BishopBarron|圣殿和圣家（30-31日合集）
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|Bishop Barron
翻译|Carrie
翻译|Carrie
2017-12-30
朋友们，今天的福音继续讲述主被献于圣殿的故事。为什么圣殿对于古以色列人来说这么重要？在圣殿内，神性和人性交融，人类能够与天主重新连线。
主被献于圣殿这个故事除了主回归圣殿的含义之外，还有更深一层的意义，因为主是以人类的形体回归圣殿的，更准确地说，是以人类婴儿的形体。天主之子取了人性，作为牺牲品被献于天父，从而使人类得以走回正道。
天主亲自塑造我们，使我们正确地崇拜祂。你们要好好深思这个真理的重要性。这个小婴儿正是神性和人性的和解。祂正是圣殿崇拜的本质所在。
Friends, today the Gospel continues the account of the presentation of the Lord in the Temple. Why was the Temple so important for ancient Israel? In the Temple, divinity and humanity embraced, and the human race was brought back online with God.
There is more to the presentation story than the return of the Lord to his Temple, for he comes to his Temple precisely in human form, indeed in the form of a little baby. The Son of God, having taken to himself a human nature, is presented to the Father as a sacrifice, and thereby the human race is set right.
God himself is forming us in the right worship of God. Ponder the significance of that truth. This little baby is the reconciliation of divinity and humanity. He is the very essence of Temple worship.
2017-12-31
朋友们，我们今天庆祝圣家节。福音书把耶稣、玛利亚和若瑟的家庭生活作为我们所有家庭的典范。
我们经常忧虑自己家庭的幸福。我们是否有足够的钱送孩子上最好的学校？孩子的前程是否似锦？他们能否适应文明社会？
但真正重要的问题是：孩子们是否找到天主赋予他们的使命？家庭本来就是要像若望·保禄二世说的“ecclesiola”，即小教会。而教会的目的是帮助人们分辨出自己的使命并帮助他们在执行使命中成长。
一个家庭能否成圣的条件在于是否能够为更高的目标而献身，正如亚理斯多德对友谊的定义一样。当一个家庭只在乎自身利益，那么整个家都会垮掉。据说美国作家李察·巴哈有句名言说：“爱是让所爱的人得到自由。”圣家一家都具备为天主献身的自由。
Friends, today we celebrate the feast of the Holy Family. The Gospel presents the life of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as a model for our families.
We spend a lot of time worrying about our family’s welfare. Will we have enough money to send the kids to the best schools? Will they find and establish a lucrative career? Will they fit into polite society?
But the only question that finally matters is: have they found their mission from God? The family is meant to be, as John Paul II described it, an ecclesiola, a little Church. And the Church’s purpose is to discern and foster the missions of its people.
What makes a family holy is its capacity to surrender itself to a higher goal, as in Aristotle’s definition of friendship. When the family turns in on itself, it devolves into dysfunction. "If you love someone, set them free," says the famous quotation attributed to American writer Richard Bach. The holy family is one that is free for God’s work.
