将临期第二周星期二
Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent
读经一
恭读依撒意亚先知书 40:1-11
“你们安慰，安慰我的百姓吧！”你们的天主说你们应向耶路撒冷说宽心的话，并向她宣告：她的苦役已满期，她的罪债已清偿，因为她为了自己的一切罪过，已由上主手中承受了双倍的惩罚。
有一个呼声喊说：“你们要在旷野中预备上主的道路，在荒原中为我们的天主修平一条大路！一切深谷要填满，一切山陵要铲平，隆起的要削为平地，崎岖的要辟成坦途！上主的光荣要显示出来，凡有血肉的都会看见：这是上主亲口说的。”有个声音说：“呼喊吧！”我答说：“我呼喊什么？”“凡有血肉的都似草，他的美丽似田野的花：上主的风吹来，草必枯萎，花必凋谢。（的确，人民好像草。）草能枯萎，花能凋谢，但我们天主的话永远常存。”给熙雍传喜讯的啊！请登上高山！给耶路撒冷报喜讯的啊！请大声疾呼！高呼吧！不要畏惧！向犹大各城报告说：你们的天主来了！我主上主带着威能来到，他的手臂获得了胜利；他的胜利品与他同在，他获得的酬劳在他面前。他必如牧人，牧放自己的羊群，以自己的手臂集合小羊，把牠们抱在自己的怀中，温良地领导哺乳的母羊。
Reading 1
A reading from the book of the Prophet Isaiah 40:1-11
Comfort, give comfort to my people,
says your God.
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her
that her service is at an end,
her guilt is expiated;
Indeed, she has received from the hand of the LORD
double for all her sins.
A voice cries out:
In the desert prepare the way of the LORD!
Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God!
Every valley shall be filled in,
every mountain and hill shall be made low;
The rugged land shall be made a plain,
the rough country, a broad valley.
Then the glory of the LORD shall be revealed,
and all people shall see it together;
for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
A voice says, “Cry out!”
I answer, “What shall I cry out?”
“All flesh is grass,
and all their glory like the flower of the field.
The grass withers, the flower wilts,
when the breath of the LORD blows upon it.
So then, the people is the grass.
Though the grass withers and the flower wilts,
the word of our God stands forever.”
Go up onto a high mountain,
Zion, herald of glad tidings;
Cry out at the top of your voice,
Jerusalem, herald of good news!
Fear not to cry out
and say to the cities of Judah:
Here is your God!
Here comes with power
the Lord GOD,
who rules by his strong arm;
Here is his reward with him,
his recompense before him.
Like a shepherd he feeds his flock;
in his arms he gathers the lambs,
Carrying them in his bosom,
and leading the ewes with care.
福音
恭读圣玛窦福音 18:12-14
那时候，耶稣对他的门徒说：“你们以为如何？如果一个人有一百只羊，其中一只迷失了路，他岂不把那九十九只羊留在山上，而去寻找那只迷失了路的吗？如果他幸运找着了，我实在告诉你们：他为这一只，比为那九十九只没有迷路的，更觉欢喜；同样，这些小子中的一个丧亡，决不是你们在天之父的意愿。”
Gospel
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew 18:12-14
Jesus said to his disciples:
“What is your opinion?
If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray,
will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills
and go in search of the stray?
And if he finds it, amen, I say to you, he rejoices more over it
than over the ninety-nine that did not stray.
In just the same way, it is not the will of your heavenly Father
that one of these little ones be lost.”