恭讀聖馬爾谷福音 3:1-6
那時候,耶穌進了會堂,在那裏有一個人,他的一隻手枯乾了。法利塞人窺察耶穌是否在安息日治好那人,好去控告他。耶穌對那有一隻手枯了的人說:「起來,站在中間!」遂對法利塞人說:「安息日許行善呢,或作惡呢?許救命呢,或害命呢?」他們一聲不響。耶穌遂含怒環視他們,見他們的心硬而悲傷,就對那人說:「伸出手來!」他一伸,他的手就復原了。法利塞人一出去,立刻便與黑落德黨人作陷害耶穌的商討,為除滅他。
—基督的福音。
(2nd Week in Ordinary Time – Wednesday)
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark 3:1-6
1 Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there who had a withered hand. 2 And they watched him, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. 3 And he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Come here.” 4 And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. 5 And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. 6 The Pharisees went out, and immediately held counsel with the Hero’di-ans against him, how to destroy him.
—The Gospel of the Lord.
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前兩天神師再給我提醒,生活秩序的優次是: 1. 天主; 2.家庭;3.工作崗位;4.自己.
今天福音記述法利塞人不滿耶蘇在眾人面前施行奇蹟,而决意要除滅衪.根據福音,耶蘇在該地一帶宣講並治愈病人已好一段時間.法利塞人都是知識份子,飽讀經書,怎會錯過先知們曾預示默西亞來臨的景況?相信是他們當刻感到他們的地位受威脅,他們高人一等的形象給耶蘇比了下去.憤而惱羞成怒,遂不顧一切.
沒有謙遜的可怕由此得見.自我一旦失控,祭獻也已失去了原本意義,還論耶蘇要求的「仁愛勝過祭獻」?
假若我的神師排序正確,在家庭裏及通過日常工作崗位接觸的人群,必已可成為我們在到達上主台前之先,無數緞練消減自我,發展仁愛的機會.
在此亦忽然想起一則神師對當義工的教訓.「歡呼聲容易挑發人的驕傲,每為此而感覺飄然的,必需立即醒覺,因自我祇堪排列第四位.」
共勉