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德蘭修女--愛的奇跡

(英文版)

　　領聖體後，真福德蘭修女總會長時間地虔誠祈禱。

　　我每天到臨在聖體的耶穌前守聖時，我們仁愛會所有修女也是每天守聖時。藉着我們每天所守的聖時，我們對耶穌的愛變得更親密，我們彼此間的愛變得更善解人意，我們對窮人的愛變得更富於同情心。守聖時是我們每天的大家庭祈禱，我們齊聚在明供聖體前，用半小時念玫瑰經，其餘半小時靜默祈禱。藉着朝拜聖體，我們聖召增加了一倍。我們本來在1963年已每週一次一起守聖時，卻要等到1973年，我們開始每天守聖時，團體纔開花增長。

　　在聖體內的耶穌願意我們每一個人都來到祂跟前，祂真的親自在那兒只等著你。

　　通過聖母，我們的喜樂之緣，你發現世上沒有任何地方比耶穌真實活在聖體內更歡迎你或更愛你了。朝拜聖體是你在世上最美妙的時刻。每守一個聖時均加深我們與主耶穌結合，每守一個聖時均為你靈魂在天堂上增加永恆的光榮和美麗，每守一個聖時均促進著世上的永久和平。

　　當你望著十字架時，便明白耶穌多麼愛了你。當你望著聖體時，卻明白耶穌正在多麼愛著你。這就是為什麼全世界每一個堂區都需要恆久朝拜明供聖體的原因。我懇求聖母感動所有本堂神父的心，使他們都在他們的堂區恆久朝拜聖體，讓恆久朝拜聖體傳遍整個世界。

　　每次我們注視聖體內的主耶穌，祂都會提昇我們，使我們更深地與祂結合，並給世界打開天主慈悲之愛的水閘，使我們更接近他要最後得勝的日子。那日子就是經上所指的「一切…無不屈膝叩拜；一切唇舌無不明認耶穌基督是主」 (斐2:10-11) 。「天主的國就在你們中間」(路17:21) ，耶穌在聖體聖事中來到我們當中，是祂要來獲得最後勝利的保證，祂答應：「看，我已更新了一切。」 (默21:5)

　　朝拜聖體帶給我們內心平安和力量。

　　朝拜聖體使我們更愛耶穌，更互相愛護，並更愛窮人。

　　我們每一小時朝拜聖體均給耶穌聖心極大喜悅，將會記錄在天堂上，還要傳頌到永恆。

　　怎樣能令美國回頭，和拯救世界呢？我的答案是祈禱。我們需要的是：每一個堂區的教友都要到在聖體內的耶穌跟前守聖時祈禱。

　　耶穌在十字架上說了：「我渴」。耶穌在聖體聖事中繼續對我們每個人說：「我渴」。祂渴的是我們每人個別的愛、是我們的親切、在聖體聖事內與祂結合。

　　當修女們疲倦得張不開眼睛，當一切顯得不順心，出了錯，她們就花一小時時間在聖體前。經驗告訴她們，她們常因此體驗到平安與力量。

　　如果没有在我透過朝拜聖體守聖時，從聖體內主耶穌不斷獲得的力量，我知道我幹一週工作也辨不了。

　　明供聖體時獨自和耶穌在一起，並親密地與祂結合，就是最大的愛的禮物，是慈愛的天父愛著我們的禮物。

　　朝拜恆供聖體給我們參加與獻身會士們共同祈禱的機會，為救贖普世、為各地的靈魂、為世上和平祈禱。我們萬不要低估祈禱的力量和它給世界的改變。

　　我們朝拜聖體的聖時，是賠補罪過和為普世的需要代禱的特別時刻，把那沈瀝在罪惡瘡痍中，飽受著痛苦的人類带到聖體面前，接受耶穌從聖體發出那醫治、扶持、轉化人類的浩光的照射。

　　我們每個人都是基督的共同合作者，必須把祂带給那尚未認識和愛慕祂的心田；但除非我們己有了耶穌，又怎能把耶穌給人呢？所以我們需要聖體。盡量多花時間到聖體跟前吧，讓祂以大能和力量充滿你。

　　恆久朝拜聖體是人能夠想到去做的最美好事情。人是渴求天主的。

　　試想，如果我們生活在耶穌的年代，而祂邀請我們去探祂、花些時間離開噪聲去更密切地認識祂。既然明知祂是誰，這實是我們又當不起的而又萬分榮幸的邀請啊！耶穌雖以麵酒形來到我們中間，但祂臨在的真實，一如祂在世時，以血肉之軀真實臨現在祂的門徒中間。祂可以為我們行奇蹟、醫治我們、教育我們、愛我們。我們可以和祂交談；祂可以用聖言對我們說話，透過藉聖洗和堅振住在我們內的聖神向我們講話。

　　耶穌為給我們生命，甘作生命之糧，更日夜長留在聖體內。如果你真的想讓愛增長，就該回到聖體前，回來朝拜祂。

　　主給我們最大的禮物之一，是我們擁有每天都能朝拜主耶穌的特恩。如果您有一顆純潔的心，便常能看到生命之糧和在貧窮可憐人身上破碎的基督肢體，兩者之間的奇妙關係。

　　每天清晨，真福德蘭修女都同我們一起在聖體前祈禱、默想至少兩個小時。下午的時候，接著朝拜聖體。這些靈修生活，給了她在窮人的身上認識、熱愛和服務耶穌的光明與力量。(尼爾馬拉修女)

　　我們的生命必須與聖體交織在一起。眼睛要注視著本身是光的祂，心要靠近祂的至聖聖心，祈求主賜給你認識祂的恩寵、愛慕祂的愛心、侍奉祂的勇氣。熱切地尋求祂。

　　主耶穌為我是誰？耶穌，聖言成了血肉；耶穌，生命之糧； 耶穌，為我們的罪犧牲在十字架上；耶穌，為普世及我的罪而成為彌撒的祭品。耶穌，要被宣講的聖言；耶穌，要被傳揚的真理；耶穌，要走的道路；耶穌，要燃點的真光；耶穌，要活出的生命；耶穌，要去愛的愛情。

　　讓我們像瑪利亞般充滿熱情地趕快去把耶穌給與他人。聖母在領報時領受耶穌，充滿著聖寵；每次領聖體時，我們也跟著聖母而成為充滿聖寵，因為我們在彌撒中所領的耶穌，同是瑪利亞所領的耶穌。領了聖體主耶穌後，讓我們趕緊去把耶穌給與我們的姊妹、窮人、病人、垂死的人、痳瘋病人、被遺棄的、和得不到愛的人。這讓做，我們便使耶穌今天臨現于世界上。

　　耶穌的母親瑪利亞，你的心多麼美麗、純潔、無玷，多麼充滿愛和謙卑，請把你的心給我們，好讓我們能領受生命之糧的耶穌，如同你愛祂般愛祂，和服務在苦難中化身的耶穌。

　　如果人們每週用一個小時朝拜聖體，墮胎行為將會終止。

　　我們當中有一些非常偉大的人，只是我們並不知道。他們是貧困中的最貧困者──被捨棄的一群、沒有人關心的一群、被人遺棄的人、酗酒者、殘疾者、瞎眼的人、患病的人、垂死的人，他們一無所有，沒有人關心他們。

　　當到了人生盡頭時，我們受的審判，不在於我們拿了幾份文憑、賺了幾多金錢、做了幾件大事，而是：「我餓了，你們給了我吃的；我赤身露體，你們給了我穿的；我作客，你們收留了我」。飢餓並不單指食物──而是指愛的渴求，赤身並不單指沒有衣服──而是指人的尊嚴受到剝奪，無家可歸並不單指需要一棲身之所──而是指受到排斥擯棄。這就是基督在苦難中的化身。

　　除非我們相信和看到祭台上麵餅形的耶穌，我們便不能在窮人身上認出苦難化身的耶穌。

　　耶穌的謙卑顯現在馬糟誕生、流陟埃及、隱居生活、不能被人理解、祂的門徒四散、被仇恨祂的人逼害、所有可怕的苦難和受難至死。現在祂恆久地謙卑在聖體龕中，祂謙卑自己至司鐸用兩個手指便可以把祂拿著的一小塊麵餅。我們愈空虛自己，就給天主愈多空間充滿我們。

(如果想要進一步認識德蘭修女，可參閱德蘭修女電影。)

Mother Teresa:Miracle of Love

Founder of the “Missionaries of Charity,” known for helping the poor throughout the world, Mother Teresa would not open a Missionary House for the Poor unless it had an Adoration Chapel in it. She emphasized Adoration and Prayer for her Nuns so they could bring Christ to the Poor.

I make a holy hour each day in the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. All my sisters of the Missionaries of Charity make a daily holy hour, as well, because we find that through our daily holy hour our love for Jesus becomes more intimate, our love for each other more understanding, and our love for the poor more compassionate. Our holy hour is our daily family prayer where we get together and pray the Rosary before the exposed Blessed Sacrament the first half-hour, and the second half hour we pray in silence. Our adoration has doubled the number of our vocations. In 1963 we were making a weekly holy hour together, but it was not until 1973, when we began our daily holy hour that our community started to grow and blossom.

Jesus wants all of us to come to Him in the Blessed Sacrament. He is really there in Person waiting just for you.

Through Mary, the cause of our joy, you may discover that nowhere on earth are you more welcomed, nowhere on earth are you more loved, than by Jesus, living and truly present in the Most Blessed Sacrament. The time you spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the best time you will spend on earth. Each moment that you spend with Jesus will deepen your union with Him and make your soul everlastingly more glorious and beautiful in Heaven, and will help bring about everlasting peace on earth.

When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you NOW. This is why you should ask your parish priest to have Perpetual Adoration in your parish. I beg the Blessed Mother to touch the hearts of all parish priests that they may have Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration in their parishes, and that it may spread throughout the entire world.

Each time we look upon Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, He raises us up into deeper union with Himself, opens up the floodgates of His merciful love to the whole world, and brings us closer to the day of His final victory “where every knee will bend and proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord”. “The reign of God is already in your midst.” The coming of Jesus to us in the Eucharist is assurance of His promise of final victory: “Behold, I come to make all things new.”

It brings us personal peace and strength.

It brings us a greater love for Jesus, for each other, and for the poor.

Every Holy Hour we make so pleases the Heart of Jesus that it will be recorded in Heaven and retold for all eternity.

What will convert America and save the world? My answer is prayer. What we need is for every parish to come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in Holy Hours of prayer.

On the Cross Jesus said ‘I thirst’. From the Blessed Sacrament Jesus continues to say to each of us ‘I thirst’. He thirsts for our personal love, our intimacy, our union with Him in the Blessed Sacrament.

When the Sisters are exhausted, up to their eyes in work; when all seems to go awry, they spend an hour in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. This practice has never failed to bear fruit: they experience peace and strength.

I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament (during my Holy Hour of Adoration).

To be alone with Jesus in adoration and intimate union with Him is the Greatest Gift of Love - the tender love of Our Father in Heaven.

Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration offers to our people the opportunity to join those in religious life to pray for the salvation of the world, souls everywhere and peace on earth. We cannot underestimate the power of prayer and the difference it will make in our world.

Our hours of adoration will be special hours of reparation for sins, and intercession for the needs of the whole world, exposing the sin-sick and suffering humanity to the healing, sustaining and transforming rays of Jesus, radiating from the Eucharist.

Each one of us is a co-worker of Christ - we must labor hard to carry Him to the hearts where He has not yet been known and loved...But, unless we have Jesus, we cannot give Him; that is why we need the Eucharist. Spend as much time as possible in front of the Blessed Sacrament and He will fill you with His strength and His power.

Perpetual adoration is the most beautiful thing you could ever think of doing. People are hungry for God.

Imagine for a moment that we are living in Jesus’ time and He has invited us to visit with Him and spend some quiet time getting to know Him better. Being aware who He was, we would be humbled and honored by such an invitation. The good news is that Jesus is here with us TODAY - body, blood, soul and divinity – in the Holy Eucharist. Although Jesus comes to us under the appearance of bread and wine, His presence is as real to us NOW as He was flesh-and-blood-real to His disciples when he walked this earth. He can perform miracles, heal us, teach us, and love us. We can talk to Him and He can speak to us through His Word and through the Holy Spirit who lives in us through our baptism and confirmation.

Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want to grow in love, come back to the Eucharist, come back to that Adoration.

The privilege that we have to adore Him every day is one of His greatest gifts. If you have a clean heart, you will be able always to see that wonderful connection between the Bread of Life and the broken body of Christ in the poor.

In our congregation, we used to have adoration once a week for one hour, and then in 1973, we decided to have adoration one hour every day.  We have much work to do. Our homes for the sick and dying destitute are full everywhere. And from the time we started having adoration every day, our love for Jesus became more intimate, our love for each other more understanding, our love for the poor more compassionate, and we have double the number of vocations. God has blessed us with many wonderful vocations.

Our lives must be woven around the Eucharist...fix your eyes on Him who is the light; bring your hearts close to His Divine Heart; ask Him to grant you the grace of knowing Him, the love of loving Him, the courage to serve Him. Seek Him fervently.

Who is Jesus to me? Jesus is the Word made Flesh. Jesus is the Bread of Life. Jesus is the Victim offered for our sins on the cross. Jesus is the sacrifice offered at holy Mass for the sins of the world and for mine. Jesus is the Word - to be spoken. Jesus is the Truth - to be told. Jesus is the Way - to be walked. Jesus is the Light - to be lit. Jesus is the Life - to be lived. Jesus is the Love - to be loved.

Like Mary, let us be full of zeal to go in haste to give Jesus to others. She was full of grace when, at the annunciation, she received Jesus. Like her, we too become full of grace every time we receive Holy Communion. It is the same Jesus whom she received and whom we receive at Mass. As soon as we receive Jesus in Holy Communion, let us go in haste to give Him to our sisters, to our poor, to the sick, to the dying, to the lepers, to the unwanted, and the unloved. By this we make Jesus present in the world today.

Mary, mother of Jesus, give us your heart, so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate, so full of love and humility, that we may be able to receive Jesus in the bread of life, love him as you love him, and serve him in the distressing disguise of the poor.

If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic Adoration, abortion would be ended.

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by 'I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.' Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks - but homeless because of rejection. This is Christ in distressing disguise.

Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.

We cannot separate our lives from the Eucharist; the moment we do, something breaks. People ask, ‘Where do the sisters get the joy and energy to do what they are doing?’ The Eucharist involves more than just receiving; it also involves satisfying the hunger of Christ. He says, ‘Come to Me.’ He is hungry for souls.

The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability to make people understand Him, in the desertion of His apostles, in the hatred of His persecutors, in all the terrible suffering and death of His Passion, and now in His permanent state of humility in the tabernacle, where He has reduced Himself to such a small particle of bread that the priest can hold Him with two fingers. The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.