<p>这篇文章首次发表于 1970 年 12 月 5 日\n 作者：工作人员\n 香港天主教徒的红字日\n 这位 73 岁的教皇，尽管在紧张的亚洲之行中依然显得精神焕发，热情回应了大家的欢迎。有时他伸出双臂，象征着爱的拥抱，有时则祝福聚集在他身边的人群。\n 他似乎对 2 万名天主教儿童在跑马地赛马场自发的欢快问候感到特别高兴，他是乘直升机在抵达启德后被带到那里。\n 爱的讯息\n 尽管细雨和寒风袭来，他还是要求打开汽车的封闭车顶。然后他站起身来，让孩子们能看到他。\n 此时，欢呼声合成了一阵持续的雷鸣般的轰响。\n 爱的表达——教皇亚洲之行的主要主题——也是他在政府体育场弥撒后，在启德机场备受期待的告别演讲中传达给所有中国人民（包括中国大陆人民）的讯息。\n“基督也是中国的老师、牧者和慈爱的救赎者，” 他宣称。\n“教会不能不说出这个美好的话：爱，将永远存在。”\n 对于香港，他也有特别的话语。在他的机场广播中，他提到了香港近年来取得的巨大进步，并补充道：\n“我们将祈求上帝的祝福，愿你们继续努力促进正义、繁荣与和平。”\n\n 当他的专机带着他离开时，教皇向北越发出了信息，表达了 “希望相关各方的真诚努力能迅速带来大家所渴望的公正和平”。\n 教皇在机场抵达时受到了香港罗马公教主教徐枫枢机、代理总督休·诺曼 - 沃克爵士以及殖民地的主要市民的欢迎。\n 从那里，教皇和他的随行人员乘坐四架直升机飞往赛马场，现场 “万岁教皇” 的呼喊声更是让热烈的欢呼声达到了高潮。\n 在赛马场的参观结束后，教皇被送往政府体育场，50,000 人再次给予他热烈的欢迎。\n 在开放的吉普车上绕场游行时，年长者们手握念珠拍手，挥舞旗帜的孩子和青少年则发出通常只会给予 “流行” 明星的尖叫声。\n 所有人都向前倾身，想要看到那张苍白的面容、举起的双手和温暖的微笑。在场地的另一侧，年轻人们几乎兴奋得失去理智。\n 圣父被这种压倒性的热情感染，他吹吻、划十字，并张开双臂，仿佛要将这群基督徒拥入怀中。这或许是最感人的时刻。\n 吉普车缓缓经过荣誉卫队。疲惫和抽筋被遗忘，童子军和女童军们迎来了他们的荣耀时刻。\n\n 下车后，教皇首先走向身穿紫色的圣公会主教吉尔伯特·贝克，贝克和夫人热情握手并互致问候。\n 其他贵宾依次受到接见：其他神职人员；然后是持有教皇荣誉的人；坐在轮椅上的残疾人士；以及站在中央祭坛周围的宗教团体成员。\n 教皇走到哪里，徐主教就跟到哪里。这位 50 岁的主教在不到 18 个月前被任命为香港教区的负责人，他向教皇介绍了大多数贵宾，呼唤他的注意和祝福，带领他在合适的时间到达所有正确的地方。\n 这位瘦削的教皇被护送到祭坛的台阶上，他穿上绿色和象牙色的丝绸法衣，准备庆祝教皇高弥撒。\n 当双语的祈祷和请求在体育场回响时，雨开始稳稳地下起来。\n 在场的英国人感受到的氛围让他们想起了伊丽莎白二世女王的加冕典礼，当时淋湿的人群耐心地聆听着从威斯敏斯特教堂传来的祝圣祈祷。\n 在奉献仪式上，五彩斑斓的雨伞纷纷撑起。但那些听到保罗说他很高兴能与他在香港的儿女们在一起——“世界上最大的华人教区”——的人们则目不转睛。\n 教皇对香港的访问在代理总督诺曼 - 沃克的言辞中被形容为 “过于短暂”，他在下午 1 点 30 分刚欢迎教皇，三小时后便告别了。\n 但这短短的几个小时足以给香港的 247,000 名天主教徒带来巨大的精神振奋，因为尽管他们是世界上最大的华人天主教社区，但他们从未受到过教会首领的访问。\n 此次访问对殖民地的教会团结运动大有裨益，而这一运动是世界上最强大的之一。天主教消息人士表示，甚至在他们来不及向教皇弥撒发出邀请之前，许多其他教会的领导人已表达了希望参加的愿望。\n 与教皇及约 50 位来自多个宗教的部长和领袖一起祈祷的还有贝克主教。\n 贝克主教进一步通过给保罗写信来巩固香港生态运动的基础。在信中，他表达了对这位进行如此 “艰巨的使徒和传教之旅” 的教皇的钦佩，并表示香港的圣公会信徒正在祈祷，希望通过教皇的努力，“基督的讯息” 能被远东人民更深刻地理解。\n 艰辛\n 对于 73 岁的教皇来说，这三个小时是相当艰辛的。但在整个过程中，他看起来状态良好，步伐轻快。在他流动的白色法衣和白色小圆帽之间，他的脸色显得晒得黝黑，散发着健康的光泽。\n 保罗通常说话轻声缓慢。但在昨天，他在政府体育场对超过 50,000 人讲道时，他的扩音声音听起来非常疲惫，几乎虚弱，许多英语单词也说得磕磕绊绊，这些词对他来说并不容易。然而，有三个词他却重重地强调，每个音节都清晰可辨。\n 这些词出现在一个句子的末尾，在他讲道的最后：“基督也是中国的老师、牧者和慈爱的救赎者。”\n 教皇习惯于强调句子的最后几个词，但这一次他如此有力——远比他讲道的其他部分更为强烈——显然他希望他的爱与和平的信息能够传达到每一个中国人。\n 然而，他几乎只提到了中国。他决定克制自己对中国人民的公开表达的爱与关心，尽管天主教消息人士表示，他私下将 1970 年远东的使命与 1552 年在试图进入中国时去世的传教士方济各·沙勿略的使命进行了比较。\n</p>

<p>1970 年，保罗六世教皇访问香港，停留了三个小时，这对当地的天主教社区来说是一个重要的事件。尽管下着雨，他仍然受到 2 万名天主教儿童和 5 万名观众在政府体育场的热烈欢迎。他的访问强调了爱与团结，并向北越传达了和平的信息。这次访问为香港的天主教徒带来了精神上的振奋，是该地区首次迎来教皇的访问</p>

<p>This article was first published on December 5, 1970\nBy Staff reporters\nA red letter day for Hong Kong Catholics\nThe 73-year-old pontiff, looking fit in spite of his strenuous Asian tour, responded warmly. At times he stretched out his arms in a symbol of loving embrace, at others he blessed the crowds gathered to see him.\nHe seemed especially pleased by the spontaneous gaiety of the greeting which 20,000 Catholic children gave him at the Happy Valley Racecourse to which he was taken by helicopter after his arrival at Kai Tak.\nMessage of love\nIn spite of the drizzle and a cold wind, he asked for the closed top of the car to be opened. He then stood up so that the children could see him.\nAt this, the cheers merged into a continuous, thunderous roar.\nThe expression of love – the main theme of the pope’s Asian tour – was also the message he conveyed to all Chinese people, including those in China, in his much-awaited farewell speech at Kai Tak Airport after the mass at the Government Stadium.\n“Christ is a teacher, a shepherd and a loving redeemer for China too,” he declared.\n“The Church cannot leave unsaid this good word: love, which will be forever.”\nFor Hong Kong, too, he had special words. In his airport broadcast he referred to the vast progress Hong Kong had made in recent years and added:\n“We shall invoke God’s blessing on your continued efforts to promote justice, prosperity and peace.”\n\nAs his special aircraft took him away, His Holiness sent a message to North Vietnam expressing the wish “that the sincere efforts of the interested parties may promptly lead to the just peace so greatly desired”.\nThe pope was greeted at his arrival at the airport by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong, Monsignor Francis Hsu, by the acting governor, Sir Hugh Norman-Walker, and by the colony’s leading citizens.\nFrom there, the pope and his entourage were flown in four helicopters to the racecourse where shouts of “Viva il Papa” added to the thunderous ovation.\nAfter his racecourse tour, the pope was driven to the Government Stadium when 50,000 people gave him another tremendous welcome.\nThe royal procession around the arena in an open jeep was greeted by elderly folk clapping hands entwined with rosaries, flag-waving children and teenagers uttering shrieks and screams usually accorded “pop” stars.\nAll were craning forward to see the pale countenance, the lifted hands and heart-warming smile. On the far side of the arena, youngsters became almost delirious with excitement.\nThe Holy Father became infected with this overwhelming enthusiasm and he blew kisses, made the sign of the cross and raised his arms wide as if he would enfold this multitude of Christians to his heart. This was perhaps the most moving moment.\nThe jeep edged past the guard of honour. Tired and cramps forgotten, the scouts and guides had their moment of glory.\n\nAnd descending from the jeep, the pope went first to the purple-clad Anglican Bishop, the Right Reverend Gilbert Baker, who with Mrs Baker, received warm handshakes and cordial greetings.\nOther guests of honour were met in turn: other clergy; then holders of papal honours; the disabled in wheelchairs; and members of religious orders standing four-square around the central altar.\nEverywhere the pope went, Bishop Hsu was at his elbow. The 50-year-old bishop, whose appointment to head the Hong Kong diocese was made less than 18 months ago, introduced most of the dignitaries to His Holiness, called his attention and blessing to special groups, and guided him to all the right places at the right times.\nThe slender pontiff was escorted to the steps of the altar, where he donned green and ivory silk vestments for the celebration of the Papal High Mass.\nPrayers and petitions, bilingual and reverberating around the stadium, were in progress when the rain commenced to fall steadily.\nSomething in the atmosphere reminded English folk present of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, when drenched crowds stood patiently listening to the consecration prayers relayed from Westminster Abbey.\nDuring the offertory presentation umbrellas went up in colourful array. But the people who had heard Paul say he was happy to be with his sons and daughters in Hong Kong – “the largest Chinese diocese in the world” – stood spellbound.\nThe pope’s visit to Hong Kong was “all too brief” in the words of the acting governor, Norman-Walker, who welcomed him just before 1.30pm and said goodbye barely three hours later.\nBut those few hours were enough to give Hong Kong’s 247,000 Catholics a great spiritual uplift, for although they made up the world’s largest Chinese Catholic community, they have never before been visited by the head of their church.\nThe visit did much good for the colony’s church-unity movement, which is one of the world’s strongest. Catholic sources said that even before they had time to send out invitations to the papal mass, many leaders of other churches had expressed a desire to attend.\nAnd praying with the pope and about 50 ministers and leaders of several religions was the Bishop Baker.\nBishop Baker further shored up the foundations of the Hong Kong ecumenical movement yesterday with a letter to Paul. In it, he expressed admiration for the pontiff, who had undertaken such an “arduous apostolic and missionary journey”, and said Hong Kong Anglicans were praying that, through the pope’s labours, the “message of Christ” might be more deeply understood by the people of the Far East.\nStrenuous\nIt was a strenuous three hours for the 73-year-old pontiff. But throughout, he looked well and walked with a spry step. Between his flowing white robes and white skullcap, his face looked sun-tanned and had a warm glow of health.\nPaul usually speaks softly and slowly. But yesterday while preaching to just over 50,000 people in the Government Stadium, his amplified voice sounded very tired, almost weak, and he faltered over many of the English words that don’t come easily to him. There were however, three words that he pronounced with heavy emphasis, every syllable distinct.\nThe words came at the end of a sentence, at the end of his sermon: “Christ is a teacher, a shepherd and a loving redeemer FOR CHINA TOO.”\nHis Holiness habitually emphasises the last words of a sentence, but this time he was so forceful – far more so than in any other part of his sermon – that it was clear he wanted his message of love and peace to reach Chinese everywhere.\nThat however, was virtually all he said about China. He had decided to restrain his public expressions of love and concern for the Chinese people, although Catholic sources said he had privately compared his 1970 Far East mission to that of Francis Xavier, the missionary who died on the island of Shangchuan in 1552 while trying to get into China.\n</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>这篇文章首次发表于 1970 年 12 月 5 日\n 作者：工作人员\n 香港天主教徒的红字日\n 这位 73 岁的教皇，尽管在紧张的亚洲之行中依然显得精神焕发，热情回应了大家的欢迎。有时他伸出双臂，象征着爱的拥抱，有时则祝福聚集在他身边的人群。\n 他似乎对 2 万名天主教儿童在跑马地赛马场自发的欢快问候感到特别高兴，他是乘直升机在抵达启德后被带到那里。\n 爱的讯息\n 尽管细雨和寒风袭来，他还是要求打开汽车的封闭车顶。然后他站起身来，让孩子们能看到他。\n 此时，欢呼声合成了一阵持续的雷鸣般的轰响。\n 爱的表达——教皇亚洲之行的主要主题——也是他在政府体育场弥撒后，在启德机场备受期待的告别演讲中传达给所有中国人民（包括中国大陆人民）的讯息。\n“基督也是中国的老师、牧者和慈爱的救赎者，” 他宣称。\n“教会不能不说出这个美好的话：爱，将永远存在。”\n 对于香港，他也有特别的话语。在他的机场广播中，他提到了香港近年来取得的巨大进步，并补充道：\n“我们将祈求上帝的祝福，愿你们继续努力促进正义、繁荣与和平。”\n\n 当他的专机带着他离开时，教皇向北越发出了信息，表达了 “希望相关各方的真诚努力能迅速带来大家所渴望的公正和平”。\n 教皇在机场抵达时受到了香港罗马公教主教徐枫枢机、代理总督休·诺曼 - 沃克爵士以及殖民地的主要市民的欢迎。\n 从那里，教皇和他的随行人员乘坐四架直升机飞往赛马场，现场 “万岁教皇” 的呼喊声更是让热烈的欢呼声达到了高潮。\n 在赛马场的参观结束后，教皇被送往政府体育场，50,000 人再次给予他热烈的欢迎。\n 在开放的吉普车上绕场游行时，年长者们手握念珠拍手，挥舞旗帜的孩子和青少年则发出通常只会给予 “流行” 明星的尖叫声。\n 所有人都向前倾身，想要看到那张苍白的面容、举起的双手和温暖的微笑。在场地的另一侧，年轻人们几乎兴奋得失去理智。\n 圣父被这种压倒性的热情感染，他吹吻、划十字，并张开双臂，仿佛要将这群基督徒拥入怀中。这或许是最感人的时刻。\n 吉普车缓缓经过荣誉卫队。疲惫和抽筋被遗忘，童子军和女童军们迎来了他们的荣耀时刻。\n\n 下车后，教皇首先走向身穿紫色的圣公会主教吉尔伯特·贝克，贝克和夫人热情握手并互致问候。\n 其他贵宾依次受到接见：其他神职人员；然后是持有教皇荣誉的人；坐在轮椅上的残疾人士；以及站在中央祭坛周围的宗教团体成员。\n 教皇走到哪里，徐主教就跟到哪里。这位 50 岁的主教在不到 18 个月前被任命为香港教区的负责人，他向教皇介绍了大多数贵宾，呼唤他的注意和祝福，带领他在合适的时间到达所有正确的地方。\n 这位瘦削的教皇被护送到祭坛的台阶上，他穿上绿色和象牙色的丝绸法衣，准备庆祝教皇高弥撒。\n 当双语的祈祷和请求在体育场回响时，雨开始稳稳地下起来。\n 在场的英国人感受到的氛围让他们想起了伊丽莎白二世女王的加冕典礼，当时淋湿的人群耐心地聆听着从威斯敏斯特教堂传来的祝圣祈祷。\n 在奉献仪式上，五彩斑斓的雨伞纷纷撑起。但那些听到保罗说他很高兴能与他在香港的儿女们在一起——“世界上最大的华人教区”——的人们则目不转睛。\n 教皇对香港的访问在代理总督诺曼 - 沃克的言辞中被形容为 “过于短暂”，他在下午 1 点 30 分刚欢迎教皇，三小时后便告别了。\n 但这短短的几个小时足以给香港的 247,000 名天主教徒带来巨大的精神振奋，因为尽管他们是世界上最大的华人天主教社区，但他们从未受到过教会首领的访问。\n 此次访问对殖民地的教会团结运动大有裨益，而这一运动是世界上最强大的之一。天主教消息人士表示，甚至在他们来不及向教皇弥撒发出邀请之前，许多其他教会的领导人已表达了希望参加的愿望。\n 与教皇及约 50 位来自多个宗教的部长和领袖一起祈祷的还有贝克主教。\n 贝克主教进一步通过给保罗写信来巩固香港生态运动的基础。在信中，他表达了对这位进行如此 “艰巨的使徒和传教之旅” 的教皇的钦佩，并表示香港的圣公会信徒正在祈祷，希望通过教皇的努力，“基督的讯息” 能被远东人民更深刻地理解。\n 艰辛\n 对于 73 岁的教皇来说，这三个小时是相当艰辛的。但在整个过程中，他看起来状态良好，步伐轻快。在他流动的白色法衣和白色小圆帽之间，他的脸色显得晒得黝黑，散发着健康的光泽。\n 保罗通常说话轻声缓慢。但在昨天，他在政府体育场对超过 50,000 人讲道时，他的扩音声音听起来非常疲惫，几乎虚弱，许多英语单词也说得磕磕绊绊，这些词对他来说并不容易。然而，有三个词他却重重地强调，每个音节都清晰可辨。\n 这些词出现在一个句子的末尾，在他讲道的最后：“基督也是中国的老师、牧者和慈爱的救赎者。”\n 教皇习惯于强调句子的最后几个词，但这一次他如此有力——远比他讲道的其他部分更为强烈——显然他希望他的爱与和平的信息能够传达到每一个中国人。\n 然而，他几乎只提到了中国。他决定克制自己对中国人民的公开表达的爱与关心，尽管天主教消息人士表示，他私下将 1970 年远东的使命与 1552 年在试图进入中国时去世的传教士方济各·沙勿略的使命进行了比较。\n</p>
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教皇于 1970 年访问香港 3 小时——摘自《南华早报》档案