32. 3月25日Fiat!願旨成行!-白孟德神父(Fr. Charles Belmonte Lopez)語錄-譯者:林豪
The Blessed Virgin is in prayer when she receives the message from the Archangel. I, too, must listen to the voice of God in the midst of my daily concerns. I want to be a contemplative soul: my cell is the street. “In the middle of my work my heart escapes to God, it goes often to the oratory, and I tell him, without anyone hearing me, without doing anything strange: ‘My Jesus, I love you.’ Don’t be afraid to call him Jesus, to call him that often.” St Josemaria
總領天使來向童貞聖母瑪利亞報喜時,她正在祈禱。我也必須在日常的憂慮中聆聽天主的聲音。我想成為一個默觀的靈魂:我的祈禱室就是在街上。「當我在工作時,我的心投奔到天主那裡,我的心經常跑到聖堂去,我告訴祂,沒有人聽到我說甚麼,也沒有做任何奇怪的事情,只是說:『我的耶穌,我愛你。』不要害怕稱祂為耶穌,要經常這樣稱呼祂。」(聖施禮華)
The Blessed Virgin listens to the voice of God, and she meditates on His words in her heart. And as soon as she becomes aware of what the Will of God is, she prepares to carry it out. “Behold the handmaid of the Lord”: is her disposition to serve. “Be it done unto me according to thy word”: is her desire to conceive the Son of God.
童貞聖母瑪利亞聆聽了天主的聲音,將祂的話「默存於心反覆思索。」一旦她瞭解了天主的旨意是什麼,她就準備好要執行它。「看!主之婢女在此!」這是她服侍的方式。「願照祢的話成就我!」這是她想要懷孕天主之子的渴望。
In the words of our Lady there is a tone of resolve, of firmness, of something finished, definitive. She does not respond with a mere yes to the divine Will, but with a fiat! – let it be done! – which expresses an active and total conformity to what God is asking of her. It is much more than a mere giving of permission. It is a resolute adherence to the plan of God, a commitment of her whole life without wavering.
聖母的回覆,有一種明確、堅定、完成使命、下定決心的語氣。她不只是用對天主旨意說出:「我願意!」作為回覆,而是一句「fiat!」-願旨成行!-這是向天主表達出,她對要求的積極和完全的順從。這不只是給予承諾。這是對天主計畫的果斷地堅持,是她一生絕不動搖的承諾。
Lord, I want to love you, but sometimes I do not know the way well, or I let myself be carried away by my own interest; therefore, like the tax collector, I ask you: Have mercy on me! And hear my prayer.
主啊!我想要愛祢,但是有時我不太熟悉方法,或許我自己被利益沖昏頭腦;因此,我像稅吏一樣,請求祢:「憐悯我!俯聽我的祈禱。」