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

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.” 12 He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your kinsmen or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and you be repaid. 13 But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, 14 and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”

—The Gospel of the Lord.

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