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Our community has more than twenty years of history in Dallas. What began as five or six families coming together to study the Bible and pray together, quickly became a community that regularly gathered at nearby churches for Masses and meetings. As the numbers grew, they requested that the Diocese of Dallas help establish a permanent Chinese Catholic community in 1990. In 1992, we put our money together and purchased a small office building in Richardson, Texas. By the end of 1993, we had renovated it to become our sanctuary and activity hall. With the guidance of priests seconded from Taiwan and the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit, our small community grew stronger in numbers and in faith.

天主聖子的母親


彭保祿神父


「看,妳將懷孕生子,並給他起名耶穌,他將是偉大的,並被稱為至高者的兒子…」(路131–32)。

這位天主聖父的愛女忽然變成了天主聖子的母親!有誰能真正體會到其中的奧秘和偉大?「酒缺了,耶穌的母親向他說…」(若
23);


「耶穌還同群眾說話時,看,他的母親…站在外邊,想要同他說話。」(瑪
1246


「在耶穌的十字架傍,站著他的母親…」(若
1925


「這些人同一些婦女及耶穌的母親瑪利亞…都同心合意地專務祈禱。」(宗
114

對的,聖經不停地提到耶穌的母親瑪利亞。這件極不尋常的事實能給我們啟發多高、多深、多美的真理!



「時期一滿,天主就派遣了自己的兒子,生於於女人…」(迦
44


「若瑟…便同自己已懷孕的聘妻瑪利亞去登記。他們在那裡的時候,她分娩的日期滿了,便生下了她的頭胎男兒…」(路
24–7


「在女人中妳是蒙祝福的,妳的胎兒也是蒙祝福的。」(路
142


俗云「十月懷胎娘辛苦」但若一個尚毫無悟思的胎兒和一個曾受過原罪洗禮的孕婦,只靠這一生中心連心,體連體的關係便能產生出一種人間難以描摹的母子親情,那麼,一個由天主聖子化身的胎兒和一個纖塵不染的童身之母之間的無限母子情又有誰能領悟其萬一呢?如果人間的親情已能建立起這種超乎常情的深愛,有誰又能體會這天上人間、天人合一的母子深情呢?這無疑是天主創作中的最高貴、最偉大、最奧秘的傑作!