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1 November
Jesus is mirrored in them
The saints are like many small mirrors in which Jesus Christ contemplates himself.
In his apostles (Jesus) contemplates his zeal and his love for the salvation of souls; in the martyrs he contemplates his patience, his sufferings and his painful death; in the solitary he sees his dark and hidden life; in virgins, he admires the purity without stain, and in all the saints, his limitless charity so that, in admiring the virtues of the saints, we do nothing other than admire the virtues of Jesus Christ.
Saints did not all start well, but all finished well.
San Giovanni Maria Vianney
Scritti scelti
Città Nuova, Roma 1975, p. 94
(published by the Priestly Branch of the Focolare Movement)
11月1日
诸圣，耶稣的镜子
诸圣犹如耶稣的镜子。
耶稣在其门徒身上，观赏他为拯救人灵而怀有的热忱和爱情；在殉道者身上，凝视他的忍耐、苦难和他痛苦的死亡；在孤独者身上，透视他晦涩而隐藏的生命。在贞女身上，惊叹他毫无瑕疵的纯洁；在诸圣身上，默观他的无限大爱。故此，我们称羡诸圣的德行，就是在钦佩基督的美德。
虽然不是全部的圣人都有圣善的开始，但诸圣全部都有圣善的结束。
圣若望玛利亚维亚乃（San Giovanni Maria Vianney）
摘选
新城出版社，罗马1975，94页
信仰生活互動坊、塔冷通心靈書舍
讀經一 默7：2-4, 9-14 讀經二 若一3：1-3 詠24
主日福音 瑪5：1-12
耶穌一見群眾，就上了山，坐下；他的門徒來到他面前，他於是開口教訓他們說：「神貧的人是有福的，因為天國是他們的。哀慟的人是有福的，因為他們要受安慰。溫良的人是有福的，因為他們要承受土地。飢渴慕義的人是有福的，因為他們要得飽飫。憐憫人的人是有福的，因為他們要受憐憫。心裡潔淨的人是有福的，因為他們要看見天主。締造和平的人是有福的，因為他們要稱為天主的子女。為義而受迫害的人是有福的，因為天國是他們的。幾時人為了我而辱罵迫害你們，捏造一切壞話毀謗你們，你們是有福的。你們歡喜踴躍吧！因為你們在天上的賞報是豐厚的。」
默 想
──準備心神．參與主日感恩祭──
「駱駝穿過針孔，比富人進天國還容易。」（瑪19：24）(1)
這句話會使你感到驚奇嗎？
我相信你有理由感到困惑不解，並反省一下自己應該怎樣做才對。耶穌說的話都不是偶然的。因此，你該認真的衡量這句話，不要輕看了它的意義。
不過，讓我們先弄清楚耶穌說這句話的真正含意，看看祂以怎樣的態度來對待富有的人。祂和富人的交往是很密切的。祂對只把一半財產捐獻出來的匝凱說：「今天救恩來到了這一家。」（路19：9）
此外，宗徒大事錄中記載：在初期的教會裡，捐獻財物是各人自願的事，為此完全地捨棄一切並不是必須的。
因此，耶穌的心意並不只是去建立一個人人都捨棄一切錢財，去跟隨祂的團體。然而祂卻說：
「駱駝穿過針孔，比富人進天國還容易。」
那麼耶穌所譴責的究竟是什麼？當然不是世上的財富本身，而是那些對財富執著不放的人。為什麼？理由很簡單：因為所有的一切都是屬於天主的，但是富人卻以為他們所擁有的財物是屬於自己的。
事實上，財富在人的心中很容易取代了天主的位置，使他們變得盲目，也很容易讓一切惡行滋生。保祿宗徒曾經這樣寫過：「至於那些想望致富的人，卻陷於誘惑，墮入羅網和許多背理有害的慾望中，這慾望叫人沉溺於敗壞和滅亡中，因為貪愛錢財乃萬惡的根源；有些人曾因貪求錢財而離棄了信德，使自己受了許多刺心的痛苦。」（弟前6：9-10）
柏拉圖也曾確定地說過：「一個極之善良的人絕不可能同時又是極之富有的。」那麼，擁有財富的人該有怎樣的心態才對呢？他們必須懷有一顆對天主完全開放的心，意識到自己只不過是這些財富的管理人，並知道他們管理財富的方式將影響到社會的福祉，這是教宗若望保祿二世的見解。
由於財富本身並不是邪惡的，我們無需鄙視它，卻要懂得善用它。並不是我們的手要遠離財富，而是我們的心。我們該懂得如何利用財富，造福人群。
因此，富人可以擁有財富，卻應該是為了他人的益處。
「駱駝穿過針孔，比富人進天國還容易。」
可能你會說：我真的並不富有，所以這句話與我無關。你可要當心，當門徒們聽了這句話後，驚異地問耶穌的問題正好是：「這樣，誰還能得救呢？」（瑪19：25）這個問題清楚地說明了耶穌的話是對每一個人說的。
一個已經捨棄了一切，跟隨基督的人，心中仍可能眷戀著許許多多的事物。一個窮人如果惡言咒罵碰了一下他的包袱的人，這時候這個窮人在天主面前也算是一個富有的人。
「駱駝穿過針孔，比富人進天國還容易。」
盧嘉勒
（１）本月聖言取自1979年7月份生活聖言
“It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” (Mt 19:24)
November 2009
The Eye Of A Needle
Does this sentence make a certain impression on you?
I think you may have reasons to be perplexed and to consider what would be the best thing to do. The words of Jesus are never used loosely. It is therefore necessary to take these words seriously, without trying to water them down.
Let us try to understand the real significance of these words from Jesus himself, from his way of behaving with the rich. He frequented the company even of well-to-do persons. To Zaccheus, who had given away only half of his possessions, he says: “Salvation has entered your house.”
Furthermore, the Acts of the Apostles show us that in the early Church the communion of goods was practiced freely, and hence, the concrete renouncement of one’s possessions was not compulsory. Therefore, it is not that Jesus thought of founding only a community of persons who are called to follow him by leaving behind all they possess.
And yet he says:
“It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
What does Jesus condemn, then? Certainly not the goods of this earth in themselves, but the attachment to wealth by the rich.
Why? The answer is clear: it is because all things belong to God and the rich behave as if their riches are their own.
The fact is that riches easily take the place of God in the human heart. They blind the vision and make it easier for all sorts of vices to take root. The Apostle Paul wrote: “Those who want to be rich are falling into temptation and into a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge them into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all evils, and some people in their desire for it have strayed from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains” (1 Tim 6:9-10).
Even in earlier times, Plato already affirmed: “It is impossible for an extraordinarily good person to be at the same time extraordinarily rich.”
What, then, should be the attitude of people who have possessions?
They must have a heart that is free and totally open to God, so that they feel that they are administrators of their goods, and know that – as Pope John Paul II said – they are mortgaged to society.
Since earthly goods are not bad in themselves, we should not despise them, but we must use them well. We must keep our hearts detached from them, not our hands. Because whoever is rich, is so for the good of others.
“It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
But perhaps you’ll say: “I am not really rich, so these words are not meant for me.”
Be careful. The question that the dismayed Apostles asked right after this statement of Christ was: “Who then will be saved?” This clearly tells us that Christ’s words were somehow addressed to everybody.
Even someone who has left all things to follow Christ may have his or her heart attached to so many things. Even a poor person who curses at anybody who touches his or her belongings may be looked upon by God as a “rich” person attached to earthly treasures.
By Chiara Lubich
The Word of Life, taken from Scripture, is offered each month as a guide and inspiration for daily living. From the Focolare’s beginnings, Chiara Lubich wrote her commentaries on each Word of Life, and after her death last year, her early writings are now being featured once again. This commentary, addressed to a primarily Christian audience, was originally published in July 1979.
「因為凡高舉自己的，必被貶抑；凡貶抑自己的，必被高舉。 」(路14:11)
這句說話，耳熟能詳。原來耶穌在另一環境中，用了同一句說話來作評語。同樣是路加福音：
「有兩個人上聖殿去祈禱：一個是法利塞人，另一個是稅吏。
那個法利塞人立著，心裏這樣祈禱：天主，我感謝你，因為我不像其他的人，勒索、不義、奸淫，也不像這個稅吏。
我每週兩次禁食，凡我所得的，都捐獻十分之一。
那個稅吏卻遠遠地站著，連舉目望天都不敢，祇是捶著自己的胸膛說：天主，可憐我這個罪人罷!
我告訴你們: 這人下去，到他家裏，成了正義的，而那個人卻不然。
因為凡高舉自己的，必被貶抑；凡貶抑自己的，必被高舉。 」 (18:9-14)
聖母亦感受到天主憐愛那些卑微弱小的人：
「因為衪垂顧了衪婢女的卑微， 今後萬世萬代都要稱我有福。」( 路1:48)
「衪從高座上推下權勢者，卻舉揚了卑微貧困的人。」 (路1:52)
耶穌說：「跟我學吧! 因為我是良善心謙的。」 (瑪11:29)
當我們亦步亦趨地跟隨主的足跡的時候，我們自然會心領神會主的智慧、主的謙卑。
梁達材神父
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恭讀聖路加福音 14:1,7-14
在安息日，耶穌進了一個法利塞人首領的家中吃飯；他們就留心觀察他。
耶穌注意到被邀請的人，如何爭選首席，便對他們講了一個比喻說：「幾時你被人請去赴婚筵，不要坐在首席上，怕有比你更尊貴的客人也被請來，那請你而又請他的人要來向你說：請讓座給這個人！那時，你就要含羞地去坐末席了。你幾時被請，應去坐末座，等那請你的人走來對你說：朋友，請上坐吧！那時，在你同席的眾人面前，你才有光彩。因為凡高舉自己的，必被貶抑；凡貶抑自己的，必被高舉。」
—基督的福音。
(30th Week in Ordinary Time – Saturday)
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 14:1, 7-11
1 One sabbath when he went to dine at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees, they were watching him. 7 Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he marked how they chose the places of honor, saying to them, 8 “When you are invited by any one to a marriage feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest a more eminent man than you be invited by him; 9 and he who invited you both will come and say to you, `Give place to this man,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. 10 But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, `Friend, go up higher’; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you. 11 For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
—The Gospel of the Lord.
31 October
Let us keep the power of signs
Lord, fill us with the open attitude you have towards others. Teach us to “remove our outer garments” …
Teach us to remove our “outer garments” of gain, of profit, of personal interest, for the nakedness of communion.
Teach us to remove our “outer garments” of conformity, and clothe ourselves with modesty, simplicity, and ease with others.
And teach us to remove our “outer garments” of arrogance, of control, of distortion, of concealment, in order to clothe ourselves with the veils of weakness and poverty, knowing that “pauper”(poor) is more the opposite of “potens”(powerful) than “dives”(rich).
We must abandon the signs of power, in order to keep the power of signs.
Tonino Bello
Stola e grembiule
Insieme, Terlizzi 1993, p. 25
(published by the Priestly Branch of the Focolare Movement)
10月31日
克制欲望的良药
上主,请使我们以你那乐意助人和顺服的态度面对他人，并教导我们如同你一样“脱去外衣”。
脱去要求回报、斤斤计较、自私自利的外衣，为了获得完全的共融。脱去资产阶级思想的外衣，为了穿上谦逊、纯朴、光明磊落的外衣。脱去统治、傲慢、霸权、渎职及贪财的外衣，以便穿上弱小和贫穷的外衣,深刻地认识到穷人主要不是对抗富有者，而是对抗仗势凌人者。
我们应当抛弃种种权力的欲望, 为能获得克制欲望的良药。
托尼诺•柏劳（Tonino Bello）
Stola e grembiule
Insieme出版社, Terlizzi 1993, 25页
信仰生活互動坊、塔冷通心靈書舍
路14：1, 7-14 (其他經文──羅11：1-2, 11-12, 25-29 詠94)
在安息日，耶穌進了一個法利塞人首領的家中吃飯；他們就留心觀察他。
耶穌注意到被邀請的人，如何爭選首席，便對他們講了一個比喻說：「幾時你被人請去赴婚筵，不要坐在首席上，怕有比你更尊貴的客人也被請來，那請你而又請他的人要來向你說：請讓座給這個人！那時，你就要含羞地去坐末席了。你幾時被請，應去坐末座，等那請你的人走來對你說：朋友，請上坐吧！那時，在你同席的眾人面前，你才有光彩。因為凡高舉自己的，必被貶抑；凡貶抑自己的，必被高舉。」
默 想
「教會是『諸聖的相通』：這措辭首先是指『神聖事物』，尤其是聖體聖事，藉這聖事，信友們的合一得以表達和實現，他們在基督內結成一體。」
「『諸聖的相通』也指『諸聖』在基督內的共融，祂『為一切人而死』，以致每人在基督內及為基督而作的或忍受的一切，為眾人都有效益。」
「我們相信所有基督信徒們的共融，即那些在此世作旅客的，那些在淨煉中的亡者，以及那些在天堂上享真福的，共同形成的獨一教會。我們相信在這共融中，充滿慈悲和仁愛的天主及諸聖不斷地聆聽我們的祈禱。」
(天主教教理 960-962)
「旅途中的教會深深體會耶穌基督整個奧體的共融精神，從基督教會的初期，便以極大的熱誠，孝敬追念已故的人：『為此，他為亡者獻贖罪祭，是為叫他們獲得罪赦』(加下12:46)。」(教會憲章 50)
「我們都是天主的兒女，都在基督內組成一個家庭，當我們因彼此的相愛、同聲讚美至聖聖三而彼此共融時，就是回應教會親切的召喚。」(教會憲章 51)
教會傳統上，每年十一月都特別為已去世的兄弟姊妹祈禱，特別為煉靈祈禱。煉靈實在需要我們的代禱。
金口若望說：「讓我們援助和懷念煉靈。假如約伯的兒子能因父親的犧牲而得到净化，那麼為何我們懷疑為亡者的奉獻不會帶給他們安慰呢？我們無須猶疑去幫助亡者，為他們獻上祈禱。」(格林多人前書講道集)
梁達材神父
(原文見聖母領報堂堂區網頁www.annunciation.catholic.org.hk)
「安息日，耶穌進了一個法利塞人首領的家中吃飯；他們就留心觀察他。」(路14:1)
耶穌時代，「安息日」仍為一週的第七天，因為天主用了六天造了天地萬物，第七天停工休息。但初期教會已把「安息日」改為一週的第一天，以紀念耶穌的復活。
基於「安息日是為人立的，並不是人為了安息日。」(見出23:12)，而且耶穌自己是安息日的主人，他刻意冒犯了猶太人，特別是法利塞人的禁忌，在安息日治好了那個患水臌症的人。
後果當然嚴重。請看瑪竇福音的記述：
「耶穌就離開那裏，進了他們的會堂。 看，那裏有一個人，他的一隻手乾枯了，他們問耶穌說：『安息日許不許治病?』為的是要控告衪。
耶穌對他們說：『你們中誰有一隻羊，假如安息日掉在坑裏，而不把牠抓住，拉上來呢？ 人比羊貴重得多了! 所以，安息日是許可行善的。』
於是給那人說：『伸出你的手來!』那人一伸出來，手就完好如初，同另一隻手一樣。法利塞人出去，商討怎麼陷害耶穌，怎樣除滅衪。」(瑪12:9-14)
耶穌認為是值得的，因為他來到世上的目的，就是讓人相信，天主是願意把最好的東西賜給人，連他的生命在內。
梁達材神父
Oct 30, 2009 – Cenacle Prayer & Sharing Our Lady’s Message
恭讀聖路加福音 14:1-6
安息日，耶穌進了一個法利塞人首領的家中吃飯；他們就留心觀察他。在他面前有一個患水臌症的人。耶穌對法學士及法利塞人說道：「安息日許不許治病？」他們都默然不語。耶穌遂扶著那人，治好他，叫他走了。然後向他們說：「你們中間，誰的兒子或牛掉在井裏，在安息日這一天，不立刻拉他上來呢？」他們對這話無法答辯。
—基督的福音。
(30th Week in Ordinary Time – Friday)
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 14:1-6
1 One Sabbath when he went to dine at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees, they were watching him. 2 And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. 3 And Jesus spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” 4 But they were silent. Then he took him and healed him, and let him go. 5 And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well, will not immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?” 6 And they could not reply to this.
—The Gospel of the Lord.
30 October
Service, not rule
The category that corresponds to the priesthood is not that of rule… When priesthood, episcopacy, and papacy are understood essentially in terms of rule, then things ar truly wrong and distorted. We know from the Gospels that the disciples argued about their rank, that the temptation to turn discipleship into lordship was there from the first and also always is there.
Therefore, there is no denying that this temptation exists in every generation, including today’s. At the same time, however, there is the gesture of the Lord, who washes the feet of his disciples and thereby makes them fit to sit at table with him, with God himself. When he makes this gesture, it is as if he were saying: “This is what I mean by priesthood. If you don’t like that, then you are no priests”.
Cardinal. Joseph Ratzinger
Salt of the Earth
Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1997, p. 191.
(published by the Priestly Branch of the Focolare Movement)
10月30日
服务，并非权力
司铎职务的范围丝毫不涉及权力。…… 若是把司铎职务、主教和教宗的牧职视为一种权力，则是完全偏离方向。
我们知道，在福音中，门徒中曾争论他们中谁最大。他们面对的诱惑就是试图把门徒的身份转化为一种权力,这种诱惑从一开始就存在,至今仍然继续存在。
不可否认，这种诱惑存在于每一世代，当然也包括当前。不过，与此同时，因着主为他的门徒们洗脚的行为，使他们有资格与他同席， 即与天主同席。耶稣借此行为阐释铎职的真谛。若你们不喜欢，就不适合作司铎。
拉辛格枢机（Card. Joseph Ratzinger）
地上的盐
Mappano (都灵) 1997, 218页
