by pleung | Jan 8, 2010 | Focolare
9 January
Irresistible Questions
Above all the Gospel must be proclaimed by witness. Take a Christian or a handful of Christians who, in the midst of their own community, show their capacity for understanding and acceptance, their sharing of life and destiny with other people, their solidarity with the efforts of all for whatever is noble and good. Let us suppose that, in addition, they radiate in an altogether simple and unaffected way their faith in values that go beyond current values, and their hope in something that is not seen and that one would not dare to imagine. Through this wordless witness these Christians stir up irresistible questions in the hearts of those who see how they live: Why are they like this? Why do they live in this way? What or who is it that inspires them? Why are they in our midst?… The above questions will ask, whether they are people to whom Christ has never been proclaimed, or baptized people who do not practice, or people who live as nominal Christians but according to principles that are in no way Christian, or people who are seeking, and not without suffering, something or someone whom they sense but cannot name.
Pope Paul VI
Evangelii nuntiandi 21
(published by the Priestly Branch of the Focolare Movement)
1月9日
不可抗拒的问题
看，一位基督徒或一个基督徒团体，在他们所生活的团体中，有能力理解和接纳，与他人分享生命和目标，并支持所有人为追求圣善美好所做的一切努力。此外，他们以一种单纯及自发的方式在超现世的价值上表现出他们的信仰，以及在眼所未见和人不敢想象的事上所怀的希望。
这些基督徒，通过这类无言的见证和生活，会在周围人的心中引发起无法回避的问题：他们为什么会这样呢？为何他们如此生活？什么或是谁启发他们呢？为什么他们来到我们中间？ ……
以上的问题可能是很多非基督徒首先所提出的问题，他们可能从来没有听说过基督，或是受过洗而冷淡的教友，或只是名义上的教友，生活在基督徒团体中却只依照非基督徒的原则行事，或那些痛苦地在寻求的人，他们在寻求可以感觉出，但不能命名的事物或超性的那一位。
教宗保禄六世
《在新世界中传福音》劝谕 21
by pleung | Jan 7, 2010 | Focolare
8 January
Widening the circle
The first step has to be mine … to live in such a way that others find Christ in me, his love, and are attracted by him. I have to draw near to others in such a way that they realise I do not know them according to the flesh (cf 2Cor 5:16), I am not looking for my own interests, nor help, nor completion, I am not letting myself be guided by sympathy or antipathy, but I welcome them like the Lord himself.
The others ought to experience that I live by Jesus, that I follow his voice and not my own ideas or opinions of others. They will see that my life is based on the Word, on his sacraments, that I listen to him in what he wants to tell me through witnesses and emissaries of the Church. And above all I seek him where he has loved me the most, in difficulties, in the dark times which are for me “the sacrament” of his abandonment on the cross, and his death.
Sooner or later … I will meet others who adhere to this life… and they are people that I have not myself chosen. The circle is widened and new cells of people, meeting together in the name of Jesus, are formed.
Klaus Hemmerle
Der Himmel ist zwischen uns
Neue Stadt, München 19782, pp. 64-65
(published by the Priestly Branch of the Focolare Movement)
1月8日
拓展
第一步总是从自我做起……：我的生活方式应该是让他人在我内找到基督，找到他的爱，而受到吸引。我在接近他人时，要让对方觉得我不按人的看法来认识任何人（参格后：5，16），我既不寻求自己的利益，也不寻求援助或补足，同时也不受好感或反感所左右，而是如同上主一样接纳他们。
其他的人应该体验到我活于耶稣，随从他的声音胜过自己的理念或他人的建议。并将看到我的生活奠基于他的圣言和圣事；我听从他透过教会的使者和见证向我所说的话。尤其是在困难中和黑暗时我更寻找他，因为这是他爱我最深的时刻，困难与黑暗如同“圣事”，使我与被捨弃于十字架上并为我而死的耶稣相结合。
迟早……我会遇到生活同样理想的人……，这些人并不是我们事先挑选的。这样我们的圈子不断拓宽，新的细胞不断形成，因耶稣之名而相聚的人越来越多。
克劳斯•何迈乐（Klaus Hemmerle）
天主在我们中间
（Der Himmel ist zwischen uns）
新城出版社, 慕尼黑1978 第二版,64-65页
by pleung | Jan 6, 2010 | Focolare
7 January
Living Cells
If you look around you in some cities you pass through…you would call the testament of Jesus a utopia if you did not think of him. He saw a world like this too, and at the climax of his life he appeared to be overcome by it, defeated by evil…He looked on the world just as we see it, but did not doubt.
At night he prayed heaven above and heaven within himself: the Trinity that is true Being, the real All, while outside the nothingness that passes away moved through the streets.
We, too, must do as he did…Then you will notice, with eyes which are no longer lifeless, that you look at the world and at things, but that it is no longer you looking at it: it is Christ who looks, and in you he sees again the blind needing sight, the dumb to be made to speak, the crippled to be made to walk, people who are blind to the vision of God inside and outside them, people who are immobile and crippled because they are unaware of the divine will which, from the bottom of their hearts spurs them on to the eternal movement that is eternal love.
You see and discover your…true self, which is Christ, the true reality of you in them, and having found him, you unite with him in your brother. So you light a cell of the Body of Christ, a living cell, a hearth of God where there is fire to communicate to others and with it light.
Chiara Lubich
Yes Yes, No No
New City, London 1977, p.69
(published by the Priestly Branch of the Focolare Movement)
1月7日
活细胞
环顾四周你所经过的城市，……如果不去回想耶稣的德表——即他也目睹过同样的世界，且在其生命的顶峰，似乎被世界完全摧垮，为邪恶所战胜——你会认为耶稣的遗嘱实在是乌托邦！
他所见的世界，同我们所见的一样，但他坚定不疑。他晚间向上天，也向临在他内的哪一位祈祷：他是真实永存者，是具体的万有；在他之外所漂浮的都是虚无。
我们也应该效法基督。……这样，在举目四望观察世界和其中的事物时，你会意识到，不再是你，而是基督在你内观察注视一切。你会看到那些盲者、聋哑人、瘫痪的，他们需要有人给予光明，给予说话及行走的能力。盲人，就是那些没有能力在自己内，或在这个世界上看到天主的人；瘫痪不能行动的，就是那些体验不到自己内心中，推动他寻求永生，寻求永恒圣爱的天主旨意的人。
去发现，去寻觅……你真实的自我，基督，“这真实的你”就在他们之内；当你找到了，就去与弟兄身上的他结合为一。这样，你就成了基督身体的细胞，具有活力的细胞；也成了天主的火炉，能向他人传递火和光。
卢嘉勒
灵修著作/ 2
新城出版社，罗马，1997，161页
by pleung | Jan 5, 2010 | Focolare
6 January
The light of the Lamb in the City
And in the spirit he took me to the top of an enormous, high mountain and showed me Jerusalem the holy city coming down from God out of heaven. It had all the radiant glory of God and glittered like some precious jewel of crystal-clear diamond.
The city walls stood on twelve foundation stones, each one of which bore the name of one of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
I saw that there was no temple in the city, since the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb were themselves the temple, and the city did not need the sun or the moon for light, since it was lit by the radiant glory of God and the Lamb was a lighted torch for it. The pagan nations will live by its light and the kings of the earth will bring it their treasures. The gates of it will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there – and the nations will come, bringing their treasure and their wealth. Nothing unclean may come into it: no one who does what is loathsome or false, but only those who are listed in the Lamb’s book of life.
Revelation
21:10-11,14,22-27
(published by the Priestly Branch of the Focolare Movement)
1月6日
羔羊是这城的明灯
天使就使我神魂超拔，把我带到一座又大又高的山上，将那从天上，由天主那里降下的圣城耶路撒冷，指给我看。 这圣城具有天主的光荣；城的光辉，好似极贵重的宝石，象水晶那么明亮的苍玉； 城墙有十二座基石，上面刻着羔羊的十二位宗徒的十二个名字。 在城内我没有看见圣殿，因为上主全能的天主和羔羊就是她的圣殿。 那城也不需要太阳和月亮光照，因为有天主的光荣照耀她；羔羊就是她的明灯。 万民都要着藉着她的光行走，世上的君王也要把自己的光荣带到她内。 她的门白日总不关闭，因为那里已没有黑夜。 万民都要把自己的光荣和财富运到她内。 凡不洁净、行可耻的事及撒谎的，绝对不得进入她内；只有那些记载在羔羊生命册上的，才得进入。
圣若望默示录：21，10-11.14.22-27
by pleung | Jan 4, 2010 | Focolare
5 January
A Church that attracts
The Church as a “community of love”, is called to mirror the glory of God’s love, which is communion, in order to attract men and women and whole peoples to Christ…
The Church does not grow through proselytising, but through “attraction”, just as Christ “draws all people to himself” with the strength of his love.
The Church “attracts” when it lives in communion, since the disciples of Jesus will be recognised if they love one another as he loved them (cf Rm 12:4-13; Jn 13:34).
Aparecida Conference (2007)
Final Document
n. 159
(published by the Priestly Branch of the Focolare Movement)
1月5日
教会的吸引
作为“爱德团体”的教会，蒙召反映和彰显天主之爱的光荣，也即，共融合一，以吸引众人和万民归向基督……
就如基督是藉着爱的力量“吸引众人归向他”；同样，教会的成长不在于说教而在于“吸引”。
教会生活在共融中便具有吸引力，因为如果他们彼此相爱，如同主爱了他们一样，别人就会看出他们是耶稣的门徒。（参罗：12，4-13，若：13，34）。
阿帕雷奇达Aparecida会议（2007年）
大会宣言 159号
by pleung | Jan 3, 2010 | Focolare
4 January
A “new” pastoral programme
If we have truly contemplated the face of Christ, dear Brothers and Sisters, our pastoral planning will necessarily be inspired by the “new commandment” which he gave us: “Love one another, as I have loved you” (Jn 13:34)…
Communion is the fruit and demonstration of that love which springs from the heart of the Eternal Father and is poured out upon us through the Spirit which Jesus gives us (cf. Rom 5:5), to make us all “one heart and one soul” (Acts 4:32).
It is in building this communion of love that the Church appears as “sacrament”, as the “sign and instrument of intimate union with God and of the unity of the human race”… Many things are necessary for the Church’s journey through history, not least in this new century; but without charity (agape), all will be in vain.
Pope John Paul II
Novo millennio ineunte 42
(published by the Priestly Branch of the Focolare Movement)
1月4日
“新”的牧灵计划
亲爱的兄弟姐妹们，如果我们确实瞻仰了基督的面容，我们的牧灵计划，就不会不受到基督“新命令”的启迪：他给我们说：“你们要彼此相爱，就如我爱了你们一样”（若：13，34）。
这份爱从永恒圣父的心中涌出，透过基督赐下的圣神倾注给我们（参罗：5，5），为使我们成为一心一灵（宗：4，32）；而共融就是这爱的果实和展现。
教会因着实现这爱的共融而成为“圣事”，即“人类与天主彼此间密切结合的工具和标记”…… 教会在历史长河中前进有很多需要，在新世纪亦同；然而，如果缺乏爱德，一切皆属徒劳。
教宗若望保禄二世
《新千年的开始》牧函 42
by pleung | Jan 2, 2010 | Focolare
3 January
The Christ like face of the Church
The first Constitution on the Church clarifies that the Council does not consider the Church as a reality closed in on itself, but in reference to Christ. “Christ is the light of peoples, and this sacred Council, met together in the Holy Spirit, ardently desires that the light of Christ, reflected on the face of the Church, should illuminate all men and women…”
In the background we recognise an image from the theology of the Fathers, which sees the Church as the moon, not giving off its own light, but transmitting the light of Christ’s sun. Ecclesiology is shown to be dependent on Christology, and linked to it.
Seeing as no one can speak correctly about Christ, about the Son, without at the same time speaking of the Father, and seeing that we cannot speak correctly about the Father and the Son without listening to the Holy Spirit, the Christological vision of the Church is necessarily broadened into a Trinitarian ecclesiology (LG 2-4). The discourse on the Church is a discourse about God, and only in this way is it correct.
Card. Joseph Ratzinger
L’ecclesiologia della Costituzione Lumen gentium
Nuova Umanità 22 (2000/3-4) p. 396
(published by the Priestly Branch of the Focolare Movement)
1月3日
教会展现基督的面容
《教会宪章》开宗明义指出：大公会议认为，教会不应该如同一个自我封闭的团体，但应从基督出发看教会：“基督为万民之光，本届神圣大公会议，因天主圣神而集合，切愿使教会面目上反映的基督之光，照耀到每一个人……”。
在此背景下，我们认同教父神学中的教会形象，把教会喻为月亮，但她自身并不发光，而是反映基督太阳的光芒。教会神学归属于基督神学，与其紧密相连。因为任何人谈论子基督而不同时提到父，或者论及父与子而不去聆听圣神都是不对的，教会的基督神学幅度必须延伸到圣三神学的幅度中去（教会宪章 2-4），有关教会的探讨应该是有关天主的探讨，只有如此，才是正确的。
拉辛格枢机
《教会宪章》中的教会论
新人类22（2000/3-4），396页。
by pleung | Jan 1, 2010 | Focolare
2 January
Wisdom and foolishness
I wasted a lot of time chasing vanities, I spent my whole youth in useless pursuits, for I threw myself totally into learning doctrines whose wisdom was declared by God to be foolishness.
Then one day I seemed to awake from a deep sleep. As I turned my eyes to the wonderful light of evangelical truth, I understood the uselessness of the wisdom of the masters of schools of this world, made of nothing.
I bitterly regretted my miserable life and formulated a prayer. I asked to be shown a way that would open the interior life for me.
Saint Basil
Epistle 223, 2
(published by the Priestly Branch of the Focolare Movement)
1月2日
智慧和愚蠢
为了追求虚荣，我浪费了很多时间；在一些无用的事情上，我花费了整个青春，全然投入钻研那些具有“智慧”的学说，然而，这智慧恰恰被天主定义为愚蠢。
后来，在一个阳光明媚的日子里，似乎大梦初醒，我的双目犹如看到了福音所散发的奇妙的光辉，我明白了这个世界上学派领袖们的智慧的毫无用处，纯属虚幻。
因此，我为自己可怜的生活而感到万分遗憾，于是便做了一个祈祷：祈求天主为我展示一条能通往我内心深处的路。
圣巴西略
书信 223，2
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