詞匯提示
1.fanciful 空想
2.integrity 完整性
3.obliterate 消滅
4.alter 祭壇
5.cathedrals 大教堂
原文
Robert Runcie: 'After the Falklands War' (2)
Man without God finds it difficult to achieve this revolution inside himself.
But talk of peace and reconciliation is just fanciful and theoretical unless we are prepared to undergo such a revolution.
Many of the reports I have heard about the troops engaged in this war refer to moments when soldiers have been brought face to face with what is fundamental in life and have found new sources of strength and compassion even in the midst of conflict.
Ironically,it has sometimes been those spectators who remained at home, whether supporters or opponents of the conflict, who continue to be most violent in their attitudes and untouched in their deepest selves.
Man without God is less than man.
In meeting God, a man is shown his failures and his lack of integrity, but he is also given strength to turn more and more of his life and actions into love and compassion for other men like himself.
It is necessary to the continuance of life on this planet that more and more people make this discovery.
We have been the choice.
Man possesses the power to obliterate himself, sacrificing the whole race on the altar of some God-substitute, or he can choose life in partnership with God the Father of all.
I believe that there is evidence that more and more people are waking up to the realization that this crucial decision peers us in the face here and now.
Cathedrals and churches are always places into which we bring human experiences - birth, marriage,death, our flickering communion with God, our fragile relationships with each other, so that they may be deepened and directed by the spirit of Christ.
Today we bring our mixture of thanksgiving, sorrows and aspirations for a better ordering of this world.
Pray God that he may purify, enlarge and redirect these in the ways of his kingdom of love and peace.
Amen.
翻譯
羅伯特·朗西:《馬島戰(zhàn)爭之后》(2)
沒有上帝的人很難實現(xiàn)自己內(nèi)心的革命。
但是，除非我們準(zhǔn)備經(jīng)歷這樣一場革命，否則談?wù)摵推脚c和解只是幻想和理論。
我聽到的許多關(guān)于參加這場戰(zhàn)爭的部隊的報道都提到了士兵們面對生活中最基本的東西，甚至在沖突中也找到了新的力量和同情心的源泉的時刻。
具有諷刺意味的是，有時正是那些留在家里的旁觀者，無論是沖突的支持者還是反對者，他們的態(tài)度仍然是最暴力的，而他們內(nèi)心最深處的自我卻沒有受到影響。
沒有上帝的人不如人。
在與上帝的會面中，一個人會看到他的失敗和缺乏正直，但他也會得到力量，把越來越多的生活和行為轉(zhuǎn)化為對像自己一樣的其他人的愛和同情。
為了這個星球上生命的繼續(xù)，越來越多的人進行這一發(fā)現(xiàn)是必要的。
我們一直是選擇。
人擁有毀滅自己的能力，可以把全人類犧牲在某個神的替代者的祭壇上，或者他可以選擇與萬有之父神為伴的生活。
我相信，有證據(jù)表明，越來越多的人開始意識到，這個至關(guān)重要的決定現(xiàn)在就擺在我們面前。
大教堂和教堂總是我們把人類的經(jīng)歷——出生、結(jié)婚、死亡、我們與上帝的短暫交流、我們彼此之間脆弱的關(guān)系——帶進去的地方，這樣它們就可以被基督的精神深化和引導(dǎo)。
今天，我們帶著感恩、悲傷和對世界更美好秩序的渴望來到這里。
求神潔凈、擴大、引導(dǎo)這些人進入祂愛與和平的國度。
阿們。
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