恭讀聖路加福音 14:1, 7-14

在安息日,耶穌進入一個法利塞人首領的家吃飯;他們就留心觀察他。
耶穌注意到被邀請的人,如何爭坐首席,便對他們講了一個比喻,說:「幾時你被請去赴婚宴,不要坐在首席,怕有比你更尊貴的客人,也被請來,那請你而又請他的主人,要來向你說:請讓座給這位客人!那時,你就要羞愧地退到末座。
「你幾時被請,應去坐末座,等那請你的主人,走來給你說:朋友,請上坐吧!那時,你在同席的眾人面前,才有光彩。因為,凡高舉自己的,必被貶抑;凡貶抑自己的,必被高舉。」
耶穌也向請他的人說:「幾時你設午宴或晚宴,不要請你的朋友、兄弟、親戚,及富有的鄰人,怕他們也要回請你,報答你。你幾時設宴,要請貧窮的、殘廢的、瘸腿的、瞎眼的人。
「這樣,你就有福了,因為他們沒有什麼可報答你;但在義人復活的時候,你必能得到賞報。」

—上主的話。

(22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time)

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 14:1, 7-14

On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully.
He told a parable to those who had been invited, noticing how they were choosing the places of honor at the table. “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at table in the place of honor. A more distinguished guest than you may have been invited by him, and the host who invited both of you may approach you and say, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and then you would proceed with embarrassment to take the lowest place. Rather, when you are invited, go and take the lowest place so that when the host comes to you he may say, ‘My friend, move up to a higher position.’ Then you will enjoy the esteem of your companions at the table. For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” Then he said to the host who invited him, “When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they may invite you back and you have repayment. Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

—The Gospel of the Lord.

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