圣雅各伯宗徒庆日
Feast of Saint James, Apostle
读经一
恭读圣保禄宗徒致格林多人后书 4:7-15
弟兄们：我们是在瓦器中存有这宝贝，为彰显那卓著的力量是属于天主，并非出于我们。我们在各方面受了磨难，却没有被困住；绝了路，却没有绝望；被迫害，却没有被舍弃；被打倒，却没有丧亡；身上时常带着耶稣的死状，为使耶稣的生活也彰显在我们身上。的确，我们这些活着的人，时常为耶稣的缘故被交于死亡，为使耶稣的生活也彰显在我们会死的肉身上。这样看来，死亡施展在我们身上，生活却施展在你们身上。但我们既然具有经上所载的：「我信了，所以我说」那同样的信心，我们也信，所以也说，因为我们知道那使主耶稣复活的，也要使我们与耶稣一起复活，并使我们与你们一同站在他前。其实，这一切都是为了你们，为使获得恩宠的人越增多，感谢也越增加，好归光荣于天主。
Reading 1
A reading from the second letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians 4:7-15
Brothers and sisters:
We hold this treasure in earthen vessels,
that the surpassing power may be of God and not from us.
We are afflicted in every way, but not constrained;
perplexed, but not driven to despair;
persecuted, but not abandoned;
struck down, but not destroyed;
always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus,
so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body.
For we who live are constantly being given up to death
for the sake of Jesus,
so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.So death is at work in us, but life in you.
Since, then, we have the same spirit of faith,
according to what is written, I believed, therefore I spoke,
we too believe and therefore speak,
knowing that the one who raised the Lord Jesus
will raise us also with Jesus
and place us with you in his presence.
Everything indeed is for you,
so that the grace bestowed in abundance on more and more people
may cause the thanksgiving to overflow for the glory of God.
福音
恭读圣玛窦福音 20:20-28
那时，载伯德儿子的母亲，同自己的儿子前来，叩拜耶稣，请求他一件事。耶稣对她说：“你要什么？”她回答说：“你叫我的这两个儿子，在你王国内，一个坐在你的右边，一个坐在你的左边。”耶稣回答说：“你们不知道你们所求的是什么，你们能饮我将要饮的爵吗？”他们说：“我们能。”耶稣对他们说：“我的爵你们固然要饮；但坐在右边或左边，不是我可以给的，而是我父给谁预备了，就给谁。”那十个门徒听了，就恼怒他们两兄弟。
耶稣叫过他们来说：“你们知道：外邦人有首长主宰他们，有大臣管辖他们。在你们中却不可这样；谁若愿意在你们中成为大的，就当作你们的仆役；谁若愿意在你们中为首，就当作你们的奴仆。就如人子来不是受服侍，而是服侍人，并交出自己的生命，为大众作赎价。”
Gospel
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew 20:20-28
The mother of the sons of Zebedee approached Jesus with her sons
and did him homage, wishing to ask him for something.
He said to her,
“What do you wish?”
She answered him,
“Command that these two sons of mine sit,
one at your right and the other at your left, in your Kingdom.”
Jesus said in reply,
“You do not know what you are asking.
Can you drink the chalice that I am going to drink?”
They said to him, “We can.”
He replied,
“My chalice you will indeed drink,
but to sit at my right and at my left, this is not mine to give
but is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”
When the ten heard this,
they became indignant at the two brothers.
But Jesus summoned them and said,
“You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them,
and the great ones make their authority over them felt.
But it shall not be so among you.
Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant;
whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave.
Just so, the Son of Man did not come to be served
but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”