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6. There is also a “spiritual Alzheimer’s disease”. It consists in losing the memory of our personal “salvation history”, our past history with the Lord and our “first love” (Rev 2:4). It involves a progressive decline in the spiritual faculties which in the long or short run greatly handicaps a person by making him incapable of doing anything on his own, living in a state of absolute dependence on his often imaginary perceptions. We see it in those who have lost the memory of their encounter with the Lord; in those who no longer see life’s meaning in “deuteronomic” terms; in those who are completely caught up in the present moment, in their passions, whims and obsessions; in those who build walls and routines around themselves, and thus become more and more the slaves of idols carved by their own hands.
精神的なアルツハイマー病がある。この病では自分の救済の歴史・個人の神とのかかわりの歴史、初恋の事を忘れてしまう事ことになる。この病は人が自分自信のことを自分で次第にできなくなり、短い期間あるいは長い期間に渡って自分の想像の産物だけに頼り切りになるといった精神的な清新な活動が次第にできなくなるという症状を含む。この病気は、神との出会いに関する思い出を失ってしまった人々、旧約聖書に書かれている「人生の意味」を考えなくなった人々、情熱において、感情においても完全に現在の事象しか考えられなくなってしまった人々、自分と他人との間に壁を作ってしまい、自分自身で作り上げた偶像に徐々に隷属していくようななってしまう人々にこの兆候を見られる。
7. The disease of rivalry and vainglory. When appearances, the colour of our clothes and our titles of honour become the primary object in life, we forget the words of Saint Paul: ”Do nothing from selfishness or conceit but in humility count others better than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others” (Phil 2:3-4). This is a disease which leads us to be men and woman of deceit, and to live a false “mysticism” and a false “quietism”. Saint Paul himself defines such persons as “enemies of the cross of Christ” because “they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things”.
対抗意識と虚飾：「見掛け」各人の礼服の色とか官職・名声が人生の最も大切なものとなってしまう時には、聖ポールが言われた「何事も自分の利益・自分の才能を考えて行うのではなく、相手のことをより大切に考え謙虚に行うべきです。各自が自分だけの利益ではなく隣人の利益を考えて行動すべきです。」という言葉を忘れています。この病によって人々は次第に不誠実になり、間違った信仰・間違った神秘主義に生きることになるのです。聖ポールはそういう人々を「彼らは恥ずべきものを誇りとし、この世のことしか考えていないので、十字架上のキリストの敵である。」としています。
8. The disease of existential schizophrenia. This is the disease of those who live a double life, the fruit of that hypocrisy typical of the mediocre and of a progressive spiritual emptiness which no doctorates or academic titles can fill. It is a disease which often strikes those who abandon pastoral service and restrict themselves to bureaucratic matters, thus losing contact with reality, with concrete people. In this way they create their own parallel world, where they set aside all that they teach with severity to others and begin to live a hidden and often dissolute life. For this most serious disease conversion is most urgent and indeed indispensable (cf. Lk 15:11-32).
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