神父講道 – 聖多瑪斯.阿奎納 (司鐸、聖師) (紀念) (週五) (2011年1月28日)

聖多瑪斯.阿奎納 (司鐸、聖師) (紀念)
恭讀聖馬爾谷福音 4:26-34
那時,耶穌向群眾說:「天主的國好比一個人把種子撒在地裏,他黑夜白天,或睡或起,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,最後穗又滿了麥粒。當果實成熟的時候,便立刻派人以鐮刀收割,因為到了收穫的時期。」
他又說:「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,種在地裏的時候,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;並且長出大枝,以致天上的飛鳥能棲息在它的蔭下。」耶穌用許多這樣的比喻,按照他們所能聽懂的,給他們講道。若不用比喻,他就不給他們講什麼,但私下裏卻給自己的門徒解釋一切。
—基督的福音。

(3rd week in Ordinary Time – Friday)

(Memorial of Saint Thomas Aquinas, priest and doctor of the Church)

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark 4:26-34

26 And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed upon the ground, 27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he knows not how. 28 The earth produces of itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29 But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.” 30 And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? 31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; 32 yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.” 33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; 34 he did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

—The Gospel of the Lord.

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