聖伯鐸.尚耐司鐸殉道
恭讀聖路加福音 24:35-48
那時,兩個門徒把在厄瑪烏路上的事,及在分餅時,他們怎樣認出了耶穌,述說了一遍。
他們正談論這些事的時候,耶穌立在他們中間,向他們說:「願你們平安!」眾人害怕起來,想是見了鬼神。耶穌向他們說:「你們為什麼惶恐?為什麼心裏起了疑慮?你們看看我的手,我的腳,分明是我自己。你們摸摸我,應該知道:鬼神是沒有肉軀和骨頭的,如同你們看我,卻是有的。」說了這話,就把手和腳伸給他們看。他們由於歡喜,還是不敢信,只是驚訝;耶穌向他們說:「你們這裏有什麼吃的沒有?」他們便給他一片烤魚。他就接過來,當他們面前吃了。
耶穌對他們說:「我以前還同你們在一起的時候,就對你們說過這話:諸凡梅瑟法律、先知並聖詠上指著我所記載的話,都必須應驗。」耶穌遂開啟他們的明悟,叫他們理解經書;又向他們說:「經上曾這樣記載:默西亞必須受苦,第三天要從死者中復活;並且必須從耶路撒冷開始,因他的名向萬邦宣講悔改,以得罪之赦。你們就是這些事的見證人。」
—基督的福音。
(Thursday in the Octave of Easter)
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 24:35-48
35 Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread. 36 As they were saying this, Jesus himself stood among them. 37 But they were startled and frightened, and supposed that they saw a spirit. 38 And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do questionings rise in your hearts? 39 See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have.” 41 And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and ate before them. 44 Then he said to them, “These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.” 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, 46 and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, 47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things.
—The Gospel of the Lord.
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候洗者在復活前夕的彌撒接受入門聖事 —領受水洗、白衣和燭光,藉著聖神的光照及祂所賜予的恩寵,在此生活的洪流裡,拒絕一切魔鬼的誘惑,保持純潔及忠貞,誓言要作耶穌的勇兵。而代父母則在那時候從慕道老師接過接力棒,陪同新領洗者繼續走上成聖之路!
有位新領洗者告訴我,參與入門聖事的時刻很感動,眼淚也淌下了! 能夠成為天父的兒女,也加入了這大家庭,覺得自己很有福!
我們這斑老教友如何立個好榜樣? 真的相信天主是我們生命的主宰嗎? 祂為我真的是最重要嗎?我們真的相信我們會如同主耶穌一樣,在大苦大難後,得到復活,得到永生?
領洗的一刻是甜美的,但能夠無論疾病、健康、喜樂、痛苦,永遠對主都不離不棄,且無怨無悔就談何容易! 但願我們都能像聖保祿宗徒一樣說同樣的話:「這場好仗,我已打完;這場賽跑,我已跑到終點,這信仰,我已保持了 。(弟後4:7)
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