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The Homily of the 7th Sunday of Ordinary Mass By Fr. Kimm 徐麗華譯 Some of you are old enough to remember the days of the old Latin mass, when the only people anyone heard talking in church were the priest and the altar boy. Going to mass was a very quiet experience. Today we are so used to participating in the mass that it would seem odd not to recite the creed or the Our Father, or not respond with "Amen" at the end of prayers, "Thanks be to God" at the end of readings, or "And also with you" when the priest says, "The Lord be with you." 如果你們年紀夠大，應該還記得以前的拉丁彌撒，整個教堂裏只聽得到神父和祭台輔祭的聲音。那時候，去望彌撒是一種非常安靜的經驗。然而，在今天，我們習慣於參與彌撒祭獻，我們會覺得很奇怪，如果我們不唸信經或是天主經，或是在祈禱的結尾，不回應一句“阿門”，在讀經之後不說“感謝天主”，或是當神父說“天主與你同在”，而我們不回應“也與你的心靈同在”。 Looked at from a different perspective, however, it doesn't really matter if we say anything in church or not. The four men and their paralyzed friend don't seem to utter a word in our gospel story and yet Jesus knows that the four have faith and that their friend somehow merits forgiveness. That's because God listens more to our hearts than he does to our words. 從另一角度來看，我們在教堂裏說不說話，其實並不重要。在福音故事中，那四個人和他們癱瘓的朋友之間，好像沒有交換過一個字，然而，耶穌很清楚那四個人所具有的信德，而他們的朋友蒙受了赦免。因為，天主傾聽我們的心聲勝於言辭。 On one hand, there are a lot of people who are only too happy to talk endlessly about God and Jesus and religion. When they're not saying prayers, they'll tell you how inspired they are by some holy person or how important some holy thing is in their lives. On the other hand, there are people who don't want to talk about God and Jesus and religion. Either they like to keep their beliefs private or they don't have beliefs of which to speak. And then there are all of the people in between, those for whom words of faith may occasionally escape their lips. But in all cases, it's hearts, not words, that have God's undivided attention--and he's come to expect surprises. 有些人喜歡對天主，耶穌和宗教高談闊論。當他們不在祈禱的時候，他們可以告訴你從某些聖人所受到的啟發，或是在他們的生活裏所發生的一些重要的聖潔情事。另外有些人從來不提天主，耶穌和宗教。或許是不願公開他們的信仰，再不然就是他們根本沒有信仰好談。大部分的人是落在這兩極之間，有關信仰的話語會偶爾的從他們唇齒之間漏出來。他們獲得天主全部注意力的─以及祂期待意外收獲的，是他們的心，而不是靠說的話語。 Words can be untrustworthy: we can string them together to say something good and beautiful that has absolutely no correspondence to reality. Hearts don't lie--at least not to God. They will tell him who really believes and who's just talking. 人說的話，有時是不可靠的：我們可以說些冠冕堂皇的話，卻是言不由衷。然而，心不可能撒謊─至少它無法向天主撒謊。它們會實在的告訴天主誰是真的相信，誰只是掛在嘴上說說罷了。 7th Sun. O.T. (B) Feb. 18-19, 2006 7 & 8 see Mark 2:1-12 常年期第七主日﹝乙年﹞，二月十八~十九日，二零零六年
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