恭讀聖瑪竇福音 13:31-35

那時,耶穌給群眾設一個比喻說:「天國好像一粒芥子,人把它撒在自己的田裏。它固然是各樣種子裏最小的,但當它長起來,卻比各種蔬菜都大,竟成了樹,什至天上的飛鳥也飛來,在它枝上棲息。」
他又給他們講了一個比喻:「天國好像酵母,女人取來藏在三斗麵裏,直到全部發了酵。」
耶穌用比喻給群眾講解了這一切,不用比喻就不給他們講什麼;這樣應驗了先知所說的話:「我要開口說比喻,要說出由創世以來隱密的事。」

—上主的話。

(17th Week in Ordinary Time – Monday)

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew 13:31-35

31 Another parable he put before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field; 32 it is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.” 33 He told them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.” 34 All this Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed he said nothing to them without a parable. 35 This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.”

—The Gospel of the Lord.

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