生活不忘基督
我們每天的生活，經常被日常的工作、責任所佔據，沒有適當獨處的時候。我們或許有時間坐下來休息，卻沒有足够時間讓我們思考自己的生活的方向。
作為耶穌的追隨者，為耶穌奉獻生活的人，應該每年都有一個靈性反省的時間。神父和教友每年的靈修退省不單是教會的勸告，更是一種需要，讓我們在繁忙的日常生活中，讓我們的靈魂更加接近天主。
去年10月的第四個星期，我在上水的聖保祿樂靜院，有機會與由墨西哥瓜達露佩(Guadalupe)來香港工作的神父一起出席靈修講座。這墨西哥神師和我屬於同一個修會。他是我早年在神學院接受培訓時的教授。雖然講座的內容與我們作為神學院學生時的一樣，但我已記不清楚他教導過我們什麼；即使我能夠記得他當年講座的題目和一些內容，但感受還是完全不一樣的。或者默想的內容也許是相同，但最重要的是退省背景完全不一樣。說回神學院，我由神學院學生受訓成為神父時，我的教授曾對一班渴望認識更多關於生命的奧秘、和服事天主的子民的年輕人所說的話。這一次，同一位神父對一班不再年輕、有不同牧民經驗並且過著奉獻生活的神父進行同樣的退省。
天主聖言歷久常新，每次我們閱讀或聆聽聖經時，我們以不同的方式去經驗與主一起，天主總在那特別的旅程，時刻引導我們走向祂。
不僅神父和修道人士，所有的平信徒都需要找到一個空間和時間與天主相遇，在我們緊張忙碌的生活中，經驗祂的慈愛和救恩，使我們能夠成為獻身於耶穌和並成為祂的真正追隨者。
陳永達神父
聖體會神師
2015年2月
(張雲彩譯)
Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament
In our daily lives, often times, we are so occupied with our routine obligations, that we do not find a proper time to be on our own. We may have time to sit down to take a break, but it is hardly long enough so as to reflect on the way we lead our lives.
An annual period of spiritual recollection is a must for followers of Jesus who have consecrated their lives to him. The yearly spiritual retreat for priests and religious is not only an exhortation of the church, but a necessity of the soul to be in a closer contact with God during some periods in our busy daily lives.
This year, I had the opportunity to attend the spiritual talks along with the Mexican Guadalupe Fathers working in Hong Kong at the Sisters of Saint Paul´s Retreat House in Sheung Shui during the fourth week of October. The retreat master was also a Mexican priest, a member of the same Society I belong to. He was my professor of Theology during the formation years in the seminary. Even if the content of the talks was the same he once gave us as seminarians in those years, still the experience was completely different, because, first of all, I did not clearly recall what he taught us then, even if I could remember the topic and some passages of his lectures. But most important, while the content of the meditations may have been the same, yet the context of the retreat was totally different. Back in the seminary, I was a seminarian in the process of formation to become a priest, thus my professor addressed a group of younger men eager to learn more about the mystery of life and the life of ministry to the people of God. This time round, the same priest was conducting the same retreat to a group of no longer young priests with diverse pastoral experiences and approaches to the consecrated life.
The Word of God is always the same, yet so new and fresh that every time we read the Bible or listen to its content we experience the presence of God with us in a different way, always guiding us at that particular moment of our journey towards him.
Not only priests and religious sisters and brothers, but all the lay people at large need to find a space and a time to encounter God in our hectic lives to experience his merciful love and his saving graces that will enable us to become devote and true followers of Jesus.
Fr. Sergio Chavira, MG
Spiritual Guide
Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament
Hong Kong, February, 2015