2009年7月17日 – 默主哥耶分享 by Pearl Tam (多倫多中華殉道聖人堂)
July 17, 2009 – Medjugorje Sharing from Chinese Martyrs Catholic Church in Toronto
Topic: Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament
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錄音長短 |
17-7-2009 |
祈禱、訊息 |
Agnes Chin |
31:01 |
朝聖分享 |
Pearl Tam |
25:00 |
Photography by Dominic Tam
恭讀聖瑪竇福音 12:14-21
那時候，法利塞人出去，商討怎樣陷害耶穌，怎樣除滅他。耶穌知道了，就離開那裏；有許多人跟隨他，他都治好了他們；且警告他們不要將他傳揚出去：這是為應驗那藉依撒意亞先知所說的話：「看，我的僕人，他是我所揀選，我所鍾愛的；他是我心靈所喜悅的；我要使我的神住在他身上，他必向外邦人傳佈真道。他不爭辯，也不喧嚷，在街市上沒有人聽到他的聲音：已壓破的蘆葦，他不折斷；將熄滅的燈心，他不吹滅，直至他使真道勝利。外邦人將要期待他的名字。」
—基督的福音。
(15th Week in Ordinary Time – Saturday)
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew 12:14-21
14 But the Pharisees went out and took counsel against him, how to destroy him. 15 Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all, 16 and ordered them not to make him known. 17 This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: 18 “Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he shall proclaim justice to the Gentiles. 19 He will not wrangle or cry aloud, nor will any one hear his voice in the streets; 20 he will not break a bruised reed or quench a smoldering wick, till he brings justice to victory; 21 and in his name will the Gentiles hope.”
—The Gospel of the Lord.
信仰生活互動坊、塔冷通心靈書舍
瑪12：14-21 (其他經文──出12：37-42 詠136)
法利塞人出去，商討怎樣陷害耶穌，怎樣除滅他。耶穌知道了，就離開那裡；有許多人跟隨他，他都治好了他們；且警告他們不要將他傳揚出去：這是為應驗那藉依撒意亞先知所說的話：「看，我的僕人，他是我所揀選，我所鍾愛的；他是我心靈所喜悅的；我要使我的神住在他身上，他必向外邦人傳佈真道。他不爭辯，也不喧嚷，在街市上沒有人聽到他的聲音：已壓破的蘆葦，他不折斷；將熄滅的燈心，他不吹滅，直至他使真道勝利。外邦人將要期待他的名字。」
默 想
「他不爭辯，也不喧嚷，在街市上沒有人聽到他的聲音； 已壓破的蘆葦，他不折斷；將熄滅的燈心，他不吹滅，直到他使真道勝利。」(依42:2-3)
瑪竇以依撒意亞先知的預言，套用在耶穌身上，好證明耶穌便是默西亞。
不過當時的人，特別是經師及法利塞人，卻嗤之以鼻，且設法陷害耶穌。
比拉多在審訊耶穌的時候，已知道司祭長是由於嫉妒，纔把耶穌解送過來，好能定他的死罪。
比拉多為了自保，便不惜犧牲了義人的血。他雖公開洗手，亦免不了同流合污的罪。
與耶穌同釘在十字架的還有兩個囚犯，其中一個說：「你不是默西亞嗎﹖救救你自己和我們吧!」
另一個凶犯應聲責斥他說：「你既然受同樣的刑罰， 連天主你都不怕嗎﹖ 這對我們是理所當然的，因為我們所受的，正配我們所行的；但是，這個人從未做過什麼不正當的事。 」
隨後說：「耶穌，當你來為王時，請你紀念我!」
耶穌給他說：「我實在告訴你：今天你就要與我一同在樂園裏。 」
多麼美麗的對話，多麼幸福的對話！
我們要養成當仁不讓的習慣，否則我們很容易墮入鋤弱扶強的陷阱裡。
梁達材神父
July 15, 2009
Dear Children of Medjugorje, praised be Jesus and Mary!
1 – On July 2nd Mirjana received her monthly apparition in the presence of a crowd gathered at the Blue Cross, at the foot of Apparition Hill. After the apparition, she shared the following message: “Dear children! I am calling you because I need you. I need hearts ready for immeasurable love- hearts that are not burdened by vanity- hearts that are ready to love as my Son loved- that are ready to sacrifice themselves as my Son sacrificed Himself. I need you. In order to come with me, forgive yourselves, forgive others and adore my Son. Adore Him also for those who have not come to know Him, those who do not love him. Therefore, I need you; therefore, I call you. Thank you.” (See PS1)
2 – The Killer and the Rosary. To understand that Our Lady needs us, it helps to begin with the awareness that we also need her and that her help never fails those who pray to her with a sincere heart. This American Monsignor is a good witness of that.
On May 14, 2009, Mgr. William Kerr, a leading human rights figure, died. Mgr. Kerr often spoke of his very first hospital assignment, where he ministered to a young burn victim dying from his injuries. Later, he recalled, he would be called upon to perform even more ghastly duties.
In 1978, the police called Msgr. Kerr in the middle of the night to accompany them to a sorority house in Tallahassee. When he arrived he was told that all but one of the girls in the house were dead or near death, killed by the infamous serial killer, Ted Bundy. After administering last rites to one of the college girls who was dying, the police on the scene asked Fr. Kerr to speak with a girl who had survived the massacre unscathed. They had a very specific question: Why did Bundy stop right inside the door to her room, drop his weapon, and leave without touching her?
The young woman refused to speak to anyone except a priest. When Fr. Kerr approached the near-catatonic girl, she told him that her mother had made her promise, before going off to college for the first time, that she would pray the Rosary every night before bed for protection. Even if she fell asleep praying the Rosary, which she had that night. When Bundy came into her room to murder her as he had the other girls, the beads were still clutched in her hands.
Ironically, Bundy later sought out Msgr. Kerr as a spiritual counselor while he waited on death row. Over the course of their sessions, Bundy explained to Mgr. Kerr that when he entered the girl’s room, he just wasn’t able to continue with his spree, he dropped his weapon, and he fled.
Such is the power of our Mother’s protective mantle. Such also is the wisdom of a mom, who managed to give her daughter the most efficient, powerful weapon – the rosary, which later saved her life.
(Domenico Bettinelli, Jr.) http://www.bettnet.com/blog/index.php
3 – What splendid inspiration our Pope, Benedict XVI, had to launch this Year of the Priesthood! (See PS2) How many times did the Gospa ask us to pray for our priests, for our pastors! This special year is a great opportunity for us to increase our fervor for their sake, and make good use of the many indulgences granted by the Church. I propose that each month we adopt one beautiful prayer, composed by a different saint, and that we decide to pray this prayer every day for a month until the next report.
To begin this series, here is a magnificent prayer from the Cure of Ars, holy patron saint of all parish priests, who will be declared as the patron saint of all priests in the world. Let’s pray this prayer, asking the Lord to grant this same burning love to all the hearts of His priests!
Act of Love of the Cure of Ars
I love You, O my God and my sole desire is to love You until the last breath of my life. I love You, O infinitely lovable God and I prefer to die loving You than live one instant without loving You. I love You, O my God, and I do not desire anything but Heaven so as to have the joy of loving You perfectly. I love You, O my God, and I fear hell, because there will not be the sweet consolation of loving You. O my God, if my tongue cannot say in every moment that I love You, I want my heart to say it in every beat. Allow me the grace to suffer loving You, to love you suffering and one day to die loving You and feeling that I love You. And as I approach my end, I beg you to increase and perfect my love of You.
St. John Marie Vianney, Cure d’Ars, said:
“If I were to meet a priest and an angel, I would greet the priest first and then the angel … If there were no priest, the Passion and death of Jesus would serve no purpose. What use is a treasure chest full of gold if there is no one who can unlock it? The priest has the key to the treasures of Heaven.”
4 – Vicka, the visionary, still suffers terribly since she fell on the staircase in her home. She is receiving intensive therapy in Zagreb. We may not see her this summer, even though in reality, she obtains so much for us in bearing this suffering out of love. One of her friends said to her the other day, “Surely you will tell me that this trial is a gift from God!” To this Vicka answered: “It is a great gift!”
Dearest Gospa, come with us on our vacation!
Show us how You would live these moments of rest for our body and soul!
Sister Emmanuel +
(Translated from French)
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PS 1 – Because Our Lady needs us, Radio Maria throughout the world has organized a large novena for Our Lady’s intentions from July 27th to August 4th (Feast day of St. John Vianney “Cure d’Ars”). They hope to gather as many people as possible. How shall we pray this novena? See website: http://santamaria.freewebspace.ws from July 20th onward.
July 17, 2009 – Cenacle Prayer & Sharing Our Lady’s Message
「但我告訴你們：這裏有比聖殿更大的。」(瑪12:6)
法利塞人常常強調遵守梅瑟法律的重要性。
但他們忽略了梅瑟法律的精神，即愛天主在萬有之上及愛人如己。
以民的法律並不是一部死的，一成不變的法律書，相反地，它是隨時代的進展及環境的變遷，而繼續發展的。
耶穌時代的猶太人，卻利用法律來把猶太人團結一致，同時使猶太宗教發揚光大，故法律變成了死板無情的法條。只是愛國的工具。
「你們不要以為我來是廢除法律或先知；我來不是為廢除，而是為成全。」(瑪5:17)
「你們一向聽過給古人說：『不可殺人!』誰若殺了人，應受裁判。
我卻對你們說：凡向自己弟兄發怒的， 就要受裁判，誰若向自己的弟兄說「傻子」，就要受議會的裁判；誰若說「瘋子」，就要受火獄的罰。」 (瑪5:21)
福音的法律不再是屬於一個民族的法律，而是與全世界人類有關的。
馬爾谷福音已帶出耶穌是人類立法者的主題：
「他們進了葛法翁；一到安息日，耶穌就進入會堂教訓人。 人都驚奇他的教訓，因為他教訓他們正像有權威似的，不像經師們一樣。」(谷1:22)
故今次耶穌替在田中掐麥穗吃的門徒開罪後，便說：「但我告訴你們：這裏有比聖殿更大的。」意思是：我是法律的最高權威。
聖保祿便作了最好的注釋：
「弟兄們! 我心裏所懷的切望，向天主所懇求的， 就是為使我的同胞獲得救恩。
我可以為他們作證：他們對天主有熱心，但不合乎真知超見， 因為他們不認識由天主而來的正義，企圖建立自己的正義，而不順從天主的正義：
因為法律的終向是基督，使凡信祂的人獲得正義。」 (羅10:1-4)
主耶穌，祢是我們的道路與生命。
梁達材神父
