2016 年 10 月份 生活聖言

 
「你要寬恕你近人的過錯;這樣,當你祈求時,你的罪惡也會得到赦免。」(德 28:2) 1
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在充滿暴力的社會裡,寬恕是棘手和難以面對的議題,而今天在許多地方我們正處於這樣 的社會中。你怎麼能原諒那些令人家破人亡、犯下滔天罪行的人?又或者那些干擾了我們個人
的事物、破壞了我們的事業、背叛了我們的信任的人?

我們本能的第一個反應就是報復,以牙還牙、以惡還惡、激起仇恨,使暴力增加,社會因此 而變得更野蠻。又或者斷絕任何關係、記仇和積怨,對生命抱著仇視的態度,因而毒害了人際 關係。

天主的聖言卻能夠強而有力的打破種種衝突的情況,並毫不含糊地建議最困難和最勇敢的 解決方案——寬恕。

本月的生活聖言取自舊約,古代以色列人的德訓篇,其中指出:人請求天主赦免其罪過, 但反過來自己卻不原諒別人。這是何等荒謬的請求?我們在猶太傳統的古經中讀到:「誰懂得 寬恕別人的罪,天主也就寬恕誰的罪。」1這正是耶穌親自教導我們向天父的祈求:「父啊…… 寬免我們的罪債,猶如我們也寬免得罪我們的人。」2

我們也會犯錯,每當我們有了過錯,也想得到原諒!我們懇求有機會可以重新開始,希望 別人仍然信任我們。既然我們有如此的渴求,別人何嘗不是一樣呢?我們不是要愛別人如同 自己一樣嗎?

盧嘉勒不斷激發我們對聖言的理解,她曾經對寬恕作了以下的解釋:寬恕「並不是所謂忘 記,因為這時常只是意味著不想面對現實。寬恕不是軟弱,因為害怕犯事的人比你強,他不 會考慮或不敢指出自己的錯誤。寬恕並不在於把嚴重的事說成不重要,或把壞事說成好事。寬 恕不是漠不關心。寬恕需要清晰的意志,因此自由的行為,包括接受弟兄,儘管他的所作 所為給我們帶來了傷害,就如同天主接受我們這些罪人一樣,儘管我們都有缺點。寬恕包括 不以惡還惡,而是實踐保祿所說的:「你不可為惡所勝,反應以善勝惡。」3

寬恕就是向冒犯了你的人給予一個重新與你建立新關係的機會。因此,對他和對你來說,

都有機會重新開始新的人生,抱著不被邪惡戰勝的態度迎向未來。

生活聖言將幫助我們抵抗誘惑,避免即時以衝動的回應來報復邪惡。這將有助於我們以新 的眼光看待「仇人」,就算他不好,也把他看作兄弟,並幫助他改過,因為他需要有人愛他。 這將是我們的「以愛復仇」。

盧嘉勒還這樣指出:「你會說,這是多麼的困難啊!當然,但這就是基督信仰美麗之處。不 然,我們就不是基督的追隨者。你所追隨的天主是那位死在十字架上,還請求天父原諒那些 置祂於死地的人。鼓起勇氣,開始這樣生活吧。我保證你將體驗到從來沒有過的平安與喜 樂!」4

 

 

 

 

1 參閱《巴比倫塔木德》(Talmud babilonese),[意] Megillah 28°。

2 瑪 6:12。

3 羅 12:21。

4 《建在磐石上》(Costruire sulla roccia),[意] 新城出版社,羅馬,1983 年,46 至 58 页。

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  1. LUIS HAYDN ROJAS

    Hola

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  2. paolo

    Un dirigente di un ufficio dove ho lavorato mi ha creato molteplici problemi che si sono rilevati molto negativi per la mia vita Si può capire i tanti pensieri più che negativi che ho sempre avuto nei suoi confronti. Da allora non l’ho quasi mai incrociato. Oggi era affianco a me nella fila per pagare ma non mi aveva visto. Ho sentito la spinta a fare quel piccolo passo che ha la fatica di una scalata. gli ho stretto la mano. Il sasso che avevo nella scarpa da 16 anni si è levato

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  3. Marinova de la Cruz

    This is my experience…”My father was killed, and justice was not served because we were poor and the murderers were from an influential group. That was when hatred came into my life…As this hatred grew, I enrolled in the college of law because I wanted justice. Then i met the focolare and Chiara taught me how to live the words of Jesus. “Love your enemy” “Forgive not seven times but seventy-seven times…” One day when I was at work, I had met by chance the leader of the group that had killed my father. I spontaneously greeted him with a smile and asked him how his family was doing. And I felt in my heart that the hatred slowly transformed into love.I continued to visit them in their home and tried building this rapport by showing how much God loves them. And it came to a point where a member of those who had killed my father asked for forgiveness for what he had done and in turn he asked for prayers for his family and his health.

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  4. Wilma van Bussel

    what a great thing to live this in everyday life!

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  5. GUILLERMO AFABLE

    Forgiveness is our revenge of Love.

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  6. GUILLERMO AFABLE

    great

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