程神父你好。我即將領受堅振聖事,我們的要理老師說要我們取多一個聖名(最好不要用領洗的聖名)。請問我們真的要在堅振聖事換了我們的聖名嗎?因為我領洗的聖名對我和我家人都有很大的意義,我父母也不希望(也沒聽說過)要取多一個聖名。

程神父你好。我即將領受堅振聖事,我們的要理老師說要我們取多一個聖名(最好不要用領洗的聖名)。請問我們真的要在堅振聖事換了我們的聖名嗎?因為我領洗的聖名對我和我家人都有很大的意義,我父母也不希望(也沒聽說過)要取多一個聖名。

當領洗,領堅振,領神品及發願這些不能重覆的重大聖事時,我們是可以加多一個聖名的。 這裏的重點是:是可以而不是必要,以及是加而不是改——除非是修仕發願或教宗被選。 即是說,某人可以叫David,領洗取聖名Edward,領堅振取聖名Francis,變成了David Edward Francis。 為甚麼要這樣做?因為我們在人生不同階段,面對的事也不同。適逢要準備大聖事,也是我們該定下怎樣更全面地跟隨天主,所以亦可能需要再看看那一個聖人在往後的日子更能啟發及指導我們。當然,我們領洗時的主保,可能已很好,所以就不必更換了。...
In Genesis 9:16, “Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.” God made a covenant with Noah never to destroy life by the waters of a flood. I personally saw a rainbow on Oct 24. And a double rainbow appeared in the sky of Vancouver on Nov 5 which a lot of people saw and captured on camera. But yet BC had an extreme flooding on Monday. Is God mad at us?

In Genesis 9:16, “Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.” God made a covenant with Noah never to destroy life by the waters of a flood. I personally saw a rainbow on Oct 24. And a double rainbow appeared in the sky of Vancouver on Nov 5 which a lot of people saw and captured on camera. But yet BC had an extreme flooding on Monday. Is God mad at us?

I think there are two parts to your question: whether God promised not to destroy life by floods, and whether the recent floods in BC means that God is angry with us. In Genesis 9:11 and 9:15, in both verses, according to the RSV and the NAB bible translations, God’s...
好朋友是虔誠教友,也熱衷環境保護。對於聖堂平日彌撒人很少但開冷氣,很不認同。認為大家是法利塞人,說一套,做一套。現在他只參加主日彌撒。程神父,請問該怎樣平衡環保問題呢?

好朋友是虔誠教友,也熱衷環境保護。對於聖堂平日彌撒人很少但開冷氣,很不認同。認為大家是法利塞人,說一套,做一套。現在他只參加主日彌撒。程神父,請問該怎樣平衡環保問題呢?

環保是重要問題,當然需要正視。重要問題必須與負責人直接交涉,即堂區負責神父,好能全面瞭解為甚麼堂區的冷氣需要開得那麼大(可能真的有別的理由),亦可使要更改時得到神父的支持和推動。 但是環保問題可不該變成了影響自己信仰的問題。不環保是錯,甚至可能有罪,乃是別人的罪。自己走去減少參與彌撒,那是自己對天主的不公義,因為天主乃天主,是堪當我在任何境遇中向祂奉獻所有的。怎可以因為別人,即使教會中的人似乎有錯,就向天主收起我已慣性奉獻的一份?那是絕不合理的!...