恭讀聖路加福音 9:7-9
那時,分封侯黑落德聽到耶穌所做的一切事,猶疑不定,因為有些人說:「若翰從死者中復活了。」但另有些人說:「是厄里亞出現了。」還有些人說:「是一位古先知復活了。」黑落德且說:「若翰我已經斬首了;而這人到底是誰?關於他,我竟聽到了這樣的事!」於是他設法要見見他。
—基督的福音。
(25th Week in Ordinary Time – Thursday)
Memorial of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, priest
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 9:7-9
7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done, and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had been raised from the dead, 8 by some that Eli’jah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen. 9 Herod said, “John I beheaded; but who is this about whom I hear such things?” And he sought to see him.
—The Gospel of the Lord.
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讀小學時,坐在一位頑皮的同學身旁。有一天,他在搗蛋,老師以為我也有份,竟不問情由地要我倆向著黑板罰企。我當時含著眼淚的企足一課堂。當時的情景和那位老師的模樣仍深刻地在我的腦海中。
在日常生活中,在每一方面都會遇到不少委屈、誤解、錯判和指責,而且更沒有機會辯白就被判了死刑,這是人生必定有的磨練﹗天主容許這一切的發生就是要使我們堅強,否則我們如何體驗到同行者的痛苦,扶持及安慰受迫害的人。我常熱切祈求上主,教我勿傷害別人,勿做別人的十字架﹗
「黑落德且說:『若翰我已經斬首了…』」路9:9 他說得很自然,說得毫無悔意﹗可想而知,人命為他並不重要,他有操生殺之權。有些時候我們也像黑落德一樣,以為生命及事物都在我們控制之下,別人也要依照我們的旨意承行,而忽略了彼此的尊重,更不用說要尊重天主﹗
是的﹗「我們要設法見見祂」,在耶穌之內才懂得如何活出祂的聖意﹗