加美樂(加爾默羅)山聖母
恭讀聖瑪竇福音 12:14-21
那時候,法利塞人出去,商討怎樣陷害耶穌,怎樣除滅他。耶穌知道了,就離開那裏;有許多人跟隨他,他都治好了他們;且警告他們不要將他傳揚出去:這是為應驗那藉依撒意亞先知所說的話:「看,我的僕人,他是我所揀選,我所鍾愛的;他是我心靈所喜悅的;我要使我的神住在他身上,他必向外邦人傳佈真道。他不爭辯,也不喧嚷,在街市上沒有人聽到他的聲音:已壓破的蘆葦,他不折斷;將熄滅的燈心,他不吹滅,直至他使真道勝利。外邦人將要期待他的名字。」
—基督的福音。
(Saturday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time)
(Our Lady of Mount Carmel)
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew 12:14-21
14 But the Pharisees went out and took counsel against him, how to destroy him. 15 Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all, 16 and ordered them not to make him known. 17 This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: 18 “Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he shall proclaim justice to the Gentiles. 19 He will not wrangle or cry aloud, nor will any one hear his voice in the streets; 20 he will not break a bruised reed or quench a smoldering wick, till he brings justice to victory; 21 and in his name will the Gentiles hope.”
—The Gospel of the Lord.
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前幾天是我和外子的結婚週年紀念,收到兩個兒女在外地傳來祝賀的電郵,心情沒有太大的喜悅,像跟往常收到報平安的電郵一樣。真想告訴他們,能夠回來給我看看,給我摟摟,那怕只有一兩天,已是媽媽最大的喜悅! 當然我不會向他們有這樣的要求,只要他們快樂,能夠實現自己的理想,那就夠了!
那天不想通知任何人,兩口子走到尼亞瓜拉大瀑布旁漫步,靜靜地渡過結婚紀念日。在那裡,感受到天主父創世的偉大,人的渺小! 「世人算什麼,你竟對他懷念不忘?人子算什麼,你竟對他眷顧周詳?」詠8:5
廿多年前為了取得居留,在沒有經濟的基礎下就結婚。婚禮當日只有十餘人觀禮,他們在教堂內,在耶穌基督代表面前見證了我倆所發的婚姻盟誓。之後大顆兒到酒家吃頓晚飯便算了。外子的婆婆由外埠來證婚,所以要留在家中過夜,因沒有沙發,就將屋裡唯一的床讓了給她。在新婚夜,我倆就睡在地上。
這廿多年來,由零開始,到現在一無所缺;從生活的細微中,可以看到天主的手沒有離開我們一家;雖然生活並不富也不貴,但簡單的生活令我們的心靈自由,也教我們依恃天主。
。是的,「白白得來,白白分施」! 但願天主聖神賜予智慧,使我們不被世事矇蔽,只有唯主是依!