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【  Keeping the Faith  】    原載於《牧笛》2000年11月4日

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I saw a movie "Keeping the Faith" this week. A romantic comedy about a Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi and a girlfriend they both love. They became friends at the tender age of 12. After the boys became a priest and a rabbi, they were reunited and later on, both of them were attracted by her bright and naturally cheerful personality and fell in love with her. This movie gave me a good deal of entertainment, howerver , it also evoked in me the thought if it would really happen in real life? Could a rabbi be so implusive, secretive and a priest be so unfaithful to his convictions, but both could preach their sermons very well. They were just caught in a human situation. After all even rabbis and priests have to live with their sexuality. My friend shared with me her experience this week that how she saw a miracle happen when she visited guadalupe in Mexico where Our Lady had appeared. When she saw the apparition, she was very grateful to God at that moment and promised Him she would be his very good daughter, attentive to his urgings and faithful to Him--------. But when she returned to Hong Kong, she forgot everything and behave as her oldself, an unenthusiastic Catholic, Why? Why do people receive so much graces but still behave in that way? I always spent time to explain to my children not to watch too much T.V., not to play too much computer games and gameboy. They knew that this would distract them form their studies; would be harmful to their eyes and hook them to bad habits. However, whenever I am not at home, they spend a lot of time playing these sort of games? I often fell hurt and sad sometimes that my children strayed from advice given to them. Why? I think it could happen to everyone as most of all children who do not have mature and formed charter. I think if someone just let the mind rules alone but not his heart and the love that goes with it -------- then a priest, a rabi, a Catholic adult or a child no matter how much he thinks he knows God can be easily loose with Him. So I need continually be in communion with him and develop an intimate loving feeling with Him then the chance of snapping that link and deep love for Him can be broken.

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