聖額我略一世 (教宗、聖師) (紀念)
恭讀聖路加福音 6:1-5
一個安息日,耶穌經過麥田時,他的門徒掐了麥穗,用手搓著吃。有幾個法利塞人說:「為什麼你們做安息日不准做的呢?」耶穌回答說:「你們沒有讀過:達味和同他在一起的人,在饑餓時所做的嗎?他怎樣進了天主的殿:拿起供餅來吃了:又給了同他在一起的人吃。這供餅原不准他人吃,而只准司祭吃。」耶穌又向他們說:「人子是安息日的主。」
—基督的福音。
(Saturday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time)
(Memorial of Saint Gregory the Great, pope and doctor of the church)
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 6:1-5
1 On a Sabbath, while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. 2 But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?” 3 And Jesus answered, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: 4 how he entered the house of God, and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?” 5 And he said to them, “The Son of man is lord of the Sabbath.”
—The Gospel of the Lord.
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「人子是安息日的主」
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