主日講道 – 常年期第十一主日 (2015年6月14日)

恭讀聖馬爾谷福音 4:26-34

那時候,耶穌對群眾說:「天主的國,好比一個人,把種子撒在地裡;他黑夜白天,或睡覺或起來,那種子發芽生長,至於怎樣,他卻不知道,因為土地自然生長果實:先發苗,後吐穗,最後穗上長滿麥粒。當果實成熟的時候,他便立刻派人,以鐮刀收割,因為到了收穫的時期。」
耶穌又說:「我們以什麼比擬天主的國呢?或用什麼比喻,來形容它呢?它好像一粒芥子,種在地裡的時候,比地上一切的種子都小;當下種之後,生長起來,比一切蔬菜都大;並且長出粗大的枝條,以致天上的飛鳥,都能棲息在它的葉蔭下。」
耶穌用許多這樣的比喻,按照群眾所能聽懂的,給他們講道。如果不用比喻,耶穌就不給他們講什麼,但私底下,卻給自己的門徒解釋一切。

—上主的話。

(11th Sunday in Ordinary Time)

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark 4:26-34

26 And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed upon the ground, 27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he knows not how. 28 The earth produces of itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29 But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.” 30 And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? 31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; 32 yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.” 33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; 34 he did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

—The Gospel of the Lord.

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