GOOD FRIDAY 2011
My dear Brothers and Sisters,
What is so good about Good Friday? Is it called good because a good man was killed? It would better be called then bad Friday! Is it called good because the Son of God was put to death? It would better be called then the worst Friday! We call it good Friday because when man is bad, God is good; when man is at his worst, God is at his best. Juliana of Norwich, the fourteenth century English mystic, was once kneeling in prayer before a large crucifix. She beheld Jesus hanging in pain and asked: “My Lord, does it please you to hang on the Cross for me?” Jesus looked at Juliana with tenderness and with a faint smile on his lips, he replied: “My dear Juliana, it pleases me very much. It is not the nails in my hands and feet that support the weight of my body but the love in my heart for you!” If ever we doubt God’s love for us, all we need remember is Good Friday where goodness died to save you and me. What Jesus once said to Juliana of Norwich he says to you and me today.
“If anyone wishes to be my disciple, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow me.” The difficult texts of the gospel are not necessarily the ones we do not understand. They are rather the ones we understand only too well but find hard to practise. There is really only one way to follow Jesus. There is really only one way to be his disciple – that is the way of the Cross. All other so called short-cuts lead us nowhere! We want a plastic Jesus, a Jesus with flowing golden hair; a Jesus with rouge daubed cheeks and painted lips; a Jesus with flashing blue eyes and a silken gown; a Jesus with well manicured soft hands. The real Jesus, the Jesus of the gospel is always a Jesus with the Cross. We want the crown but not the cross; we want to share in his glory but not a sip of his bitter cup of suffering; we want an Easter Sunday without a Good Friday. That is why Jesus has so few real followers; so few faithful friends. We want a comfortable Christ. We want a Christianity made easy. We want a gospel without sweat, blood and tears. That is why we are so miserable because if we look for Jesus without the Cross we are sure to find the Cross without Jesus!
All of us have a cross to carry, a burden to bear, a weakness that weighs us down. It may be a physical ailment that has turned chronic; it could be a psychological anxiety that is eating into us; it could be a spiritual malaise with which we have been struggling. Jesus is not asking us to lead the way. He goes ahead. We need to follow Him and draw inspiration from his example. We need to carry our cross. We need to bear it with love because its burden becomes lighter only when we carry it with love in our hearts. Even more, we need to unite our cross with the Cross of Jesus for our own sanctification and for the salvation of the whole world. A woman, very young in spirit, was celebrating her 100th birthday. “What is the secret of your long life?” she was asked. With a mischievous twinkle in her eye, she held out the glass with the sparkle and bubble of champagne in one hand and in the other she held the Cross on which were inscribed the words attributed to Thomas A Kempis, the author of The Imitation of Christ. They read “Carry your cross and the cross will carry you!” Real wisdom indeed that comes not only with advancing years but also with the experience of deep suffering. The more you love, the more you suffer!
We take a moment of quiet prayer as we contemplate the Cross. “Its love is unquestionable; its power unconquerable; its impact unmistakable, its meaning undeniable; its sacrifice incomparable, its price unimaginable; its depth immeasurable, its absence unthinkable” (Roy Lessin) - that old rugged Cross, the emblem of suffering and shame. We must love that old cross, where the dearest and best, for a world of lost sinners, like you and me, was slain. Amen.
[St. Tudwal Church, Barmouth – Msgr. Alex Rebello (736 Words)]
2011年4月22日星期五
《暴风雨后，灿烂阳光，靡丽长虹》
《暴风雨后，灿烂阳光，靡丽长虹》
那天的车祸过后，接二连三的乌云密布，雷电交加，风暴连连……情绪，感情，肢体，环境……
仿佛最近的变化不定天气与阴霾乌黑的天空，人也变得难于理解。
那场暴风雨，引发了内心的揣测不安，信心动摇，事后，看到亮丽的虹桥，难怪一直以来总是相信只有阳光，没有水份，彩虹不会出现，加上，角度要精准，时候要正确，就在一刹那间，错过了，是永远！
另一场暴风雨，屋瓦飞了。屋顶不见了，而破碎瓦片就在我房间窗口飞过，我与另一个意外擦身而过。
昨夜的最后晚餐，神父说：要爱到底，爱彻底，爱到遍体鳞伤……相似耶稣那样的爱……半个小时的车程，我却在6点半到8点半在车龙里慢驶，闲驾，那场大雨，又出现炎阳；天主要肯定我他说默许的逾越奥迹有霓虹为证，而且是双虹！
难道这就是今年最好的复活体验与觉悟？
那天的车祸过后，接二连三的乌云密布，雷电交加，风暴连连……情绪，感情，肢体，环境……
仿佛最近的变化不定天气与阴霾乌黑的天空，人也变得难于理解。
那场暴风雨，引发了内心的揣测不安，信心动摇，事后，看到亮丽的虹桥，难怪一直以来总是相信只有阳光，没有水份，彩虹不会出现，加上，角度要精准，时候要正确，就在一刹那间，错过了，是永远！
另一场暴风雨，屋瓦飞了。屋顶不见了，而破碎瓦片就在我房间窗口飞过，我与另一个意外擦身而过。
昨夜的最后晚餐，神父说：要爱到底，爱彻底，爱到遍体鳞伤……相似耶稣那样的爱……半个小时的车程，我却在6点半到8点半在车龙里慢驶，闲驾，那场大雨，又出现炎阳；天主要肯定我他说默许的逾越奥迹有霓虹为证，而且是双虹！
难道这就是今年最好的复活体验与觉悟？
《耶稣受难日》Good Friday
What is so good about Good Friday?
Why it is called GOOD FRIDAY when they killed a good man on this day?
Precisely it is called Good Friday because ａ ＧＯＯＤ MAN died for all ｏｎ ｔｈｉｓ ｄａｙ！
A God who cannot die chose to die as a man!
A powerful God who chose to die as a powerless man!
Ｉｔ ｗａｓ ａ ｐｏｌｉｔｉｃａｌ ｔｒａｐ！！
只要我们活着，我们脱离不了政治！
(As long as we are living, we are in the politics!)
耶稣就是死于政治阴谋！两个仇人（比拉多和司祭长）甚至在遇到同一的敌人（耶稣）时，马上成了好朋友！
历史中，我们看到害怕自己的地位受影响，权势被削弱而嫉妒主耶稣的讲道与善行，并煽动群众处心积虑陷害的司祭长、经师等当时的犹太人上层领导，他们以保护民族利益为借口，以爱天主为幌子……
我们看到深得主耶稣厚爱的门徒之一的犹达斯，他为了自己的一点小利益而暗中算计，出卖朋友。
将爱自己的人交给不法者之手；我们看到为了保官求荣，明知主耶 稣无罪而违背良心判他死刑。草菅人命的执政官比拉多；我们看到侮辱、并将主耶稣钉死在十字架上的士兵。
他们是执行任务的，他们好象是无奈的。但你不能为了 自己活命而致死他人于死地啊！
还有无知的群众，他们高喊着要钉死主耶稣……不也是几天前欢呼耶稣荣进耶路撒冷的同一批群众吗？
这种种罪恶以不同的方式，不同的面孔出现在不同的人身上。因着罪恶，死亡来到了人间。
而耶稣３天后的复活却让死亡死了！
我国人民，本土政治情况，不也是耶稣当年黑暗政治阴谋的重演吗？君不见好人都被送入牢房，而伪善恶势却当权啊！
马来西亚的受难日何时了？妳的复活是３天后吗？
Why it is called GOOD FRIDAY when they killed a good man on this day?
Precisely it is called Good Friday because ａ ＧＯＯＤ MAN died for all ｏｎ ｔｈｉｓ ｄａｙ！
A God who cannot die chose to die as a man!
A powerful God who chose to die as a powerless man!
Ｉｔ ｗａｓ ａ ｐｏｌｉｔｉｃａｌ ｔｒａｐ！！
只要我们活着，我们脱离不了政治！
(As long as we are living, we are in the politics!)
耶稣就是死于政治阴谋！两个仇人（比拉多和司祭长）甚至在遇到同一的敌人（耶稣）时，马上成了好朋友！
历史中，我们看到害怕自己的地位受影响，权势被削弱而嫉妒主耶稣的讲道与善行，并煽动群众处心积虑陷害的司祭长、经师等当时的犹太人上层领导，他们以保护民族利益为借口，以爱天主为幌子……
我们看到深得主耶稣厚爱的门徒之一的犹达斯，他为了自己的一点小利益而暗中算计，出卖朋友。
将爱自己的人交给不法者之手；我们看到为了保官求荣，明知主耶 稣无罪而违背良心判他死刑。草菅人命的执政官比拉多；我们看到侮辱、并将主耶稣钉死在十字架上的士兵。
他们是执行任务的，他们好象是无奈的。但你不能为了 自己活命而致死他人于死地啊！
还有无知的群众，他们高喊着要钉死主耶稣……不也是几天前欢呼耶稣荣进耶路撒冷的同一批群众吗？
这种种罪恶以不同的方式，不同的面孔出现在不同的人身上。因着罪恶，死亡来到了人间。
而耶稣３天后的复活却让死亡死了！
我国人民，本土政治情况，不也是耶稣当年黑暗政治阴谋的重演吗？君不见好人都被送入牢房，而伪善恶势却当权啊！
马来西亚的受难日何时了？妳的复活是３天后吗？
MAUNDY THURSDAY
MAUNDY THURSDAY: 21st April, 2011
Ex. 12:1-8.11-14; Ps. 115: 12-13.15-18;1 Cor. 11:23-26; Jn. 13:1-15
My dear Brothers and Sisters,
Today is Maundy Thursday. “Maundy” is an old English word which means “commandment”. Today then is the Thursday of the Commandment. It is the only commandment that Jesus gave us: Love one another as I have loved you. Jesus commands us not merely to love but to love one another as He loves us. How does Jesus love us?
Jesus loves us with a personal love. He loves us by name. We are not just a cipher in the social scale; an anonymous face in a motley crowd. He loves us just as we are – yes, with our dimples as well as our pimples, with our strengths and weaknesses, with the beautiful and the ugly, the saint and the sinner that is in each of us. That is how Jesus wants us to love one another. We need to love others as they are and not as we would like them to be. We need to love them even when they do not meet with our expectations. Our love like the love of Jesus must be a gift that is freely given and not a merit that deserves a reward. Love is the only gift that can never be given away because it always comes back to you.
Jesus loves us with a pursuing love. He never gives up on us. He is in the words of the poet Francis Thompson that Hound of Heaven that pursues us even when we try to put him off the scent. He catches up with us even when we try to run away from Him. He is a Tremendous Lover who never forgets or forsakes us. That is how Jesus wants us to love one another. Others may spurn our love and reject it. We must continue to love because love never ends.
Jesus loves us with a pardoning love. How often have we not offended Him? How often have we not hurt His goodness? Yet, He continues to love us. That is how we must love one another. There are persons in our life who may have hurt or harmed us; persons who may have maligned and messed up our good name; persons who may have betrayed or beguiled us: it could be a spouse, a sibling or a superior. We need to continue to love them because love is never overcome by evil but overcomes evil with good.
Today we celebrate the Thursday of the Commandment of Love. And love means giving. To perpetuate that giving, Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist, in which He gives us Himself. “Take and eat: this is my body…Take and drink: this is my blood.” There is nothing more precious and profound that we can give another than the gift of ourselves. What a sublime sacrament the Holy Eucharist is! The Holy Eucharist is not a thing; it is a Person. We believe that Jesus is truly present in the Holy Eucharist: body, soul and divinity. The same Jesus who fed the hungry multitudes, the same Jesus who healed the sick and forgave sinners, the same Jesus who calmed the stormy the sea, , the same Jesus who raised the dead back to life – the same Jesus is present every time we celebrate Holy Mass, the same Jesus is present in our tabernacles. The whole country is revving up its enthusiasm for the royal wedding that will take place next week at Westminster. How fortunate would we not count ourselves to be among the invitees to the nuptials? Could there be a greater privilege than that of being present at and participating in the nuptials of the Lamb at the celebration of the Holy Eucharist? To these nuptials all are invited prince or pauper. It is such a privilege to be in the presence of Jesus. Nowhere in the world are we more warmly welcomed, nowhere in the world are we better understood, nowhere in the world are we more forgiven, nowhere in the world are we more loved than in the presence of Jesus!
Love never says enough. To ensure that the Holy Eucharist would always be celebrated until Jesus returns at the end of time, He ordained on that first Maundy Thursday, the first priests. My dear Brothers and Sisters, please pray for us priests. Despite our unworthiness Jesus calls, consecrates and commissions us to be His ministers. We carry such a precious treasure in vessels of clay; vessels that are beautiful but ever so brittle because we can so easily get chipped and broken. It is not easy to be a priest; it is even more difficult to remain a priest. To be everybody’s and yet belong to nobody; to see other people’s children who will never be your own; to shake a hand and not want to retain it; to be haunted and hounded by many hours of silence and solitude; to be a pillar of strength for those who are falling and have no one humanly speaking to lean on when one is collapsing oneself; to have a heart of bronze for chastity and heart of flesh for charity; to be told such sacred secrets and be unable to share them with others; to be a spotless lotus surrounded by the muck and mire of a secular world; to give without counting the cost; to labour and seek no reward; to fight without heeding the wounds. Oh what a life is yours, Oh priest of Jesus Christ!
To conclude, let us live the commandment of love by which the world will know that we are disciples of Jesus; let us make every mass as if it was our first mass, our last mass and our only mass; let us pray for our priests that they may grow more and more into the likeness of Jesus in whose priesthood they share. Amen.
[St. Tudwal Church, Barmouth – Msgr. Alex Rebello (975 Words)]
Ex. 12:1-8.11-14; Ps. 115: 12-13.15-18;1 Cor. 11:23-26; Jn. 13:1-15
My dear Brothers and Sisters,
Today is Maundy Thursday. “Maundy” is an old English word which means “commandment”. Today then is the Thursday of the Commandment. It is the only commandment that Jesus gave us: Love one another as I have loved you. Jesus commands us not merely to love but to love one another as He loves us. How does Jesus love us?
Jesus loves us with a personal love. He loves us by name. We are not just a cipher in the social scale; an anonymous face in a motley crowd. He loves us just as we are – yes, with our dimples as well as our pimples, with our strengths and weaknesses, with the beautiful and the ugly, the saint and the sinner that is in each of us. That is how Jesus wants us to love one another. We need to love others as they are and not as we would like them to be. We need to love them even when they do not meet with our expectations. Our love like the love of Jesus must be a gift that is freely given and not a merit that deserves a reward. Love is the only gift that can never be given away because it always comes back to you.
Jesus loves us with a pursuing love. He never gives up on us. He is in the words of the poet Francis Thompson that Hound of Heaven that pursues us even when we try to put him off the scent. He catches up with us even when we try to run away from Him. He is a Tremendous Lover who never forgets or forsakes us. That is how Jesus wants us to love one another. Others may spurn our love and reject it. We must continue to love because love never ends.
Jesus loves us with a pardoning love. How often have we not offended Him? How often have we not hurt His goodness? Yet, He continues to love us. That is how we must love one another. There are persons in our life who may have hurt or harmed us; persons who may have maligned and messed up our good name; persons who may have betrayed or beguiled us: it could be a spouse, a sibling or a superior. We need to continue to love them because love is never overcome by evil but overcomes evil with good.
Today we celebrate the Thursday of the Commandment of Love. And love means giving. To perpetuate that giving, Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist, in which He gives us Himself. “Take and eat: this is my body…Take and drink: this is my blood.” There is nothing more precious and profound that we can give another than the gift of ourselves. What a sublime sacrament the Holy Eucharist is! The Holy Eucharist is not a thing; it is a Person. We believe that Jesus is truly present in the Holy Eucharist: body, soul and divinity. The same Jesus who fed the hungry multitudes, the same Jesus who healed the sick and forgave sinners, the same Jesus who calmed the stormy the sea, , the same Jesus who raised the dead back to life – the same Jesus is present every time we celebrate Holy Mass, the same Jesus is present in our tabernacles. The whole country is revving up its enthusiasm for the royal wedding that will take place next week at Westminster. How fortunate would we not count ourselves to be among the invitees to the nuptials? Could there be a greater privilege than that of being present at and participating in the nuptials of the Lamb at the celebration of the Holy Eucharist? To these nuptials all are invited prince or pauper. It is such a privilege to be in the presence of Jesus. Nowhere in the world are we more warmly welcomed, nowhere in the world are we better understood, nowhere in the world are we more forgiven, nowhere in the world are we more loved than in the presence of Jesus!
Love never says enough. To ensure that the Holy Eucharist would always be celebrated until Jesus returns at the end of time, He ordained on that first Maundy Thursday, the first priests. My dear Brothers and Sisters, please pray for us priests. Despite our unworthiness Jesus calls, consecrates and commissions us to be His ministers. We carry such a precious treasure in vessels of clay; vessels that are beautiful but ever so brittle because we can so easily get chipped and broken. It is not easy to be a priest; it is even more difficult to remain a priest. To be everybody’s and yet belong to nobody; to see other people’s children who will never be your own; to shake a hand and not want to retain it; to be haunted and hounded by many hours of silence and solitude; to be a pillar of strength for those who are falling and have no one humanly speaking to lean on when one is collapsing oneself; to have a heart of bronze for chastity and heart of flesh for charity; to be told such sacred secrets and be unable to share them with others; to be a spotless lotus surrounded by the muck and mire of a secular world; to give without counting the cost; to labour and seek no reward; to fight without heeding the wounds. Oh what a life is yours, Oh priest of Jesus Christ!
To conclude, let us live the commandment of love by which the world will know that we are disciples of Jesus; let us make every mass as if it was our first mass, our last mass and our only mass; let us pray for our priests that they may grow more and more into the likeness of Jesus in whose priesthood they share. Amen.
[St. Tudwal Church, Barmouth – Msgr. Alex Rebello (975 Words)]
Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday – A: 17th April, 2011
Is. 50:4-7; Ps. 21; Phil. 2:6-11; Mt. 26:14-27.66
My dear Brothers and Sisters,
With the celebration of Palm Sunday we enter into Holy Week. This week is holy because we celebrate the holy mysteries of our Christian faith. These must not be viewed as events that occurred more than two thousand years back, but events that take place today. We need therefore to get beyond the rites and touch the reality which they represent. This we will be able to do if we make this week an experience wherein we accompany Jesus on his journey from Jerusalem to Calvary with deep devotion and fervent fidelity. This is the week when we ponder the intense suffering that Jesus undergoes in the face of which he makes no resistance nor does he turn away; as he offers his back to those who strike him and does not cover his face against insult and spittle.
Palm Sunday recounts the triumphant entry of Jesus into his own city, Jerusalem. Seated on the foal of a donkey, the crowds hail him as their King as they sing “Hosannas” in his honour and acclaim him as the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee. But where were these crowds on Good Friday? Were they among those who screamed: “Crucify Him. Crucify Him. His blood be on us and on our children!” Public popularity is so precarious – as precarious as a bubble. One slight puff and it is all over! We promise this Palm Sunday to remain faithful to Jesus and to follow Him not only when it is convenient but especially when following Him means walking with Him to Calvary to be condemned and crucified. Today, given the decline if not the collapse of moral values, to live for Jesus is more demanding and difficult than to die for Him.
On that first Palm Sunday, great crowds spread their cloaks in the path on which Jesus was to ride. That was a great gesture not only of a warm welcome but even more of sublime surrender and submission. That is a gesture worth imitating and emulating. We need to welcome Jesus into our hearts and homes. We need to surrender and submit ourselves completely to Him. Jesus is the only one to whom we can surrender without losing ourselves. When we surrender ourselves to Jesus we find ourselves because what is lost for Jesus is never really lost but found at a deeper level.
This is what St. Paul teaches us in his letter to the Philippians. Jesus, though divine becomes human, though Lord becomes a slave, though all powerful becomes powerless on the Cross. He thus empties himself and in this self-emptying is filled and raised by God so that all beings in heaven, on earth and in the underworld acclaim and acknowledge Him as Lord.
Let us make this week holy by entering into the holy mysteries that we celebrate this week with faith and fervour. May we continue to follow Jesus more closely so that by following his example of suffering, we may be worthy to share in his resurrection. Amen.
[St. Tudwal Church, Barmouth – Msgr. Alex Rebello (508 Words)]
Is. 50:4-7; Ps. 21; Phil. 2:6-11; Mt. 26:14-27.66
My dear Brothers and Sisters,
With the celebration of Palm Sunday we enter into Holy Week. This week is holy because we celebrate the holy mysteries of our Christian faith. These must not be viewed as events that occurred more than two thousand years back, but events that take place today. We need therefore to get beyond the rites and touch the reality which they represent. This we will be able to do if we make this week an experience wherein we accompany Jesus on his journey from Jerusalem to Calvary with deep devotion and fervent fidelity. This is the week when we ponder the intense suffering that Jesus undergoes in the face of which he makes no resistance nor does he turn away; as he offers his back to those who strike him and does not cover his face against insult and spittle.
Palm Sunday recounts the triumphant entry of Jesus into his own city, Jerusalem. Seated on the foal of a donkey, the crowds hail him as their King as they sing “Hosannas” in his honour and acclaim him as the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee. But where were these crowds on Good Friday? Were they among those who screamed: “Crucify Him. Crucify Him. His blood be on us and on our children!” Public popularity is so precarious – as precarious as a bubble. One slight puff and it is all over! We promise this Palm Sunday to remain faithful to Jesus and to follow Him not only when it is convenient but especially when following Him means walking with Him to Calvary to be condemned and crucified. Today, given the decline if not the collapse of moral values, to live for Jesus is more demanding and difficult than to die for Him.
On that first Palm Sunday, great crowds spread their cloaks in the path on which Jesus was to ride. That was a great gesture not only of a warm welcome but even more of sublime surrender and submission. That is a gesture worth imitating and emulating. We need to welcome Jesus into our hearts and homes. We need to surrender and submit ourselves completely to Him. Jesus is the only one to whom we can surrender without losing ourselves. When we surrender ourselves to Jesus we find ourselves because what is lost for Jesus is never really lost but found at a deeper level.
This is what St. Paul teaches us in his letter to the Philippians. Jesus, though divine becomes human, though Lord becomes a slave, though all powerful becomes powerless on the Cross. He thus empties himself and in this self-emptying is filled and raised by God so that all beings in heaven, on earth and in the underworld acclaim and acknowledge Him as Lord.
Let us make this week holy by entering into the holy mysteries that we celebrate this week with faith and fervour. May we continue to follow Jesus more closely so that by following his example of suffering, we may be worthy to share in his resurrection. Amen.
[St. Tudwal Church, Barmouth – Msgr. Alex Rebello (508 Words)]
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT homily
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT – A: 10th April, 2011
Ez. 37:12-14; Ps. 129; Rom. 8:8-11; Jn. 11:3-7.17.33-45
My dear Brothers and Sisters,
The gospels recount three instances when Jesus raises the dead to life: Luke reports the raising of the young son of the widow of Nain (Lk. 7:11); both Mark (5:22) and Luke (8:41) also narrate the raising of the dead daughter of the synagogue official, Jairus; John alone records the raising of Lazarus. Of these three stupendous miracles, the raising of Lazarus is doctrinally most dense for it describes the very mission of Jesus, who is the resurrection and the life, and who came that we may have life and have it more abundantly.
John observes that Jesus loved Martha, her sister May and Lazarus. We note in this statement the humanity of Jesus. He had friends. He loved and that is why he could also weep. He felt the sorrow of Martha and Mary at the loss of their brother, Lazarus. Jesus is not insensitive to our grief, not indifferent to our struggle and not immune to our pain. He suffers with us. What strikes us is that when Jesus learns that Lazarus is ill, he does not rush to his aid but stays on where he is for two more days before visiting him. We at times like to programme Jesus and want him to act instantly to help us. He will come to us – and his coming is as certain as the dawn – but in His time.
The miracle of raising Lazarus provides the context for a very dense and deep teaching. Jesus says: “I am the resurrection and the life. If anyone believes in me, even though he dies he will live, and anyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this? Jesus asks Martha and us too. He came that we may have life and have it more abundantly. He came to offer us eternal life, life that does not know death, life that never ends. At times, mistakenly, we think that eternal life is a kind of bonus which will be ours when we have died. Eternal life is a gift that Jesus offers us here and now, at the present moment, if we live and believe in Him. Even if we die, we will live because the eternal life that Jesus offers us goes on for ever. That is the guarantee that Jesus offers us for in Him as St. Paul reminds us in his letter to the Christians at Rome, we have been justified. This is the hope that we cherish and cling to for the Spirit who raised Jesus, whom we have received at baptism and who dwells in us, will give life to our mortal bodies.
How are we raised to eternal life? The Preface of today gives us the answer. “Christ gives us the sacraments to lift us up to everlasting life.” We were born dead with original life. In baptism we were born again and raised to new life. As we grew in age, we faltered, failed and fell. Wounded spiritually by sin, we are healed through the sacrament of penance when we make our confession. There is an interesting detail worth noting in the resurrection of Lazarus. He emerges from the tomb live but with his feet and hands bound with bands of stuff and a cloth round his face. St. Augustine has an illuminating comment on this when speaking of sacramental confession. It is God who by forgiving us restores us to life but it is the Church to whom Jesus has entrusted the sacraments that unbinds us and sets us free. We are a fortnight away from Easter when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. By a humble and honest sacramental confession may we be lifted up to everlasting life and be set free from the bonds of sin. Amen.
[St. Tudwal Church, Barmouth – Msgr. Alex Rebello (635 Words)]
Ez. 37:12-14; Ps. 129; Rom. 8:8-11; Jn. 11:3-7.17.33-45
My dear Brothers and Sisters,
The gospels recount three instances when Jesus raises the dead to life: Luke reports the raising of the young son of the widow of Nain (Lk. 7:11); both Mark (5:22) and Luke (8:41) also narrate the raising of the dead daughter of the synagogue official, Jairus; John alone records the raising of Lazarus. Of these three stupendous miracles, the raising of Lazarus is doctrinally most dense for it describes the very mission of Jesus, who is the resurrection and the life, and who came that we may have life and have it more abundantly.
John observes that Jesus loved Martha, her sister May and Lazarus. We note in this statement the humanity of Jesus. He had friends. He loved and that is why he could also weep. He felt the sorrow of Martha and Mary at the loss of their brother, Lazarus. Jesus is not insensitive to our grief, not indifferent to our struggle and not immune to our pain. He suffers with us. What strikes us is that when Jesus learns that Lazarus is ill, he does not rush to his aid but stays on where he is for two more days before visiting him. We at times like to programme Jesus and want him to act instantly to help us. He will come to us – and his coming is as certain as the dawn – but in His time.
The miracle of raising Lazarus provides the context for a very dense and deep teaching. Jesus says: “I am the resurrection and the life. If anyone believes in me, even though he dies he will live, and anyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this? Jesus asks Martha and us too. He came that we may have life and have it more abundantly. He came to offer us eternal life, life that does not know death, life that never ends. At times, mistakenly, we think that eternal life is a kind of bonus which will be ours when we have died. Eternal life is a gift that Jesus offers us here and now, at the present moment, if we live and believe in Him. Even if we die, we will live because the eternal life that Jesus offers us goes on for ever. That is the guarantee that Jesus offers us for in Him as St. Paul reminds us in his letter to the Christians at Rome, we have been justified. This is the hope that we cherish and cling to for the Spirit who raised Jesus, whom we have received at baptism and who dwells in us, will give life to our mortal bodies.
How are we raised to eternal life? The Preface of today gives us the answer. “Christ gives us the sacraments to lift us up to everlasting life.” We were born dead with original life. In baptism we were born again and raised to new life. As we grew in age, we faltered, failed and fell. Wounded spiritually by sin, we are healed through the sacrament of penance when we make our confession. There is an interesting detail worth noting in the resurrection of Lazarus. He emerges from the tomb live but with his feet and hands bound with bands of stuff and a cloth round his face. St. Augustine has an illuminating comment on this when speaking of sacramental confession. It is God who by forgiving us restores us to life but it is the Church to whom Jesus has entrusted the sacraments that unbinds us and sets us free. We are a fortnight away from Easter when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. By a humble and honest sacramental confession may we be lifted up to everlasting life and be set free from the bonds of sin. Amen.
[St. Tudwal Church, Barmouth – Msgr. Alex Rebello (635 Words)]
2011年4月18日星期一
《那一场车祸，我被欠了原则》
《那一场车祸，我被欠了原则》
忘不了那天早晨。
4月6日，早上9点开车前往圣依纳爵堂出席10点钟的丧礼弥撒。
天气晴朗，阳光闷热，特别耀眼。在想着走LDP或猫路之间，车子已往市区方向开驶，进入车龙里，才后悔9点过后，大型货车开始上路的。车子只能慢行，时速约40公里。
当时我在第三条快速巷，前面车辆约有5辆车的距离。当我看到前车的煞车灯亮起时，马上就踩煞车器，但是车子还是一直向前走，我迅速看了望后镜，有辆小型罗里在后，我想向左边闪避，却又决定向前走，因为后面的罗里在向左拐出！只听到一声巨响，我知道出事了。
前面司机下车，先看他车“受伤”程度，我也下车，他轻声以粤语说：你点样开车喔？吾的车咳新车，5天则。我无言以对，总之，从后面撞车都是自己错。我们把车子开到路边。
马上有3个人过来：2个可以修车，一个要帮忙拖车。我一一回绝，我的修车人员就过来了。猛热的太阳下，我们没有争吵相骂，可是都面红耳赤。与他同车的是另一位年轻朋友，大约都是19，20岁年轻人。我提议不要向保险索保，因为需要报警，各付300令吉，几个星期没车用，他同意修车，我们负责费用。
后来他联络上了他姐姐，要我等她过来。半个小时后她来了。一下车，就大声对着弟弟怒轰：报警！抄她的身份证！又马上拿出纸和笔，我伸手要给她写下，她怒瞪着我说：我要你的身份证！过后还是要报警，因为是新车……她的理由我闷热得无法再听下去。后来大家同意先前的决定。
而这时我的院长说她要过来看看情形。我们又等着她过来。等着的当儿，警察开车经过，停下来。司机警察看看我们的车，笑问：你们解决了吗？我们说是的。他也说很好不要报警，很麻烦的……
另一位警察很机警地问对方有没有驾照，他把驾照给警察，警察马上告他没有在车镜前后贴上P贴纸。他们姐弟都拒绝与警察理论，她更是嚣张的怪我说是我害他们的，因为他们原本就要离开，是我要他们等的，才会被警察抓!
刚好修车员已到，他很熟练，静静的走向警察，我也跟着并向警察求情，警察笑对我说：Cik jangan khuatir, cik tak salah, saya hanya nak samankan budak ni, dia tu pemandu P, tapi tak pakai sticker……我当时只是苦笑不得，天呀！我撞别人的车，他还说不是我的错，而且关心抓人多于解决车祸！修车员作势要我离开，他跟警察“解决”，我当时还不明白他们的“解决方法”就是tahu sama tahu!
警察很快离开了，修车员过来说：他要50令吉，我说我只有20，他拿了！
啊！原来如此！！！而车主拒绝付费，要我还！
炎阳下暴晒约1小时了，我累得不想再有任何争论……车子坏了，人没事就好。
3天后，车子都修好了，钱付了。我还在想事情如何发生的？
开车25年，第一次闯祸！而且是撞车后。
第一：煞车器有问题（后来修车员查了，没问题。）
第二：轮胎有问题（确实是轮胎无花，很滑了。）
第三：我当时很分心（肯定的：想着……想着……想着……）
第四：反应迟钝了（后来听朋友说的，想是煞车了，但是没有煞车的动作！才发现也许是……如果是，那么这个事实蛮令人恐慌的！）
也许真正原因是以上都是！
虽然三番四次联络对方，只想慰问他还好吗？车子修好了吗？但是他都不接电话。
只想告诉你，我欠你的，我还清了！
你欠了我，而还未还的是做人的原则！
我要的不是钱，而是原则！
做错事情，可以得到原谅，但是需要承担后果。
这位如此教导弟弟的姐姐，今天你侥幸遇到我，明天我不想再遇上你！
又或许我们遇上了，我要讨的是那天你的嚣张，失态与没付费的原则！
忘不了那天早晨。
4月6日，早上9点开车前往圣依纳爵堂出席10点钟的丧礼弥撒。
天气晴朗，阳光闷热，特别耀眼。在想着走LDP或猫路之间，车子已往市区方向开驶，进入车龙里，才后悔9点过后，大型货车开始上路的。车子只能慢行，时速约40公里。
当时我在第三条快速巷，前面车辆约有5辆车的距离。当我看到前车的煞车灯亮起时，马上就踩煞车器，但是车子还是一直向前走，我迅速看了望后镜，有辆小型罗里在后，我想向左边闪避，却又决定向前走，因为后面的罗里在向左拐出！只听到一声巨响，我知道出事了。
前面司机下车，先看他车“受伤”程度，我也下车，他轻声以粤语说：你点样开车喔？吾的车咳新车，5天则。我无言以对，总之，从后面撞车都是自己错。我们把车子开到路边。
马上有3个人过来：2个可以修车，一个要帮忙拖车。我一一回绝，我的修车人员就过来了。猛热的太阳下，我们没有争吵相骂，可是都面红耳赤。与他同车的是另一位年轻朋友，大约都是19，20岁年轻人。我提议不要向保险索保，因为需要报警，各付300令吉，几个星期没车用，他同意修车，我们负责费用。
后来他联络上了他姐姐，要我等她过来。半个小时后她来了。一下车，就大声对着弟弟怒轰：报警！抄她的身份证！又马上拿出纸和笔，我伸手要给她写下，她怒瞪着我说：我要你的身份证！过后还是要报警，因为是新车……她的理由我闷热得无法再听下去。后来大家同意先前的决定。
而这时我的院长说她要过来看看情形。我们又等着她过来。等着的当儿，警察开车经过，停下来。司机警察看看我们的车，笑问：你们解决了吗？我们说是的。他也说很好不要报警，很麻烦的……
另一位警察很机警地问对方有没有驾照，他把驾照给警察，警察马上告他没有在车镜前后贴上P贴纸。他们姐弟都拒绝与警察理论，她更是嚣张的怪我说是我害他们的，因为他们原本就要离开，是我要他们等的，才会被警察抓!
刚好修车员已到，他很熟练，静静的走向警察，我也跟着并向警察求情，警察笑对我说：Cik jangan khuatir, cik tak salah, saya hanya nak samankan budak ni, dia tu pemandu P, tapi tak pakai sticker……我当时只是苦笑不得，天呀！我撞别人的车，他还说不是我的错，而且关心抓人多于解决车祸！修车员作势要我离开，他跟警察“解决”，我当时还不明白他们的“解决方法”就是tahu sama tahu!
警察很快离开了，修车员过来说：他要50令吉，我说我只有20，他拿了！
啊！原来如此！！！而车主拒绝付费，要我还！
炎阳下暴晒约1小时了，我累得不想再有任何争论……车子坏了，人没事就好。
3天后，车子都修好了，钱付了。我还在想事情如何发生的？
开车25年，第一次闯祸！而且是撞车后。
第一：煞车器有问题（后来修车员查了，没问题。）
第二：轮胎有问题（确实是轮胎无花，很滑了。）
第三：我当时很分心（肯定的：想着……想着……想着……）
第四：反应迟钝了（后来听朋友说的，想是煞车了，但是没有煞车的动作！才发现也许是……如果是，那么这个事实蛮令人恐慌的！）
也许真正原因是以上都是！
虽然三番四次联络对方，只想慰问他还好吗？车子修好了吗？但是他都不接电话。
只想告诉你，我欠你的，我还清了！
你欠了我，而还未还的是做人的原则！
我要的不是钱，而是原则！
做错事情，可以得到原谅，但是需要承担后果。
这位如此教导弟弟的姐姐，今天你侥幸遇到我，明天我不想再遇上你！
又或许我们遇上了，我要讨的是那天你的嚣张，失态与没付费的原则！
《谁才是你的朋友》
《谁才是你的朋友》
最近，发现另一个现象……
是由朋友的观察，然后告诉我的。
你是否发现：来找你的人，都是有需要，有问题才来的？
哦！是吗？
如果这是真的，也许是件好事，因为最近很少人找上我，而是我去找人：病人，很多人病了；各个方面：肢体，情绪，灵修，感情……
最近，也有很多人走了，上个星期就在3天内出席4个丧礼：基信团的一位热心老婆婆年老病逝；隔天，另一位癌症教友也走了；同一天，一位教育家修士也走了；后来，又有一位神父的父亲回归天乡。
我却发现，当你身边有不同的朋友时，你另一些朋友会远离你，这是自然现象，而且，我从中学习，认识身边的人。
有些人，有难才找你。
某些人，有事才求你。
一些人，需要才寻你。
这些都不可悲。
最受不了的是那些：
说而不做者。
言出不行者。
口是心非者。
还有，还有假善人……
为此，没有人找我，可喜可贺，因为，大家都过得很好！
我难得可以静静生活，慢慢品尝日子。
那天以后，心里多一点亮光；体内有了些许的决定。
虽然疼痛，但是，还是要解决的！
最近，发现另一个现象……
是由朋友的观察，然后告诉我的。
你是否发现：来找你的人，都是有需要，有问题才来的？
哦！是吗？
如果这是真的，也许是件好事，因为最近很少人找上我，而是我去找人：病人，很多人病了；各个方面：肢体，情绪，灵修，感情……
最近，也有很多人走了，上个星期就在3天内出席4个丧礼：基信团的一位热心老婆婆年老病逝；隔天，另一位癌症教友也走了；同一天，一位教育家修士也走了；后来，又有一位神父的父亲回归天乡。
我却发现，当你身边有不同的朋友时，你另一些朋友会远离你，这是自然现象，而且，我从中学习，认识身边的人。
有些人，有难才找你。
某些人，有事才求你。
一些人，需要才寻你。
这些都不可悲。
最受不了的是那些：
说而不做者。
言出不行者。
口是心非者。
还有，还有假善人……
为此，没有人找我，可喜可贺，因为，大家都过得很好！
我难得可以静静生活，慢慢品尝日子。
那天以后，心里多一点亮光；体内有了些许的决定。
虽然疼痛，但是，还是要解决的！
《只有语言，没有文字的日子》
《只有语言，没有文字的日子》
最近，发现自己只有语言，没有文字；生活似乎很吵，却是空洞的！
他说：你一定要写。
他说：把故事记录下来。
他说：让文字说话。
他又说：写下你自己。
后来，最了解我的他说：这么多年了，我认识的你，一定要写，文字是你的力量，你的出口，你发挥的管道，你发泄的平台，别忘了，你一定要写……直到那日，我看到文字的力量。
有个视障者在路边乞讨，身边有个小罐子装钱，另一边是一卡片写着：我是瞎的，请帮助我。坐了很久，罐子里有几个怜悯钱币。
随后，有个人经过，看了看卡片，取走了，重写了卡片上的字；不久，罐子装满了钱币。视障者很惊讶。原来文字修改了：今天天气很美，我却看不到！
文字会说话，它更会呐喊。也许，当我们说得太多时，没有人在听，方而，文字的力量让人无法抗拒。虽然文字无声无息，它却相似水流，那股力量，来时，排山倒海，喊时，怒涛汹涌；它也可以风平浪静，但是，沉底的是那股能量与激流，就是等待时间。
最近，发现自己只有语言，没有文字；生活似乎很吵，却是空洞的！
他说：你一定要写。
他说：把故事记录下来。
他说：让文字说话。
他又说：写下你自己。
后来，最了解我的他说：这么多年了，我认识的你，一定要写，文字是你的力量，你的出口，你发挥的管道，你发泄的平台，别忘了，你一定要写……直到那日，我看到文字的力量。
有个视障者在路边乞讨，身边有个小罐子装钱，另一边是一卡片写着：我是瞎的，请帮助我。坐了很久，罐子里有几个怜悯钱币。
随后，有个人经过，看了看卡片，取走了，重写了卡片上的字；不久，罐子装满了钱币。视障者很惊讶。原来文字修改了：今天天气很美，我却看不到！
文字会说话，它更会呐喊。也许，当我们说得太多时，没有人在听，方而，文字的力量让人无法抗拒。虽然文字无声无息，它却相似水流，那股力量，来时，排山倒海，喊时，怒涛汹涌；它也可以风平浪静，但是，沉底的是那股能量与激流，就是等待时间。
2011年1月11日星期二
《主，愿你是我脚前的明灯，路上的光……》
清晨起来，圣咏１０９篇不断在心中颂唱。
想起文字福传之事。
２００６年被调来吉隆坡总教区。那时，每隔不久会在礼拜天的《星洲日报。副刊》看到天主教版的信仰分享。有过了不久，这版位销声匿迹，我试探到底发生什么事；有人说，又断稿了，而且很多时候是转载一些书本文字。就这样，珍贵的文字福传版位消失了。
２００９年开始参与《星洲日报》活动与座谈会。也认识了有关的主编，他再次邀请天主教以文分享信仰；我心里虽然雀跃，但是了解之前的情况，也不敢随心所欲就答应。
很多个月过去了， ２０１０年底，我想是时候行动了。祈祷中得到一些亮光，联络了《桥梁》主编，黄文才兄弟，和他讨论这事，我们觉得以《天主教写作人协会》的单位供稿该是很不错的概念，那么，每个月一个版位，每期１篇主稿，２篇副稿，加上一些图片，如果有１２个写作人， 那么，每个人一年只需写一篇而已吗。事就这样定下了。
文才兄开始以电邮发信邀稿，发给了大约３０个人，唯有２人答应，２人拒绝，另外２人回应了但没有表明立场，是答应或拒绝。等了约１个星期，没有其他的回应；文才兄弟感慨万端觉得因为是平信徒邀稿而没有得到热烈回应，如果是神父或者是修女就有不同的回应。我们决定放弃这个难得的文字福传版。我联络了有关的主编先生，他还很热情，乐意协助向受邀者解释……
但是，我心里还舍不得放下，就要求文才兄给我有关的受邀者，我逐一的向他们邀稿；在还未行动前，传来好消息，在《星洲日报》全职的立德兄弟已与主编讨论这事，他愿意全力以赴策划这个版位，专栏名字也定下了：《划向深处》。我开心雀跃，都说了是教友时代嘛！就让教友发光发热。
就这样，我做了很真诚的祈祷：主，如果是你的意愿，就让这事成了吧！
２０１１年第一天上班，把文才兄弟之前的邀稿信，做了调整，发给同样的写作人，隔天，得到６人答应，再一天，另一个人加入，今天又有另一人回复了，共计８人，加上立德，文才和我，共有１１人……
除了感激大家勇敢做出承诺，我心里仍然颂唱：
主，愿你是我脚前的明灯，路上的光……
愿大家为写作人祈祷，在文字福传事工上把主圣言作为脚前的明灯，建立天国路上的光。
《划向深处》写作人
2011年1月4日
1. 王安当神父 (主徒会会士)
2. 黄大华神父 (主徒会会士)
3. 萧永伦神父 (新加坡教区神父)
4. 吴荣良医生
5. 赵清福兄弟 (吉隆坡总教区教友)
6. 黄丽彬 (古晋教友)
7. 谢宝仪修女 (新山圣母圣心会修女)
8. 蔡荣禧 (马六甲教友)
想起文字福传之事。
２００６年被调来吉隆坡总教区。那时，每隔不久会在礼拜天的《星洲日报。副刊》看到天主教版的信仰分享。有过了不久，这版位销声匿迹，我试探到底发生什么事；有人说，又断稿了，而且很多时候是转载一些书本文字。就这样，珍贵的文字福传版位消失了。
２００９年开始参与《星洲日报》活动与座谈会。也认识了有关的主编，他再次邀请天主教以文分享信仰；我心里虽然雀跃，但是了解之前的情况，也不敢随心所欲就答应。
很多个月过去了， ２０１０年底，我想是时候行动了。祈祷中得到一些亮光，联络了《桥梁》主编，黄文才兄弟，和他讨论这事，我们觉得以《天主教写作人协会》的单位供稿该是很不错的概念，那么，每个月一个版位，每期１篇主稿，２篇副稿，加上一些图片，如果有１２个写作人， 那么，每个人一年只需写一篇而已吗。事就这样定下了。
文才兄开始以电邮发信邀稿，发给了大约３０个人，唯有２人答应，２人拒绝，另外２人回应了但没有表明立场，是答应或拒绝。等了约１个星期，没有其他的回应；文才兄弟感慨万端觉得因为是平信徒邀稿而没有得到热烈回应，如果是神父或者是修女就有不同的回应。我们决定放弃这个难得的文字福传版。我联络了有关的主编先生，他还很热情，乐意协助向受邀者解释……
但是，我心里还舍不得放下，就要求文才兄给我有关的受邀者，我逐一的向他们邀稿；在还未行动前，传来好消息，在《星洲日报》全职的立德兄弟已与主编讨论这事，他愿意全力以赴策划这个版位，专栏名字也定下了：《划向深处》。我开心雀跃，都说了是教友时代嘛！就让教友发光发热。
就这样，我做了很真诚的祈祷：主，如果是你的意愿，就让这事成了吧！
２０１１年第一天上班，把文才兄弟之前的邀稿信，做了调整，发给同样的写作人，隔天，得到６人答应，再一天，另一个人加入，今天又有另一人回复了，共计８人，加上立德，文才和我，共有１１人……
除了感激大家勇敢做出承诺，我心里仍然颂唱：
主，愿你是我脚前的明灯，路上的光……
愿大家为写作人祈祷，在文字福传事工上把主圣言作为脚前的明灯，建立天国路上的光。
《划向深处》写作人
2011年1月4日
1. 王安当神父 (主徒会会士)
2. 黄大华神父 (主徒会会士)
3. 萧永伦神父 (新加坡教区神父)
4. 吴荣良医生
5. 赵清福兄弟 (吉隆坡总教区教友)
6. 黄丽彬 (古晋教友)
7. 谢宝仪修女 (新山圣母圣心会修女)
8. 蔡荣禧 (马六甲教友)
2011年1月10日星期一
《10年前……10年后……重逢》
10年前……10年后……重逢
我家爸爸（左）好心uncle（右）
我家妈妈（左）
大约10年前。
爸爸身体不适，发高烧，头晕，肠胃不舒服。看了专科医生，他给了些药，过几天如果没有好转，再来找他。同一天，转看另一个专科医生，同样的情形，结果找到第5个专科医生时，才验出原来爸爸胆生石，胆满满的被9粒金黑色的小石子包围，那时全身都已经发黄。
后来进入医院动手术，妈妈就在医院照顾爸爸。隔壁床位已住着另一位先生。病情很复杂；糖尿病，心脏病，高血压……而他太太每天中午，傍晚都来看他。
爸爸入院隔天，每当她来看她先生时，就给我妈妈带来饭盒，每天两餐，完全免费，而且是斋菜；爸妈要付钱，他们都拒绝。后来爸爸康复出院，那位先生还住在那里。唯一的联系除了人情，只有一张他太太留下的名片。
就这样，他们也没有联络。直到前年我回家过年。爸爸才告诉我有关这段情。我依照名片上的地址，打了电话，就独自去槟城日落洞找他们。后来找到了，只有他们的女儿在。后来想带爸妈去见他们，爸爸身体不舒服，也就没有成行。
2010年刚好回家过圣诞节，也顺道出席毕业25周年回校晚宴。隔天，爸爸又提起这事，我和妹妹，载着爸爸，妈妈就浩浩荡荡出发到槟岛找恩友去了。途中，我们还谈着，不知道那位uncle 怎样了？还有在吗？
一切好奇都一一揭开了！原来他们是开斋菜馆的。
欢迎我们的就是这位 uncle。后来他滔滔不绝地和爸爸，妈妈谈天说地……谈了很久，讲了很多……原来他在医院住了58天，而且住得很舒服，不想回家，被太太骂了才甘愿回来，太太还取笑他是否是因为喜欢医院的护士侍候呀！
他原本被医生劝说把左脚剧掉，幸好有朋友到访，劝他别这么做，10年后，他还是健康的保留双脚活着。
忘了问他们的名字……
好心太太（左）
越来越相信：
善心最难送出去，它常归还你。(Kindness is the hardest gift to give away because it is always returned to you.)
当我在世界的一角善待某人时，某某人会同时善待我所挚爱的人！
这是他给我们的劝语，要我们拍下细读。
我家爸爸（左）好心uncle（右）
我家妈妈（左）
大约10年前。
爸爸身体不适，发高烧，头晕，肠胃不舒服。看了专科医生，他给了些药，过几天如果没有好转，再来找他。同一天，转看另一个专科医生，同样的情形，结果找到第5个专科医生时，才验出原来爸爸胆生石，胆满满的被9粒金黑色的小石子包围，那时全身都已经发黄。
后来进入医院动手术，妈妈就在医院照顾爸爸。隔壁床位已住着另一位先生。病情很复杂；糖尿病，心脏病，高血压……而他太太每天中午，傍晚都来看他。
爸爸入院隔天，每当她来看她先生时，就给我妈妈带来饭盒，每天两餐，完全免费，而且是斋菜；爸妈要付钱，他们都拒绝。后来爸爸康复出院，那位先生还住在那里。唯一的联系除了人情，只有一张他太太留下的名片。
就这样，他们也没有联络。直到前年我回家过年。爸爸才告诉我有关这段情。我依照名片上的地址，打了电话，就独自去槟城日落洞找他们。后来找到了，只有他们的女儿在。后来想带爸妈去见他们，爸爸身体不舒服，也就没有成行。
2010年刚好回家过圣诞节，也顺道出席毕业25周年回校晚宴。隔天，爸爸又提起这事，我和妹妹，载着爸爸，妈妈就浩浩荡荡出发到槟岛找恩友去了。途中，我们还谈着，不知道那位uncle 怎样了？还有在吗？
一切好奇都一一揭开了！原来他们是开斋菜馆的。
欢迎我们的就是这位 uncle。后来他滔滔不绝地和爸爸，妈妈谈天说地……谈了很久，讲了很多……原来他在医院住了58天，而且住得很舒服，不想回家，被太太骂了才甘愿回来，太太还取笑他是否是因为喜欢医院的护士侍候呀！
他原本被医生劝说把左脚剧掉，幸好有朋友到访，劝他别这么做，10年后，他还是健康的保留双脚活着。
忘了问他们的名字……
好心太太（左）
越来越相信：
善心最难送出去，它常归还你。(Kindness is the hardest gift to give away because it is always returned to you.)
当我在世界的一角善待某人时，某某人会同时善待我所挚爱的人！
这是他给我们的劝语，要我们拍下细读。
2010年9月3日星期五
2010年马新四教区讲习会
《让高墙倒下》
李家同教授主讲
时间表
03/09/2010 （星期五）
2.00pm 参加者报到
6.00pm 集合
6.30pm 晚餐
8.00pm 弥撒，开幕礼
10.30pm 茶聚，晚安
04/09/2010 （星期六）
7.30am 早祷，弥撒
8.30am 早餐
9.30am 讲习（一）：我在哥尔哥达的体验
11.00am 休息
11.15am 分享，发问时刻
12.00noon 午餐
2.30pm 讲习（二）：现代人类的危机
4.00pm 茶点
4.30pm 分享，发问时刻
5.00pm 休息
7.00pm 甲柔教区华文促进会成立30周年晚宴
05/09/2010 （星期日）
7.30am 早祷
8.00am 早餐
9.00am 讲习（三）：我最喜欢的一部电影
10.30am 休息
10.45am 弥撒
12.00noon 午餐
2.30pm 讲习（四）：我写作的灵感
4.00pm 茶点
4.30pm 分享，发问时刻
5.30pm 休息
6.00pm 圣时及朝拜圣体
7.00pm 晚餐
8.00pm 论坛，区域教务交流
10.15pm 夜祷
10.30pm 晚安/ 自由时间。
06/09/2010（星期一）
7.30am 早祷
8.00am 早餐
9.00am 综合总结
10.30am 弥撒，大会闭幕礼并移交大会蜡烛给下一届主办单位（吉隆坡）
再见
李家同教授主讲
时间表
03/09/2010 （星期五）
2.00pm 参加者报到
6.00pm 集合
6.30pm 晚餐
8.00pm 弥撒，开幕礼
10.30pm 茶聚，晚安
04/09/2010 （星期六）
7.30am 早祷，弥撒
8.30am 早餐
9.30am 讲习（一）：我在哥尔哥达的体验
11.00am 休息
11.15am 分享，发问时刻
12.00noon 午餐
2.30pm 讲习（二）：现代人类的危机
4.00pm 茶点
4.30pm 分享，发问时刻
5.00pm 休息
7.00pm 甲柔教区华文促进会成立30周年晚宴
05/09/2010 （星期日）
7.30am 早祷
8.00am 早餐
9.00am 讲习（三）：我最喜欢的一部电影
10.30am 休息
10.45am 弥撒
12.00noon 午餐
2.30pm 讲习（四）：我写作的灵感
4.00pm 茶点
4.30pm 分享，发问时刻
5.30pm 休息
6.00pm 圣时及朝拜圣体
7.00pm 晚餐
8.00pm 论坛，区域教务交流
10.15pm 夜祷
10.30pm 晚安/ 自由时间。
06/09/2010（星期一）
7.30am 早祷
8.00am 早餐
9.00am 综合总结
10.30am 弥撒，大会闭幕礼并移交大会蜡烛给下一届主办单位（吉隆坡）
再见
今年国庆日
推了所有的国庆邀请，决定探访病人。
久违了张金龙老先生，他已经88岁，与80岁的太太共住一座公寓。他是退休的铁路工程师，她是退休老师。3个儿子都在外国成家。张先生得了肾病，每隔1天都要到医院洗肾，每次约4个小时。
在他去医院前，我们为他（天主教徒）祈祷。他的太太2位好朋友是虔诚佛教徒，就和我们一起手牵手以各自的祈祷方式与经文为张先生祈求。这是我一生里最美好的祈祷了。
今天他第一次告诉我他蛮喜欢去洗肾，因为在那里他感受到真正的马来西亚人情。他们3个病人每次洗肾都会被安排在同一天，同一个病房。房里有个电视机，第一个病人印裔会选看淡米尔语频道。1小时后他会把遥控器交给第二个马来病人，他会选看马来语频道。然后，第三个小时才轮到张先生，他就看中文频道。他们每次就在很和谐的气氛下进行很辛苦，很累洗肾疗程。
傍晚就到教堂渡国庆，为我国祈祷。约有千多位教友来到教堂，我们当中大部分是印裔同胞，其次是华人，混种人，约百多位来自沙巴及砂劳越，非洲人，菲律宾人等等。
弥撒以4种语言进行：读经和歌曲包括英语，马来西亚语，华语及淡米尔语。主要歌曲都以Allah为祈祷中心。奉献礼品就以nasi lemak, 印度煎饼及肉包。弥撒结束前大家官方式尽了身为马来西亚公民的责任，一起唱国歌。
教堂里看到，听到，感受到是和谐亲切的，亚洲仿佛就在马来西亚。但弥撒后，人，是否还是如此和谐？走出教堂，社会，是否仍然如此公平，宽容，彼此接纳呢？马来西亚根本，原始就是一个的，除非我们逐渐失去一个马来西亚，现在才那么辛苦在鼓吹？
如果说我们是pendatang / penumpang。
深入去反思，其实每个（人）活在这世界，都是短暂的pendatang / penumpang。
每个人只是生命过客。“每个人是每个人的过客”……
久违了张金龙老先生，他已经88岁，与80岁的太太共住一座公寓。他是退休的铁路工程师，她是退休老师。3个儿子都在外国成家。张先生得了肾病，每隔1天都要到医院洗肾，每次约4个小时。
在他去医院前，我们为他（天主教徒）祈祷。他的太太2位好朋友是虔诚佛教徒，就和我们一起手牵手以各自的祈祷方式与经文为张先生祈求。这是我一生里最美好的祈祷了。
今天他第一次告诉我他蛮喜欢去洗肾，因为在那里他感受到真正的马来西亚人情。他们3个病人每次洗肾都会被安排在同一天，同一个病房。房里有个电视机，第一个病人印裔会选看淡米尔语频道。1小时后他会把遥控器交给第二个马来病人，他会选看马来语频道。然后，第三个小时才轮到张先生，他就看中文频道。他们每次就在很和谐的气氛下进行很辛苦，很累洗肾疗程。
傍晚就到教堂渡国庆，为我国祈祷。约有千多位教友来到教堂，我们当中大部分是印裔同胞，其次是华人，混种人，约百多位来自沙巴及砂劳越，非洲人，菲律宾人等等。
弥撒以4种语言进行：读经和歌曲包括英语，马来西亚语，华语及淡米尔语。主要歌曲都以Allah为祈祷中心。奉献礼品就以nasi lemak, 印度煎饼及肉包。弥撒结束前大家官方式尽了身为马来西亚公民的责任，一起唱国歌。
教堂里看到，听到，感受到是和谐亲切的，亚洲仿佛就在马来西亚。但弥撒后，人，是否还是如此和谐？走出教堂，社会，是否仍然如此公平，宽容，彼此接纳呢？马来西亚根本，原始就是一个的，除非我们逐渐失去一个马来西亚，现在才那么辛苦在鼓吹？
如果说我们是pendatang / penumpang。
深入去反思，其实每个（人）活在这世界，都是短暂的pendatang / penumpang。
每个人只是生命过客。“每个人是每个人的过客”……
9月份牧民活动
<9月份牧民活动>
1）1《涵咏圣言》（苏发联修士）（善牧堂）
2）2《全人蜕变》（圣母论）（牧民学院）
3）3 – 6《让高墙倒下》（李家同教授）(新山：MaJoDi)
4）7 《全人蜕变》（单元3：礼仪）（牧民学院）
5）8 圣母诞辰
6）8 《弃婴课题》（隆雪华堂）
7）9 – 12 修会庆典（新加坡）
8）15 圣母七苦节（修会主保）
9）16 团体年度避静
10）16 《放胆过来，怕什么鬼！》（星洲总社）
11）18 《使命》电影会 (CahayaSuara)
12）18 《半山芭社区艺术节》（半山芭）
13）19 促进会会议 （玫瑰堂会所）
14）21 《圣母军》区团会议（甲洞圣爱堂）
15）23 – 26 《家有喜事》
16）30 总教区圣召局会议 (Bukit Nanas)
牧民服务：播种……等待……
1）1《涵咏圣言》（苏发联修士）（善牧堂）
2）2《全人蜕变》（圣母论）（牧民学院）
3）3 – 6《让高墙倒下》（李家同教授）(新山：MaJoDi)
4）7 《全人蜕变》（单元3：礼仪）（牧民学院）
5）8 圣母诞辰
6）8 《弃婴课题》（隆雪华堂）
7）9 – 12 修会庆典（新加坡）
8）15 圣母七苦节（修会主保）
9）16 团体年度避静
10）16 《放胆过来，怕什么鬼！》（星洲总社）
11）18 《使命》电影会 (CahayaSuara)
12）18 《半山芭社区艺术节》（半山芭）
13）19 促进会会议 （玫瑰堂会所）
14）21 《圣母军》区团会议（甲洞圣爱堂）
15）23 – 26 《家有喜事》
16）30 总教区圣召局会议 (Bukit Nanas)
牧民服务：播种……等待……
2010年8月3日星期二
《8月份牧民活动》
牧民旅途需要祈祷……
1) 5日：《全人蜕变课》（中）（牧民学院）
2) 7 – 8 日：圣母军避静（云顶）
3) 9日：婴孩洗礼：父母/代父母准备（圣爱堂）
4) 11日：欢送修生（会院）
5) 12日：《全人蜕变课》（英）（牧民学院）
6) 14 日：领袖避静（十五碑）
7) 14日：欢送晚宴（八打灵）
8) 15日：电影会 (文良港)
9) 19日：《全人蜕变课》（中）（牧民学院）
10) 22日：妇女节座谈会（隆雪华堂）
11) 25日：歌舞剧 (The Reluctant Saints) (KL PAC)
12) 26日：《全人蜕变课》（英）（牧民学院）
13) 26日：圣召局会议 (Bukit Nanas)
14) 28日：吉隆坡总教区牧民集会（牧民中心）
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