97.5月29日聖神的工具－白孟德神父（Fr. Charles Belmonte Lopez）語錄-譯者:林豪

The Lord has “opened to all humanity, without exception, the possibility of a new life, of being reborn in the Spirit, of beginning to live as conquerors who can exclaim: If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not give us all things with him?…”

天主已經「向全人類開啟了可能的新生命，無一例外，在聖神內重生，開始以勝利者的身份來生活，他們可以大聲吶喊道：『若是天主偕同我們，誰能反對我們呢？祂既然沒有憐惜自己的兒子，反而為我們眾人把祂交出了，豈不也把一切與祂一同賜給我們嗎？…』(羅8：31-32)」

With the sacraments, we receive the Holy Spirit, who gives us a new heart, makes us a new creature with new effectiveness: namely, the possibility of reaching sanctity and helping others attain it as well.

藉著聖事，我們領受了聖神，祂賜給我們一顆嶄新的心，使我們成為一個具有新效能的全新受造物：即達到成聖的可能性，並幫助他人也能成聖。

The Holy Spirit’s action requires our intelligent, free cooperation, since God does not force our will, but moves it in such a way that we remain free at all times.

聖神的行動需要我們的理智與自由的合作，因為天主不會強迫我們的意志，而是使我們始終保持自由，以這種方式來推動它。

We need to grow, to prepare to receive the Holy Spirit more fully and abundantly. St Josemaría wrote: “The Holy Spirit – God with you – is giving a supernatural tone to all your thoughts, desires, and actions.”

We are instruments of the Holy Spirit. “When God wishes to carry out an enterprise, he uses totally inadequate means so that all may see that the work is his. Hence you and I, who know well the great weight of our own limitations, should say to God: ‘Although I see my own wretchedness, I realize that in your hands I become a divine instrument.’”

我們需要成長，要更充分地準備、更豐厚地領受聖神。聖施禮華寫道：「聖神—天主與你同在—正在以超性的語調，注入你所有的思想、慾望及行為。」

我們是聖神的工具：「當天主想要進行一項事業時，祂使用似乎是完全不適當的方式，以便所有的人都可以看到，這項工作是祂的。因此，你和我，都深知我們自身局限的巨大負擔，應該對天主說道：『雖然我看到了自己的慘況，但是我知道在祢手中，我會變成了一項神聖的工具。』」

“And so, we can apply to ourselves the question asked by the Apostle: Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? And we can understand it as an invitation to talk with God in a more personal and direct manner. For some, unfortunately, the Paraclete is the Great Stranger, the Great Unknown. He is merely a name that is mentioned, but not Someone, not one of the three Persons in the one God, with whom we can talk and whose life we can live.”

「所以，保祿宗徒提出的問題，也可以引用在我們的身上：『你們不知道，你們是天主的宮殿，天主聖神住在你們內嗎？』 祂希望我們接受這邀請，以更個人、更直接的方法與天主交往。很不幸地，許多人認為護慰者是位了不起的陌生人，是位極偉大的無名氏，祂似乎有名無實，不是可以和我們共同生活交談的唯一，三位一體的天主的第三位。」（基督剛經過，134）