2012年展望

2012-01-30

踏入2012年，祝大家身、心、靈發財！(陳永超神父教的)

我常常說，身體健康是最重要的。如果成功的學業或事業換來的是一些長期的身體毛病，如胃病、心臟病、長期失眠、亞健康等，我相信極少人會覺得值得。

我也常說，快樂是最重要的，什至比健康更重要。

但是，這些畢竟是短暫的。我想，投資在死後的永久生命，肯定是更加化算！

每次做善事時，不單可以作為靈魂的補贖，更可得到助人的喜悅。

特別是能夠和一班志同道合的兄弟姊妹一同努力奮鬥，克服種種困難，得到的快樂更是長期留在心底！

在不少人眼中，關社的工作是乏味及沒有價值的。為什麼探老人院？難道這些老人有機會報答你嗎？為什麼要和智障朋友玩耍，而不找精靈活潑可愛的兒童？為什麼要去報佳音？誰會多謝你？

其實，正正因為少人願意做，亦正正因為沒有人會報答我們，我們的工作才更有價值。

展望將來，我們關社組員將和大家繼續努力做好每項活動。以愛心，快樂心，求進步的心去耕耘，以信賴天主的心去看事情的結果。

我希望關社小組在2012年能夠繼續得到大家的支持，做好更多天主訓示我們要做的事，也讓我們賺得天主賜我們更多的恩寵！
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2012-02-15

很開心收到一些朋友的回應，我非常珍惜。
Maria 姊妹的回應在意見欄 http://scgsmchk.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-look-forward.html#comment-form
Tammy 姊妹的回應在下面，和各位分享。(已得到同意)

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Charles,

Happy Chinese New Year to you too!   I like your sharing, especially "以愛心，快樂心，求進步的心去耕耘，以信賴天主的心去看事情的結果"。Thank you for the encouraging words.  I agree with "做好更多天主訓示我們要做的事" but disagree with "..賺得天主賜我們更多的恩寵" because恩寵 are gifts from God. I believe God bless us unconditionally and there is nothing we can do to gain more grace.   I believe we are called to do His will and God always gives us enough 恩寵 to 做好更多天主訓示我們要做的事 (Philippians 4:13) and we need to 信賴天主 to provide enough 恩寵 and strength to do His will.  Sorry for being so picky but I believe we can only pray for or ask God for more 恩寵 instead of 賺得恩寵.

It's interesting that you bring up the topic of "為什麼探老人院？難道這些老人有機會報答你嗎？" because after my church group visited a 老人院 last Sat., one person commented that there was no response from the 老人.  Then someone else commented that even though the 老人 did not clap their hands or respond to our singing/activities, they appreciated our presence and effort deep in their hearts.

Keep up your good work in the 關社 ministry! ^_^ So happy to hear that  弟兄姊妹  from 慕道班 supported the 佈佳音 too.  I look forward to seeing them joining our Catholic family and becoming devoted practicing Catholics!

God bless,

Tammy

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1996. 我們的成義來自天主的恩寵。恩寵是天主的恩惠，無條件地賜予的助

佑，為了使我們回應祂的召喚：成為天主的子女、義子、有分於天主.........

1996 Our justification comes from the grace of God. Grace is favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the divine nature and of eternal life.⁴⁶ 

here's the link to read more on it:

http://www.vatican.va/chinese/ccc/ccc_zh-t-1987.pdf