Can a Christian live without reading the Bible? Can a person who only goes to Sunday Mass but does not say any prayer everyday experience change? What can you suggest youths to pray for their own life, their family, and their community whether at school, church or the office? I see many youths are struggling in the youth ministry in terms of participation and some are also struggling to voice their opinions.
Protestants like to ask Catholics why we pray ‘repetitious prayer’ like the Rosary and quote that Jesus said not to pray ‘vain repetitions’ in Matthew 6:7? How should we respond?
In the case of pregnancy resulted from rape, didn’t God grant each of us a free will? Rape is not the free will of the girl yet she is restrained by the church to keep the child. Shouldn’t a child be born of love?
有人天生嚴重殘障,或智障或有嚴重精神病,他們不能理解常人的正常事情及沒有能力理解天主的道理,大部人都需要人照顧。 請問:在教會的教理上,他們的生存意義是什麼?常人能自由選擇善惡,但他們連理解善惡的能力都沒有,為什麼他們要來到這個世界?
我和朋友談到一個問題,究竟天主是不是一個仁愛的神?如果祂是愛人類,為什麼在聖經裡面說過祂層經殺死了不聽從祂的人來懲罰他們 ?我明白天主給人自由去選擇做什麼,包括不聽從祂;但天主應該是明知道有些罪人是不會悔改的,也有些人根本沒有機會認識天主,他們都被殺死了。談到這裡,我們都無法理解。我自問不是勤讀聖經的教友,信仰知識都是從網上彌撒得來。程神父,請指導。
An atheist approached me and asked : “Why does God, who is so good, allow suffering? If God is all-powerful, why does He allow evil to exist and does not defeat Satan in the first place? “. How should I answer?
經常聽到別人說,主保聖人有不同的功能,例如, 遺失物品會求失物主保聖安多尼。最近在某聖堂咖啡閣的牆上看到說聖德羅戈(Saint Drogo)是咖啡主保。 但翻查資料,聖安多尼生前行過很多奇蹟,大部分都關於醫治或修補家庭關係,並非幫人尋找失物。而聖德羅戈生於法國1105年至1186年,咖啡在15世紀才由土耳其奧特曼軍傳入歐洲。聖德羅戈以堅定,虔誠和自我克制而聞名。咖啡卻是令人上癮不能克制的飲料,為什麼他會成為咖啡主保?請問,這些聖人的「功能」是誰定立的? 假如我們為求達到物質上某個目的,而向聖人祈禱,是否導人迷信?謝謝。
Do dreams mean anything? Can we interpret our dreams? I often dream about a childhood friend who gave me a Miraculous Medal when we were little. We haven’t been in touch for over ten years. Is there anything I can do besides praying and offering Mass for this childhood friend of mine?
With a toddler and a baby, I find our family missing mass quite a bit during the winter cold and flu season as sickness rotates throughout each of us! Is missing mass due to a child’s sickness (or even our own) considered a sin that will require confession each time before receiving communion?
I have tried so hard to change myself but most of the time I failed. What should I do to stop my shortcomings?
I always have this doubt. How can we tell if this is really God’s plan or just a coincidence, but we tell ourselves it is so we feel good about it?
程神父您好,虛心請教了。請問一個人有信德,充滿了聖神,天主試探他,是什麼樣的試探,是試探他是順服聖神,還是順服舊我的試探嗎?我以前就是在試探上沒有堅守信仰。那我這樣的試探是怎樣的試探啊?期待你的回覆,謝謝,天主保佑我們!
神父,請問每一個人在分享自己對信仰的看法或個人的經驗時,難道就不會出錯嗎?為什麼教會人士在聚會活動中會說每個人的分享都沒有對錯?那是他個人的看法還是教會的立場?為什麼教會在分享信仰的過程中不直接的把正確的教義內容傳講給願意認識信仰的人?讓他們有一個正確的觀念去經驗自己的生活以及對信仰的看法?感覺有時在聽他人分享自己的內容有點怪。很想知道神父是怎麼看待這個問題的?謝謝!
A family member, a born Catholic, has become a modernist/universalist during these years. He believes people of all religions can enter heaven; muslims, jews, hindus, scientologists, even pagans of the ancient world can enter heaven! He believes that there is one God, but he thinks that all the religious people of the world basically worship the same God even if it’s not Jesus! How can we help him to bring him back to the Catholic faith?
神父你好,我以前一直以為所有東西都是上帝的安排,意思是哲學上的決定論。但是我剛剛睇了你的YouTube video,講到原罪是由於天主給予的自由。如果是這樣,那麼我們做每一事是否都沒有絕對的對與錯或答案,又或者天主會不會一定要我們跟著一個答案做才會喜悅呢?最後,我有時候會想怎樣做才能令天主喜悅。希望我的問題不會太深太抽象,謝謝神父。
看了新的一集,感謝程神父講解。但始終不明白,請神父加以解答。 自由可以不是罪,例如選擇A餐或B餐,沒有哪一樣是不好的,為何仍有「罪」出現?「惡」是相對而言出現的嗎?既然天主所造一切都美好,無論有怎樣的自由,都不應有不好的自由,為何會出現不好的?謝謝!
Why is the Church promoting our faithful to do novena with fixed prayers and such prayers usually fall into fixed number of days, such as 3, 8, 9, 33? Which novenas would you recommend?
神父,我有一位妹妹他目前的對像是外教的,我感覺她自己在信仰上也不是很堅定熱誠的那種,真的很擔心當她決定要和對方私定終身結婚組成家庭時,不只不會帶領對方認識我們的信仰,而且很有可能最後放棄自己的信仰也說不定,很多次說若決定堅持在一起的話,以後可能會發生許多有關信仰上的問題,可父母也不聽,自己還被父母責罵還和父母起爭執。目前為止自己對我妹的那位對像也處於很難接受的那種,很少和他聊天,甚至想過以後他們兩真的結了婚,自己是打算不會去參加的,對方目前看起來人品不錯,可是宗教信仰的不同就讓我很難接受她的男友,請問該面對這些問題?