常年期第十九周星期六
Saturday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time
读经一
恭读厄则克耳先知书 18:1-10,13,30-32
上主的话传给我说：“在以色列地区内，你们有这样流行的俗话说：‘祖先吃了酸葡萄，而子孙的牙酸倒。’这话有什么意思？我指着我的生命起誓：在以色列决不能再容许这俗话流行。所有的生命都属于我，祖先的生命与子孙的生命全属于我；谁犯罪，谁就丧亡。一个人若正义，必行公道正义的事。他不上山吃祭物，不举目瞻仰以色列家族的偶像，不污辱近人的妻子，不接近经期中的妇女，不欺压任何人，清还债户的抵押，不抢劫，施给饥饿者食物，给赤身者衣穿，不放重利，不取息金，使自己的手远避邪恶，在人与人之间执行公正的审断，遵行我的法度，谨守我的诫命，行事忠信：这样的人才是正义的，必得生存——我主的断语——倘若这人生了一个儿子，性暴好杀，只放重利，取利息，这样的人决不能生存，因为他行了这些丑事，必要丧亡，他的血债必由他自己来负。
“以色列家族！我要照各人的行为裁判你们，你们应回心转意，离开你们的一切罪恶，避免它们再做你们犯罪的绊脚石。由你们身上抛弃一切得罪我的恶行吧！你们应改造一个新心，一种新的精神！以色列家族，为何你们偏要丧亡？因为我不喜欢任何人丧亡，你们回心转意吧！你们必得生存！”
Reading 1
A reading from the book of the Prophet Ezekiel 18:1-10, 13b, 30-32
The word of the LORD came to me:
Son of man, what is the meaning of this proverb
that you recite in the land of Israel:
“Fathers have eaten green grapes,
thus their children’s teeth are on edge”?
As I live, says the Lord GOD:
I swear that there shall no longer be anyone among you
who will repeat this proverb in Israel.
For all lives are mine;
the life of the father is like the life of the son, both are mine;
only the one who sins shall die.
If a man is virtuous—if he does what is right and just,
if he does not eat on the mountains,
nor raise his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel;
if he does not defile his neighbor’s wife,
nor have relations with a woman in her menstrual period;
if he oppresses no one,
gives back the pledge received for a debt,
commits no robbery;
if he gives food to the hungry and clothes the naked;
if he does not lend at interest nor exact usury;
if he holds off from evildoing,
judges fairly between a man and his opponent;
if he lives by my statutes and is careful to observe my ordinances,
that man is virtuous—he shall surely live, says the Lord GOD.
But if he begets a son who is a thief, a murderer,
or lends at interest and exacts usury–
this son certainly shall not live.
Because he practiced all these abominations, he shall surely die;
his death shall be his own fault.
Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel,
each one according to his ways, says the Lord GOD.
Turn and be converted from all your crimes,
that they may be no cause of guilt for you.
Cast away from you all the crimes you have committed,
and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit.
Why should you die, O house of Israel?
For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies,
says the Lord GOD. Return and live!
福音
恭读圣玛窦福音 19:13-15
那时，有人给耶稣领来一些小孩子，要他给他们覆手祈祷，门徒却斥责他们。耶稣说：“你们让小孩子来吧！不要阻止他们到我跟前来，因为天国正是属于这样的人。”耶稣给他们覆了手，就从那里走了。
Gospel
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew 19:13-15
Children were brought to Jesus
that he might lay his hands on them and pray.
The disciples rebuked them, but Jesus said,
“Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them;
for the Kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
After he placed his hands on them, he went away.