使徒的心

我們勤讀聖保祿的書信，就能清楚明白他的想法：他的論證和他所寫的每一句話，都是符合基督的；亦即把福音的神聖教導應用在生活和所處的環境中。 If we read the Letters of St. Paul we understand well what was his thinking: his reasoning, and every word he wrote, was conformed to Christ; it was an application of the divine doctrine of the Gospel to life, to circumstances (AP 1958/1, p.175).

必須捨棄一切——想法、喜好、傾向、處事的方式等等，得以獲取新的心、新的思想和新的處事方式……。在此，成功的典範有瑪利亞、耶穌和聖保祿。 You have to give up everything: your way of thinking, the preferences you had, the trends and then the ways of dealing; you have to have a new heart, a new mind and a new way of working.... And the examples are there: Mary, Jesus, Saint Paul (AP 1960, p. 98).

聖保祿對人靈的愛表現在「基督的愛催迫著我們」這句話，敦促他為一切人成為一切。他感受到所有人的需要和喜樂。 St. Paul’s great love for souls is expressed in that «Caritas Christi urget nos» which urges him to do everything to everyone. He experienced the needs of all, the joys of all (RSP, p. 274).

福傳工作使我們成為天主的擴音器。司鐸、作家、技術人員、行銷宣傳人員依照會憲文件的精神，團結在一起，共同完成教會交給我們的使命。 The apostolate makes us the loudspeakers of God. Priests, writers, technicians, propagandists are united in a single apostolate, according to the spirit and the letter of the Constitutions; in the mission that the Church has entrusted to us (CISP, p. 809).

現在全世界的人、青年或政治界等等，每天都接受教會以外的學說，他們透過收音機聆聽非教會的理論；過去看電影的，現在轉向看電視。我們要培養自己敏銳覺察時代，以及我們對人靈的責任…… Develop a sensitive and realistic awareness of the times and our duties to souls. Today the whole world, the youth, the ruling class, receive every day other doctrines, listen to other theories on the radio, watch every movie show, turn to television... (CISP, p. 807).

只有一個身體：即使在物質方面，也要彼此幫忙，如此是幫助了修會整體。只有一個精神：也就是你們都採用同樣的祈禱方式。只有一個希望：就是追求至善，邁向【將得到百倍的賞報並擁有永生】的目標。 Only one body: even in material things, one to help the others, and to help the whole Institute. Only one spirit: the same way of praying. One single hope, and that is all aimed at perfection, towards the «centuplum accipietis, et vitam aeternam possidebitis» (AP 1960, pp. 201-202).

在工作中，我希望全心全意地工作。我特别想向謙卑的耶稣祈求，希望祂能與我結合在一起，使我的生命成為祂的生命。 I want to work with all the alacrity of mind and heart, and of the task. Especially I want to pray so much to Jesus humble of heart, that He may be united with me and transform my life into His (Diario di D. Giaccardo, 15 June 1915).

紀艾沙神父（Canon Chiesa）是保祿家庭的義父。從他那裡，我們得到了信理和靈修上的指引；多年來在各方面，他是我們的日常供應和幫助。他的一生與眾不同，每一項美德都很偉大，值得我們效法；我們每個人和每個行動都應顯示出他的熱忱。 Canon Chiesa was the Godfather of the Pauline Family. From him we received the doctrine, the spirit, and guidance; he was the daily support for many years, in various forms. His life was exceptional and heroic in every virtue; his zeal was shown to every person and every initiative (UPS IV, 7).

傳遞給我們的「聖保祿模式」不是外在的，而是要把他的特質發揮得淋漓盡致：他的心態、美德、熱忱、虔敬等等。保祿家庭有很多成員，應是活生生的聖保祿住在團體中。 The mould St. Paul is not for a physical replication of his bodily features, but for communicating his personality to us to the maximum: his mentality, virtue, zeal, piety... everything. The Pauline Family, composed of many members, is Saint Paul living in a social body (ACV, p. 63).

少了謙虛，不能建樹什麼；在謙虛中，蕴含著我們的成聖和人性的幸福。驕傲的人，即使現在過得好，到了最後也會發現自己的悲慘。謙虛使人親近天主、親近人。謙虛就是真理。 Without humility nothing is achieved; in humility, instead, we find our sanctification and human happiness itself. The proud, even in the present life, will end up feeling bad... Humility makes man dear to God and dear to men. Humility is truth (RSP, p. 319).

信德！有信德！我們就會在喜樂中工作：某人以一種方式貢獻使徒工作，另一個人以別的方式貢獻使徒工作，是這樣沒錯，但我們是一起從事出版使徒工作。需要有信德！信德——求主增加我們的信德。 Faith, faith. Then we work in joy: and one contributes to the apostolate in one form, the other in another form, yes, but all together we do the apostolate of publications. It takes faith, faith: ask the Lord for an increase of faith (AP 1963, p. 75).

「哪裡有仁愛，那裡就有天主」，倘若破壞了愛德，或者出現對立的判斷、批評、反感，或者有思想和行動上的分裂，漸漸地，天主的臨在就會減少。在愛德中團結一致，就會有平安、有聖德。 «Where there is charity, there is God», or the presence of God is lost as the bonds of charity are broken or contrary judgments or criticisms or dislikes or divisions of thought and activity arise. With unity in charity there is peace and there is holiness (AP 1958/2, pp. 140-141).

聖保祿勸告我們要彼此相愛，就像我們組成一個家庭一樣，或者說，只有一個身體和一個靈魂，大家也承擔彼此的過錯。 Saint Paul exhorts us to love one another as if we were forming a family, or rather, a single body and a single soul, bearing one another’s defects (APim, p. 60)

聖保祿到一個地方時，並不是偶然路過那裡去發表一場演講——而是留下來建設當地的教會：取得知識分子的認同、勸勉、皈依、與基督結合，幫助他們度全面基督徒的生活。 When Saint Paul arrived, he did not appear for an occasional lecture: but he stayed and formed: to ensure the consent of the intellect, to persuade, to convert, to unite with Christ, to begin a fully Christian life (APim, p. 227).

作者（與編輯）、技術人員和行銷人員緊密地聯繫在一起。只有在這種結合中，我們才能為人靈提供益處。 The author, the technician, and the propagandist are deeply united. Only in this union do we attain the good of souls (RSP, p. 548).

天主聖言是有效的，不要常因我們自己的因素而削弱它的效能。聖保祿是怎樣宣講的？宗徒們是怎樣宣講的？教會的教父們又如何宣講？宣講需要努力、堅持、熱忱、心意純正：它要求我們有耶稣的心和祂對人靈的愛。 The Word of God has innate power: it often depends on us not to reduce it. How did St. Paul preach? How did the Apostles preach? How did the great doctors of the Church preach? This ministry requires hard work, perseverance, zeal, and right intention: it requires that we possess the heart of Jesus, […]

聖保祿在旅程中總是停留在有文化的繁榮城市，在那裡他建立了信仰的核心，就像一座火爐和一個中心，信仰從那裡——像是厄弗所、雅典、格林多、斐理伯、安提約基雅和羅馬——向四周散播。 In his journeys Saint Paul always sought out the great cities, the most cultured and commercial ones, where he established a nucleus of the faithful that were like a hearth and a centre from which the faith spread all around: like Ephesus, Athens, Corinth, Philippi, Antioch, Rome (APim, p. 88).