|Bishop Barron
翻译|Carrie

朋友们，在玛利亚天主之母节这天，我想强调今天的福音中与她有关的一个词：默存。“玛利亚却把这一切事默存在自己心中，反复思想。”她默想、反复思考、找出原因、洞悉含义、让一切刻骨铭心。

 

真福约翰·亨利·纽曼说玛利亚这种默默铭记于心的特质使她成为神学的主保圣人。他还说神学是天主教教义健全发展的标志之一。在这个意义上，奥古斯丁、阿奎纳、圣文德、但丁、大德兰、十字若望、约翰·亨利·纽曼本人和若望·保禄二世均是玛利亚式人物。

 

所以，当你知道自己的使命时，尽情惊讶于天主所行之事，并且永远把它铭记于心。

 

Friends, on this feast of Mary the mother of God, I would like to emphasize specially the word today’s Gospel associates with her: treasured. "Mary treasured these things and reflected on them in her heart." She pondered them, turned them over, sought out their causes, saw their implications, allowed them to work their way into the marrow of her bones.

 

Bl. John Henry Newman said that this treasuring quality of Mary makes her the patroness of theology. He furthermore observed that theology is one of the marks of a healthy Catholicism. Augustine, Aquinas, Bonaventure, Dante, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Newman himself, and John Paul II are all Marian figures in this sense.

 

So when you know your mission, be astonished by what God has done, and never stop treasuring it.