恭讀聖路加福音 14:1,7-11
在安息日,耶穌進了一個法利塞人首領的家中吃飯;他們就留心觀察他。
耶穌注意到被邀請的人,如何爭選首席,便對他們講了一個比喻說:「幾時你被人請去赴婚筵,不要坐在首席上,怕有比你更尊貴的客人也被請來,那請你而又請他的人要來向你說:請讓座給這個人!那時,你就要含羞地去坐末席了。你幾時被請,應去坐末座,等那請你的人走來對你說:朋友,請上坐吧!那時,在你同席的眾人面前,你才有光彩。因為凡高舉自己的,必被貶抑;凡貶抑自己的,必被高舉。」
—基督的福音。
30th Week in Ordinary Time – Saturday)
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 14:1, 7-11
1 One sabbath when he went to dine at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees, they were watching him. 7 Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he marked how they chose the places of honor, saying to them, 8 “When you are invited by any one to a marriage feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest a more eminent man than you be invited by him; 9 and he who invited you both will come and say to you, `Give place to this man,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. 10 But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, `Friend, go up higher’; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you. 11 For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
—The Gospel of the Lord.
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前幾天的第三十一屆「樞機晚宴」上,多倫多總主教郭年士在他的講話中,特別提及剛在十月十七日在羅馬封聖的加拿大第一位男聖人— 滿地可的安德烈修士。
聖安德烈修士沒有受過教育﹐他連寫自己的名字都有困難。他入修會後,院長就指派他終身唯一的工作,就是在滿地可學院守門口,直到他九十歲離開人世。相信他現今已成為聖伯多祿的助手,在天國門前歡迎聖善的靈魂回歸父家﹗
他在世時,一日復一日,一年復一年地,以純樸和喜樂去歡迎每一位進入學院上課的學生;他服從及忠信,並熱切地傚法他的主保大聖若瑟,不久他得到治癒的神恩 — 凡請他代禱的人,必能得到肉體或心靈上的醫治。聖安德烈修士曾強調:這神恩完全與他無關,他只是主的僕役,一切都是天主的工作。
我們今天要向他學習的,是那份謙遜、服從和忠信,並以純樸、喜樂的心向走近我們的人打開歡迎之門﹗
今天神父提到謙遜,令我想起這位新聖人﹗
但願互勉﹗希望日後能走到天國的門前,得到他熱情的迎接。