进堂咏
万民,你们要鼓掌欢呼,歌颂上主。(咏47:2)
集祷经
天主,你既仁慈地收纳我们,使我们成为光明之子;求你恩赐我们时常生活在真理的光辉中,不要让错谬的黑暗笼罩我们。因你的圣子、我们的主耶稣基督,他和你及圣神,是唯一天主,永生永王。亚孟。
读经一(我必使饥饿临于此地,不是对食物的饥饿,而是对听上主的话的饥渴。)
恭读亚毛斯先知书 8:4-6,9-12
压榨穷人,使世上弱小者绝迹的人哪!你们应听。你们说:“月朔几时才过去,好让我们卖五谷?安息日几时才过去,好让我们打开粮仓,缩小“厄法”,加重“协刻耳”,用假秤欺人?用银钱购买穷人,以一双鞋换取贫人,连麦糠也卖掉?”在那一天--我主上主的断语--我必使太阳在中午落下,使大地白昼变为黑暗;使你们的喜庆变为丧事,使你们的一切乐曲变为哀歌,使你们都腰系苦衣,头都剃光;使你们哀悼,如哀悼独生子,使那一天始终是愁苦的日子。看,那些日子一来临--我主上主的断语--我必使饥饿临于此地,不是对食物的饥饿,也不是对水的饥渴,而是对听上主的话的饥渴。他们必由这海走到那海,由北至东,去寻求上主的话,但却寻不到。
--上主的话。
答唱咏 咏119:2,10,20,30,40,131
【答】:人生活不只靠饼,也靠天主口中所发的一切语言。
领:遵守上主诫命、全心寻求他的人,真是有福。【答】
领:我要全心寻觅你,不要让我错行你的旨意!【答】
领:我因常常渴慕你的谕令,以致心力交瘁。【答】
领:我选定了真理的途径,我矢志服从你的谕令。【答】
领:看,我如何渴慕你的规约,求你按照你的正义,赐我生命。【答】
领:我张开口嗟叹唏嘘,因为我极渴慕你的诫律。【答】
福音前欢呼
领:亚肋路亚。
众:亚肋路亚。
领:凡劳苦和负重担的,你们都到我跟前来,我要使你们安息。
众:亚肋路亚。
福音(不是健康的人需要医生;我喜欢慈悲胜过祭献。)
恭读圣玛窦福音 9:9-13
那时候,耶稣从葛法翁前行,看见一个人在税关那里坐着,名叫玛窦,对他说:“跟随我!”他就起来跟随了耶稣。当耶稣在屋内坐席时,有许多税吏和罪人也来同耶稣和他的门徒一起坐席。法利塞人看见,就对他的门徒说:“你们的老师为什么同税吏和罪人一起进食呢?”耶稣听见了,就说:“不是健康的人需要医生,而是有病的人。你们去研究一下:‘我喜欢仁爱胜过祭献’是什么意思;我不是来召义人,而是来召罪人。”
--上主的话。
献礼经
天主,你以圣事继续你的救世工程;求你藉此圣祭,帮助我们虔诚地事奉你,以获得你的救恩。因主耶稣基督之名,求你俯听我们的祈祷。亚孟。
领主咏
主说:父啊!我为他们祈求,愿众人合而为一,为使世人相信是你派遣了我。(若17:20-21)
领圣体后经
上主,我们参与了这祭献,领受了共融的圣事,求你使我们充满活力,并以永恒的爱与你合而为一,结出永生的果实。因主耶稣基督之名,求你俯听我们的祈祷。亚孟。
有时我们不明白,甚至不尝试去明白法利塞人。虽然有些法利塞人是耶稣的敌人,但大多数的法利塞人都是热心的犹太人。他们谨守梅瑟法律,敬畏上主。不过,他们的确心高气傲,视自己为高人一等,是洁净的,并把人分为不同等级;比如税吏、娼妓、癞病人等,就被视为败坏的,是完全不值得天主爱怜的人。他们这种极端的形式主义,激起耶稣的强烈反感及责斥。
耶稣有教无类,循循善诱。祂是天主爱的化身,关怀爱护每一个人。从来没有一个人,现在没有,将来亦不会有任何一个人是天主不爱的、不愿意救赎的。耶稣召叫每一个人,祂没有在当时的宗教领袖中拣选祂的门徒;祂在低下阶层,目不识丁,被人摈弃的人中,拣选祂的十二位宗徒。耶稣有容乃大,甚至在祂的友人中,就有几个是法利塞人。
耶稣连祂的敌人都爱。祂愿意在黑暗中的人看见光明,愿意盲者复明,愿意心灵破碎的人得到康复。
主,仰赖祢的恩宠,但愿我们都能一次又一次向反对我们的人,向敌视我们的人,伸出友谊之手。愿我们努力求同存异,活出祢圆满的国度。
We sometimes fail to understand or even try to understand the Pharisees. Though some of them were adversaries of Jesus, mostly they seem to have been good people, devout Jews, who were meticulous in practising their faith and were trying to do what was right and pleasing to God. Their piety goes somewhat awry when in their seemingly smug self-righteousness they categorize people into different levels of or leagues of sanctity and judge others to be less observant and only minor league believers or, as in the case of tax collectors, prostitutes, lepers and others, so corrupt as to be completely unworthy of God's love and concern and so they sometimes run afoul of Jesus.
Jesus teaches and is God's love and cares for every human being. There is not nor ever was or will be a human being that God doesn't love and want to redeem. Jesus calls us and chooses his closest disciples not from among the religious superstars of his day but from the minor leagues, from the misfits or from among those who have been disinvited. But Jesus still had friends and followers among the Pharisees.
Jesus loved his adversaries. He did not exclude anyone, not even those from the opposite ends of the spectrum or those in the middle of the spectrum. He sought to bring light to those in darkness, sight to those who were blind and wholeness to those who were fractured.
Lord, lead us to extend an olive branch to the children of God who discount or oppose us.
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