（梵蒂岡電臺訊）聖座新聞室於1月27日公佈並介紹了教宗方濟各為今年2015年發表的四旬期文告，主題為：“你們要堅固你們的心”（雅五8）。教宗在文告中邀請基督徒正視冷漠的全球化，對抗遍及世界的自私態度，它使人忘記或忽視受苦者及其所遭受的不公正待遇，忽視天主的存在。以下是教宗2015年四旬期文告的中文譯文：

親愛的弟兄姊妹們：

　　四旬期是讓整個教會、每一個教會團體及每一位信友煥然一新的時期。四旬期更是一個「救恩的時日」（格後六2）。天主沒有先給我們的，祂也不會向我們要求。「我們應該愛，因為天主先愛了我們」（壹若四19）。天主與我們並不疏遠，每一個人在祂心中都有一席之地。祂叫得出我們的名字、祂關心我們，任何時候我們若對祂轉面不顧，祂都會來尋找我們。祂對我們每一個人都感興趣；祂的愛，讓祂無法漠視我們的境遇。通常，在我們健康、舒適時，很容易忘記他人（但是天主父絕不會如此）：我們不關心他們的困難、他們的痛苦以及他們所承受的不公義……。我們的心日趨冷漠。只要我還算是健康、過得舒適，我就不會想到那些比較不順心的人。今天，這種冷淡的自私態度已經具有全球性的規模，甚至可以稱之為「冷漠的全球化」。身為基督徒的我們，必須正視這個問題。

　　天主的子民歸向祂的愛時，他們對於歷史中不斷引起的問題，也就找到了答案。在這篇文告中我想提出來的，也是最急迫的挑戰，正是「冷漠的全球化」。

　　對近人以及對天主的冷漠，也代表了我們基督徒所遇到的真正誘惑。每一年的四旬期，我們都必須再一次聽到先知向我們呼喊、引起我們良心不安的聲音。

　　天主對我們的世界並不冷漠；祂如此愛了世界，以致於犧牲祂的愛子，好使我們獲得救恩。天主子的道成肉身，以及在世上的生活、死亡、升天，使得天主與人類之間、天與地之間的門，一次為所有的人敞開了。我們幸而有教會宣揚天主的聖言、舉行聖事，並借著以愛德行事所做的信仰見證（參：迦五6），使她就像是拉住這扇門，讓它敞開著的手。但世人卻想退縮回自己的世界，把天主進入世界的門、世人走向天主的門關閉。因此這手──也就是教會，如果遭到排斥、擠壓、受傷，我們一點也不必感到意外。

　　所以天主子民需要內在的更新，否則我們會變得冷漠、只關心自己。為了更進一步讓自己更新，我願意提出三段聖經章節，做為反省的題材。

1. 「若是一個肢體受苦，所有的肢體都一同受苦」（格前十二26）──教會

　　冷漠就是只關心自己這致命態度，但天主的愛能貫穿這冷漠。教會借著她的教導，尤其是借著她的見證，給了我們天主的愛。但我們只能為自己親身體驗過的事作見證。基督徒就是讓天主給穿上美善及慈悲、穿上基督的人，好讓我們像基督一樣，成為天主及他人的僕人。在聖週四的濯足禮中就能明顯地看到這一點。伯多祿不願讓耶穌為他洗腳，但他終於明白，耶穌並不是只想做榜樣，讓我們看到應如何為彼此洗腳而已。只有先讓耶穌洗腳的人，才能為他人洗腳。只有當他們與耶穌「有分」時（若十三8），他們才能服事他人。

　　四旬期是個讓基督服事我們，好使我們更加肖似祂的好時期。我們每一次聆聽了天主聖言、領受聖事──特別是聖體聖事，就會更肖似祂。我們會成為我們所領受的：基督的聖體。雖然「冷漠」似乎常常佔據了我們的心，但在基督奧體內，沒有「冷漠」立足的空間。因為不論是誰，只要是屬於基督的，就屬於同一個奧體，在祂內我們不可能彼此漠不關心。「若是一個肢體受苦，所有的肢體都一同受苦；若是一個肢體蒙受尊榮，所有的肢體都一同歡樂。」（格前十二26）

　　教會之所以是諸聖的相通，不只因為教會內有諸多聖人，也因為她是一個在神聖事物中相通的團體：天主的愛，在基督內、也在祂所賜與的一切內顯示給了我們。在這些恩賜中，還包括那些讓自己被天主的愛觸動的人的回應。在諸聖的相通中，在神聖事物的分享中，誰也不能獨自擁有任何事物，必要與他人分享一切。既然我們在主內結合，就可以為那些距離遙遠、那些我們不可能親自接觸到的人做些事情，因為我們可以與他們一起，為了他們而祈求天主，願我們都能開放自己，接納祂的救恩計畫。

2. 「你的兄弟在哪裡？」（創四9）──堂區和教會團體

　　前面所談到的有關普世教會的一切，現在都得應用在堂區和教會團體的生活中。這些教會組織是否能讓我們體驗到自己是一個奧體的一部分？一個能領受、並分享天主所願意給我們恩賜的奧體？一個認得並關心那最弱小、最貧窮、最微不足道的成員的奧體？還是說，我們只安穩地藏身在接納全世界的普世之愛中，卻看不見坐在我們緊閉著的大門外的拉匝祿呢（路十六19-31）？
為了能領受天主所給與我們的，並使它結豐盛的果實，我們必須從兩方面努力，來跨越教會有形可見的界限。

　　一方面，我們要借著祈禱與天上的教會結合為一。地上教會的祈禱建立起彼此服務和美善的共融──這共融上達天主台前。天上諸聖曾在天主內找到圓滿，我們也與聖人一起形成了共融的一部分，在其中，「冷漠」已經被「愛」克服。天上的教會凱旋得勝，並不是因為她轉面不顧世人的苦難，只在自己孤立的光榮中歡欣。而是因為諸位聖人曾喜樂地默觀這個事實：就是借著耶穌的死亡與復活，他們已經一勞永逸地戰勝冷漠、心硬和仇恨。聖人會繼續在我們的朝聖之路上陪伴我們，直到天主的愛貫透整個世界，得到最後的勝利為止。教會聖師──聖女小德蘭（St. Therese of Lisieux）曾表示，她相信，只要世上還有一個人受苦，在痛苦中哭號，那麼被釘十字架的愛的勝利給天上帶來的歡樂就未圓滿：「我深深相信我在天堂也不能懶散；我渴望繼續為教會及為人靈而工作。」（書信254，1897年7月14日）

　　我們分享聖人的功勞和喜樂，就像他們也分擔我們的掙扎，以及我們對平安與和好的渴望。他們對復活基督的勝利所感到的喜樂，給予我們力量，去努力克服我們的冷漠和心硬。

　　另一方面，每一個基督信仰團體都受召走出自己的世界，投入更廣大的社會團體──社會的一部分，特別是窮人及距離遙遠的人。教會本身就是傳教士；她不能自我封閉，而是要被派遣到每一個國家、去接近每一個人。她的使命就是耐心地為那一位上主作見證，因為上主渴望吸引所有受造物和所有人到天父那裡去。她的使命是把一份無法靜默的愛帶給所有人。教會追隨耶穌基督，走向每一個人、走到天涯海角（參：宗一8）。那麼，我們在每一個近人身上都必須看到一位基督為其死而復活的弟兄姊妹。我們自己所領受到的，也是為他們而領受。同樣，我們的弟兄姊妹所擁有的一切，也都是給教會、給全人類的禮物。

　　親愛的弟兄姊妹，我多麼渴望凡是有教會的地方，尤其是我們的堂區和教會團體，在這冷漠的汪洋大海中，都能成為慈悲之島！

3. 「你們該堅固你們的心！」（雅五8）──每一個基督徒

　　我們每一個人也都深受冷漠的影響。面對著如潮水般湧來的、有關人類受苦的新聞報導和令人傷感的圖片，我們往往感到自己完全無能為力。到底該怎麼做，才能讓自己不致捲入這沮喪和無力的漩渦中呢？

　　首先，我們可以與地上及天上的教會同心合意祈禱。我們不要小看眾口同聲、同心合意祈禱的力量！我希望三月十三及十四日兩天，教會全體、各教區都能遵行「奉獻廿四小時給天主」這活動，好讓這個新的活動成為我們需要祈禱的標記。

　　其次，我們可以用愛的行動，透過教會的許多慈善機構去接觸近人及遠方的人，藉此幫助他們。四旬期就是一個表達對他人關懷的好時機，借著一些微小卻具體的標記，表示我們同屬一個人類大家庭。

　　第三，他人的痛苦是一個叫我們悔改的號召，因為他們的需要提醒了我、自己生命的無常，而且我也要依賴天主和我的弟兄姊妹。如果我謙卑地懇求天主的恩寵並接受自己的限度，我們就會相信天主的愛帶給我們的無限機會。我們也能抗拒魔鬼的誘惑，以為只靠自己的力量，就能拯救世人及我們自己。

　　為了克服冷漠，以及我們的自負──認為一切都可以只靠自己，我邀請每一位，趁著四旬期的來臨，回應教宗本篤十六世所說的「心靈的陶成」（參：《天主是愛》31）。一顆慈悲的心，並不表示是一顆脆弱的心。任何人若希望自己是慈悲為懷的，必須有一顆強壯而堅定的心，與魔鬼隔絕，卻向天主開放。我們要有一顆願被聖神貫穿的心，好能沿著引領我們到我們弟兄姊妹的道路，將愛帶給他們。最後，我們要有一顆貧窮的心，這顆心瞭解自己的貧困，能白白地為他人付出。

　　因此，弟兄姊妹們，在這個四旬期，讓我們祈求天主：「使我們的心肖似禰的聖心」（耶穌聖心禱文）。這樣，我們會領受到一顆堅定而慈悲、懇切而慷慨的心，一顆不封閉、不冷漠的心，不被全球化的冷漠所擒獲的心。
我誠心祈禱，藉此希望這個四旬期是每一位信徒、每一個教會團體心靈豐收的時期。我請求各位為我祈禱。願天主降福各位，願聖母瑪利亞保守各位。

發自梵蒂岡，2014年10月4日
亞西西的聖方濟瞻禮
教宗方濟各

Pope's Message for Lent 2015: “Make your hearts firm”

Vatican City, 27 January 2015 (VIS) – The following is the full text of the Holy Father Francis' message for Lent 2015, entitled “Make your hearts firm”. The document was signed in the Vatican on 4 October 2014, the festivity of St. Francis of Assisi.

“Lent is a time of renewal for the whole Church, for each communities and every believer. Above all it is a 'time of grace'. God does not ask of us anything that he himself has not first given us. “We love because he first has loved us'. He is not aloof from us. Each one of us has a place in his heart. He knows us by name, he cares for us and he seeks us out whenever we turn away from him. He is interested in each of us; his love does not allow him to be indifferent to what happens to us. Usually, when we are healthy and comfortable, we forget about others (something God the Father never does): we are unconcerned with their problems, their sufferings and the injustices they endure. Our heart grows cold. As long as I am relatively healthy and comfortable, I do not think about those less well off. Today, this selfish attitude of indifference has taken on global proportions, to the extent that we can speak of a globalisation of indifference. It is a problem which we, as Christians, need to confront.

When the people of God are converted to his love, they find answers to the questions that history continually raises. One of the most urgent challenges which I would like to address in this Message is precisely the globalisation of indifference.

Indifference to our neighbour and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience.

God is not indifferent to our world; he so loves it that he gave his Son for our salvation. In the Incarnation, in the earthly life, death, and resurrection of the Son of God, the gate between God and man, between heaven and earth, opens once for all. The Church is like the hand holding open this gate, thanks to her proclamation of God’s word, her celebration of the sacraments and her witness of the faith which works through love. But the world tends to withdraw into itself and shut that door through which God comes into the world and the world comes to him. Hence the hand, which is the Church, must never be surprised if it is rejected, crushed and wounded.

God’s people, then, need this interior renewal, lest we become indifferent and withdraw into ourselves. To further this renewal, I would like to propose for our reflection three biblical texts.

1. 'If one member suffers, all suffer together' – The Church

The love of God breaks through that fatal withdrawal into ourselves which is indifference. The Church offers us this love of God by her teaching and especially by her witness. But we can only bear witness to what we ourselves have experienced. Christians are those who let God clothe them with goodness and mercy, with Christ, so as to become, like Christ, servants of God and others. This is clearly seen in the liturgy of Holy Thursday, with its rite of the washing of feet. Peter did not want Jesus to wash his feet, but he came to realise that Jesus does not wish to be just an example of how we should wash one another’s feet. Only those who have first allowed Jesus to wash their own feet can then offer this service to others. Only they have 'a part' with him and thus can serve others.

Lent is a favourable time for letting Christ serve us so that we in turn may become more like him. This happens whenever we hear the word of God and receive the sacraments, especially the Eucharist. There we become what we receive: the Body of Christ. In this body there is no room for the indifference which so often seems to possess our hearts. For whoever is of Christ, belongs to one body, and in him we cannot be indifferent to one another. If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it; if one part is honoured, all the parts share its joy'.

The Church is the communio sanctorum not only because of her saints, but also because she is a communion in holy things: the love of God revealed to us in Christ and all his gifts. Among these gifts there is also the response of those who let themselves be touched by this love. In this communion of saints, in this sharing in holy things, no one possesses anything alone, but shares everything with others. And since we are united in God, we can do something for those who are far distant, those whom we could never reach on our own, because with them and for them, we ask God that all of us may be open to his plan of salvation.

2. 'Where is your brother?' – Parishes and Communities

All that we have been saying about the universal Church must now be applied to the life of our parishes and communities. Do these ecclesial structures enable us to experience being part of one body? A body which receives and shares what God wishes to give? A body which acknowledges and cares for its weakest, poorest and most insignificant members? Or do we take refuge in a universal love that would embrace the whole world, while failing to see the Lazarus sitting before our closed doors?

In order to receive what God gives us and to make it bear abundant fruit, we need to press beyond the boundaries of the visible Church in two ways.

In the first place, by uniting ourselves in prayer with the Church in heaven. The prayers of the Church on earth establish a communion of mutual service and goodness which reaches up into the sight of God. Together with the saints who have found their fulfilment in God, we form part of that communion in which indifference is conquered by love. The Church in heaven is not triumphant because she has turned her back on the sufferings of the world and rejoices in splendid isolation. Rather, the saints already joyfully contemplate the fact that, through Jesus’ death and resurrection, they have triumphed once and for all over indifference, hardness of heart and hatred. Until this victory of love penetrates the whole world, the saints continue to accompany us on our pilgrim way. Saint Therese of Lisieux, a Doctor of the Church, expressed her conviction that the joy in heaven for the victory of crucified love remains incomplete as long as there is still a single man or woman on earth who suffers and cries out in pain: 'I trust fully that I shall not remain idle in heaven; my desire is to continue to work for the Church and for souls'.

We share in the merits and joy of the saints, even as they share in our struggles and our longing for peace and reconciliation. Their joy in the victory of the Risen Christ gives us strength as we strive to overcome our indifference and hardness of heart.

In the second place, every Christian community is called to go out of itself and to be engaged in the life of the greater society of which it is a part, especially with the poor and those who are far away. The Church is missionary by her very nature; she is not self-enclosed but sent out to every nation and people.

Her mission is to bear patient witness to the One who desires to draw all creation and every man and woman to the Father. Her mission is to bring to all a love which cannot remain silent. The Church follows Jesus Christ along the paths that lead to every man and woman, to the very ends of the earth. In each of our neighbours, then, we must see a brother or sister for whom Christ died and rose again. What we ourselves have received, we have received for them as well. Similarly, all that our brothers and sisters possess is a gift for the Church and for all humanity.

Dear brothers and sisters, how greatly I desire that all those places where the Church is present, especially our parishes and our communities, may become islands of mercy in the midst of the sea of indifference!

3. 'Make your hearts firm!' – Individual Christians

As individuals too, we have are tempted by indifference. Flooded with news reports and troubling images of human suffering, we often feel our complete inability to help. What can we do to avoid being caught up in this spiral of distress and powerlessness?

First, we can pray in communion with the Church on earth and in heaven. Let us not underestimate the power of so many voices united in prayer! The '24 Hours for the Lord' initiative, which I hope will be observed on 13-14 March throughout the Church, also at the diocesan level, is meant to be a sign of this need for prayer.

Second, we can help by acts of charity, reaching out to both those near and far through the Church’s many charitable organisations. Lent is a favourable time for showing this concern for others by small yet concrete signs of our belonging to the one human family.

Third, the suffering of others is a call to conversion, since their need reminds me of the uncertainty of my own life and my dependence on God and my brothers and sisters. If we humbly implore God’s grace and accept our own limitations, we will trust in the infinite possibilities which God’s love holds out to us. We will also be able to resist the diabolical temptation of thinking that by our own efforts we can save the world and ourselves.

As a way of overcoming indifference and our pretensions to self-sufficiency, I would invite everyone to live this Lent as an opportunity for engaging in what Benedict XVI called a formation of the heart. A merciful heart does not mean a weak heart. Anyone who wishes to be merciful must have a strong and steadfast heart, closed to the tempter but open to God. A heart which lets itself be pierced by the Spirit so as to bring love along the roads that lead to our brothers and sisters. And, ultimately, a poor heart, one which realises its own poverty and gives itself freely for others.

During this Lent, then, brothers and sisters, let us all ask the Lord: 'Fac cor nostrum secundum cor tuum': Make our hearts like yours (Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus). In this way we will receive a heart which is firm and merciful, attentive and generous, a heart which is not closed, indifferent or prey to the globalisation of indifference.

It is my prayerful hope that this Lent will prove spiritually fruitful for each believer and every ecclesial community. I ask all of you to pray for me. May the Lord bless you and Our Lady keep you”.