神父講道 – 常年期第十一主日 (2021年6月13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

Jesus said to the crowds: “This is how it is with the kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and day and through it all the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how. Of its own accord the land yields fruit, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once, for the harvest has come.”
He said, “To what shall we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use for it? It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth. But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade.” With many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to understand it. Without parables he did not speak to them, but to his own disciples he explained everything in private.

—The Gospel of the Lord.

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