保祿六世的智慧

今天下班後，回家睡了一覺。

傍晚醒來後，繼續研讀昨晚的「聖經問題」。

去了Roman Theological Forum，當中一篇文章述及教宗保祿六世本人，有關聖經方面的訓導，資料可謂十分豐富。

不過其中有一段亦提及：

... A particularly rich source of such teaching is to be found in the Pope's Wednesday audience allocutions, which he personally researched and wrote every Tuesday morning. We are indebted to a personal recollection of Cardinal Edouard Gagnon for revealing evidence as to how seriously the Pope took these discourses as occasions for teaching: in an interview given to the review 30 Giorni, His Eminence has recalled an audience with Paul VI in which the Pontiff confessed to him that some advisers tried to dissuade him from spending too much time or energy on these allocutions, on the grounds that the pilgrims assisting at the audience paid scant attention to them. But the Pope, recalls Cardinal Gagnon, told him: "I always reply to the effect that while that may be correct - for people often do not appreciate hearing the truth - it is nonetheless necessary to keep affirming it. When the need for truth is reawakened among the People of God, they will have to know where to look for it and how to find it." ...

有一點感觸。

保祿六世在任期間，教會在生活上的各方面，均面臨著很大衝擊。

少年時代，曾聽慈幼會的斐林豐神父細述，在梵二會議期間，各種新穎理論眾說紛紜，在一般教友心中，有時甚至可以去到莫衷一是的地步。他每週定必留意教宗的訓言和逢周三發表的教理演說，以求在各種懷疑及不安之中，保持正確的方向。當時的我，對教會所面臨的各種困難，也可說是略知一二吧？對他的經歷，我亦深有同感－－

If you walk with Rome, you'll never walk astray