Dad ya zama firist kamar dansa

Edmond Ilg, mai shekaru 62, ya kasance uba tun lokacin da aka haifi dansa a shekarar 1986.

Amma a Yuni 21 ya zama "uba" a cikin sabuwar ma'ana: An nada Edmond firist na Archdiocese na Newark.

Ranar Uba ne. Kuma sanya ranar ta zama ta musamman, shi ne ɗan Edmond - Fr. Philip - wanda ya ba mahaifinsa shawara.

Edmond ya ce "Kasance tare da Philip kyauta ce ta ban mamaki. Kuma yi min addu'o'i da saka hannun jari ni kyauta ce mafi girma." An nada dansa a cikin 2016 don babban maudu'in Washington, DC, kuma ya yi tafiya zuwa Newark don wannan rana.

Edmond bai taɓa tunanin cewa zai zama firist ba. Yana da mata, digiri na biyu a cikin injiniyan sinadarai da samun nasarar aiki. Amma bayan da matarsa ​​ta mutu sakamakon cutar kansa a shekara ta 2011, sai ya fara tunanin sabon sana'ar.

A sanadin matarsa, aboki na dangi ya yi mamaki da babbar murya cewa "wataƙila Ed zai zama firist," p. Edmond ya fada wa CNA. Ranar nan, kamar dai shawarar mahaukaci ne, amma p. Edmond yanzu ya kira taron "mai matukar annabci" kuma ya ce lura ya ba shi ra'ayi.

Edmond bai girma Katolika ba. An yi masa baftisma Lutheran kuma ya gaya wa CNA cewa ya je hidimomin addini "kusan rabin rabin dozin" har sai da ya cika shekara 20. Ya sadu da matarsa ​​a mashaya kuma sun fara dangantaka mai nisa.

Yayinda suke fita tare, ya zama Katolika kuma ya halarci taro tare da matar sa ta gaba Constance: kowa ya kira ta Connie. Sun yi aure a 1982.

Bayan mutuwar Connie, Edmond, wanda tare da iyalinsa suka shiga aikin Neocatechumenal Way, ya bar aikin nasa kuma ya fara abin da ake kira "hanya", lokacin aikin mishan na farko wanda Neocatechumenate ya shirya. Edmond ya fada wa CNA cewa, aƙalla farko, "aikin firist bai taɓa kasancewa a zuciyata ba."

A lokacin hidimarsa mishan, an sanya Edmond ya taimaka a majami'ar New Jersey kuma ya yi aiki a ma'aikatar kurkuku. Sa’ad da yake rayuwa a matsayin mishan, ya fara jin daɗin matsayin firist.

Bayan ya taimaka ya jagoranci tafiya zuwa Ranar Matasa ta Duniya ta 2013 a Rio de Janeiro, inda ya yi addu'a kuma ya ci gaba da fahimtar kiransa, Edmond ya kira kaset din nasa, yana cewa, "Ina tsammanin ina da kira [ga firist]" .

An tura shi zuwa makarantar seminary mai alaƙa da Neocatechumenal Way a cikin Archdiocese na Agaña, Guam, daga ƙarshe aka tura shi zuwa Sememary na Redemptoris a cikin Archdiocese na Newark don kammala karatunsa.

Philip ya gaya wa CNA cewa bayan mutuwar mahaifiyarsa, wani lokacin yana tunanin ko sabon mahaifin da mijinta ya mutu zai zama firist.

"Ban sani ba idan na taɓa faɗi - saboda ina so in jira har sai abin ya faru - amma tunanin da ya fara zuwa zuciyata a cikin ɗakin akwai, lokacin da mahaifiyata ta mutu shine mahaifina zai zama firist, "in ji Filibus.

"Ba zan iya bayanin inda ya fito ba."

Filibus ya ce ya san mahaifinsa "ba zai iya zama kawai ya zauna ya sami kuɗi ba" kuma cewa "Na san yana da manufa."

Filibus bai yi magana da kowa game da tunaninsa ba, in ji shi, maimakon ya zaɓi ya dogara ga Allah.

"Ban taɓa faɗi kalma ɗaya ba game da wannan tunanin. Domin in da daga wurin Ubangiji ne, zai bada 'ya'ya, "in ji Filibus.

A lokacin canza shekar sa, aka nada Edmond yayi aiki a Ikklesiya daya inda ya kwashe lokaci a matsayin mai wa'azin kasa. Aikinsa na farko na wucin gadi, wanda zai fara ranar 1 ga Yuli, shi ma zai kasance a cikin Ikklesiya.

"Na isa cikin Ikklesiya ba tare da tsare-tsaren shirin firist ba, masu kyan gani da sauran mutanen ba su san inda za su sanya ni ba, amma a nan ne suka kawo min aika - zuwa inda sana'ata ta fara", ya fadawa CNA.

Sakamakon cutar ta zamani na COVID-19, p. Edmond ba zai gano aikinsa na dindindin ba har sai lokacin bazara. A bisa ga al'ada, ayyukan firistoci a cikin Archdiocese na Newark suna farawa daga 1 ga Yuli, amma wannan zai jinkirta har sai Satumba 1st na wannan shekara.

Mahaifin anda da priestsan firist sun gaya wa CNA cewa suna matukar godiya ga alƙaryar Neocatechumenal Way, wanda Filibus ya kwatanta da "kayan aikin da Allah ya yi amfani da shi don ceton iyalina".

An gabatar da Ilg cikin shirin sabuntawar ruhaniya ta Katolika yayin tashin hankali a cikin rayuwar aurensu, jim kadan bayan asarar jariri lokacin haihuwa.

Ayyukan uba da ɗa “ba su faru a cikin wani wuri mai keɓe ba,” in ji Filibus. "Hakan ya faru ne saboda akwai wata al'umma da ta bunkasa imani kuma ta ba da izinin imani ya girma."

"A cikin shekarun da suka gabata, na ga amincin Allah da gaske ta Hanyar Neocatechumenal," in ji Philip. Ba tare da taimakon al'umma ba, Philip ya gaya wa CNA cewa kada su yi tunanin cewa shi da mahaifinsa ba za su zama firistoci ba.

"Idan ba don jama'ar imanin ne suka ciyar da mu cikin imani da kirkirar jikin da zai iya sarrafa mu ba," in ji shi, da ba za su sami irin wannan ranar ta Uba ba.