August 26, 2025 -- Tuesday

Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time

常年期第二十一周 星期二

 

 

First Reading: 1 THES 2:1-8

读经一（我们不但愿意将天主的福音交给你们，而且也愿意将我们的性命交给你们。）

恭读圣保禄宗徒致得撒洛尼人前书 2:1-8

 

You yourselves know, brothers and sisters, that our reception among you was not without effect. Rather, after we had suffered and been insolently treated, as you know, in Philippi,

弟兄们：你们自己也知道，我们来到你们那里，并非没有效果。你们也知道我们来到之前，曾在斐理伯吃了苦，受了凌辱；

 

we drew courage through our God to speak to you the Gospel of God with much struggle. Our exhortation was not from delusion or impure motives, nor did it work through deception.

可是依靠着我们的天主，我们还有勇气，在艰巨的阻挠中，给你们宣讲了天主的福音。我们的宣讲并不是出于幻想，也不是出于不诚，也不是在于欺诈；

 

But as we were judged worthy by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, that is how we speak, not as trying to please men, but rather God, who judges our hearts.

反之，我们是被天主考验合格而受委托传福音的人；我们宣讲，并不是为取悦于人，而是为取悦那考验我们心灵的天主。

 

Nor, indeed, did we ever appear with flattering speech, as you know, or with a pretext for greed–God is witness

我们从来没有用过谄媚之辞，就如你们所知道的，也没有托故贪婪，天主可以作证；

 

nor did we seek praise from men, either from you or from others, although we were able to impose our weight as Apostles of Christ.

也没有向任何人寻求过光荣：没有向你们，也没有向别人。我们当基督的宗徒，虽有权利叫人敬重我们，

 

Rather, we were gentle among you, as a nursing mother cares for her children.

但我们在你们中却成了慈祥的，像抚育自己孩子的母亲。

 

With such affection for you, we were determined to share with you not only the Gospel of God, but our very selves as well, so dearly beloved had you become to us.

我们如此眷爱你们，不但愿意将天主的福音交给你们，而且也愿意将我们的性命交给你们，因为你们是我们所疼爱的。

 

——the Word of the Lord

——上主的圣言  

 

Responsorial Psalm PS 139:1-3, 4-6

答唱咏 咏 139:1-3,4-6

 

R. You have searched me and you know me, Lord.

【答】：上主，你鉴察了我，也认清了我。

 

O LORD, you have probed me and you know me; you know when I sit and when I stand; you understand my thoughts from afar. My journeys and my rest you scrutinize, with all my ways you are familiar.

领：上主，你鉴察了我，也认清了我：我或坐或立，你全然认清了我，你由远处已洞悉我的思考。我或行走或躺卧，你已先知；我的一切行动，你完全熟悉。

 

R. You have searched me and you know me, Lord.

【答】：上主，你鉴察了我，也认清了我。

 

Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know the whole of it. Behind me and before, you hem me in and rest your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; too lofty for me to attain.

领：的确，我的舌头尚未发言，上主，看，你已经完全知悉。你将我的前后包围，用你的手将我荫庇。这是超越我理智的奇事，也是我不能明白的妙理。

 

R. You have searched me and you know me, Lord.

【答】：上主，你鉴察了我，也认清了我。

 

Gospel MT 23:23-26

福音（捐献固然该作，但公义和仁爱更不可放过。）

恭读圣玛窦福音 23:23-26

 

Jesus said: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.

那时候，耶稣对民众和众门徒讲论说：“祸哉，你们经师和法利塞假善人！

 

You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity.

因为你们捐献十分之一的薄荷、茴香和莳萝，却忽视了法律上最重要的公义、仁慈与信义；

 

But these you should have done, without neglecting the others. Blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!

这些固然该作，那些也不可放过。瞎眼的向导！你们滤出蚊蚋，却吞下了骆驼。

 

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You cleanse the outside of cup and dish, but inside they are full of plunder and self-indulgence.

“祸哉，你们经师和法利塞假善人！因为你们洗擦杯盘的外面，里面却满是劫掠与贪欲。

 

Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup, so that the outside also may be clean."

瞎眼的法利塞人！你先应清洁杯的里面，好叫它外面也成为清洁的。”

 

——The Gospel of the Lord

——基督的福音