恭讀聖瑪竇福音 18: 12-14
「你們以為怎樣?如果一個人有一百隻羊,其中一隻迷失了路,他豈不把九十九隻羊留在山上,而去找尋那只迷失了路的嗎?如果他找到了,我切實告訴你們,他為這一隻,比那沒有走失的九十九隻,更要喜歡呢!因此,你們在天之父也同樣不願這些小孩中的一個喪失。」
—基督的福音。
(Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent )
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew 18:12-14
12 What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go in search of the one that went astray? 13 And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. 14 So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
—The Gospel of the Lord.
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