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Advent Word, Day 7 ‘play’

Catherine Lee

Day 7 #play #扮演 Saturday December 3 ‘Our Society’s rule states that “as our faith matures we come to recognize Christ’s hidden presence everywhere.” That’s because a maturing faith is paradoxically childlike. It is marked by openness to new ideas, points of view, and experiences, all of which enable us to see again our God, who knows neither time, nor place, nor limitation’. 我們的社會有一種說法：「當我們信仰成熟時，就能看出基督隱身各地，無所不在。」之所以如此說，是因為成熟的信仰，恰好就像尚未長大的孩子，有開放的心，易於接受新概念、新觀點、新體驗，而這些都使我們更容易與主重逢，遇見那不受時空限制的上帝。 Water Bamboo 茭白筍 grows everywhere in Sanzhi 三芝 and fun Water Bamboo people are everywhere too! Continue reading Advent Word, Day 7 ‘play’

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Advent Word, Day 6 ‘light’

Catherine Lee

Day 6 #Light #顯明 Friday December 2 ‘We will be a more luminous epiphany of the love of Christ not only when we love, but when we recognize Christ present in the loving hearts of others, whatever their beliefs or understanding of God’. 自己心中有愛時，固然能顯明基督的愛，就是看出別人充滿愛心，儼然有基督同在的時候（無論其信仰為何、對上帝認識有多少），我們依然可以彰顯基督的愛，藉以榮神益人。 Dr. Peter H. C. Ay, President of St. John’s University lights the first candle of this year’s Advent Wreath. Continue reading Advent Word, Day 6 ‘light’

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Advent Word, Day 5 ‘proclaim’

Catherine Lee

Day 5 #proclaim #宣告 Thursday December 1 ‘The gospel Jesus proclaims is that in God’s economy everyone will be fed, but we have to be willing to share from the riches that God has given us. In order to do that we have to stop and recognize the goodness that God has given us in our lives’. 耶穌所宣告的福音是，在神的經綸中，每個人都能得到足夠的餵養，只是，我們必須樂意分享從神而來的財富。為了實現此理想，你我必須停下腳步，看清楚神在我們的生命中所賦予的美善。 Proclaim the Good News, today is Advent Calendar Day One ~ let the countdown begin! Christmas is coming! Continue reading Advent Word, Day 5 ‘proclaim’

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Advent Word, Day 4 ‘listen’

Catherine Lee

Day 4 #listen #聆聽 Wednesday November 30 ‘On the cross, exposed and vulnerable, Jesus draws the whole world in a loving embrace. Everything hangs, everyone is held here. Jesus holds the people of Charlestown and Ferguson and Baltimore and all around the globe. Jesus listens to the grieving and grappling, the terrorized and troubled, the frightened and crying. Jesus listens to all the heartache, all the questions. On the cross Jesus bears the weight, the weight of the world, holding us all in his wounded hands’. 被釘在十字架上，那軟弱之身毫無遮掩的耶穌，吸引著全世界進入祂愛的懷抱。所有的人、事、物都蒙受祂的擁抱及關懷，包括居住在查爾斯敦、佛格森、巴爾的摩，還有其他各地的人，他們的悲傷、苦悶、驚恐、困擾、害怕、以及呼求，耶穌都聽見了。耶穌聽取每位傷痛者的心聲，也聆聽我們一切的問題。在十字架上，耶穌擔負世人的重擔，祂那被釘傷的雙手，還緊緊握住我們所有人。 Photo taken at 國立臺灣美術館 Taichung Art Museum Continue reading Advent Word, Day 4 ‘listen’

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Advent Word, Day 3 ‘renew’

Catherine Lee

Day 3 #renew #更新 Tuesday November 29 ‘Christ is all in all. He is here symbolically in a stone altar. He is here sacramentally in bread and wine. He is here spiritually in hearts lifted up and returned to us renewed, transformed, consecrated’. 基督無所不在。祂在具有象徵意義的聖壇這裡，祂在聖餐禮所用的餅、酒這裡，祂在每一個屬靈的人心裡—-這些人的心，都因祂而提升、更新、轉化，分別為聖。 Advent Sunday 2016 at Advent Church, St. John’s University, Taiwan! Continue reading Advent Word, Day 3 ‘renew’

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Advent Word, Day 2 ‘love’

Catherine Lee

Day 2 #love #愛 Monday November 28 ‘Falling in love is one of the most profoundly spiritual experiences a person can have. By falling in love we discover our capacity for selflessness. We experience what it means to entrust ourselves, our souls and bodies, to another. When we fall in love as God does, we too will ultimately “stretch out [our] arms of love on the hard wood of the cross,” just as Jesus did’. 「戀愛」（墜入情網）可能是一個人最深刻的心靈體會。透過戀愛，我們發現自己擁有一種無私、忘我的精神：在身、心各方面，都把自己交託給對方。當我們能像「神愛世人」那樣，墜入「愛」中，我們就能效法耶穌，「在無情的十字架上，張開愛的雙手」。 Photo taken at the Juming Museum a few weeks ago…. Continue reading Advent Word, Day 2 ‘love’

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Advent Word, Day 1 ‘shine’

Catherine Lee

Today is Advent Sunday!  The first day of Advent Word 2016, a project supported by the Anglican Communion. Day 1: ‘shine’ 光輝 Sunday November 27 ‘Rather than experiencing the sorrows of our world as a source of desolation, hear the news as a clarion call, as motivation and clarification for what we are to be about as followers of Jesus Christ: to bear the beams of God’s love and light and life, especially to those who wouldn’t otherwise know it’. 與其把世界的悲傷視為荒涼之源，不如聽取福音信息。聽那到感人的號召，受其激勵、淨化，而成為耶穌基督的真信徒：披戴上帝的愛、光明、生命，並將這美好光輝傳揚四方，尤其傳給那些還在幽暗中「茫然不知所之」的人。 Meet Little Shine, the beloved grandson of Jerry and Jean, devoted church members of St. James’ Church, Taichung, where Jerry is … Continue reading Advent Word, Day 1 ‘shine’