我爱人人,人人爱我To Love and to Be Loved(1/2)
特雷莎修女/ Mother Teresa
特雷莎修女(1910—1997),生于欧洲的马其顿,18岁进加尔各答修道院。1948年她走出修道院高墙,开始为世界上最贫穷的人服务;1979年获诺贝尔和平奖,1997年9月5日辞世。“特雷莎妈妈”是一个美丽的名字,被世人用不同的语言表达同一个意思即“爱”。她刻苦善良,以身作则,毕生坚持不懈服务全人类,其功绩令世人深受感动和启发。
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1. jtice [?nd??st?s] n. 不公平;非正义
2. naked [neikid] adj. 无遮蔽的;坦白的
3.[] v. 疏忽;忽略;遗漏
It is not enough forto say,“I love God.”But I also have to love y neighbor. St. John says that you are a liar if you say you love God and you don’t love your neighbor. Howyou love God who you do not see, if you do not love your neighbor who you see, who you touch, with who you live? And so it is very iportant forto realize that love, to be true, has to hurt. I t be willg to give whatever it takes not to har other people and,fact, to do good to the. This requires that I a willg to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true loveand I brg jtiot peace, to those around .
It hurts Jes to love . We have beeedhis iage freater thgs, to love and to be loved. We t“put on Christ,”as Scripture tells . And so we have beeed to love as he loves . Jes akes hiself the hungry ohe naked ohe holess ohe unwanted one, and he says,“You did it to .”O day he will say to those on his right,“whatever you did to the least of these, you did to ,”and he will also say to those on his left,“whatever you ed to do for the least of these, you ed to do it for .”
When he was dyg on the Cross, Jes said,“I thirst.”Jes is thirstg for our love, and this is the thirst for everyone, poor and rich alike. We all thirst for the love of others, that they go out of their way to avoid hargand to do good to . This is the ang of true love, to give until it hurts.
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仅仅说“我爱上帝”是不够的,我们还必须爱我们的邻居。圣约翰说过,如果你不爱邻居却还说你爱上帝,那你就在撒谎。连耳触目及、伸手可摸的邻居都不爱,你又怎能热爱看不着、听不见的上帝呢?所以,认识到这点十分重要——说句实话,有爱就有伤害。我们应该甘愿倾我所能,以求不伤害他人,事实上这样就是在对他人行善。这也就要求我们心甘情愿地付出,遭受痛苦也在所不惜。否则,我们心中就不会有真爱,我们所带给周围人们的就不是安宁,而是不公正。
因爱着我们,耶稣也是痛苦的。上帝按照自己的形象创造我们,是让我们去成就更伟大的事业,是让我们做到“我爱人人,人人爱我”。正如经文中训导的那样,我们必须“所作所为向基督看齐”。上帝因此创造我们,教我们像他爱我们一样去爱别人。耶稣让自己忍饥挨饿,让自己赤身**,让自己无家可归,让自己遭人躲闪。他说:“你是这样对待我的。”到了最后的审判日,他将对在他右边的人说:“你对这些人中最卑微的人所做的事情,就是对我做的事情。”他还将对在他左边的人说:“你忽视了为这些人中最卑微者做的什么,就等于忽视了为我做的事。”
在十字架上生命即逝的时刻,他还说:“我渴望。”耶稣渴望的是我们的爱,是对全天下不分贵贱的苍生的爱。我们每个人都渴望得到别人的爱,渴望别人小心翼翼而不将我们伤害,都渴望自己得到善待。不惜痛苦地去施爱吧,这就是真爱的意义。
心灵小语
生活中处处存在美,存在爱。我们每天都能看到初升的太阳,那是自然之美。我们每天都能拥有他人的关爱与帮助,这是人性之美。生命宛如一条奔流不息的长河,他所流经之处,总会给予他人以甘露。正因为如此,生命的长河被回馈的花瓣点缀得是那样得美,那样得动人。所以说给予也是一种美。
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