聖若望保祿二世教宗
恭讀聖路加福音 13:1-9
正在那時，來了幾個人把有關加里肋亞人的事，即比拉多把他們的血，與他們的祭品攙和在一起的事，報告給耶穌。他回答說：「你們以為這些加里肋亞人，比其他所有的加里肋亞人更有罪，才遭此禍害嗎？不是的。我告訴你們：如果你們不悔改，你們都要同樣喪亡。或如史羅亞塔倒下，而壓死的那十八個人。你們以為他們比耶路撒冷的其他居民罪債更大嗎？不是的。我告訴你們：如果你們不悔改，你們都要同樣喪亡。」
耶穌又講了這個比喻說：「有一個人曾將一棵無花果樹，栽在自己的葡萄園內。他來在樹上找果子，但沒有找到，便對園丁說：「你看，我三年來在這棵無花果樹上找果子，但沒有找到，你砍掉它吧！為什麼讓它白佔土地呢？」園丁回答他說：「主人！再留它一年吧！待我在它周圍掘鬆泥土，加上肥料；將來若結果子便算了；不然的話，你就把它砍掉吧！」
—上主的話。
(29th Week in Ordinary Time – Saturday)
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 13:1-9
Some people told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. He said to them in reply, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sinners than all other Galileans? By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did! Or those eighteen people who were killed when the tower at Siloam fell on them – do you think they were more guilty than everyone else who lived in Jerusalem? By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did!”
And he told them this parable: “There once was a person who had a fig tree planted in his orchard, and when he came in search of fruit on it but found none, he said to the gardener, ‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree but have found none. So cut it down. Why should it exhaust the soil?’ He said to him in reply, ‘Sir, leave it for this year also, and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it; it may bear fruit in the future. If not you can cut it down.’”
—The Gospel of the Lord.
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