達文西密碼演講稿開頭（英語小說閱讀0306達文西密碼第五章02）

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Now, sitting aboard a commercial airliner bound for Rome, Aringarosa gazed out the window at the dark Atlantic. The sun had already set, but Aringarosa knew his own star was on the rise. Tonight the battle will be won, he thought, amazed that only months ago he had felt powerless against the hands that threatened to destroy his empire.

As president-general of Opus Dei, Bishop Aringarosa had spent the last decade of his life spreading the message of "God's Work"—literally, Opus Dei. The congregation, founded in 1928 by the Spanish priest Josemaría Escrivá, promoted a return to conservative Catholic values and encouraged its members to make sweeping sacrifices in their own lives in order to do the Work of God.

Opus Dei's traditionalist philosophy initially had taken root in Spain before Franco's regime, but with the 1934 publication of Josemaría Escrivá's spiritual book The Way—999 points of meditation for doing God's Work in one's own life—Escrivá's message exploded across the world. Now, with over four million copies of The Way in circulation in forty-two languages, Opus Dei was a global force. Its residence halls, teaching centers, and even universities could be found in almost every major metropolis on earth. Opus Dei was the fastest-growing and most financially secure Catholic organization in the world. Unfortunately, Aringarosa had learned, in an age of religious cynicism, cults, and televangelists, Opus Dei's escalating wealth and power was a magnet for suspicion.

bound for 開往

cynicism 玩世不恭主義

televangelist 電視布道者

此刻阿林加洛沙正坐在飛往羅馬的商業客機上。他凝視著窗外黑暗的大西洋。太陽已經落山了，但阿林加洛沙自己的星星正在升起。今晚這一仗是會打贏的，他心裡想。想起幾個月前他對那些威脅要摧毀他帝國的傢伙束手無策時，他還心有餘悸。

作為天主事工會的總統帥，阿林加洛沙主教已經花了十年時間傳播"上帝的善行"的音訊--即天主事工會要遵循的訓示。這個教派於1928 年由西班牙牧師何塞馬利亞。埃斯克裡瓦創立，倡導回歸到保守的羅馬天主教價值觀上來，鼓勵信徒做出巨大的犧牲以便能做"上帝的善行"。

天主事工會中的傳統主義者的哲學在弗朗哥王朝以前就在西班牙紮下了根。但在1934 年，隨著何塞馬利亞。埃斯克裡瓦神聖的《路》一書的出版--書中記載著人一生中做"上帝的善行"時的999 點沉思錄--埃斯克裡瓦的思想頓時風靡全球。現在，由於有四十二種語言的四百萬冊《路》的發行量，天主事工會成為全球性的力量。它所建成的住宅用房，教學中心，甚至大學，遍及世界各大主要城市。天主事工會是全世界發展迅速、經濟最有保證的羅馬天主教組織。不幸的是，阿林加洛沙了解到，在一個充斥著宗教的玩世不恭主義、邪教和廣播電視福音傳道者的年代，天主事工會迅速增長的財富和影響力成了人們懷疑的焦點。