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祝各位讀者新年進步、主恩滿溢、身體健康。 近日，適逢農曆新春，人人到處拜年。新春期間也病倒了，幾天卧床，只好透過短訊向好友拜年問好，看看最近生活如何。其中一位朋友向筆者傾訴，可見其心中之寂莫。

最近在看著名的英國天主教作家 G. K. Chesterton ，然而不是看他的護教學經典 Heretics, Orthodoxy, 或 The Everlasting Man ，卻是看他用以賺取收入的 Father Brown (布朗神父)系列的偵探小說。 但 Chesterton 卻不放棄在小說中表達他的信仰，以下是在 Father Brown 首次出場時，跟假扮成神父的大盜 Flambeau 的對話： [The fake priest Flambeau:] “Ah, yes, these modern infidels appeal to their reason; but who can look at those millions of worlds and not feel that there may well be wonderful universes above us where reason is utterly unreasonable?” “No,” said the other priest; [Father Brown] " reason is always reasonable, even in the last limbo, in the lost borderland of things. I know that people charge the Church with lowering reason, but it is just the other way. Alone on earth, the Church makes reason really supreme. Alone on earth, the Church affirms that God himself is bound by reason." The other priest raised his austere face to the spangled sky and said: “Yet who knows if in that infinite universe——?” " Only infinite physically," said the little priest, turning sharply in his seat, " not infinite in the sense of escaping from the laws of truth." " Reason and justice grip the remotest and the loneliest star. Look at those stars. Don’t they look as if they were single diamonds and sapphires? Well, you can imagine any mad botany or geology you please. Think of forests of adamant with leaves of brilliants. Think the moon is a blue moon, a single elephantine sapphire. But don’t fancy that all that frantic astronomy would make the smallest difference to the reason and justice of conduct. On plains of opal, under cliffs cut out of pearl, you would still find a notice-board, ‘Thou shalt not steal.’" (The Innocence of Father Brown / The Blue Cross)

筆者facebook近日大量出現彩虹色profile pic，當然是因為美國最高法院裁定全國允許同性婚姻，美國總統奧巴馬更在twitter上表示「Love win」「同性婚姻裁定是邁向平等的一大步。」Facebook上當然普天同慶，無數機構、專頁都欣喜並換上彩色頭像以示支持。 其中筆者發現有不少基督徒亦表達自己支持的論點，然而筆者對這種論點卻有點存疑。 圖片來源: news.hexun.com # 當中支持的基督徒最普遍最首要的論點是：

1月11日主日，傳統禮儀年曆為聖家節，新禮為主受洗節。讀畢彌撒讀經二的章節，勾起不少的思緒。天主是美善，也愛我們，但我們可以只愛主而不愛人嗎?