四旬期第三周星期四
Thursday of the Third Week of Lent
读经一
恭读耶肋米亚先知书 7:23-28
上主天主这样吩咐他的子民说：“你们应听从我的声音，那么我必作你们的天主，你们也必作我的人民；你们应走我吩咐你们的一切道路，好使你们获得幸福。他们不但不侧耳细听，反倒依照自己的计谋，随自己邪恶的心生活，顽固不化；不以面向我，却以背向我。从你们祖先出离埃及那一天起，直到今日，我给你们派遣了我所有的仆人先知，而且每天清早给你们派遣，但他们不但不侧耳听从我，反更硬起自己的颈项，比自己的祖先还要乖戾。纵使你将这一切话告诉他们，他们也不会听从你；任凭你怎样呼唤，他们也不会答应你。为此你对他们说：这个民族，不听上主自己天主的声音，不肯接受教训；忠实已丧失，已绝于他们口中。”
Reading 1
A reading from the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah 7:23-28
Thus says the LORD:
This is what I commanded my people:
Listen to my voice;
then I will be your God and you shall be my people.
Walk in all the ways that I command you,
so that you may prosper.
But they obeyed not, nor did they pay heed.
They walked in the hardness of their evil hearts
and turned their backs, not their faces, to me.
From the day that your fathers left the land of Egypt even to this day,
I have sent you untiringly all my servants the prophets.
Yet they have not obeyed me nor paid heed;
they have stiffened their necks and done worse than their fathers.
When you speak all these words to them,
they will not listen to you either;
when you call to them, they will not answer you.
Say to them:
This is the nation that does not listen
to the voice of the LORD, its God,
or take correction.
Faithfulness has disappeared;
the word itself is banished from their speech.
福音
恭读圣路加福音 11:14-23
那时，耶稣驱逐一个魔鬼——他是使人瘖哑的魔鬼；他出去以后，哑巴便说出话来，群众都惊讶不止。但是，其中有人说：“他是仗赖魔王贝耳则步驱魔。” 另一些人试探耶稣，向他要求一个自天而来的征兆。耶稣知道了他们的心意，便给他们说：“凡是一国自相纷争，必成废墟，一家一家的败落。如果撒殚自相纷争，他的国如何能存立呢？因为你们说我仗赖贝耳则步驱魔，如果我仗赖贝耳则步驱魔，你们的子弟们是仗赖谁驱魔呢？为此，他们将是你们的裁判者。如果我是仗赖天主的手指驱魔，那么，天主的国已来到你们中间了。几时壮士佩带武器，看守自己的宅舍，他的财产，必能安全。但是，如果有个比他强壮的来战胜他，必会把他所依仗的一切器械都夺去，而瓜分他的赃物。不随同我的，就是反对我；不同我收集的，就是分散。”
Gospel
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 11:14-23
Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute,
and when the demon had gone out,
the mute man spoke and the crowds were amazed.
Some of them said, “By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons,
he drives out demons.”
Others, to test him, asked him for a sign from heaven.
But he knew their thoughts and said to them,
“Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste
and house will fall against house.
And if Satan is divided against himself,
how will his kingdom stand?
For you say that it is by Beelzebul that I drive out demons.
If I, then, drive out demons by Beelzebul,
by whom do your own people drive them out?
Therefore they will be your judges.
But if it is by the finger of God that I drive out demons,
then the Kingdom of God has come upon you.
When a strong man fully armed guards his palace,
his possessions are safe.
But when one stronger than he attacks and overcomes him,
he takes away the armor on which he relied
and distributes the spoils.
Whoever is not with me is against me,
and whoever does not gather with me scatters.”