53.4月15日同死同生－白孟德神父（Fr. Charles Belmonte Lopez）語錄-譯者:林豪

“When we were baptized in Christ Jesus, we were baptized in his death; in other words, when we were baptized, we went into the tomb with him and joined him in death, therefore, as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father’s glory, we too might live a new life.”

「我們受過洗歸於基督耶穌的人，就是受洗歸於他的死亡;換句話說，我們藉著洗禮已歸於死亡與祂同葬了，為的是基督怎樣藉著父的光榮，從死者中復活了，我們也怎樣在新生活中度生。」（羅6:3-4）

I am like a little child who is in the arms of his Father God, facing his mother, the Blessed Virgin. Thus, Christ calls me –every day– to a new life in the glory of the Father, and then he shows up there, to make it happen. I should not delude myself into imagining that I am the protagonist of my own Christian life — for better or worse — but I am not.

我就像一個小孩子，在他天父的懷抱裡，面對他的母親，聖母。因此，主基督每天都召喚我在天父的光榮中進入新生命，然後祂在那裡顯現，使之成為現實。我不應該自欺欺人地想像，我是自己基督徒生活的主角—無論好壞—但是我不是。

He is the protagonist of history, and the protagonist of my salvation. My job is to realize that his grace is operating in me; my duty is to cooperate, to receive, and to respond — not to stand in his way.

祂才是歷史的主角，也是使我獲救的救主。我的工作是認識到祂的恩典在我內運行；我的職責是合作、接受和回應—而不是阻礙祂。

I should ask him to remind me, each time, when and where he is showing up in my life, and to praise him for that presence. My wish is to seek him constantly, to find him, to open the door for him, to let him in, to sit down with him, to talk to him, to be always accompanying him.

我應該請祂提醒我，每次，何時何地顯現在我的生命中，並讚美祂的臨在。我渴望不斷地尋找祂，找到祂，為祂打開門，讓祂進來，和祂同席，與祂交談，永遠陪伴祂。