58.4月20日忠誠－白孟德神父（Fr. Charles Belmonte Lopez）語錄-譯者:林豪

He who endures to the end will be saved. What is really important is that we persevere in our Christian vocation to the very end. “That passage of the Second Epistle to Timothy makes me shudder, when the Apostle laments that Demas has fallen in love with the present world and gone to Thessalonica. For a trifle and for fear of persecution, this man, whom St Paul had quoted in other epistles as being among the saints, had betrayed the divine enterprise.”

堅持到底的，必能得救。真正重要的是，我們要堅持自己的基督徒聖召，直到終點。「寫給弟茂德的第二封書信，其中那段話使我不寒而慄，當宗徒哀歎德瑪斯因愛現世，已離棄我到得撒洛尼去了時。為了一件小事，也因為害怕受到迫害，這個被聖保祿在其他書信中引用為聖人之一的人，背叛了神聖的事業。」(弟後4：10)

We know the difficulties, the enemies from outside and the enemies from within. But we also have the weapons to be victorious. Hence, “if the interior struggle ever becomes harder, it is a good opportunity to show that your Love is true. Once a person has begun to savor his self-giving to some degree, it would be a terrible fraud to give in to defeat. Don’t forget that cry of St Paul: ‘Who will deliver me from this body of death?’ And hear God’s answer in your heart: ‘My grace is sufficient for you!’

我們瞭解困難，來自外在的敵人及內心的敵人。但我們也取得了獲勝的武器。因此，「如果內心的奮鬥變得更加困難，這為表現你的愛，是一個真實的好機會。一旦一個人開始在某種程度上，享受他的自我奉獻時，屈服於失敗將是一個可怕的欺騙。不要忘記聖保祿的吶喊：『誰能救我脫離這該死的肉身呢？』（羅7：24）在你心裡聽天主回答：『有我的恩寵為你夠了！』（格後12：9）

“Fidelity is the perfection of love. Behind any sign of disenchantment in the life of a soul dedicated to God there is always a point of corruption and impurity. Fidelity, when it is whole and entire, is always joyful and unconditional.

忠誠是愛的滿全。在一個獻身於天主的靈魂生命中，任何幻滅的跡象背後，總有敗壞和不潔的現象。忠誠，當它是完全和完整的時候，總是喜樂和不計代價的。

“Let me insist, be faithful. This is something deeply embedded in my heart. If you are faithful, your service to souls and to the Holy Church will yield abundant spiritual fruit.” St Josemaría

我堅持，忠誠，這是深植於我內心的事務。如果你是忠誠的，你對靈魂和聖教會的服務，將會結出豐碩的屬靈果實。」(聖施禮華)