恭讀聖瑪竇福音 8:5-11

那時候,耶穌進了葛法翁,有一位百夫長來到他跟前,求他說:「主!我的僕人癱瘓了,躺在家裡,疼痛的很厲害。」耶穌對他說:「我去治好他。」百夫長答說:「主!我不堪當你到舍下來,你只要說一句話,我的僕人就會好的。因爲我雖是屬人權下的人,但是我也有士兵屬我權下;我對這個說:你去,他就去;對另一個說:你來,他就來;對我的奴僕說:你作這個,他就作。」耶穌聽了,非常詫異,就對跟隨的人說:「我實在告訴你們:在以色列我從未遇見過一個人,有這樣大的信心。」我給你們說:將有許多人從東方和西方來,同亞巴郎、依撒格、雅各伯在天國裡一起坐席。」

—上主的話。

(1st Week of Advent – Monday)

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew 8:5-11

5 As he entered Caper’naum, a centurion came forward to him, beseeching him 6 and saying, “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, in terrible distress.” 7 And he said to him, “I will come and heal him.” 8 But the centurion answered him, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. 9 For I am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, `Go,’ and he goes, and to another, `Come,’ and he comes, and to my slave, `Do this,’ and he does it.” 10 When Jesus heard him, he marveled, and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such faith. 11 I tell you, many will come from east and west and sit at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.

—The Gospel of the Lord.

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