Poem: sefapano ke sefofane (The Cross is a plane)
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(The Cross is a plane) A Ha e le rona, re phatlatsa tsa Kriste Ya thakgisitweng sefapanong... Kriste eo, Ke matla a Modimo le bohlale ba Modimo.i Sefapano ke Sefofane! Sefapano ke Sefofane!!
The School of Love is under the Cross! Learn in it! The School of the Cross like the crash of the Plane Is the standing of the test of times for the Love that is true and pure and forever new! No fairy tale is the cross, like Love, like Life! No funny games nor gambling, like lust, like living loose! Yes, the cross is the tree of life, the plane that leads to Life!
Because by your Holy Cross you have redeemed the world.ii But how has your cross oh Christ redeemed the world? How are we saved from the snakes that threaten us so we can bless you? What have you and your cross brought that no one brings? What God are you on the cross to do that science, technology, many a guru Traditional doctors, witchdoctors and healers cannot bring? If you are God, come down from the cross and we will believe in you!iii Oh Jesus, our great, battling yet humble question is one! What did you actually bring and do if not world peace? If not universal prosperity and if not a better world?iv Maybe these you bring to some in your own way! Have mercy and save us; you brought God, the face of God – The Son of the Omnipotent and Omniscient God who humbled himself onto death on a cross! The Sun who makes us suns and heirs of the Kingdom, calling us to faith, to hope, to love! You brought first the God of Blessings and not the blessings of God first. Your cross like my cross like our crosses is painful and bitter! Your cross is detestable, humiliating, crushing and causing untold suffering! Ok! If God hangsv, hangs on the Cross, then I’ll hang! Ok! If God flies, flies on and after the Cross, I’ll also fly! I’ll fly with my cross because it’s a plane! I may crash, I may die, but I must fly by and in the Cross to the Promised Land. B You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God!vi If I also say like irresolute Peter that God forbids you to suffer the Cross, Get behind me Satanvii is the answer I’ll get! If we want to sit one at your right and one at your left in your Kingdom, Then your cup and your baptism is what we’ll drink and get.viii But what about those who enjoy life, this life – Those who have and love fun to the fullest? Oh yes, they slide to destruction!ix What about following you for fun and fame and success? You will fail and fall and bruise and bleed!
You console, understand and accompany but you allow such pain and evil to prevail! I pray for a miracle and your saving intervention But you only exhort that God’s will, even if i/we/they suffer, should prevail! Humanly speaking you seem unfair, dear Lord!
How on earth can the Cross give life? How can the meaning of the Cross touch my life?
The Cross, meaningful to some, healing to many! Dear friends let us follow him, follow Jesus to Jerusalem, Suffer with him and die with him, resurrect with him and reign with him forever! Anyone who wants to save or preserve his life will lose it! Anyone who loses his life for the Lord, Gospel and Cross’ sake will win and save it! Hobane Sefapano ke Sefofane ho ya bophelong bo sa feleng!x
Contradiction like destruction like great achievement beyond disaster. The Cross is the symbol of the Commandments of God and of the Church.
I may escape and enjoy for a year and for years; But one day I’ll come to that without the cross with its tears and blood, Nobody will take me higher, know and love me better or really appreciate me than the one On the cross, from whom I came, to whom I go.
In my daily work, studies, plans, prayers, problems, sports and recreation! I’ll fly with the Cross (Jesus’ and mine) as though with the plane In my daily struggles – my/our salvific destiny. (Fr Emmanuel N.M, 9th Sept. 2009). To my family and friends in Christ with deep sentiments. i 1 Corinthians 1:24 in Sesotho. ii Antiphone used during the season of Lent in the Stations of the Cross. iii Matthew 27:42 iv Questions raised and answered in Pope Benedict XVI’s latest book, ‘Jesus of Nazareth’ v The Climax in Elie Wiesel’s Novel “NIGHT” , his experiences and survival at the holocaust. vii Matthew 16:23 viii Mark 10:37 ix Psalm 73, especially vs 18-20. x The Cross is the plane to eternal life;
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