神父講道 – 常年期第十七週 (週一) (2018年7月30日)

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

Jesus proposed a parable to the crowds. “The Kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in a field. It is the smallest of all the seeds, yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants. It becomes a large bush, and the ‘birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches.'”
He spoke to them another parable. “The Kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened.”
All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables. He spoke to them only in parables, to fulfill what had been said through the prophet:
I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has lain hidden from the foundation of the world.

—The Gospel of the Lord.

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