiel e leg\u00edtimo detentor de todos os seus bens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A experi\u00eancia humilhante do pai misericordioso pode ensinar-nos algo sobre o caminho para a verdadeira reconcilia\u00e7\u00e3o entre n\u00f3s, com Deus e com o resto da cria\u00e7\u00e3o que nos rodeia. O pai misericordioso fica entre um filho conhecido como um bom agente e outro que o mundo inteiro confunde com um navio perdido. Depara-se com o desafio de conciliar o bom e o mau. Como tanto os rapazes bons como os maus s\u00e3o todos seus descendentes, ele n\u00e3o tem outra escolha sen\u00e3o abrir os bra\u00e7os para os receber a todos. Toma a p\u00edlula amarga de arriscar o respeito do filho mais velho para demonstrar o amor paternal do filho mais novo. \u00c9 preciso humildade, compaix\u00e3o e amor para realmente mostrar miseric\u00f3rdia e ser realmente perdoador.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Num mundo imperfeito, por vezes queixamo-nos e revoltamo-nos seriamente contra Deus ao ver o crescimento pr\u00f3spero dos malfeitores. Talvez o pai misericordioso nos possa ajudar a compreender que o amor de Deus pelas suas criaturas \u00e9 totalmente inclusivo. O seu amor \u00e9 miseric\u00f3rdia demonstrada e concedida aos bons e aos maus. N\u00e3o \u00e9 necess\u00e1rio real\u00e7ar que, da mesma forma, o pr\u00f3prio sacrif\u00edcio de Jesus na cruz \u00e9 para a reden\u00e7\u00e3o de todos, incluindo os rejeitados e os seus pr\u00f3prios assassinos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Am\u00e9m.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Reading: Joshua 5:9\u201312; Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7; Second Reading: 2 Corinthians 5:17-21; Gospel: Luke 15:1\u20133, 11b\u201332 Fr. Patrice Ndayisenga SJ., Director, Jesuit Urumuri Centre, Rwanda. In 1994, a genocide occurred in Rwanda involving mainly two ethnic groups. 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