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Cecil


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2005/12/16 上午 09:35:37

St Augustine on Psalm 37(38)
Your very desire is your prayer

I have roared out with the groaning of my heart. There is a secret groaning, which is not heard by man: yet if the thought of some strong desire has taken so strong hold of the heart, that the wound of the inner man finds expression in some uttered exclamation, everyone wonders why. A man says to himself, “Perhaps this is the cause of his groaning? Perhaps this thing or that thing has happened to him?” But who can know the answer except he one before whose eyes and ears he groaned? So the psalmist says I roared our with the groaning of my heart because if men ever hear a man’s groanings they hear only the groaning of the flesh; the groans within the heart are silent.
And who observed and noticed the cause of his groaning? All my desire is in front of you. It cannot be before men because they cannot see the heart, but still the psalm says all my desire is in front of you. If your desire is laid before him then the Father, who sees in secret, will grant it to you.
For that very desire of your heart is your prayer; and if your desire continues uninterrupted, then so does your prayer. It was not in vain that the Apostle said Pray without ceasing. Can we be always bending the knee, prostrating the body, or lifting up our hands, that he says Pray without ceasing? If that is what prayer means then I say that we cannot do it without ceasing.
There is another inward kind of prayer without ceasing, which is the desire of the heart. Whatever activity you happen to be engaged in are doing, if you only long for that Sabbath then you do not cease to pray. If you do not want to pause in prayer then never pause in your longing.
Your continuous desire is your continuous prayer. If you cease to desire than you will have fallen silent in your prayer. Who are those who have fallen silent? Those of whom it is said Because iniquity will abound, the love of many will grow cold.
The freezing of love is the silence of the heart; the burning of love is the cry of the heart. If love continues then you are still lifting up your voice; if you are always lifting up your voice, you are always longing after something; if you are always longing, it is the Sabbath rest you are thinking of.
And all my desire is before Thee. How can we suppose that our desire is before him, but our very “groaning” is not before him? How can that be, since our desire itself finds its expression in “groaning”?
And so comes the line And my groaning is not hidden from you. From you indeed it is not hidden; but it is hidden from many men. The servant of God sometimes seems to be saying in humility, And my groaning is not hidden from you. Sometimes also he seems to smile. Is then that longing dead in his heart? If however there is the desire within, there is the “groaning” also. It does not always find its way to the ears of man; but it never ceases to sound in the ears of God.

Ignatius


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2005/12/18 下午 11:06:19

聖奧思定主教:聖詠釋義–你的願望就是你的祈禱

「我心痛欲絕,嗟嘆不已」,有些嗟嘆聲是隱密的,外人不能聽到。但若人心為某種掛慮所極度困擾,而情不自禁呈現出內心的悲傷,使人聽到時,人會問其原因。有人會自言自語說:也許是為了某事而嗟嘆,或者也許是另一件事使他嗟嘆。事實上,除了那聽到、看到他嗟嘆的天主外,誰能了解其原因呢?為此聖詠作者說:「我心痛欲絕,嗟嘆不已」;因為人們所聽到的,多是出聲的嗟嘆;至於內心的嗟嘆,卻無法聽到。

那麼,誰會認出悲嘆的原因呢?他接下去說:「我主,我的心願常呈現在你面前。」不是在別人面前,因為人不能洞悉人心;所以我的一切心願,只呈現在你面前。倘若將你的願望呈現於那燭幽洞微的天父面前,祂必會使你如願以償。

因為你的願望本身就是你的祈禱。如果你不斷地願望,也就是不斷地祈禱。因為保祿使徒所說:「你們要不斷地祈禱」並非毫無目的。這「不斷地祈禱」,難道是要我們不斷地跪著,五體投地,或是高舉著雙手祈禱嗎?如果這樣才算「不斷祈禱」,我想,我們誰也不能祈禱,而不間斷。

事實上,還有一種內心的不斷祈禱,那就是我們的願望。你無論做什麼其他的事,如果只渴望著那在天主內的安息,那就是不斷地祈禱。因此,如果你不願中止祈禱,你就不要中止你的願望。

你的不斷願望就是你的不斷的禱聲。如果你停止了愛,你的禱聲就會間斷。是哪些人默默無聲呢?對於這些人,聖經曾記載:「由於罪惡劇增,許多人的愛心都變成冷漠。」

愛心的冷漠就是心靈的沉寂。愛火的熾熱,就是心靈的呼聲。如果愛心常常存在,你就是在常常高呼;如果你常常高呼,說明你在常常願望,如果你在願望,你就在思念在主內安息。

「我的一切仰望常呈現在你面前。」如果我的願望呈現在祂面前,而我的呻吟卻不如此,那將怎樣呢?這怎麼可能呢?因為呻吟就是我們內心願望之聲。

所以聖詠接下去說:「我的悲嘆,不會向你隱瞞。」是的,我的悲嘆不會向你隱瞞,但為許多人,卻是隱而不見的。因此,有時候,天主謙卑的僕人似乎向天主說:「我的悲嘆,不會向你隱瞞。」有時候,天主的僕人又似乎在笑:難道心內的願望已經死了嗎?沒有,只要內心有願望,也必有悲嘆;這種聲音,人的耳朵雖不常聽到,但從來不會逃過天主的耳朵。

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