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Ignatius


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2006/4/14 上午 12:50:40

Cecil


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2006/4/22 上午 09:55:33

From the Catecheses by Saint John Chrysostom, bishop
The power of Christ's blood
If we wish to understand the power of Christ’s blood, we should go back to the ancient account of its prefiguration in Egypt. “Sacrifice a lamb without blemish”, commanded Moses, “and sprinkle its blood on your doors”. If we were to ask him what he meant, and how the blood of an irrational beast could possibly save men endowed with reason, his answer would be that the saving power lies not in the blood itself, but in the fact that it is a sign of the Lord’s blood. In those days, when the destroying angel saw the blood on the doors he did not dare to enter, so how much less will the devil approach now when he sees, not that figurative blood on the doors, but the true blood on the lips of believers, the doors of the temple of Christ.
If you desire further proof of the power of this blood, remember where it came from, how it ran down from the cross, flowing from the Master’s side. The gospel records that when Christ was dead, but still hung on the cross, a soldier came and pierced his side with a lance and immediately there poured out water and blood. Now the water was a symbol of baptism and the blood, of the holy eucharist. The soldier pierced the Lord’s side, he breached the wall of the sacred temple, and I have found the treasure and made it my own. So also with the lamb: the Jews sacrificed the victim and I have been saved by it.
“There flowed from his side water and blood”. Beloved, do not pass over this mystery without thought; it has yet another hidden meaning, which I will explain to you. I said that water and blood symbolised baptism and the holy eucharist. From these two sacraments the Church is born: from baptism, “the cleansing water that gives rebirth and renewal through the Holy Spirit”, and from the holy eucharist. Since the symbols of baptism and the Eucharist flowed from his side, it was from his side that Christ fashioned the Church, as he had fashioned Eve from the side of Adam Moses gives a hint of this when he tells the story of the first man and makes him exclaim: “Bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh!” As God then took a rib from Adam’s side to fashion a woman, so Christ has given us blood and water from his side to fashion the Church. God took the rib when Adam was in a deep sleep, and in the same way Christ gave us the blood and the water after his own death.

Bro. Ignatius


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2007/4/9 下午 08:17:51

聖金口若望主教所著「要理」–基督寶血的力量

你願知道基督的血有什麼德能嗎?讓我們重讀舊日的記載,看看基督之血在聖經上的預象。

梅瑟說:「你們要宰殺一隻周歲大的羔羊,而把祂的血抹在門上。」梅瑟!你說羊的血能拯救有理智的人嗎?他說:是的,非常可能,不是因為這是血,而是因為這是象徵主基督的血。因此,現在如果仇魔所見到的不是抹在門楣上象徵的血,而是抹在信友口上的真實的血,抺在基督聖殿之門的血,祂不是更該退避三舍嗎?

你願知道基督之血,有什麼其他德能嗎?我願你先知道這血的源頭,這血首先從十字架流下,從主的肋旁流出。按聖經所載:耶穌死後還被懸在十字架上時,有一個士兵走近,以長矛刺開祂的肋旁,立刻血水迸流。水是聖洗的象徵;血是聖體的象徵。兵士刺開了祂的肋旁,也打開了聖殿的牆壁;我因此找到了傑出的寶藏,並尋到光耀的財富,深以為喜慶。這就是羔羊的事蹟。從前猶太人宰殺了羔羊,現在我們卻從此知道取用「祭獻」的效果。

「血和水,從肋旁流出」,諸位聽眾!我不願輕易地把偌大的奧蹟略而不提。我還有另一種奧秘的解釋。我說這血和水,是聖洗及聖體的象徵。因為聖教會是藉此兩件聖事而誕生:藉著再生之洗和聖神的革新,也就是藉著聖洗與聖體。而聖洗與聖體的象徵卻出自基督的肋旁。故此,基督從祂的肋旁建立了自己的教會,正如同厄娃出自亞當的肋旁一樣。

為了這個緣故,保祿宗徒也證實了這一點說:「我們出自祂的身體,出自祂的骨肉。」就是指祂的肋旁。因為正如天主用亞當肋骨造了女人,照樣,基督從自己肋旁給了我們血和水,以形成祂的教會。又如同天主乘亞當熟睡時,敞開了他的肋旁,照樣,基督在死後把祂血和水都賜給了我們。

請看:基督如何與祂的淨配-聖教會結合;祂用什麼食物養育我們。其實,我們是藉同一食物而出生,也藉同一食物得到滋養。正如同婦女由於本性用自己的乳和血哺育新生的嬰兒,同樣,基督也以自己的血常常滋養祂所生的信眾,總不間斷。

(聖週星期五.救主受難紀念)

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