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)
「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).
