恭讀聖路加福音 12:13-21

那時候,人群中有一個人向耶穌說:「師傅,請吩咐我的兄弟與我分家吧!」耶穌對他說:「人哪!誰立了我做你們的判官,為你們分家呢?」遂對他們說:「你們要謹慎,躲避一切貪婪,因為一個人縱然富裕,他的生命並不在於他的資產。」
耶穌對他們設了一個比喻說:「有一個富翁,他的田地出產豐富。他心裏想道:我可怎麼辦呢?因為我已沒有地方收藏我的物產。他遂說:我要這樣做:我要拆毀我的倉房,另建更大的,好在那裏收藏我的一切穀類及財物。以後,我要對我的靈魂說:靈魂哪!你存有大量的財物,足夠多年之用,你休息吧!吃喝宴樂吧!天主卻對他說:糊塗人哪!今夜就要索回你的靈魂,你所儲備的,將歸誰呢?那為自己厚積財產而不在天主面前致富的,也是如此。」

—上主的話。

(29th Week in Ordinary Time – Monday)

(Memorial of St. John Paul II, Pope)

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 12:13-21

Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.” He replied to him, “Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?” Then he said to the crowd, “Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions.”
Then he told them a parable. “There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful harvest. He asked himself, ‘What shall I do, for I do not have space to store my harvest?’ And he said, ‘This is what I shall do: I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones. There I shall store all my grain and other goods and I shall say to myself, “Now as for you, you have so many good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink, be merry!”’ But God said to him, ‘You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?’ Thus will it be for the one who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich in what matters to God.”

—The Gospel of the Lord.

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