March 29, 2025 -- Saturday

Third Week of Lent

四旬期第三周 星期六

 

 

First Reading:   HOS 6:1-6

读经一（我喜欢仁爱，胜过祭献。）

恭读欧瑟亚先知书  6:1-6

 

Come, let us return to the LORD, it is he who has rent, but he will heal us; he has struck us, but he will bind our wounds.

上主这样说：在我的子民遇到困苦时，他们必要寻找我：“来，我们回到上主那里去，因为他撕碎了我们，也必要治愈；他打伤了我们，也必要包紥。

 

He will revive us after two days; on the third day he will raise us up, to live in his presence.

两天后他必使我们复生，第三天他必使我们兴起，生活在他的慈颜下。

 

Let us know, let us strive to know the LORD; as certain as the dawn is his coming, and his judgment shines forth like the light of day! He will come to us like the rain, like spring rain that waters the earth."

让我们认识上主，让我们努力认识上主！他定要像曙光一样出现，他要来到我们中间，有如秋雨，有如滋润田地的春雨。”

 

What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your piety is like a morning cloud, like the dew that early passes away.

厄弗辣因，我可对你作什么？犹大，我可对你作什么？因为你们的仁爱有如早晨的浮云，有如易于消逝的朝露。

 

For this reason I smote them through the prophets, I slew them by the words of my mouth; For it is love that I desire, not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

因此，我藉先知们砍伐了他们，以我口中的言语杀戮了他们；我的裁判出现有如光明：因为我喜欢仁爱胜过祭献，喜欢人认识天主胜过全燔祭。

 

——the Word of the Lord

——上主的圣言  

 

Responsorial Psalm PS 51:3-4, 18-19, 20-21AB

答唱咏 咏 51:3-4,18-19,20-21

 

R.  It is mercy I desire, and not sacrifice.

【答】：我喜欢仁爱，胜过祭献。

 

Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness; in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense. Thoroughly wash me from my guilt and of my sin cleanse me.

领：天主，求你按照你的仁慈怜悯我，依你丰厚的慈爱，消灭我的罪恶。求你把我的过犯洗尽，求你把我的罪恶除净。

 

R.  It is mercy I desire, and not sacrifice.

【答】：我喜欢仁爱，胜过祭献。

 

For you are not pleased with sacrifices; should I offer a burnt offering, you would not accept it. My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit; a heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.

领：因为你既然不喜悦祭献，我献全燔祭，你也不喜欢。天主，我的祭献就是这痛悔的精神，天主，你不轻看痛悔和谦卑的赤心。

 

R.  It is mercy I desire, and not sacrifice.

【答】：我喜欢仁爱，胜过祭献。

 

Be bountiful, O LORD, to Zion in your kindness by rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem; Then shall you be pleased with due sacrifices, burnt offerings and holocausts.

领：上主，求你以慈爱恩待熙雍，求你重修耶路撒冷城。那时，你必悦纳合法之祭，牺牲和全燔祭献。

 

R.  It is mercy I desire, and not sacrifice.

【答】：我喜欢仁爱，胜过祭献。

 

Gospel  LK 18:9-14

福音（税吏回到家里，成了正义的；法利塞人却不然。）

恭读圣路加福音 18:9-14

 

Jesus addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else. "Two people went up to the temple area to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector.

那时，耶稣也向几个自充为义人，而轻视他人的人，设了这个比喻：“有两个人上圣殿去祈祷：一个是法利塞人，另一个是税吏。

 

The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself, 'O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity — greedy, dishonest, adulterous — or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week, and I pay tithes on my whole income.'

那个法利塞人立著，心里这样祈祷：天主，我感谢你，因为我不像其他的人，勒索、不义、奸淫，也不像这个税吏。我每周两次禁食，凡我所得的，都捐献十分之一。

 

But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, 'O God, be merciful to me a sinner.'

那个税吏却远远地站着，连举目望天都不敢，只是捶著自己的胸膛说：天主，可怜我这个罪人吧！

 

I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

我告诉你们：这人下去，到他家里，成了正义的，而那个人却不然。因为凡高举自己的，必被贬抑；凡贬抑自己的，必被高举。”

 

——The Gospel of the Lord

——基督的福音