恭讀聖路加福音 5:33-39

那時候,法利塞人和經師對耶穌說:「若翰的門徒屢次禁食,行祈禱;法利塞人的門徒也是這樣;而你的門徒卻又吃又喝!」耶穌回答說:「伴郎與新郎在一起的時候,你們豈能叫他們禁食?但日子將要來到,當新郎從他們手中被劫去時,在那些日子,他們就要禁食了。」他又對他們講比喻說:「沒有人從新衣服上撕下一塊作補釘,補在舊衣上的;不然,新的撕破了,而且從新衣上撕下的補釘,與舊的也不相稱。也沒有人把新酒裝入舊皮囊的;不然,新酒要漲破皮囊。酒要流出來﹐皮囊也破了﹐所以新酒應裝入新皮囊。也沒有人喝著陳酒,願意喝新酒的,因為他說:還是陳酒好。」

—上主的話。

(22nd Week in Ordinary Time – Friday)

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 5:33-39

The scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “The disciples of John the Baptist fast often and offer prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same; but yours eat and drink.” Jesus answered them, “Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.” And he also told them a parable. “No one tears a piece from a new cloak to patch an old one. Otherwise, he will tear the new and the piece from it will not match the old cloak. Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be ruined. Rather, new wine must be poured into fresh wineskins. And no one who has been drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.'”

—The Gospel of the Lord.

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