Celebrating sacrament of Holy Orders: Love and Service

Celebrating sacrament of Holy Orders: Love and Service It's amazing to see all of you here. It's wonderful to see the church filled with all the people. Therefore, I would like to deliver to you some breaking news. Elon Musk wants to be a savior. He's going to be a savior of free speech. It only takes him 43 billion or so, not that much isn't it. With that money we could build our church easily. He's right next door. We should ask him. Well, 43 billion dollars, we don't know for sure if he's going to make it into a savior.

Today if you turn on the tv that all you're going to hear all day long is a billionaire going to save free speech. Nobody talks about a true savior. Today, in the first reading, we encountered the good Lord, who wanted to be his people's savior. He did not pay with billion dollars, he actually paid with the blood of the lamb. The blood of the lamb being slaughtered, and blood being used to pain the door post. Those who have that on, will be saved. Moses acted on God's behalf, effectively let the people out of slavery into the desert. So that they could have freedom to speak for God, they could have the freedom to worship him. Precisely that is the only reason that Moses came to Pharaoh and said I want my people out so that they could go to the desert to worship God. That is the true freedom of speech. Freedom of religion, freedom of worship, freedom of speech.

Yet, in the gospel today, what do we have? A real savior. Moses was a foreshadowing figure for what is to come. The Passover meal is anticipation of a true Passover meal. Where the son of God - the word made man - truly set people free. He is the word that frees you and I, the word that makes the first amendment possible, the word that destroyed falsehood really. Look what our Lord had done, my brothers and sisters, today we have the word of our Lord. Thanks to his word, we are no longer held hostage to falsehood, thanks to his word we are now able to truly say that we have a savior.

Notice what he had done. He bent down on his knees, and washed his disciples' feet. He offered himself for the disciples. The same disciples who will betray him, the same disciple who will sell him off for 30 pieces of silver, the same disciples who would run away at the first sight of danger, the same disciple who would readily say I don't know the man. And yet he did it, he loved them to the end. He knew it in advance, but he loved them to the end. So, my friends, today if we want to have free speech, let the word of God set you and I free. if we want to truly have freedom of religion, let's consume the word of God, and the body and blood of our Lord, and practice service of one another. Let's do that. Not just with 34 43 billion dollars, but actually with our sacrifices, with our prayers, and with our own lives. My dear brothers and sisters, that is how our Lord paid for our freedom. We are no longer trapped in sin, we are no longer held hostage by falsehood, but we are free people. We are free. We are free to love, we are free to serve, to power lives in service upon another. That our Lord demonstrates true freedom is. A freedom to serve, and to love, and to care for one another. Dare we do so that we will love one another in that way. Of course, we dared to do so. otherwise, we wouldn't be here. Let's embrace our Lord and one another in that fashion, let's pay for the freedom of the world with our own lives, with our own acts of love and service.

In a short while we're going to see a reenactment of that very act of service. I, on behalf of father Manny, and all the ordained ministers, today, we celebrate the institution of that beautiful gift of priesthood. That you and I, we all share. The beautiful institution of the holy Eucharist, the body and blood of our Lord that we consume here at mass. We also receive the commandment to love and to serve one another. for that Manny and I, and the deacons, we are ordained to serve. Our power rests upon that participation, in the act of love and service, as our Lord shares. So, we thank you for many prayers, sacrifices, and support in a special way. We thank father Manny for his dedication to the priesthood of Christ. Many, many years of service and dedication. We thank our deacons for their service of the church. We thank you, you and I, we are both servants of Christ. Thank you for being part of the church, being part of this great community of service. We pray that together, we continue to serve, to love and to free the world by our very love, serve one another and our Lord.

庆祝爱和服务的圣秩圣事

今天，很高兴在这里看到大家。教堂里挤满了人，真是太棒了。在这里，我想向您报告一件新闻。特斯拉老板 Elon Musk 想要花430亿美金来成为一个促进言论自由的人 。这笔钱对他来说并不多，但是如果我们有这笔钱，就可以轻松地来建新教堂了。特斯拉公司就在这附近。我们应该去问问他是否可以捐给我们。因为我不认为单凭这430亿美金，他就可以成为一个言论自由的救世主。

如果你打开电视，整天听到的都是亿万富翁想要买言论自由的新闻。却没有人谈论到真正的救世主。在今天的读经一中，我们与良善的主相遇，祂是以色列的救主。但祂并没有花几十亿美金，祂是用羔羊的血来救以色列的。祂叫以色列人把被宰杀羔羊的血涂在门柱上，这样子，死亡就不会进入这个家庭。梅瑟代表天主转述了这个消息，有效地让以色列人摆脱了埃及奴役，进入了沙漠。从此以后，以色列人就可以自由地追随天主，崇拜天主。为了以色列人的自由，梅瑟来到法老前，要求法老解放以色列人。梅瑟为以色列人争取了言论，宗教、及信仰的自由。

在今天的福音中，我们看到了什么呢？我们看到了ㄧ位真正的救主。梅瑟是未来救主的先行者，以色列子民逾越节的晚餐也是将来逾越神粮的预象。天主子，天主圣言，解放了我们，让我们获得了真正的自由。圣言是解除束缚的。祂是美国宪法第一修正案的精神，祂是摧毁虚假的真理。我们的主为我我们成就了什么呢？兄弟姐妹们，借着天主圣言，我们不再受谎言的束缚，可以自由的说，我们有一位救主。

现在让我们看看主为祂的门徒做了些什么。祂为门徒服务，跪下，为他们洗脚。主早就知道祂的弟子们会背叛祂，为了三十块银元出卖祂，见到危险就逃跑，甚至说不认识这位与他们日夜相处的主。 .但主爱他们到底，为他们洗脚。朋友们，今天如果我们想要言论自由，让天主的话来解放我们。如果我们想要有宗教自由，就让我们研读了解圣言，勤领圣体圣血，彻底实践彼此之间的服务。我们这样做。不仅只是奉献了财务，我们还奉献了牺牲和祈祷。我们献上了自己的生命。兄弟姐妹们，献上祂自己的生命就是主为我们的自由所付出的代价。我们不再被罪所捆绑，不再被谎言所束缚。我们是自由的，可以自由地去爱，自由地去服务，以服务祂人的方式来驱动生命。我们的主展示了真正的自由。一种服务、爱、和彼此照顾的自由。我们放胆去做吧，以这种方式来彼此相爱。是的，我们要放胆去做，以这种方式来拥抱我们的主和彼此，用我们的生命，用我们的爱去服务，为世界的自由付出代价。

此刻，我们将以耶稣为门徒洗脚的方式来庆祝这美丽的圣秩圣事。我，Fr. Manny 和所有的执事们，都接受圣秩受到了任命。你和我，我们所有的人，都共享圣体圣事，在弥撒中领受了主的圣体和圣血，也领受了彼此相爱和服务的诫命。 Fr. Manny ，我，还有执事们，被任命为大家服务。正如我们的主为门徒们洗脚一样，在参与、爱和服务的行为中，显示出主的力量。我们要感谢您们的祈祷、牺牲和支持。我们也要感谢 Fr. Manny 多年的服务和对基督圣秩的坚持。感谢执事们为教会的服务，感谢你，感谢你和我，我们都是基督的仆人。谢谢教会的每一个份子，为这个伟大的社区服务。让我们一起祈祷，继续服务，用我们的爱来释放世界，服务彼此和服务我们的主。