Eia ka hana maoli a ka ʻānela Guardian i kou ola

Mai nā "Discourses" a S. Bernardo, Abate.

"Kauohaʻo ia i kāna mau ʻānela e kiaʻi iā ʻoe i kou mau ʻaoʻao a pau" (Sl 90, 11). Ua hoʻomaikaʻi lākou iā Iēhova no kona lokomaikaʻi a me kāna mau hana mana i nā keiki a ke kanaka. E hoʻomaikaʻi iā lākou a ʻōlelo i waena o kou mau manaʻo: ua hana nō ka Haku i nā mea nui no lākou. E ka Haku, he aha ke kanaka e mālama aku ai iā ia? Hāʻawi ʻoe iā ʻoe iho iā ia, lawe ʻoe iā ia, mālama ʻoe iā ia. E hāʻawi iā ʻoe i kāu Keiki hiwahiwa, i lalo i kou lani i loko ona, a ua hoʻohiki ʻoe iā ia i ka hihiʻo o kou maka. A e hōʻike hoʻi ʻaʻole mālama i ka lani i kekahi mea hiki ke kōkua iā mākou, hoʻokomo i kēlā mau lani lani ma ko mākou ʻaoʻao, i mālama lākou iā mākou, e aʻo mai iā mākou.

"Na ia e kauoha i kana mau anela e pale aku ia oe ma na kapuwai a pau." ʻO kēia mau huaʻōlelo nui e pono ai lākou e hoʻāla iā ʻoe, ʻoi ka nui o ka hoʻomau iā ʻoe, i ka nui o ka hilinaʻi e hoʻokomo iā ʻoe.

Hōʻike no ka noho ʻana, ka mālama ʻia no ka lokomaikaʻi, hilinaʻi no ka mālama ʻana.

No laila lākou i kēia manawa, aia nō lākou, ʻaʻole lākou wale nō me ʻoe, akā ʻo ʻoe nō hoʻi. Aia lākou no ka mālama iā ʻoe, aia lākou e pōmaikaʻi iā ʻoe.

ʻOiai he poʻe pule wale nā ​​ʻānela i nā kauoha a ke Akua, e pono hoʻi e mahalo pū kekahi iā lākou no ka mea e hoʻolohe lākou i ke Akua no ko mākou pono. No laila hoʻokaʻawale mākou, mahalo mākou i nā mea pale i nā mea nui loa, e hāʻawi iā lākou, e hoʻomaikaʻi iā lākou e like me kā mākou e hiki ai a me ka nui o ka pono. ʻO ke aloha a me ka hanohano ke hele aku i ke Akua, nāna mai ia mea i nā ʻānela a me mākou. Mai ona mai ka mea i hiki ai ke aloha a me ka hanohano, mai ona mai ka mea e pono ai mākou e aloha a me ka hanohano.

Aloha mākou i nā ʻānela o ke Akua, e like me ka poʻe e lilo ana i mau hoʻoilina, ʻoiai ʻo lākou nō ko mākou alakaʻi a me mau kumu aʻo, i wae ʻia a hoʻonoho ʻia mai e ka Makua.

ʻĀnō, he mau keiki kākou na ke Akua, eia nō naʻe inā ʻaʻole maopopo iā kākou i kēia manawa, no ka mea he mau keiki mākou ma lalo o nā alakaʻi a me nā mea aʻoaʻo, a no laila, ʻaʻole like mākou i like ʻole mai nā kauwā. Ma hope o nā mea a pau, inā he mau keiki mākou a loaʻa nō iā mākou kahi huakaʻi lōʻihi a me ka pōʻino, he aha ka mea e makaʻu ai mākou ma lalo o nā mea mālama nui? ʻAʻole hiki iā lākou ke kāʻili a ʻaʻe ʻia e hoʻowalewale iā lākou, nā mea nāna mākou e mālama iā lākou.

Pono lākou, he poʻe akamai lākou, he ikaika.

No ke aha e hopohopo nei? E mālama wale iā lākou, e noho kokoke iā lākou a noho i ka pale o ke Akua o ka lani.