July 17, 2025 -- Thursday

Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time

常年期第十五周 星期四

 

 

First Reading: EX 3:13-20

读经一（自有者打发我到你们这里来。）

恭读出谷纪 3:13-20

 

Moses, hearing the voice of the LORD from the burning bush, said to him, "When I go to the children of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,'

那时，梅瑟对天主说：“当我到以色列子民那里，向他们说：你们祖先的天主打发我到你们这里来时，

 

if they ask me, 'What is his name?' what am I to tell them?" God replied, "I am who am."

他们必要问我：他叫什么名字？我要回答他们什么呢？”天主向梅瑟说：“我是自有者。”

 

Then he added, "This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: I AM sent me to you." God spoke further to Moses, "Thus shall you say to the children of Israel:

又说：“你要这样对以色列子民说：那‘自有者’打发我到你们这里来。”天主又对梅瑟说：“你要这样对以色列子民说：

 

The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.

上主，你们祖先的天主，亚巴郎的天主，依撒格的天主和雅各伯的天主，打发我到你们这里来，

 

This is my name forever; this my title for all generations. Go and assemble the elders of Israel, and tell them:

这是我的名字，直到永远；这是我的称号，直到万世。你去召集以色列的长老，对他们说：

 

The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I am concerned about you and about the way you are being treated in Egypt;

上主，你们祖先的天主，亚巴郎的天主，依撒格的天主和雅各伯的天主显现给我说：我实在注意到你们和你们在埃及所遭遇的一切。

 

so I have decided to lead you up out of the misery of Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.

因此我决意领你们摆脱埃及人的压迫，到客纳罕人，赫特人，阿摩黎人，培黎齐人，希威人和耶步斯人的地方，即流奶流蜜的地方去。

 

Thus they will heed your message. Then you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him: "The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent us word.

他们必会听你的话。你要同以色列的长老去见埃及王，对他说：上主，希伯来人的天主遇见了我们；

 

Permit us, then, to go a three-days' journey in the desert, that we may offer sacrifice to the LORD, our God. "Yet I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go unless he is forced.

现今请让我们走三天的路程，到旷野里向上主我们的天主举行祭献。但是我知道，若不用强硬的手段，埃及王决不会让你们走。

 

I will stretch out my hand, therefore, and smite Egypt by doing all kinds of wondrous deeds there. After that he will send you away."

因此，我要在埃及伸手显各种奇迹，打击那地；以后他才放你们走。”

 

——the Word of the Lord

——上主的圣言  

 

Responsorial Psalm PS 105:1, 5, 8-9, 24-25, 26-27

答唱咏 咏 105:1,5,8-9,24-25,26-27

 

R.  The Lord remembers his covenant for ever.

【答】：上主永远怀念自己的盟约。

 

Give thanks to the LORD, invoke his name; make known among the nations his deeds. Recall the wondrous deeds that he has wrought, his portents, and the judgments he has uttered.

领：请众感谢上主，呼号他的圣名，请众在万民中，宣扬他的功行。请你们记念他所行的奇迹，他的异事和他口中的判词。

 

R.  The Lord remembers his covenant for ever.

【答】：上主永远怀念自己的盟约。

 

He remembers forever his covenant which he made binding for a thousand generations Which he entered into with Abraham and by his oath to Isaac.

领：他永远怀念着自己的盟约，直到万代不忘自己的许诺；就是向亚巴郎所立的盟约，向依撒格所起的誓诺。

 

R.  The Lord remembers his covenant for ever.

【答】：上主永远怀念自己的盟约。

 

He greatly increased his people and made them stronger than their foes, Whose hearts he changed, so that they hated his people, and dealt deceitfully with his servants.

领：上主使他的百姓昌旺，比他们的仇敌更强壮。仇敌因而仇恨上主的百姓，阴险残酷对待他的仆人。

 

R.  The Lord remembers his covenant for ever.

【答】：上主永远怀念自己的盟约。

 

He sent Moses his servant; Aaron, whom he had chosen. They wrought his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

领：上主打发他的仆人梅瑟和所拣选的亚郎，前往埃及释放他的子民，藉他们在含邦施行奇迹和异事。

 

R.  The Lord remembers his covenant for ever.

【答】：上主永远怀念自己的盟约。

 

Gospel MT 11:28-30

福音（我是良善心谦的。）

恭读圣玛窦福音 11:28-30

 

Jesus said: "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.

那时候，耶稣说：“凡劳苦和负重担的，你们都到我跟前来，我要使你们安息。

 

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves.

你们背起我的轭，跟我学吧！因为我是良善心谦的：这样你们必要找得你们灵魂的安息，

 

For my yoke is easy, and my burden light."

因为我的轭是柔和的，我的担子是轻松的。”

 

——The Gospel of the Lord

——基督的福音