恭讀聖路加福音 5:33-39
那時候,法利塞人和經師對耶穌說:「若翰的門徒屢次禁食,行祈禱;法利塞人的門徒也是這樣;而你的門徒卻又吃又喝!」耶穌回答說:「伴郎與新郎在一起的時候,你們豈能叫他們禁食?但日子將要來到,當新郎從他們手中被劫去時,在那些日子,他們就要禁食了。」他又對他們講比喻說:「沒有人從新衣服上撕下一塊作補釘,補在舊衣上的;不然,新的撕破了,而且從新衣上撕下的補釘,與舊的也不相稱。也沒有人把新酒裝入舊皮囊的;不然,新酒要漲破皮囊。酒要流出來﹐皮囊也破了﹐所以新酒應裝入新皮囊。也沒有人喝著陳酒,願意喝新酒的,因為他說:還是陳酒好。」
-基督的福音。
(Friday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time)
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 5:33-39
33 And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.” 34 And Jesus said to them, “Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? 35 The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.” 36 He told them a parable also: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it upon an old garment; if he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. 38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking old wine desires new; for he says, `The old is good.'”
—The Gospel of the Lord.
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