March 24, 2025 -- Monday

Third Week of Lent

四旬期第三周 星期一

 

 

First Reading:  2 KGS 5:1-15AB

读经一（在以色列有许多痲疯病人，他们中没有一个得洁净的，只有叙利亚的纳阿曼。）

恭读列王纪下 5:1-15

 

Naaman, the army commander of the king of Aram, was highly esteemed and respected by his master, for through him the LORD had brought victory to Aram.

在那些日子，阿兰王的军长纳阿曼在他的主上面前，是个很受尊重爱戴的人，因为上主曾藉他使阿兰人获得胜利；

 

But valiant as he was, the man was a leper. Now the Arameans had captured in a raid on the land of Israel a little girl, who became the servant of Naaman's wife.

这人虽英勇有为，无奈患了癞病。阿兰人先前曾结队出外劫掠，从以色列地掳来一个少女，这少女做了服侍纳阿曼妻子的婢女；

 

“If only my master would present himself to the prophet in Samaria,” she said to her mistress,“he would cure him of his leprosy.”

她对自己的主母说：“哎！如果我的主人去见撒玛黎雅的先知，他一定会治好他的癞病。”

 

Naaman went and told his lord just what the slave girl from the landof Israel had said. “Go,” said the king of Aram. “I will send along a letter to the king of Israel.”

纳阿曼去告诉他的主上说：“以色列地的少女曾如此如此说。”阿兰王说：“你去！我也给以色列王写一封信。”

 

So Naaman set out, taking along ten silver talents, six thousand gold pieces, and ten festal garments.

纳阿曼于是带了十“塔冷通”银子，六千“协刻耳”金子和十套礼服去了。

 

To the king of Israel he brought the letter, which read: “With this letter I am sending my servant Naaman to you, that you may cure him of his leprosy.”

他给以色列王呈上信，信上说：“你收到这封信，就知道我打发我的臣仆纳阿曼来见你，是要你医好他的癞病。”

 

When he read the letter, the king of Israeltore his garments and exclaimed: “Am I a god with power over life and death, that this man should send someone to me to be cured of leprosy? Take note! You can see he is only looking for a quarrel with me!”

以色列王一念了这信，就撕裂自己的衣服说：“难道我是天主，能使人死使人活吗？这人竟然给我送这个人来，叫我医好他的癞病！你们只要想一想，便可看出，他是找机会来与我为难。”

 

When Elisha, the man of God, heard that the king of Israel had torn his garments, he sent word to the king: “Why have you torn your garments? Let him come to me and find out that there is aprophet in Israel.”

天主的人厄里叟听说以色列王撕裂了自己的衣服，便打发人去见君王说：“你为什么撕裂了你的衣服？叫他来见我，他就会知道在以色列有先知。”

 

Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha's house. The prophet sent him the message: “Go and wash seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will heal, and you will be clean.”

纳阿曼于是乘坐车马来到厄里叟的屋门口，就停下了。厄里叟派了一个使者对他说：“你去，在约但河里洗七次，你的肌肉就会复原，得到洁净。”

 

But Naaman went away angry, saying, “I thought that he would surely come out and stand there to invoke the LORD his God, and would move his hand over the spot, and thus cure the leprosy.

纳阿曼生了气，且走且说：“看，我原想他会出来见我，站在我面前，呼求上主他的天主的名，在患处挥动他的手，治好这癞病。

 

Are not the rivers of Damascus, the Abana and the Pharpar, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be cleansed?” With this, he turned about in anger and left.

大马士革的阿巴纳河和帕尔帕尔河，不比以色列所有的河水都好吗？我不能在那里洗得洁净吗？”他于是转过车来，气愤愤地走了。

 

But his servants came up and reasoned with him. “My father,” they said, “if the prophet had told you to do something extraordinary, would you not have done it? All the more now, since he said to you, ‘Wash and be clean,’ should you do as he said.”

他的仆人们前来对他说：“我父！如果先知吩咐你作一件难事，你岂不是也要做吗？何况他只对你说：你去洗洗，就洁净了呢！”

 

So Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times at the word of the man of God. His flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

纳阿曼便下去，按照天主的人的话，在约但河里浸了七次；他的肌肉就复了原，如同婴儿的肌肉一样，完全洁净了。

 

He returned with his whole retinue to the man of God. On his arrival he stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel.”

纳阿曼于是同他的全体随员，再回到天主的人那里，站在他面前说：“现在我确实知道：全世界只在以色列有天主。”

 

——the Word of the Lord

——上主的圣言  

 

Responsorial Psalm PS  42:2, 3; 43:3, 4

答唱咏 咏 42:2,3;43:3,4

 

R. Athirst is my soul for the living God. When shall I go and behold the face of God?

【答】：我的灵魂渴念天主，生活的天主，我何时来，能把天主的仪容目睹？

 

As the hind longs for the running waters, so my soul longs for you, O God.

领：天主，我的灵魂渴慕你，真好像牝鹿渴慕溪水。

 

R. Athirst is my soul for the living God. When shall I go and behold the face of God?

【答】：我的灵魂渴念天主，生活的天主，我何时来，能把天主的仪容目睹？

 

Athirst is my soul for God, the living God. When shall I go and behold the face of God?

领：我的灵魂渴念天主，生活的天主，我何时来，能把天主的仪容目睹？

 

R. Athirst is my soul for the living God. When shall I go and behold the face of God?

【答】：我的灵魂渴念天主，生活的天主，我何时来，能把天主的仪容目睹？

 

Send forth your light and your fidelity; they shall lead me on And bring me to your holy mountain, to your dwelling-place.

领：求你发出你的光明和你的真道：引导我，带我到你的圣山和居所。

 

R. Athirst is my soul for the living God. When shall I go and behold the face of God?

【答】：我的灵魂渴念天主，生活的天主，我何时来，能把天主的仪容目睹？

 

Then will I go in to the altar of God, the God of my gladness and joy; Then will I give you thanks upon the harp, O God, my God!

领：我就要走近天主的祭坛前，走近我最喜悦的天主面前。天主，我主！我向你弹琴颂赞。

 

R. Athirst is my soul for the living God. When shall I go and behold the face of God?

【答】：我的灵魂渴念天主，生活的天主，我何时来，能把天主的仪容目睹？

 

Gospel  LK 4:24-30

福音（像厄里亚和厄里叟一样，耶稣受派遣而来﹐并非只为犹太人。）

恭读圣路加福音 4:24-30

 

Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth: “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place.

耶稣来到纳匝肋，在会堂里向人们说：“我实在告诉你们：没有一个先知在本乡受悦纳的。

 

Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe famine spread over the entire land.

我据实告诉你们：在厄里亚时代，天闭塞了三年零六个月，遍地起了大饥荒，在以色列原有许多寡妇，

 

It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon.

厄里亚并没有被派到她们中一个那里去，而只到了漆冬匝尔法特的一个寡妇那里。

 

Again, there were many lepers in Israel during the time of Elisha the prophet; yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.” When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury.

在厄里叟先知时代，在以色列有许多癞病人，他们中没有一个得洁净的，只有叙利亚的纳哈曼。”在会堂中听见这话的人，都忿怒填胸，

 

They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong. But he passed through the midst of them and went away.

起来把他赶出城外，领他到了山崖上 ── 他们的城是建在山上的 ── 要把他推下去。他却由他们中间过去走了。”

 

——The Gospel of the Lord

——基督的福音