恭讀聖瑪竇福音 12:1-8
那時,耶穌在安息日由麥田中經過;他的門徒餓了,開始掐麥穗吃。法利塞人一見,便對他說:「看,他的門徒作安息日不許作的事。」耶穌對他們說:「你們沒有念過:達味與那些同他在一起的人,饑餓時,作了什麼?他怎樣進了天主的殿,吃了供餅?這供餅原是不准他吃,也不准同他在一起的人吃,而是只許司祭吃的。或者你們在法律上沒有念過:在安息日,司祭在聖殿內違犯了安息日,也不算為罪過嗎?但我告訴你們:這裏有比聖殿更大的。假如你們瞭解『我喜歡仁愛勝過祭獻』是什麼,你們就決不會判斷無罪的人了,因為人子是安息日的主。」
—上主的話。
(15th Week in Ordinary Time – Friday)
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew 12:1-8
1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.” 3 He said to them, “Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him: 4 how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? 5 Or have you not read in the law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless? 6 I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. 7 And if you had known what this means, `I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. 8 For the Son of man is lord of the Sabbath.”
—The Gospel of the Lord.
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媽媽曾經因為自己剛領洗時, 很少去彌撒而懺悔, 但修女說您總不能放下幾名張開口等食物的小兒女去作其他的事而不顧, 天主是照顧孤兒寡婦的主.
我母親是一個對交在她手上的所有人地事物都愛到最盡的人,不論家人. 朋友. 小動物.物件如:一張舊報紙.一條縫衣線, 一個膠袋,沒有一位或一件不被媽媽耗盡而白費了生命的, 縱使是[死物], 媽也會想著它可有甚麼用途呢? 即時想不到會收起來看看有甚麼用.
人看表面,天主要看人心 。 媽媽心中是一片皎潔無瑕,一生為自己所愛的獻上了青春,耗盡了精力,給孩子無限的愛; 感謝媽媽的海量汪涵,從不跟我們計較,當我心中有愧,想向她賠個不是時,誰知她竟說: 我不覺得你不孝…..,我佩服媽媽的智慧。
敬畏上主是智慧的開始(德1:16),媽媽尊敬長輩,謙卑自下,待人以誠,對兒孫更是死心塌地、義無反顧的愛到最深。一生曲折,卻永不言棄;農曆年媽離世時, 還是很謙卑的,不要求甚麼就離去了, 媽,我永遠對不起您, 您一生為我們賺取最多的錢, 最大的恩寵, 單是我一個的生命已是您以一生神貧向上主換取的, 您是世俗的仇敵, 省吃省穿省用, 我是世俗的追隨者,每天趕潮流.愛時尚, 早與您背道而馳, 對您厭倦, 對您的慳儉更是厭惡, 您肉體上的缺陷, 掩蓋不住您的光彩, 再感謝您仗義相救, 臨終時, 明知有葯可醫病卻寧願放棄, 留給我多點錢, 不至老來無依. 媽, 我對不起您, 永遠愛您. 求您在樂園裡記我一念.
Jane,
一段很感人的分享。其中有些片段讓我記起台灣的一套電影:踏錯車。
謝謝您!
梁神父