BishopBarron|放弃五光十色＆服务神圣天职（24-25日合集）
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Bishop Barron
翻译|Carrie
2018-5-24
朋友们，在今天的福音中，耶稣极其直率地说到砍掉手脚和剜出眼睛。如果这些器官使你无法获救，你就必须摆脱它们，因为以残废的身体进入永生比四肢俱全地落入地狱更好。
手是用来伸出去抓东西的器官。灵魂本来是要与天主结合的，但我们却伸手要受造物、用尽全力去攫取有限的东西。
主还说到脚。脚是用来走特定之路的器官。我们本来是要走基督之路。我们正在走的是基督之路吗？还是千百条走向荣誉、声望、权力或享乐的歧途？
我们本应要追寻天主。我们是否在错误的地方蹉跎了过多时光？是否被俗世的美好和诱惑欺骗？我们是否愿意在精神上剜出眼睛、放弃令我们赏心悦目的五光十色？
Friends, in our Gospel, Jesus speaks, with incredible bluntness, about cutting off one’s hand and foot and plucking out one’s own eye. If these things are a block to your salvation, get rid of them, for it is better to enter life maimed than to enter Gehenna with all of your limbs and members.
The hand is the organ by which we reach out and grasp things. The soul is meant for union with God, but instead we have reached out to creatures, grasping at finite things with all of our energies.
The Lord also speaks of the foot. The foot is the organ by which we set ourselves on a definite path. We are meant to walk on the path which is Christ. Do we? Or have we set out down a hundred errant paths, leading to glory, honor, power, or pleasure?
We are designed to seek after and look for God. Have we spent much of our lives looking in all the wrong places, beguiled by the beauties and enticements of this world? And are we willing to pluck out our eye spiritually, to abandon many of the preoccupations that have given us pleasure?
2018-5-25
朋友们，在今天的福音中，耶稣定义了婚姻的根本神圣。我深信近年来，甚至在教会内，婚姻深层次的神圣和宗教意义已经受到显著的破坏。我们说婚姻是一种天职，但我们是否言行一致？
我们可以从不同层次来看待人类两性关系。两个人可以纯粹因为肉体上的愉悦、经济原因、心理上的友情而结合。我们还可以见证两个人因为真爱而结合。
但这些层次都不是《圣经》定义的婚姻。我在从事教区工作时毫不例外都会问到年轻的情侣们：“你们为什么想在教堂里结婚？”大多数人都会说：“因为我们爱对方。”但我会回答：“那不是要在教堂里结婚的原因。”
他们通常都会大吃一惊，但我是实话实说。你们来教堂在天主及其子民面前结婚，是因为你们深信你们的婚姻说到底与你们没有关系；而是与天主有关、是为天主的旨意服务；你们深信婚姻与神父的职位一样都是神圣的天职。
Friends, in our Gospel today, Jesus defines the fundamental sacredness of marriage. I’m convinced that the deep sacramental and religious meaning of marriage—even within the Church—has been, in recent years, dramatically compromised. We say that marriage is a vocation, but do we mean it?
We can look at human sexual relationships at a number of different levels. Two people can come together purely for physical pleasure, for economic reasons, or for psychological companionship. And we might witness two people coming together out of authentic love.
But none of these levels is what the Bible means by marriage. When I was doing parish work I would invariably ask young couples, "Why do you want to get married in church?" Most would say something like, "Because we love each other." But I would reply, "Well, that’s no reason to get married in church."
They usually looked stunned, but I meant it. You come to church to be married before God and his people when you are convinced that your marriage is not, finally, about you; that it is about God and about serving God’s purposes; that it is, as much as the priesthood of a priest, a vocation, a sacred calling.
