主啊，我信靠祢！請使我的信德更堅強。主啊，我仰望祢！請使我的望德更肯定。主啊，我愛慕祢！請使我的愛德更熱忱！主啊，我痛悔己罪，請使我更懷著懺悔之心。（BM, 30） I believe, O Lord, but let me believe more firmly! I hope, O Lord: but let me hope more surely! I love, O Lord: but make me love more ardently! I repent, O Lord: but make me repent more and more (BM, 30).
聖經的出版品應是牧靈性的，稱之為「牧靈」，因為它們是由具備使徒之心的人所預備，以「牧靈的形式」呈現，以牧靈的角度選擇題材，價格盡量親民；用「牧靈」一詞，因為是針對所有人靈。（AE, 183） Biblical publications should be pastoral. Pastoral because they are prepared by apostolic-minded people, pastoral in appearance, pastoral in the choice of notes and, insofar as possible, in their low cost; pastoral in that they are addressed to all people (AE, 183).
如果你想使人閱讀聖經產生效力，你必須引導他們懷著渴望與耶穌基督、與天主的恩賜相遇的態度來閱讀聖經：抱持著謙遜、信心、祈禱和改變生活的期望來閱讀。（AE, 184） If one wants that Scripture reading be productive in people it is necessary to guide them to read the Holy Book with the lively desire to meet Jesus Christ, God’s gift; to read it in humility, faith and prayer, and with the desire to change their life (AE, 184).
使徒的目標不單只為了人在能力方面的完善，而是要整個人的圓滿，也就是：成為理智、意志和情感充沛的人，同時展露出要相信的真理、要遵循的道路，以及對天主恩賜的渴慕，以能相信並按照自己的召叫而行事。（AE, 222） What the apostle has to aim for is to perfect not just one of the human faculties, but the whole human person gifted with intellect, will and feeling, while at the same time setting out for oneself the truth to be believed, the way to be followed and the means to acquire God’s […]
聖人是天主的朋友，也是我們的朋友，他們很樂意向我們伸出援手，這是為了天主更大的光榮，也是為了支持他們的弟兄姊妹——也就是我們——因為他們看到我們的處境，他們感同身受。（AE, 274） Since the saints are friends of God and ours, too, they are glad to help us contribute to God’s greater glory and to support us, their brothers and sisters, seeing our plight and recognizing that it was once theirs (AE, 274).
使徒作家的任務是向一般群眾講話，對他們傳遞有關永生的信仰、倫理與敬禮。（AE, 275） The task of the apostle-writer is to address the simple people, the masses, to communicate to them the faith, morals and Catholic worship, with regard to eternal life (AE, 275).
有些人心中聖保祿的形象是這樣的：放眼全世界，心神日夜不斷地念及所有人，滿懷神聖的熱忱——那股熱火將他轉變為耶穌基督並推動他耗盡一切。每位使徒的心靈都該如此。（AE, 350） There are those who imagine Saint Paul like this: with his eye on the geographical panorama of the pagan world, his soul tense night and day to all peoples to communicate to all the holy ardour that consumes him and transforms him into Jesus Christ. Every apostolic soul should be no different (AE, […]
做福傳工作時，需要選擇一枝浸入耶穌聖心的筆，並懂得在紙張上傳達思想……選擇能贏得人心、滿足思想、牽引意志的筆。一枝能適應時代、適應人群的筆。（AE, 378） The apostolate needs talented writers who dip into the Heart of Jesus and convey their thoughts on paper… Chosen writers who win hearts, satisfy the minds, sway the wills. Writers who know how to adapt themselves to the times… to categories of people they are dealing with (AE, 378).
全心愛天主和人靈，使徒是學習善用上天為他的目的所賜予的一切，以便受造物向造物主唱出讚美詩。使徒會知道如何從廢土種出玫瑰及百合花，將破布轉變為傳播福音的紙張。（AE, 380） In the fullness of his love for God and for his fellow human beings, the apostle is to learn how to utilize everything that providence offers him for his goal so that all creatures may raise their hymn of praise to their Creator. He is to be so ingenious as to grow roses […]
祈求在至聖童貞的精神中妥善參與感恩聖祭的恩典，你們必須深入聖母的精神，與她有同樣的感受。熱心使徒的整個生活是聖母生活的延續：虔誠的門徒必須與聖母一起生活。（APD47, 173） Ask for the grace to attend the Holy Mass well, always better, in the spirit of the Holy Virgin. You must intimately enter into the spirit of Our Lady and possess the same sentiments. The whole life of the Pious Disciple is a continuation of the life of the Madonna: the Pious Disciple […]
懷著聖母的意向、感受、心願、渴望與計畫，為聖母而活。你有瑪利亞的思想、感受與願望嗎？你行事像瑪利亞嗎？你感覺自己與瑪利亞在一起嗎？或感到在她內嗎？你有每天自我更新與轉變嗎？（APD47, 232） Own the intentions, feelings, aspirations, desires, having Mary’s plans. Live like Mary. Do you have the thoughts, feelings, aspirations of Blessed Maria? Do you work as Mary would work? Do you feel united with Mary? Do you live in Mary? Are you transforming yourself every day? (APD47, 232).
耶穌基督從天上而來，是天父的使徒，為迷失的孩子們指明了成全之路。在完成了他的神聖使命之後，祂回到天父身旁。祂委托給教會的使徒繼續祂的任務和工作後，在教會中，祂的神聖使命在良好的刋物中得以延續。（AE, 382-383） Jesus Christ, the Father’s apostle, came down from heaven to show the way of wholeness to his lost children. At the completion of his divine mission, having entrusted to the Church the task of continuing his work, he returned to the Father. In the Church… his divine mission is perpetuated in the promotion […]
使徒研究人類和國家的重要精神及道德需求，然後他寫下來，透過印刷的宣講台來推廣，就像講道者在教會的講道台上一樣。使徒把他從天主白白得來的東西，也白白地分施。（AE, 383） The apostle studies the important spiritual and moral needs of peoples and nations; then he writes and promotes from the pulpit of the press, just like the preacher from the church pulpit. The apostle gives freely what he has freely received from God (AE, 383).
我們的推廣不是商業行為，因為它不是商品或利益交換，它的目的不是為了利潤或賺錢，而是為了天主的光榮和人類的永恆救恩。（AE, 383） Promotion is not business because there is no barter of goods and money; its aim is not gain but God’s glory and the eternal salvation of human beings (AE, 383).
使徒必須是好天使，提醒每個人永恆的生命和得救的方法；使徒向那些只關心世事的天主子女談論天主和天堂。（AE, 384） The apostle must be the good angel who reminds every one of their eternal destiny and the ways of salvation; the angel who speaks of God and of heaven to those children of God whose concerns are with this world only (AE, 384).
傳播者是分配員，他從教會中取出耶穌基督託付給他的寶物，並把它們分發給人：讓我們每個人把自己看作是基督的僕人，是天主奧祕的管理員。（AE, 385） The apostle promoter is a dispenser who takes from the Church’s treasury the riches entrusted to her by Jesus Christ and distributes it to people: «This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and dispensers of God’s mysteries» (AE, 385).
没有散發出去的福傳印刷品就像隱藏的燈，或是沒有孩子的家庭。燈如果被藏起來就不能發光，同樣，如果好的印刷品閒置在倉庫，就不能照亮人靈。（AE, 386） The press apostolate without the diffusion may be likened to hiding a lamp under a bushel, to a family without children. Just as a lamp, if it is hidden, does not give light, so the good press, if it remains hidden in warehouses, cannot give light to people (AE, 386).
耶穌基督教導我們不要等待人來，而是去尋找他們。使徒必須像導師一樣，在城市、鄉鎮、家庭，甚至最偏遠的地區傳播天主的話語，因為所有人都蒙召要認識救恩之道。（AE, 387） Jesus Christ taught us not to wait for people, but to seek them out. Like the Teacher, the apostle must promote God’s word in the cities, in the towns, and even in the most remote homes… because all are called to know the way of salvation (AE, 387).
使徒必須學習忘記自我，以便將自己奉獻給天主及眾人。（AE, 388） The apostle must learn to forget himself in order to give himself to people and to God (AE, 388).
使徒的首要和唯一目標是天主的光榮和人靈的益處。所有其他的工作和行動都是為了這崇高的目的。（AE, 393） The apostle’s first and sole goal must be the glory of God and the spiritual good of people. All the rest, works and initiatives, are in view of this ultimate goal (AE, 393).
不要以為人不喜歡屬靈的工作。他們享受它，渴望它，對它的理解遠超我們的想像。梅西爾樞機主教說的對：「人必須提升自己，才能提升他人。」（AE, 416） Banish the thought that people do not enjoy spiritual works. They enjoy them, they want them and they understand them more than we give them credit for. What Cardinal Mercier said still holds true: «You need to stand up yourself in order to pull others up» (AE, 416).
我們要知道，閱讀聖經非常重要，也被教會所推崇，因為聖經是天主為每個人寫的，每個人都需要它。在聖經中，人人都能找到適合他們的好東西，使他們變得更好。（AE, 184） Let people understand that reading of the Holy Books is important and recommended by the Church, because they are God’s writings for everyone and everyone needs them… Everyone can find something good in the Holy Books in order to help them become better (AE, 184).
印刷工作，就像宣道的使徒工作，需要圍繞祭台和聖體龕。讓我們回到泉源！唯有如此，我們才有完整的敬禮，才有思想、意志和心靈得到完美滋養的基督徒！只有這樣，人才能真正全心、全意、全力地愛天主。（AE, 429） The press apostolate, like the word apostolate, needs to be brought back around the altar and the tabernacle… Let us return to the sources! Only in this way shall we have complete worship, the perfect Christian, the person nourished in mind, will and heart! Only in this way can we truly love the […]
編輯、技術和發行這三方面都是保祿會的使徒工作，目標是為天主的光榮和人靈的益處。（AE, 444） The editorial, technical and diffusion are the three parts of a sole apostolate which the religious Congregation of the Pious Society of Saint Paul aims to implement for God’s glory and the good of people’s souls (AE, 444).
今日，印刷、電影和廣播是最快速、最有效、也最為迫切的福傳工作。也許將來會有更好的方法。然而此時，想不到有更好把天主帶入人心，並把人靈帶往天主的方法。（AE, 484） At present, the press, the cinema and the radio are the most pressing, rapid and effective means of Catholic apostolate. It may be that the future holds other, even better, means. But for the present, it seems that the heart of the apostle can desire no better means for giving God to people […]
願藉由聖保祿宗徒的代禱，能興起一群慷慨的人，使天主歡心喜悅。他們把一切的行動——祈禱、工作、犧牲和勇氣——導向三種尊貴形式的使徒服務（編輯、技術和發行），他們唯一的目的是救贖工程：「天主在天受光榮，世人在地享平安」。（AE, 484） May it please the Divine Master, through the intercession of the Apostle Saint Paul, to raise up a host of generous people who will direct the whole of their activity – prayer, work, sacrifice and daring – to these three noble forms of apostolate, setting as their Redemption’s own goal: «Gloria Deo, pax […]
我們需要出版的福傳工作，比其他時代更需要；印刷，無論好壞，都有一股我稱為「無所不能的力量」在潛藏運行，並標示著當今的社會思想與風潮。（AE, p. 368） But what is needed more so than in other times is the apostolate of the Press; this Press which good or bad wields an almost hidden power, a power I would call omnipotent, which plots the course of present day society’s reasoning and behaviour (AE, p. 368).
有各式各樣的使徒工作：做個好榜樣的使徒工作、宣講的使徒工作、祈禱的使徒工作、勞動的使徒工作、良好印刷刊物的使徒工作等等。（AE, p. 368） There is a variety of apostolates: the apostolate of good example, the apostolate of the word, the apostolate of prayer, the apostolate of good works, the apostolate of the Good Press and so on (AE, p. 368).
