信耶穌真不容易 It’s Truly Not Easy to Believe in Jesus

信耶穌真不容易（若6:37-40）

雖然當今教宗不斷地勉勵我們成聖，並安慰我們平凡的生活，也足以讓我們問鼎天堂；但不竟我們都是營營役役，終日奔波勞碌的平信徒，而且生活在這個偽資訊爆炸的世代，相信耶穌已經不容易，「成聖」更是遙不可及！

「相信耶穌」有甚麼難呢？祇是要求你「口裡承認耶穌為主、心裡相信天主使祂從死者中復活起來了」（羅10:9），又不是要你赴湯蹈火（格前13:3），試問難在那裡呢？

姑且不須要你經常把「主耶穌」掛在嘴邊（瑪7:21），要知道「心裡相信」，絕對不是一件輕而易舉的事！今天，人民的知識水平普遍高了，又受過科技教育的洗禮，凡事講求真憑實據。你能拿出憑據，使現代人「相信天主使耶穌從死者中復活起來」嗎？即使今天在耶路撒冷有很多與耶穌受難有關的朝聖點，例如「苦路」、「聖墓大殿」等，讓信徒們緬懷天主子為罪人所付出的沉重代價，懺悔己罪；但對於研究了超過一個世紀的「都靈聖殮布」，教會仍然沒有公開宣認它就是福音記載包裹耶穌遺體的裹屍布；因為教會不願意把她的信仰，全部押在一幅布的真偽之上！教會相信的，是歷代信徒的見證，即各式各樣的「殉道」。現代人會接受這套法則嗎？

相信你有領聖體吧！你向在你心中的耶穌祈禱，祂有多次回應你呢？你看見過其他人辦告解吧！告解後的人有改善嗎？可惜，我們所見的負面見證多，正面的寥寥無幾！所以你愛耶穌，你愛祂的奧體，但你不愛制度化的教會，對嗎？

的確，倘若沒有天主聖神的感動，單憑信徒的努力，聽眾的理智，市民大眾是不會信耶穌的。朋友，你相信耶穌真的可以「凡祂交給我的，叫我連一個也不失掉，而且在末日，我要使他復活」（若6:39）嗎？如果你相信，你憑甚麼相信呢？
天主保祐！
生命恩泉
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It’s Truly Not Easy to Believe in Jesus (John 6:37-40)

Though the Pope continually encourages us on our path to sanctification and affirms us that even ordinary daily life is sufficient to reserve a place in heaven, after all we the laity are busy earning our livelihood like bees. Moreover, we’re living in an age of fake information explosion. It’s truly not easy to believe in Jesus and “sanctification” is rather beyond reach!

What’s so difficult in having faith in Jesus? You’re only required to “confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9), not to give your body to be burnt (1 Corinthians 13:3), where comes the difficulty?

Even if you’re not required to say “Lord, Lord” (Matthew 7:21) all the day, believing Jesus in your heart in not an easy task! Today, people are literate and have been baptized in education of science and technology. They demand evidence in everything. Can you put forth evidence to convince modern people that “God raised Him from the dead”? Though there’re in Jerusalem many pilgrimage points, such as the Via Dolorosa and the Shrine of the Holy Sepulchre etc. to allow believers to remember the heavy price the Son of God has paid for sinners so that they might feel sorry for their sins, the Church still refuses to recognize the Shroud of Turin, which has been scrutinized scientifically for more than a century, to be the shroud mentioned in the gospels that wrapped the corpse of Jesus. She does not want our faith to bank on the authenticity of a piece of cloth! Instead, the Church puts her trust in the witnesses of the faithful throughout the ages, i.e. all manners of martyrdom. Will modern people accept this paradigm?

You have received the Holy Communion, haven’t you? How many times has Jesus answered when you pray to Him in your heart? You have seen people go to confession, haven’t you? Have they improved afterwards? Regrettably, we have seen many negative witnesses and are able to count positive ones with our fingers! Thus, you love Jesus. You love His Mystical Body but you don’t love the institutionalized Church, do you?

Indeed, without the moving of the Holy Spirit, people will not believe in Jesus, not with their rationality or our efforts. Brethren! Do you truly believe that Jesus is able to honour His pledge, that “I should not lose anything of what He gave me, but that I should raise it on the last day” (John 6:39)? If you do, what’s your evidence?
God bless!