常年期第十五周星期五
Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
读经一
恭读依撒意亚先知书 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8
那时候，希则克雅病重将死，阿摩兹的儿子依撒意亚先知前来看他，并对他说：”上主这样说：快料理你的家务，因为你快死，不能久活了！”希则克雅就转面朝墙恳求上主说：”上主！求你记忆我如何怀着忠诚虔敬的心，在你面前行走；如何作了你视为正义的事。”然后希则克雅放声大哭。上主的话传给依撒意亚说：”你去对希则克雅说：上主，你祖先达味的天主这样说：我听见了你的祈祷，看见了你的眼泪；看，我要在你的寿数上多加十五年，且由亚述王手中拯救你和这座城，我必要保护这座城。”
依撒意亚遂吩咐说：”拿一块无花果饼来，贴在他的疮口上，他就会好了。”希则克雅曾问说：”有什么凭据，我将登上上主的殿？”依撒意亚回答说：”上主必实践他所说的话，这将是给你的记号：看，我要使那射在阿哈次的日晷上的日影倒退十度。”果然，射在日晷上的日影倒退了十度。
Reading 1
A reading from the book of the Prophet Isaiah 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8
When Hezekiah was mortally ill,
the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, came and said to him:
“Thus says the LORD: Put your house in order,
for you are about to die; you shall not recover.”
Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord:
“O LORD, remember how faithfully and wholeheartedly
I conducted myself in your presence,
doing what was pleasing to you!”
And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah: “Go, tell Hezekiah:
Thus says the LORD, the God of your father David:
I have heard your prayer and seen your tears.
I will heal you: in three days you shall go up to the Lord’s temple;
I will add fifteen years to your life.
I will rescue you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria;
I will be a shield to this city.”
Isaiah then ordered a poultice of figs to be taken
and applied to the boil, that he might recover.
Then Hezekiah asked,
“What is the sign that I shall go up to the temple of the LORD?”
Isaiah answered:
“This will be the sign for you from the LORD
that he will do what he has promised:
See, I will make the shadow cast by the sun
on the stairway to the terrace of Ahaz
go back the ten steps it has advanced.”
So the sun came back the ten steps it had advanced.
福音
恭读圣玛窦福音 12:1-8
那时，耶稣在安息日由麦田中经过；他的门徒饿了，开始掐麦穗吃。法利塞人一见，便对他说：”看，他的门徒作安息日不许作的事。”耶稣对他们说：”你们没有念过：达味与那些同他在一起的人，饥饿时，作了什么？他怎样进了天主的殿，吃了供饼？这供饼原是不准他吃，也不准同他在一起的人吃，而是只许司祭吃的。或者你们在法律上没有念过：在安息日，司祭在圣殿内违犯了安息日，也不算为罪过吗？但我告诉你们：这里有比圣殿更大的。假如你们了解‘我喜欢仁爱胜过祭献’是什么，你们就决不会判断无罪的人了，因为人子是安息日的主。”
Gospel
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew 12:1-8
Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath.
His disciples were hungry
and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him,
“See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath.”
He said to the them, “Have you not read what David did
when he and his companions were hungry,
how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering,
which neither he nor his companions
but only the priests could lawfully eat?
Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath
the priests serving in the temple violate the sabbath
and are innocent?
I say to you, something greater than the temple is here.
If you knew what this meant, I desire mercy, not sacrifice,
you would not have condemned these innocent men.
For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath.”