恭讀聖若望福音 15:18-21
那時,耶穌對門徒說:「世界若恨你們,你們該知道:在你們以前,它已恨了我。若是你們屬於世界,世界必喜愛你們,有如屬於自己的人;但因你們不屬於世界,而是我從世界上揀選了你們,為此,世界才恨你們。你們要記得我對你們所說過的話:沒有僕人大過主人的;如果人們迫害了我,也要迫害你們;如果他們遵守了我的話,也要遵守你們的。但是,他們為了我名字的緣故,要向你們作這一切,因為他們不認識那派遣我來的。」
—基督的福音。
(Saturday of the Fifth Week of Easter)
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John 15:18-21
18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, `A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all this they will do to you on my account, because they do not know him who sent me.
—The Gospel of the Lord.
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在西班牙時,有機會探訪聖女大德蘭居住了三十年的嘉爾默羅苦修院,也能夠參與一位保守生轉衣入初學的彌撒,之後更能與幾位修女見面。聽到她們悅耳的歌聲及喜悅的笑聲,見到她們臉上的祥和及平安,可以知道她們樂於安渡她們回應天主邀請的生活。的確「因你們不屬於世界,而是我從世界中揀選了你們。」若望福音 15:19b 同時也記起聖女大德蘭的金句:事故莫淆爾志,患難莫擾爾衷;天主常存不變,萬般轉眼成空。
其實,這苦修生活在我們看來真是不容易,但卻又是這麼簡單!
是的! 世上的一切痛苦及患難都是煉金石,就是要看看人遇到不幸時,是否仍然依靠天主,是否可以向耶穌學習,同樣在十字架上說﹕「父啊! 我把我的靈魂交托在你手中。」路23:46
無它,一切都是唯主是依!