常年期第二十六周星期三
Wednesday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time
读经一
恭读恭读约伯传 9:1-12, 14-16
约伯答覆他的朋友说：“我确实知道事情是这样，但人怎能同天主讲理？人若愿意同天主辩论，千个问题中，谁也回答不出一个。虽心中明智，力量强大，但谁能对抗天主，而保平安？他可移山，山却不知；他一发怒，山即翻转；他震动大地，使之脱离原处，地柱随之摇撼震动；他一下令，太阳即不升起，星辰即封闭不动；惟有他展开天空，步行海波之上；他创造了北斗和参宿，昴星及南极星辰；他所作的大事，不可胜数。他由我身旁经过，我却没有看见；他走过去，我仍没有发觉。他若抢夺，谁能阻挡？谁能问他说：“你作什么？”
“如此，我怎敢回答他，我怎敢与他抗辩？纵然有理，也不敢回答，唯有哀求我的判官开恩。我向他呼求，纵然他答应我，我仍不相信他会听我的呼声。”
Reading 1
A reading from the book of Job 9:1-12, 14-16
Job answered his friends and said:
I know well that it is so;
but how can a man be justified before God?
Should one wish to contend with him,
he could not answer him once in a thousand times.
God is wise in heart and mighty in strength;
who has withstood him and remained unscathed?
He removes the mountains before they know it;
he overturns them in his anger.
He shakes the earth out of its place,
and the pillars beneath it tremble.
He commands the sun, and it rises not;
he seals up the stars.
He alone stretches out the heavens
and treads upon the crests of the sea.
He made the Bear and Orion,
the Pleiades and the constellations of the south;
He does great things past finding out,
marvelous things beyond reckoning.
Should he come near me, I see him not;
should he pass by, I am not aware of him;
Should he seize me forcibly, who can say him nay?
Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
How much less shall I give him any answer,
or choose out arguments against him!
Even though I were right, I could not answer him,
but should rather beg for what was due me.
If I appealed to him and he answered my call,
I could not believe that he would hearken to my words.
福音
恭读圣路加福音 9:57-62
耶稣和门徒正走的时候，在路上有一个人对耶稣说：“你不论往那里去，我要跟随你。”耶稣对他说：“狐狸有穴，天上的飞鸟有巢；但是人子却没有枕头的地方。”又对另一个人说：“你跟随我吧！”那人却说：“主，请许我先去埋葬我的父亲。”耶稣对他说：“任凭死人去埋葬自己的死人吧！至于你，你要去宣扬天主的国。又有一个人说：“主！我要跟随你；但是请许我先去告别我的家人。”耶稣对他说：“手扶着犁而往后看的，不适于天主的国。”
Gospel
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 9:57-62
As Jesus and his disciples were proceeding
on their journey, someone said to him,
“I will follow you wherever you go.”
Jesus answered him,
“Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests,
but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head.”
And to another he said, “Follow me.”
But he replied, “Lord, let me go first and bury my father.”
But he answered him, “Let the dead bury their dead.
But you, go and proclaim the Kingdom of God.”
And another said, “I will follow you, Lord,
but first let me say farewell to my family at home.”
Jesus answered him, “No one who sets a hand to the plow
and looks to what was left behind is fit for the Kingdom of God.”