常年期第十六周星期六
Saturday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time
读经一
恭读耶肋米亚先知书 7:1-11
上主有话传给耶肋米亚说：“你站在上主殿宇的门口，宣布这话说：你们凡由这些门进来，朝拜上主的犹大人，请听上主的话。万军的上主，以色列的天主这样说：改善你们的生活和行为，我就让你们住在这地方；不要信赖虚伪的话说：这是上主的圣殿，上主的圣殿，上主的圣殿！只有你们彻底改善你们的生活和行为，在人与人之间行事公道，不虐待旅客、孤儿、寡妇，不在这地方倾流无辜者的血，不自招祸患去跟随外方的神祇，我才让你们住在这地方，即我从开始便永远赐给了你们祖先的土地。可惜！你们竟信赖虚伪无益的话。怎么！你们竟偷盗，凶杀，通奸，发虚誓，向巴耳献香，跟随素不相识的外方神祇，然后来到这座归我名下的殿里，立在我面前说：‘我们有了保障！’好再去行这一切可恶的事？难道这座归我名下的殿宇，在你们眼中竟成了贼窝了吗？哎！我看实在是这样——上主的断语。”
Reading 1
A reading from the book of the Prophet Jeremiah 7:1-11
The following message came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
Stand at the gate of the house of the LORD,
and there proclaim this message:
Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah
who enter these gates to worship the LORD!
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:
Reform your ways and your deeds,
so that I may remain with you in this place.
Put not your trust in the deceitful words:
“This is the temple of the LORD!
The temple of the LORD! The temple of the LORD!”
Only if you thoroughly reform your ways and your deeds;
if each of you deals justly with his neighbor;
if you no longer oppress the resident alien,
the orphan, and the widow;
if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place,
or follow strange gods to your own harm,
will I remain with you in this place,
in the land I gave your fathers long ago and forever.
But here you are, putting your trust in deceitful words to your own loss!
Are you to steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury,
burn incense to Baal,
go after strange gods that you know not,
and yet come to stand before me
in this house which bears my name, and say:
“We are safe; we can commit all these abominations again”?
Has this house which bears my name
become in your eyes a den of thieves?
I too see what is being done, says the LORD.
福音
恭读圣玛窦福音 13:24-30
耶稣给群众设了一个比喻说：“天国好像一个人，在自己田里撒了好种子；但在人睡觉的时候，他的仇人来，在麦子中间撒上莠子，就走了。苗长起来，抽出穗的时候，莠子也显出来了。家主的仆人就前来对他说：主人！你不是在你田地里撒了好种子吗！那么从那里来了莠子？家主对他们说：这是仇人做的。仆人对他说：那么，你愿我们去把莠子收集起来吗？他却说：不，免得你们收集莠子时，连麦子也拔了出来。让两样一起长到收割的时候好了；在收割时，我要对收割的人说：你们先收集莠子，把莠子捆起来，好投入炉中燃烧，再把麦子收入我的仓里。”
Gospel
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew 13:24-30
Jesus proposed a parable to the crowds.
“The Kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man
who sowed good seed in his field.
While everyone was asleep his enemy came
and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off.
When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well.
The slaves of the householder came to him and said,
‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field?
Where have the weeds come from?’
He answered, ‘An enemy has done this.’
His slaves said to him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
He replied, ‘No, if you pull up the weeds
you might uproot the wheat along with them.
Let them grow together until harvest;
then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters,
“First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning;
but gather the wheat into my barn.”