105.6月6日家庭主婦的角色－白孟德神父（Fr. Charles Belmonte Lopez）語錄-譯者:林豪

Role of homemaking for women. “For decades now, some thought that women’s unhappiness was because home life demeans us; and the remedy would be for us to despise it in return,” explain Carrie Gress and Noelle Mering, co-authors of “Theology of Home II: The Art of Spiritual Living.”

家庭主婦的角色。「幾十年來，有些人認為女性的不幸福，是因為家庭生活貶低了我們；而補救辦法是，讓我們鄙視這樣的想法作為回應。」凱莉．格雷斯和諾埃爾．梅林解釋道，他們是「家庭神學II：精神生活的藝術」的共同作者。

“Nothing could feel further from the truth. My mother passed away. She did many things in life, but what stands out to me is how beautifully she gave herself as a stay-at-home mom, and how many lives she enriched in this way. That gave her life meaning, and is what she gave to others: namely, her fruitfulness as a woman who made a home for a family.”

「沒有什麼感受更能脫離事實，就是我母親去世了。在她的生命中做了很多事情，但是令我印象深刻的是，她犧牲自己作為一位全職媽媽，使自己更為美好，以及她以這種方式豐富了許多的生活。這賦予了她，同時給予別人生命的意義：即她作為一位家庭主婦，使她成果豐碩。」

“Women are powerful, but power cannot the purpose of our life —it is a mechanism, a means. In the 1960s, our culture took away the notion of fruitfulness, while offering us the promise of power and control.” Home and family went out the window. In came contraception, abortion, and the new image of ‘career’ as everything in a woman’s life… Our educational system and culture reinforce the idea that the pursuit of power is the preeminent business of womanhood.”

「女人是能力強大的，但是權力不能成為我們生活的目的—它是一種機制，一種手段。在1960年代，我們的文化剝奪了成效非凡的概念，同時為我們提供了權力和控制的承諾。家和家人都完全消失了。隨之而來的是避孕、墮胎和『事業』成為女性生活中，所有一切的新形象……我們的教育體系和文化強化了這樣一種觀念，亦即追求權力是女性的卓越事業。」

“Despite what the some may tell us, all women—no matter our vocation—have been created and built up for a kind of fruitfulness…” Though, not every woman will become a mother with children.

「盡管有些人可能會告訴我們說，所有的女性—無論我們的職業如何—都是為了創造和建立一種豐碩成果……」雖然，並不是每位母親都能夠生育子女。

“There could be a disconnection; while we love our home, we fail to recognize the importance of a homemaker,” a value that is not in the physical, material home. Rather, it is in the purpose of every home.

「雖然我們熱愛我們的家，但是我們沒有瞭解到家庭主婦的重要性，這可能會使關係破壞。」這種價值觀，並不存在於有形及物質的家庭中。相反地，它是每個家庭的目的。

“Home is where we prepare our families for Heaven…Homemaking is not merely an unfortunate but necessary burden; rather, it is an opportunity to acquire something that is difficult to get outside of a home… That something is the capacity to be fruitful.”

家是我們為家人準備的天堂……家務工作不是一種不幸，而且是一種必要的負擔；相反地，這是一個機會，為獲得一些難以步出家門的事務……那事務就是豐碩的能力。」“Fruitful living enables our own souls to mature. A homemaker is a person getting a degree in love.”

「富有成效的生活，能使我們自己的靈魂成熟。家庭主婦就是那位獲得了『愛的學位』。」

Living as a Gift to Others. Perhaps you hesitate. Be bold. Have the courage to get a “doctorate or PhD in love.”

Pic of Nuestra Señora de Guía (of Guide), in Magallanes, Cavite. With her hands, Our Lady seems to be indicating the straight path that leads to eternal happiness. “Do whatever He tells you.” Do not look elsewhere, the way is there, in front of you.

生活如同送給他人的一份禮物，也許你猶豫了，要大膽，有勇氣獲得這個「博士學位或是愛的博士」。

插圖是我們的嚮導之母（Nuestra Señora de Guía），在甲米地的麥哲倫。聖母以她的雙手，似乎在指出通往永恆幸福的筆直道路。「祂無論吩咐你們什麼，你們就作什麼。」（若2:5）不要看別處，路就在這裡，就在你面前。