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Our
Faith
By Fr. KJ Veeger, MSC
Place
of Refuge
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Philip Yuson
Surabaya
Corner
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Ramon Martillano
Sharing
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Kathy Quiano
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Sharing
By
Dhany Handoyo Saputra
Sharing
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Raul Loria
Sharing
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Chris Kamaruddin
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and Sisters in Christ, do not try to search for a perfect community.
You will never find it here on earth.
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became a member of the Genesis Catholic Community in 2000 through its
choir that sings every Sunday at the Atma Jaya University.
“I found the community I was praying for”, I said to
myself. But not everything has gone well.
When I joined the Community, I was not a Christian in a real
sense. As I went deeper
in my involvement with the Community, more and more I found it
imperfect. It came to a
point when I decided to leave the Community. I backslid.
And this happened before the Empowered Christian Living Seminar
(ECLS) was conducted.
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that period that I was not with the Community, I tried to shun all the
members of the Community. But
Jakarta is such a small place and I could not just really avoid
Genesis as my friend and I are living in the same house. He
was attending choir practices and was telling me that the members were
looking for me and kept on asking so many questions about what was
happening to me. Bro.
Pete, our head servant, was also sending me invitations relating to
Genesis’ activities through emails, since he did not really know
about my decision. When I
got tired of receiving his emails, I emailed him back letting him know
about my decision.
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even after I left Genesis temporarily, my respect for the Community
has never diminished and I kept on praying for it and for all its
members. However, Satan
worked doubly hard during that period. He tried every way to drag me
away from God and I felt that I was always nearly defeated.
Three times during my recitation of the Rosary I asked the
Lord, “Did you curse me? Why
did You ever create me? Why is that if I make a mistake I really felt
the very consequence of it, while other people do not?”
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love is really stubborn. I
am blessed because even though I considered myself not a Genesis
member then, the invitation for the ECLS still came to me.
My friend was also very persistent, that I attended the
Orientation until the fourth session just to give ECLS a try.
When it was already Bro. Pete’s turn to give us talk, I was
reluctant to attend. The messages from the earlier speakers were
almost the same as the messages I heard from well-known preachers from
radio or television. Had
Bro. Pete not called me, I would have not attended the session on the
“Baptism in the Holy Spirit”.
Praise God because that session really blessed and changed the
way I thought God was treating me.
Before that, I thought God was unfair to me.
From that Baptism day onwards, I have really understood that in
all things God works for our good.
I have also discovered how powerful prayer is and realized that
the Rosary is an excellent prayer – with parts for adoration,
confession, thanksgiving and supplication. I believe that God allowed me to leave the Community
temporarily for me to know that His stubborn love can conquer my
stubborn heart. God’s
love will never let go of me even if I consider myself not lovable.
Praise God for His stubborn love; no
matter how often we fall, He'll always be there to pick us up, to
welcome us back.
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