恭讀聖馬爾谷福音 3:13-19
那時候,耶穌上了山,把自己所想要的人召來。他們便來到他面前。他就選定了十二人,為同他常在一起,並為派遣他們去宣講,且具有驅魔的權柄。耶穌選定了十二人:西滿,給他起名伯多祿,載伯德的兒子雅各伯和雅各伯的弟弟若望,並為他們起名叫「波納爾革」,就是「雷霆之子」,安德肋、斐理伯、巴爾多祿茂、瑪竇、多默、亞爾斐的兒子雅各伯、達陡和熱誠者西滿,並猶達斯依斯加略,他是負賣耶穌者。
—基督的福音。
(2nd Week in Ordinary Time – Friday)
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark 3:13-19
13 And he went up on the mountain, and called to him those whom he desired; and they came to him. 4 And he appointed twelve, to be with him, and to be sent out to preach 15 and have authority to cast out demons: 16 Simon whom he surnamed Peter; 17 James the son of Zeb’edee and John the brother of James, whom he surnamed Bo-aner’ges, that is, sons of thunder; 18 Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean, 19 and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. Then he went home.
—The Gospel of the Lord.
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年少氣盛時,胸前一個「勇」字,頭上一個「理」字,自以為是正義的朋友。遇到不合理的事或不合格的當權者,必加批評,而且深信掌權者必定要以「能」者居之。回想起來,也笑自己的天真無知﹗
本週五讀經中:「達味為了割去撒烏耳外氅上的衣邊,心中感覺不安。就對自己的人說:『為了上主,我決不能這樣作。我對我主的受傅者,決不能伸手加害,因為他是上主的受傅者。』」撒上23:6-7
日後,達味的惡行,眾所週知,但天主卻對他寵愛有加﹗
在聖馬爾谷福音中更講述了耶穌選定了十二個怎樣的人:一班目不識丁的漁夫、要爭取將來耶穌為王時要坐好位置的現實人、為金錢而出賣耶穌的市儈人、當耶穌被捕時,嚇得四散及不敢在人前明認耶穌的膽小之徒。但當聖神臨於他們身上後,他們就能做出驚天動地的事;看看今天的教會,不是由這班被主耶穌挑選出來的宗徒所建立的嗎﹖
現在遇到無理的事物,也不敢立刻下判斷,因為最怕事情的發生是天主准許的,人物的出現是天主所揀選的,實在不敢與天主的旨意作對﹗唯有跪在主前,教我學習以祂的角度去看每事每物。
聖母媽媽,請教導我將一切默存於心,反覆思量﹗