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教宗公開接見:年長者的智慧是墮落惡習的屏障

March 17, 2022
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教宗公開接見:年長者的智慧是墮落惡習的屏障

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March 17 2022

教宗方濟各在公開接見活動中,繼續深化關於老年的主題,指出年長者有責任關懷年輕人,以建造方舟來拯救人類的諾厄為典範,為他們指明真正重要的是什麽。

(梵蒂岡新聞網)教宗方濟各3月16日上午在保祿六世大廳主持週三公開接見活動,在要理講授中繼續省思關於老年的主題。教宗闡明,對無憂無慮的青春而言,老年是一種資源。老年的智慧能看穿一味追求享受卻内心空虛的生活的騙局,更加關注使我們更有人情味的思想和情感。

在要理講授前誦讀的《創世紀》章節中,提及“上主見人在地上的罪惡重大,人心天天所思念的無非是邪惡;上主遂後悔在地上造了人”(六5-6)。教宗對此表示,這段敘述令人震驚,乃至天主到了心中悲痛、決意消滅人類的地步。這個意念甚至與祂的慈悲是相互矛盾的,如果真的實現,以後就不再有墮落、暴力和不義的受害者了。

教宗緊接著提出兩個問題:對我們這些在邪惡面前無能為力,或被“災難的預言家們”嚇到、認為未曾出世會更好的人來説,有時不也是這樣的情況嗎?我們是否也該相信近期的某些理論,贊同人類是我們地球生命的進化禍害呢?

教宗指出,的確,我們處在令人感到困惑的相反的壓力下。一方面,我們對青春永在持樂觀主義,認為技術的卓越發展繪製出機器比人更有能力和更聰明的未來,它們將會治療我們的病痛並想出最佳的方案,讓我們不死。另一方面,我們的想象似乎越來越集中在將我們滅絕的大災難的描述上,就是可能會發生的原子戰爭。

“‘那個日子之後’,如果我們,即時日和人類仍然存留,一切都將會從零開始。摧毀一切,以便重新開始。我當然不願使發展進步的議題變得平庸,但似乎洪水滅世的象徵正在我們的無意識中贏得地盤。”

在《聖經》的敘述中,使人類免於墮落和摧毀的是諾厄,他在衆人中是最年長者,是個“義人”。教宗問道,“老年將會拯救世界嗎?我想知道:這話怎麽說?我們所論的僅是到了最終的悲劇時仍舊幸存,還是超越死亡的生命?”

耶穌論到諾厄的日子說,“那時,人們吃喝婚嫁”,直到“消滅了所有人”的洪水來到的時刻。教宗評論道,吃喝婚嫁是一種正常生活的行為,如何是墮落呢?其實,耶穌所指的是,當人“只限於享受生活,就會失去對墮落的感覺”,活在逍遙自在中。這是接近我們日常生活的一個實例。

“當你去做一件事,事情進行得緩慢,完成那個程序有些遲緩,我們經常會聽到:‘如果你給我小費,我就加速這個進程。’多少次是這樣啊!‘給我點什麽,我就會更向前進一步’。我們衆人都清楚這種做法。”

教宗强調,墮落已經進入正常生活的型態,如此完全喪失了意識和價值。“生活中的物品被消費和享受,而不擔心生活的精神品質,不照料共同家園的自然環境。操縱一切,不關心許多人所遭受的凌辱和沮喪,也不擔心毒害團體的邪惡。只要正常化生活能充滿‘康樂’,我們就不願思索使正義和愛變得空洞的事物。‘我很好! 我為何要思考問題,去想戰爭、人類的不幸、多少貧窮,以及多少邪惡啊?’”

教宗表明,墮落源自於“只顧自己的無憂無慮”,遮蔽我們的良知,使我們不知不覺地成了同謀。正是老年人能够看穿”這種痴迷於享樂而內心空虛的正常化生活的騙局”。

“敲響警鐘、發出警報的將是我們:‘你們要當心,這是墮落,不會給你帶來任何好處’。這是年長者的智慧:今天為抵制墮落大有需要。新世代期待我們這些老年人、我們年長者先知性的話語,這話語能在這墮落、對墮落事物習以為常的世界外,向新願景敞開大門。”

教宗方濟各指明老年的意義,一種屬於老年的召叫,即成為抵制墮落的預示者,以自己的寶貴經驗為每個年輕人指明正確的道路。天主選擇老年的特恩來照料這”處於危險世代的未來”,以諾厄”這個結果實的老年典範”為榜樣。通過建造能讓人和動物栖身的款待的方舟,他”履行了天主的吩咐,重複創造的溫柔和慷慨的舉動 “。因此,”我們年長者必須關懷年輕人,關懷處於危險中的兒童”。

最後,教宗向一切”有一定年齡的人”發出呼籲。他說:“你們應留意:你有責任在所生活的環境指責人類的墮落,這種相對主義、完全是相對的生活方式在大行其道,仿佛一切都合法。我們要向前邁進。這個世界需要向前邁進的强健的年輕人,也需要明智的老年人。我們要向上主祈求這智慧的恩寵。” -Vatican News

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