- start: 0.639
  end: 10.319
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: In June of last year, the Pope promulgated a document entitled Ecclesia in Europa, the Church in Europe.
  zh: 去年六月，教宗颁布了一份名为《欧洲教会》的文件。
- start: 10.319
  end: 15.839
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: The Holy Father has a message here that's worth pondering carefully.
  zh: 我们的父亲在这里传达的信息值得我们仔细思考。
- start: 15.839
  end: 18.699
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: I'll have a very long quote.
  zh: 我将引用一段很长的话。
- start: 18.699
  end: 22.12
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: For the sake of time, I've cut and spliced it.
  zh: 为了节省时间，我做了一些删减和整理。
- start: 22.12
  end: 33.079
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Pope John Paul II, quote, "When the Son of Man comes, will he find any faith on Earth?
  zh: 教宗若望保禄二世说：「人子来的时候，在地上找得到信心吗？
- start: 33.079
  end: 41.599
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Will he find faith in our country, in this Europe of ancient Christian tradition?"
  zh: 在我们的国家，在这个有着古老基督教传统的欧洲，他能找到信心吗？」
- start: 41.599
  end: 42.44
  speaker: speaker_1
  en: What's that mean?
  zh: 这是什么意思？
- start: 42.44
  end: 54.159
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: '"This is an open question which clearly reveals the depth and the drama of one of the most serious challenges which we are called to face.'
  zh: 「这是一个开放的问题，清楚地揭示了我们所面临的最严重挑战之一的深度和戏剧性。
- start: 54.159
  end: 59.979
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: The age we are living in can seem to be a time of bewilderment.
  zh: 我们所处的时代似乎是一个迷茫的时期。
- start: 59.979
  end: 67.239
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Many men and women seem disoriented, uncertain, without hope.
  zh: 许多男男女女似乎迷失方向，充满不确定，失去希望。
- start: 67.239
  end: 70.819
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: A feeling of loneliness is prevalent.
  zh: 孤独感普遍存在。
- start: 70.819
  end: 82.819
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Many people, while not lacking material necessities, feel increasingly alone, left to themselves without structures of affection and support.
  zh: 许多人虽然不缺乏物质需求，却感到越来越孤单，被遗弃，缺乏情感和支持的结构。
- start: 82.819
  end: 94.439
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: There's a selfishness, a growing overall lack of concern for ethics, and an obsessive concern for personal interests and privileges.
  zh: 存在着自私自利，对伦理的普遍漠视，以及对个人利益和特权的执着追求。
- start: 94.439
  end: 108.019
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: This is accompanied by a kind of fear of the future as something bleak and uncertain, viewed more with dread than with desire.
  zh: 这伴随着对未来的恐惧，未来被视为阴暗和不确定的，人们更多地以恐惧而非期待来看待它。
- start: 108.019
  end: 116.759
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Among the troubling indications of this fear are the inner emptiness that grips many people and the loss of meaning in life.
  zh: 这种恐惧的令人不安的迹象包括许多人内心的空虚和生命意义的丧失。
- start: 116.759
  end: 137.019
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: The signs and fruits of this anguish include, in particular, the diminishing number of births, the decline in the numbers of vocations to the priesthood and the religious life, and the difficulty, if not the outright refusal, to make lifelong commitments, including marriage.
  zh: 这种痛苦的表现和结果特别包括出生率下降、祭司和修道圣召人数减少，以及在作出终身承诺方面的困难，甚至是直接拒绝，包括婚姻。
- start: 137.019
  end: 144.599
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Many Europeans today think they know what Christianity is, yet they really do not know it at all.
  zh: 今天许多欧洲人认为他们了解基督教，但实际上他们根本不了解。
- start: 144.599
  end: 152.039
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Often, they're lacking in knowledge of the most basic elements and notions of the faith.
  zh: 他们往往缺乏对信仰最基本要素和概念的认识。
- start: 152.039
  end: 158.659
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Many of the baptized live as if Christ did not exist.
  zh: 许多受洗的人生活得好像基督不存在一样。
- start: 158.659
  end: 162.959
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: The number of the unbaptized is growing.
  zh: 未受洗的人数在增加。
- start: 162.959
  end: 167.679
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: The great certainties of the faith are being undermined.
  zh: 信仰的重大确定性正在被削弱。
- start: 167.679
  end: 173.799
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Various forms of agnosticism and practical atheism are spreading.
  zh: 各种形式的不可知论和事实上的无神论正在蔓延。
- start: 173.799
  end: 180.519
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: There's a deep crisis of conscience and of Christian moral practice.
  zh: 存在着深刻的良心危机和基督徒道德实践的危机。
- start: 180.519
  end: 193.239
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: We are witnessing the emergence of a new culture largely influenced by the mass media, which is in conflict with the Gospel and the dignity of the human person.
  zh: 我们正目睹一种新文化的出现，这种文化主要受大众媒体影响，与福音和人的尊严相冲突。
- start: 193.239
  end: 205.019
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Living one's faith in Jesus becomes increasingly difficult in a social and cultural setting in which that faith is constantly challenged and threatened.
  zh: 在一个信仰不断受到挑战和威胁的社会和文化环境中，活出对耶稣的信仰变得越来越困难。
- start: 205.019
  end: 212.899
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: In many social settings, it is easier to be identified as an agnostic than as a believer.
  zh: 在许多社会环境中，被认定为不可知论者比被认定为信徒更容易。
- start: 212.899
  end: 224.359
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: The impression is given that ab- unbelief is self-explanatory, whereas belief is neither obvious nor taken for granted.
  zh: 给人的印象是不信仰是不言自明的，而信仰既不明显也不理所当然。
- start: 224.359
  end: 229.639
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: There's also a vague and deviant religiosity.
  zh: 还存在着模糊和偏离正道的宗教性。
- start: 229.639
  end: 237.559
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: There are evident signs of a flight to spiritualism and of a frantic search for extraordinary events.
  zh: 有明显的逃向灵修主义和疯狂寻求超常事件的迹象。
- start: 237.559
  end: 245.899
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Often those in need of hope believe that they can find peace in fleeting and insus- insubstantial things.
  zh: 那些需要希望的人往往相信他们能在短暂和虚无的事物中找到平安。
- start: 245.899
  end: 269.859
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: For example, with the paradise promised by science and technology, with the selfish pleasures of consumerism, or with imaginary and artificial euphoria produced by drugs, or even with the attraction of Oriental philosophies, with the quest for forms of esoteric spirituality, with the different currents of the New Age movement.
  zh: 例如，科学和技术承诺的天堂，消费主义的自私快感，或毒品产生的人工虚幻欣快感，甚至是东方哲学的吸引力，追求秘传灵修形式，以及新纪元运动的各种潮流。
- start: 269.859
  end: 279.059
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: All these, however, are illusions, totally incapable of satisfying that yearning for happiness which burns in the human heart.
  zh: 然而，这些都是幻觉，完全无法满足人心中燃烧的对幸福的渴望。
- start: 279.059
  end: 290.379
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: The disturbing signs of growing hopelessness does continue and intensify, occasionally manifesting themselves also in forms of aggression and violence.
  zh: 这些令人不安的、日益增长的绝望迹象继续加剧，有时也表现为侵略和暴力的形式。
- start: 290.379
  end: 300.879
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: At the root of this loss of hope is an attempt to promote a vision of man apart from God and apart from Christ.
  zh: 这种希望的丧失的根源在于试图推广一种脱离神和基督的人的观念。
- start: 300.879
  end: 318.299
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: This sort of thinking has led to man being considered as the absolute center of reality, a view which makes him occupy, falsely, the place of God, and which forgets it is not man who creates God, but rather God who creates man.
  zh: 这种思维方式导致人被视为现实的绝对中心，这种观点使他错误地占据了神的位置，并忘记了不是人创造神，而是神创造人。
- start: 318.299
  end: 324.859
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Forgetfulness of God has led to the abandonment of man.
  zh: 忘记神导致了对人的遗弃。
- start: 324.859
  end: 341.339
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: European culture gives the impression of silent apostasy on the part of people who have all they need and who live as if God does not exist." Close quote.
  zh: 欧洲文化给人的印象是，那些拥有一切所需的人在默默地背教，他们生活得好像神不存在一样。」
- start: 341.339
  end: 345.019
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: The Vicar of Christ, Pope John Paul II.
  zh: 基督的代表，教宗若望保禄二世。
- start: 345.019
  end: 352.679
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: '"When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on Earth?'
  zh: 「人子来的时候，在地上找得到信心吗？
- start: 352.679
  end: 364.819
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: This is an open question which clearly reveals the depth and drama of one of the most serious challenges which we are called to face.
  zh: 这是一个开放的问题，清楚地揭示了我们所面临的最严重挑战之一的深度和戏剧性。
- start: 364.819
  end: 378.699
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: European culture gives the impression of silent apostasy on the part of people who have all they need and who live as if God does not exist.
  zh: 欧洲文化给人的印象是，那些拥有一切所需的人在默默地背教，他们生活得好像神不存在一样。
- start: 378.699
  end: 386.659
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: In many social settings, it is easier to be identified as an unbeliever than as a believer.
  zh: 在许多社会环境中，被认定为不信者比被认定为信徒更容易。
- start: 386.659
  end: 396.479
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: The impression given is that unbelief is self-explanatory, whereas belief is neither obvious nor taken for granted.
  zh: 给人的印象是不信仰是不言自明的，而信仰既不明显也不理所当然。
- start: 396.479
  end: 419.839
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Living one's faith in Jesus becomes increasingly difficult in a social and cultural setting in which that faith is constantly challenged and threatened." Living a Catholic life becomes increasingly difficult when our faith is constantly threatened and challenged.
  zh: 「在一个信仰不断受到挑战和威胁的社会和文化环境中，活出对耶稣的信仰变得越来越困难。」当我们的信仰不断受到威胁和挑战时，活出公教的生活变得越来越困难。
- start: 419.839
  end: 426.139
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Isn't that just as true for us as it is for the Europeans?
  zh: 这对我们和对欧洲人不是同样真实吗？
- start: 426.139
  end: 431.719
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Isn't our faith being constantly challenged and threatened right here?
  zh: 我们的信仰不是也在这里不断受到挑战和威胁吗？
- start: 431.719
  end: 437.739
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Aren't we immersed in the same apostasy ourselves?
  zh: 我们不是也同样沉浸在背教之中吗？
- start: 437.739
  end: 444.679
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith in our hearts?
  zh: 人子来的时候，能在我们心中找到信心吗？
- start: 444.679
  end: 456.539
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: God sends us love letters from heaven filled with Holy Scriptures, and they gather dust on a shelf while we read the sports page.
  zh: 神从天上寄给我们充满圣经的情书，而它们却在书架上积灰，我们却在读体育版。
- start: 456.539
  end: 470.919
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: He became man, and He suffered and died for us, and we keep right on sinning and get annoyed if someone suggests we oughta repent and do penance.
  zh: 他成为人，为我们受苦受死，而我们却继续犯罪，当有人建议我们应该悔改和补赎时，我们还感到恼火。
- start: 470.919
  end: 482.897
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: He waits quietly in the tabernacles for us, and we ignore Him and flip on the TV.The story is always the same.
  zh: 他在圣体龛中静静地等待我们，而我们却忽视他，打开电视。故事总是一样的。
- start: 482.897
  end: 485.997
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: It's a story of Man abandoning God.
  zh: 这是一个人类遗弃神的故事。
- start: 485.997
  end: 488.597
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: It's never God abandoning man.
  zh: 从来不是神遗弃人。
- start: 488.597
  end: 490.577
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: God won't abandon us.
  zh: 神不会遗弃我们。
- start: 490.577
  end: 493.497
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: God hasn't abandoned us.
  zh: 神没有遗弃我们。
- start: 493.497
  end: 497.557
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: He knows how weak and fickle we are.
  zh: 他知道我们是多么软弱和反复无常。
- start: 497.557
  end: 498.697
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: After all, he's God.
  zh: 毕竟，他是神。
- start: 498.697
  end: 499.878
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: He knows everything.
  zh: 他知道一切。
- start: 499.878
  end: 519.997
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: So being the good God that he is, he's actually given us a sacrament that, among other things, is specifically meant to strengthen us in order to keep the faith in spite of the kind of challenges and threats we meet in this present darkness.
  zh: 所以作为良善的神，他实际上给了我们一个圣事，这个圣事除了其他功效外，特别是为了在面对当前黑暗中的各种挑战和威胁时，加强我们保持信仰的力量。
- start: 519.997
  end: 531.837
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: As a traditional theology textbook puts it, quote, "When temptations are dangers to the faith, are great or even extraordinary, the sacrament gives the right...
  zh: 正如一本传统神学教科书所说：「当信仰面临重大甚至非常的危险和诱惑时，这圣事赋予权利...
- start: 531.837
  end: 537.937
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: gives the right to obtain suitable help from God." Close quote.
  zh: 赋予从神那里获得适当帮助的权利。」
- start: 537.937
  end: 543.597
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: That sacrament, of course, is the Sacrament of Confirmation.
  zh: 这个圣事，当然就是坚振圣事。
- start: 543.597
  end: 551.397
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Regarding this point, the words of the Catechism of the Council of Trent seem as if they were written yesterday.
  zh: 关于这一点，特利腾大公会议要理问答的话似乎是昨天才写的。
- start: 551.397
  end: 581.717
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Quote, "If ever there was a time demanding the diligence of pastors in explaining the Sacrament of Confirmation, in these days, certainly it requires special attention, and are found in the Holy Church of God, many by whom the sacrament is altogether omitted, though very few seek to obtain from it the fruit of divine grace which they should derive from it by its participation." Close quote.
  zh: 「如果说有什么时候需要牧者勤勉地解释坚振圣事，那么在这些日子里，它确实需要特别的关注，因为在神的圣教会中，许多人完全忽视了这圣事，而很少有人寻求从中获得他们通过参与应得到的神恩。」
- start: 581.717
  end: 584.017
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: The Catechism of the Council of Trent.
  zh: 特利腾大公会议要理问答。
- start: 584.017
  end: 589.758
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Let's make sure those words aren't true of us.
  zh: 让我们确保这些话不适用于我们。
- start: 589.758
  end: 605.797
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Today let's try to come to a deeper understanding and appreciation for the Sacrament of Confirmation, which, of course, like the other six sacraments, was instituted by our Lord Himself to give grace to mankind.
  zh: 今天让我们试图更深入地理解和欣赏坚振圣事，这当然和其他六件圣事一样，是我们的主亲自建立的，为给人类恩典。
- start: 605.797
  end: 616.637
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: 17 centuries ago, St. Miltiades, who was pope from 311 to 314, gave a beautiful explanation of Confirmation.
  zh: 十七个世纪前，圣美基德，他在311年至314年担任教宗，对坚振圣事作了一个美丽的解释。
- start: 616.637
  end: 621.717
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Quote, "In Baptism, man is enlisted into the service.
  zh: 「在洗礼中，人被招募进入军队。
- start: 621.717
  end: 626.117
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: In Confirmation, he is equipped for battle.
  zh: 在坚振中，他被装备好准备战斗。
- start: 626.117
  end: 629.977
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: In Baptism, we are re- regenerated unto life.
  zh: 在洗礼中，我们重生得到生命。
- start: 629.977
  end: 634.177
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: By Confirmation, we are fortified for the combat.
  zh: 通过坚振，我们为战斗而加强。
- start: 634.177
  end: 640.337
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Confirmation arms and makes ready for conflict." Close quote.
  zh: 坚振武装我们，使我们准备好面对冲突。」
- start: 640.337
  end: 642.157
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Pope St. Miltiades.
  zh: 教宗圣美基德。
- start: 642.157
  end: 644.637
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: What is the pope saying?
  zh: 教宗在说什么？
- start: 644.637
  end: 649.377
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: By baptism, we're enlisted into the ranks of the Church Militant.
  zh: 通过洗礼，我们被招募进入战斗教会的队伍。
- start: 649.377
  end: 655.117
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: By Confirmation, we're armed and made ready for battle, spiritual battle.
  zh: 通过坚振，我们被武装并准备好进行属灵的战斗。
- start: 655.117
  end: 659.557
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: How are we armed and made ready for spiritual battle?
  zh: 我们如何被武装并准备好进行属灵的战斗？
- start: 659.557
  end: 675.957
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: "The Catechism of the Council of Trent lists three effects that Confirmation has on those who receive it: the grace of strength, an increase in grace, and the character of a soldier of Christ."
  zh: 特利腾大公会议要理问答列出了坚振对接受者的三个效果：力量的恩典、恩典的增加，以及基督战士的印记。
- start: 675.957
  end: 678.697
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Let's take a quick look at each.
  zh: 让我们快速看看每一个。
- start: 678.697
  end: 682.297
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: The first effect, the grace of strength.
  zh: 第一个效果，力量的恩典。
- start: 682.297
  end: 702.197
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: The Catechism says that Confirmation makes Catholics, quote, "Stronger to resist all assaults of the world, the flesh, and the Devil, while their minds are fully confirmed and safe to confess and glorify the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." Close quote.
  zh: 要理问答说，坚振使公教徒「更有力量抵抗世界、肉身和魔鬼的一切攻击，同时他们的心灵完全坚定，安全地宣认和光荣我们的主耶稣基督的名。」
- start: 702.197
  end: 709.617
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: In other words, this sacrament gives us a supernatural ability to keep the faith, come what may.
  zh: 换句话说，这圣事给我们超自然的能力来保持信仰，无论发生什么。
- start: 709.617
  end: 713.357
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Second effect, an increase in grace.
  zh: 第二个效果，恩典的增加。
- start: 713.357
  end: 727.717
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: To understand what a difference this increase in grace makes, just consider the clear example of the apostles, who were so weak and timid that even after three years with our Lord, they fled at the beginning of his passion.
  zh: 要理解这种恩典的增加带来多大的不同，只要看看使徒们的明显例子，他们是如此软弱胆怯，即使在与我们的主相处三年之后，他们在他受难开始时就逃跑了。
- start: 727.717
  end: 736.717
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Our holy patron, St. Peter himself was so intimidated by a serving girl that he actually denied that he was a disciple of our Lord.
  zh: 我们的主保圣彼得本人被一个使女吓得否认自己是我们主的门徒。
- start: 736.717
  end: 744.777
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: And then, even after Easter, even after they'd seen our Lord resurrected from the dead, where do we find the apostles?
  zh: 然后，即使在复活节之后，即使在他们看到我们的主从死里复活之后，我们在哪里找到使徒们？
- start: 744.777
  end: 749.817
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Locked up in the Upper Room for fear of the Jews.
  zh: 因为害怕犹太人而锁在楼上。
- start: 749.817
  end: 771.177
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: But then, after Pentecost, after they're filled with all the grace of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost, not only did they come down out of the Upper Room, they traveled throughout the whole world preaching the Gospel and counting it good fortune to suffer abuse, beatings, torture, even martyrdom for the name of Christ.
  zh: 但是在五旬节之后，在他们在五旬节被圣灵的一切恩典充满之后，他们不仅从楼上下来，还走遍全世界宣讲福音，并且认为为基督的名受辱骂、殴打、酷刑，甚至殉道是一种福分。
- start: 771.177
  end: 775.237
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: That's the difference this increase of grace makes.
  zh: 这就是恩典增加带来的不同。
- start: 775.237
  end: 783.097
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: That's the kind of change the Holy Ghost makes in a soul that's confirmed if we participate with it.
  zh: 这就是圣灵在一个接受坚振的灵魂中所带来的改变，如果我们配合的话。
- start: 783.097
  end: 787.677
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: "Third effect: character of a soldier of Christ."
  zh: 第三个效果：基督战士的印记。
- start: 787.677
  end: 792.157
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Character is like a brand, only it's a spiritual brand.
  zh: 印记就像一个烙印，只不过是属灵的烙印。
- start: 792.157
  end: 798.717
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: It's an indelible mark that's imprinted on the soul of the person receiving it by the sacrament itself.
  zh: 这是圣事本身在接受者灵魂上印下的一个不可磨灭的标记。
- start: 798.717
  end: 806.957
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: "The character of Confirmation confirms us to our Lord in three ways: as priest, prophet, and king."
  zh: 坚振的印记使我们在三个方面肖似我们的主：作为祭司、先知和君王。
- start: 806.957
  end: 811.137
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: The late, great Fr. John Hardon, SJ explains how.
  zh: 已故的伟大的哈登神父（耶稣会士）解释了这是如何实现的。
- start: 811.137
  end: 828.077
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: The character of Confirmation confirms us to our Lord as priests by giving us the strength to bear suffering in union with our Lord, and to sacrifice things that we love out of love for our crucified Lord who loved us first.
  zh: 坚振的印记使我们肖似我们的主作为祭司，赐给我们力量与主结合承受苦难，并为了那位先爱我们的被钉十字架的主，牺牲我们所爱的事物。
- start: 828.077
  end: 831.637
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: That's the character, uh, conforming it to us...
  zh: 这就是印记，使我们肖似...
- start: 831.637
  end: 832.957
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: our Lord as priest.
  zh: 我们的主作为祭司。
- start: 832.957
  end: 844.077
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: The character of Confirmation conformingly ops- to our Lord as prophet supernaturally strengthens our will to be able to cling to the true faith in spite of any obstacles.
  zh: 坚振的印记使我们肖似我们的主作为先知，超自然地加强我们的意志，使我们能够不顾任何障碍坚持真信仰。
- start: 844.077
  end: 853.277
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: It supernaturally strengthens our intellect so that we never doubt the truth of our faith in spite of attacks by the rationalists and unbelievers.
  zh: 它超自然地加强我们的理智，使我们在面对理性主义者和不信者的攻击时，永不怀疑我们信仰的真理。
- start: 853.277
  end: 863.457
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: It supernaturally strengthens us so that we can profess and defend the true faith effectively, irrespective of our natural gifts or lack thereof.
  zh: 它超自然地加强我们，使我们能够有效地宣认和捍卫真信仰，不论我们的天赋如何。
- start: 863.457
  end: 869.197
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: It makes it possible for us to have an absolute certainty about the faith.
  zh: 它使我们能够对信仰有绝对的确定性。
- start: 869.197
  end: 873.137
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Now this isn't sort of a brittle obstinate certainty like a fanatic has.
  zh: 这不是狂热分子那种僵硬顽固的确定性。
- start: 873.137
  end: 877.657
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: This is certainly like a little kid has when his fathers word.
  zh: 这是像小孩对父亲的话那样的确定性。
- start: 877.657
  end: 879.437
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: What does a little kid say?
  zh: 小孩会说什么？
- start: 879.437
  end: 882.397
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: '"My dad told me so, so it has to be right." Huh?'
  zh: 「我爸爸告诉我的，所以一定是对的。」对吧？
- start: 882.397
  end: 884.497
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: God is our Father.
  zh: 神是我们的父亲。
- start: 884.497
  end: 894.117
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: He loves us with an infinite burning love, and He's absolute truth Himself, so that we know that anything He says has to be true.
  zh: 他以无限燃烧的爱爱我们，他就是绝对的真理，所以我们知道他说的任何话都一定是真的。
- start: 894.117
  end: 896.517
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Whether we can explain it or not is irrespective.
  zh: 不管我们能否解释都无关紧要。
- start: 896.517
  end: 898.257
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: That's that kind of childlike faith.
  zh: 这就是那种孩童般的信仰。
- start: 898.257
  end: 903.677
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Our certainty is based on this childlike trust and love of God the Father.
  zh: 我们的确定性建立在这种对天父孩童般的信任和爱上。
- start: 903.677
  end: 909.857
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: That trust enables us to see that our faith is worth being embarrassed for.
  zh: 这种信任使我们看到我们的信仰值得为之感到尴尬。
- start: 909.857
  end: 912.697
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: It's worth being mocked for.
  zh: 值得为之被嘲笑。
- start: 912.697
  end: 914.217
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: It's worth being attacked for.
  zh: 值得为之被攻击。
- start: 914.217
  end: 922.517
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: It's worth dying for, because we love God as our Father and we don't ever want to betray Him.
  zh: 值得为之而死，因为我们爱神如同我们的父亲，我们永远不想背叛他。
- start: 922.517
  end: 924.877
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: It's a question of love.
  zh: 这是一个爱的问题。
- start: 924.877
  end: 933.277
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: God loves us and we love Him, and we're not ashamed of that, and we're not going to apologize for that.
  zh: 神爱我们，我们爱他，我们不为此感到羞耻，我们也不会为此道歉。
- start: 933.277
  end: 942.517
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: The character of Confirmation gives us the strength to faithfully witness by our words and our actions to this loving relationship.
  zh: 坚振的印记给我们力量，通过我们的言行忠实地见证这种爱的关系。
- start: 942.517
  end: 946.557
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: "We can compare it to another relationship of love: a marriage."
  zh: 我们可以把它比作另一种爱的关系：婚姻。
- start: 946.557
  end: 953.317
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Any decent man would gladly defend his wife and his family, even unto death.
  zh: 任何正直的男人都会欣然保护他的妻子和家人，直至死亡。
- start: 953.317
  end: 953.737
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Huh?
  zh: 对吧？
- start: 953.737
  end: 955.377
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: We all know that.
  zh: 我们都知道这一点。
- start: 955.377
  end: 969.747
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Imagine a man that's married a wonderful woman, and yet when someone teases him about that or makes fun of her, he actually apologized for being in love with his wife or took off his ring.What will we think of them?
  zh: 想象一个男人娶了一个很好的女人，但当有人取笑她或嘲笑她时，他却为爱他的妻子道歉或摘下戒指。我们会怎么想他？
- start: 969.747
  end: 972.227
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Well, I'm not going to say it from the pulpit.
  zh: 好吧，我不会在讲道台上说出来。
- start: 972.227
  end: 975.207
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Well, okay, how about us?
  zh: 那么，我们呢？
- start: 975.207
  end: 978.868
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Are we embarrassed to show our faith in public?
  zh: 我们是否在公共场合羞于表现我们的信仰？
- start: 978.868
  end: 982.807
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Are we embarrassed to say grace in public?
  zh: 我们是否在公共场合羞于祈祷？
- start: 982.807
  end: 988.328
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Are we embarrassed to make the sign of the cross in public?
  zh: 我们是否在公共场合羞于画十字圣号？
- start: 988.328
  end: 996.887
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Are we embarrassed to let people know that we're Catholics and we take exception to their mocking our holy religion?
  zh: 我们是否羞于让人们知道我们是公教徒，我们反对他们嘲笑我们的圣教？
- start: 996.887
  end: 1002.608
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Don't ever be ashamed to follow Christ.
  zh: 永远不要为跟随基督而感到羞耻。
- start: 1002.608
  end: 1005.248
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: We need to be witnesses.
  zh: 我们需要做见证人。
- start: 1005.248
  end: 1008.647
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Don't ever be ashamed of our holy faith.
  zh: 永远不要为我们的圣教而感到羞耻。
- start: 1008.647
  end: 1025.647
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: "As our Lord says in St. Matthew's Gospel: Whosoever, therefore, shall acknowledge me before man, I also will acknowledge him before my Father; but whosoever shall deny me before man, I also will deny him before my Father who is in heaven."
  zh: 正如我们的主在马太福音中说：「凡在人前认我的，我在我天上的父前也必认他；凡在人前不认我的，我在我天上的父前也必不认他。」
- start: 1025.647
  end: 1029.747
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: It's a promise and it's a threat.
  zh: 这既是承诺也是警告。
- start: 1029.747
  end: 1042.927
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: The character confirmation conforms us to our Lord as king by giving us the supernatural quality of leadership which enable us to direct others on the path of salvation.
  zh: 坚振的印记使我们肖似我们的主作为君王，赐给我们超自然的领导力，使我们能够引导他人走上救恩之路。
- start: 1042.927
  end: 1050.847
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Our personality is supernaturally strengthened to enable us to witness to Christ in the world and in the Church.
  zh: 我们的人格被超自然地加强，使我们能够在世界和教会中为基督作见证。
- start: 1050.847
  end: 1065.287
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: It enables us to be able to withstand bad examples, scandal, seduction, and even gives us the ability to trap the enemies of the cross of Christ to His service.
  zh: 它使我们能够抵抗坏榜样、丑闻、诱惑，甚至给我们能力将基督十字架的敌人转变为他的仆人。
- start: 1065.287
  end: 1094.747
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: "So, the three effects of the Sacrament of Confirmation are: first, the grace of strength by which we are able to resist the temptations and seductions and blatant attacks that come to us from the world and the flesh and the devil; second, an increase in grace by which our interior supernatural life increases in every way, but especially in the sense of becoming spiritually mature or spiritual adulthood; third, the character of a soldier of Christ by which we are conformed to our Lord in three specific ways."
  zh: 所以，坚振圣事的三个效果是：第一，力量的恩典，使我们能够抵抗来自世界、肉身和魔鬼的诱惑、引诱和公然攻击；第二，恩典的增加，使我们的内在超自然生命在各方面增长，特别是在灵性成熟或灵性成年方面；第三，基督战士的印记，使我们在三个具体方面肖似我们的主。
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  end: 1108.687
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: First, we're strengthened so we can bear suffering and sacrifice in union with our crucified Savior; second, our wills are strengthened so that we cling to the true faith, come what may; our intellect are strengthened so not...
  zh: 首先，我们被加强，使我们能够与我们被钉十字架的救主结合承受苦难和牺牲；第二，我们的意志被加强，使我们无论如何都坚持真信仰；我们的理智被加强，使我们不...
- start: 1108.687
  end: 1118.187
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: we don't doubt the true faith in spite of attacks; and we are also strengthened overall so that we can profess and defend the true faith effectively.
  zh: 我们不会因为攻击而怀疑真信仰；我们也整体上被加强，使我们能够有效地宣认和捍卫真信仰。
- start: 1118.187
  end: 1129.027
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: We're also given a supernaturally strong personality and supernatural gift of leadership so that we can witness to Christ and lead others on the path of salvation.
  zh: 我们也被赋予超自然的坚强人格和超自然的领导恩赐，使我们能够为基督作见证，并引导他人走上救恩之路。
- start: 1129.027
  end: 1130.267
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: What are we saying?
  zh: 我们在说什么？
- start: 1130.267
  end: 1137.867
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: We're saying that the character of Confirmation gives us supernatural powers to keep the faith.
  zh: 我们在说坚振的印记给我们超自然的力量来保持信仰。
- start: 1137.867
  end: 1153.807
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: And not only to keep the faith, but to spread the faith, this holy faith that we've done nothing to deserve, but we've got the powers to spread it to those others who so desperately need what we have been freely given.
  zh: 不仅要保持信仰，还要传播信仰，这圣教不是我们应得的，但我们有力量将它传播给那些迫切需要我们白白得到的恩赐的人。
- start: 1153.807
  end: 1160.107
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: With all that in mind, as your priest, I'm going to challenge everyone here.
  zh: 考虑到这一切，作为你们的祭司，我要向在座的每个人提出挑战。
- start: 1160.107
  end: 1176.427
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: By this time next year, everyone here should set a goal, everyone here that's confirmed, I don't care what age you are, should set a goal to have at least one convert or one fallen-way Catholic back in Church, or both.
  zh: 到明年这个时候，在座的每个人都应该设定一个目标，每个已经接受坚振的人，不管你多大年纪，都应该设定目标至少带一个皈依者或一个离开教会的公教徒回到教会，或者两者都有。
- start: 1176.427
  end: 1177.707
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: I'm serious.
  zh: 我是认真的。
- start: 1177.707
  end: 1179.267
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: I'm serious as a heart attack.
  zh: 我像心脏病发作一样认真。
- start: 1179.267
  end: 1180.827
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: You have that power.
  zh: 你们有这个力量。
- start: 1180.827
  end: 1183.867
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: If you don't do it, who will?
  zh: 如果你们不做，谁来做？
- start: 1183.867
  end: 1188.687
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Start exercising all these spiritual powers that our Good Lord gave to you.
  zh: 开始运用我们的善主给你们的所有这些属灵力量。
- start: 1188.687
  end: 1192.827
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: God will use you as an instrument if you just let Him.
  zh: 如果你让神使用你作为工具，他就会这样做。
- start: 1192.827
  end: 1202.927
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: The first time around, He started with 12 guys from the hick part of the Roman Empire and He overthrew the whole world.
  zh: 第一次，他从罗马帝国的乡下地方开始，只用了12个人就颠覆了整个世界。
- start: 1202.927
  end: 1212.547
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: That's exactly the same person right up there in the Tabernacle that did that that time, and there's a lot more than 12 people I'm speaking to right now.
  zh: 现在在圣体龛里的就是当时做到这一切的同一位，而我现在说话的对象远不止12个人。
- start: 1212.547
  end: 1214.587
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: We're not shooting for the whole world.
  zh: 我们不是要争取整个世界。
- start: 1214.587
  end: 1217.427
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Just one person in one year.
  zh: 只是一年内一个人。
- start: 1217.427
  end: 1219.047
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: You can start today.
  zh: 你们今天就可以开始。
- start: 1219.047
  end: 1223.507
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Remember, we're the Church Militant, the Church Militant.
  zh: 记住，我们是战斗教会，战斗教会。
- start: 1223.507
  end: 1226.947
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: That's not the Church you flip on the TV and veg out.
  zh: 这不是打开电视躺着看的教会。
- start: 1226.947
  end: 1228.927
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: The Church Militant.
  zh: 战斗教会。
- start: 1228.927
  end: 1237.987
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Keep in mind that we have the true faith by the mercy of God, not because we're big shots and certainly not because we deserve it.
  zh: 记住，我们拥有真信仰是因为神的怜悯，不是因为我们了不起，当然也不是因为我们应得的。
- start: 1237.987
  end: 1238.587
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: We don't.
  zh: 我们不配。
- start: 1238.587
  end: 1241.827
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: No one deserves to have this faith.
  zh: 没有人配得上这信仰。
- start: 1241.827
  end: 1248.487
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: We don't want what we really deserve, and we don't want anyone else to get what they really deserve either.
  zh: 我们不想得到我们真正应得的，我们也不想让其他人得到他们真正应得的。
- start: 1248.487
  end: 1258.267
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: "The question is basically pretty simple: are we just going to stand there and watch people fall into hell because we're too nervous or cowardly to say something, do something for them?"
  zh: 问题基本上很简单：我们是否要站在那里看着人们堕入地狱，因为我们太紧张或胆怯而不敢说些什么，为他们做些什么？
- start: 1258.267
  end: 1260.667
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: See, we know something they don't know.
  zh: 看，我们知道一些他们不知道的事。
- start: 1260.667
  end: 1264.607
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: We have something they need.
  zh: 我们有他们需要的东西。
- start: 1264.607
  end: 1267.687
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: We know something they need to know.
  zh: 我们知道他们需要知道的事。
- start: 1267.687
  end: 1270.127
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: They need our help.
  zh: 他们需要我们的帮助。
- start: 1270.127
  end: 1274.247
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: And if we don't tell them, who will?
  zh: 如果我们不告诉他们，谁会告诉他们？
- start: 1274.247
  end: 1280.647
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Once you start gathering them, we'll start convert classes in January.
  zh: 一旦你们开始聚集他们，我们将在一月开始皈依课程。
- start: 1280.647
  end: 1281.827
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Don't ask me how.
  zh: 不要问我怎么做。
- start: 1281.827
  end: 1284.347
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: If he wants to get it done, he'll have to provide.
  zh: 如果他想完成这事，他就必须提供方法。
- start: 1284.347
  end: 1285.507
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Okay.
  zh: 好的。
- start: 1285.507
  end: 1288.987
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Today we started with the Pope's description of the apostasy.
  zh: 今天我们从教宗对背教的描述开始。
- start: 1288.987
  end: 1292.527
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Let's close with some comments from Father Harden.
  zh: 让我们以哈登神父的一些评论结束。
- start: 1292.527
  end: 1310.327
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Quote, "Never, never in my judgment in the 2,000 years of Christian history has the Sacrament of Confirmation been more necessary, more indispensable to remain supernaturally alive.
  zh: 「在我看来，在基督教两千年的历史中，坚振圣事从未像现在这样必要，这样不可或缺，为保持超自然的生命。
- start: 1310.327
  end: 1319.167
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: Though I've said this many times, I repeat a thousand times over, ordinary Catholics cannot survive in our day.
  zh: 虽然我说过很多次，我要重复一千遍，普通的公教徒在我们这个时代无法生存。
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  en: And the verb is cannot survive.
  zh: 而这个动词是无法生存。
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  en: Only heroic Catholics who have been strengthened by the Holy Spirit and the Sacrament of Confirmation will survive.
  zh: 只有那些被圣灵和坚振圣事加强的英勇公教徒才能生存。
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  en: We have this power.
  zh: 我们有这个力量。
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  end: 1335.087
  speaker: speaker_0
  en: We have this strength.
  zh: 我们有这个力气。
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  speaker: speaker_0
  en: "But how this needs to be said: we need to use the power that we've got."
  zh: 但这话必须说出来：我们需要运用我们所得到的力量。
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  en: We dare not, we dare not be slaves of human respect.
  zh: 我们不敢，我们不敢做人情的奴隶。
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  en: We must courageously, outspokenly, clearly profess our faith to everyone whose life we touch.
  zh: 我们必须勇敢地、坦率地、清晰地向我们接触到的每个人宣认我们的信仰。
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  en: In other words, we are not merely to have received the Sacrament of Confirmation, we are to live this sacrament by following in the footsteps of Jesus crucified." Close quote.
  zh: 换句话说，我们不仅要接受坚振圣事，还要通过跟随被钉十字架的耶稣的脚步来活出这圣事。」
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  en: Father Harden.
  zh: 哈登神父。
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  en: Have we merely received the Sacrament of Confirmation, or are we living the sacrament by following in the footsteps of Jesus crucified?
  zh: 我们是仅仅接受了坚振圣事，还是通过跟随被钉十字架的耶稣的脚步来活出这圣事？
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  en: When the Son of Man comes, will we find any faith on Earth?
  zh: 人子来的时候，在地上能找到信心吗？
