IVangeli yangomhla we-5 kaSeptemba 2018
Ileta yokuqala kaSt. Paul the Apostle ukuya kwabaseKorinte 3,1-9.
Bhuti, ukuza kuthi ga ngoku andinamandla athetha nani njengamntu wokomoya, kodwa njengokwenyama, njengosana kuKristu.
Ndikunike ubisi ukuba ungaseli, ukutya okuqinileyo, kuba awukwazanga. Kwaye okwangoku awunguye;
Kuba nisengabenyama; oku nje kukhoyo phakathi kwenu umona, neenkani, neembambaniso, aningabenyama na?
Xa omnye esithi: "Mna ndingokaPaulus" aze omnye athi "Ndingoka-Apollo", awuzibonakalisi nje ukuba ungamadoda?
Kodwa yintoni uApollo? Yintoni uPaolo? Abalungiseleli abathi ngaye nenze elukholweni, elowo nalowo wamnikayo iNkosi.
Mna ndatyala, uApollo wankcenkcesha, kodwa nguThixo owasikhulisayo.
Ngoku ke lowo utyalayo, nalowo ungamcaphukisiyo, akanguye lowo, ingenguye uThixo osikhulisayo.
Akukho mahluko phakathi kwabo batyalayo nalowo unkcenkceshelayo, kodwa elowo uya kwamkela umvuzo ngokomsebenzi wakhe.
Thina singabasebenza noThixo, ke nina niyintsimi kaThixo.
Salmi 33(32),12-13.14-15.20-21.
Hayi, uyolo lohlanga oluThixo onguThixo,
abantu abazinyule njengeendlalifa.
INkosi ikhangela ezulwini,
ubona bonke abantu.
Ukusuka kwindawo yekhaya lakhe
Gxotha bonke abemi bomhlaba,
Nguye yedwa ozibumbe iintliziyo zabo
kubandakanya yonke imisebenzi yabo.
Umphefumlo wethu ulindele iNkosi,
Uncedo lwethu nengweletshetshe yethu.
Intliziyo yethu iyavuya ngaye
Ndikholose ngegama lakhe elingcwele.
Ukusuka kwiVangeli kaYesu Krestu ngokukaLuka 4,38-44.
Ke kaloku, ngelo xesha, waphuma endlwini yesikhungu, wangena endlwini kaSimon. Umamazala uSimone wayephethwe ngumkhuhlane omkhulu kwaye bamthandazela.
Wame phezu kwakhe, wabiza ifiva, waphela icesina. Wavuka kwaoko umfazi lowo wabalungiselela.
Xa ilanga litshonile, bonke abo babenabantu abagulayo abachaphazeleka zizifo zonke babakhokelela kuye. Waza wabeka izandla phezu kwabo bonke, wabaphilisa.
Iidemon zaziphuma zininzi zikhwaza zisithi: "Unguye wena unyana kaThixo!" Ke yena, ebasongela, engabavumeli ukuba bathethe, kuba besazi ukuba nguKristu.
Uphumile ke, wemka waya kwindawo engenabantu. Ke zona izihlwele zazimfuna, zamngena, zafuna ukumgcina, ukuze angahlukani nazo.
Kodwa wathi: "Ndimele ndibhengeza nobukumkani bukaThixo nakwezinye izixeko; Kungenxa yoko le nto ndithunyiwe.
Waye eshumayela kwizindlu zesikhungu zakwaYuda.