Daily Thoughts for the Year for Priests (January 13)

13 January
Showing the father to the world

I am aware that you, God the Father almighty, have to be the main aim of my life, in such a way that every word of mine, every feeling, expresses you.
The exercise of the word, that you have given me, can have no greater reward that that of serving you by making you known, of showing this world that ignores you or… denies you, that you are Father, Father of the only (Son of) God. This is the only aim I have.

Saint Hilary of Poitiers

PL 10, 48

(published by the Priestly Branch of the Focolare Movement)

1月13日
将父显示于世界

我深深知道，全能的天主父，你应是我生命的最后终向，因此我的一言一行都在彰显着你。
你赐给我言谈的能力，对这个礼物，我唯一渴望回报你的方法就是用来服侍你，使人认识你，向这个忽略、……拒绝你的世界，显示你是父，是天主独生子之父。
这是我生命的唯一目标。

圣依拉略•普瓦捷
（Sant’Ilario di Poitiers）

拉丁教父集 10，48