St. Anthony's Catholic Church of Shenzhen

读经一（这个国家不听上主、他们天主的声音。） 恭读耶肋米亚先知书 7:23-28 上主天主这样对他的子民说：“你们应听从我的声音，这样，我必做你们的天主，你们做我的子民。你们应走我吩咐你们的道路，好使你们获得幸福。可是，他们不但不侧耳细听，反倒依照自己的计谋，随自己邪恶的心而生活；不转面向我，却以背向我。从你们祖先离开埃及那一天起，直到今天，我给你们派了我所有的仆人先知，而且每天派遣；但他们不但不侧耳听从我，反而硬起颈项，比他们的祖先还要乖戾。纵然你把这些话告诉他们，他们也不会听从；任凭你怎样呼唤，他们也不会答应。因此你对他们说：这个国家，不听上主他们天主的声音，不肯接受教训；忠信丧失，口中再也不讲了。”——上主的圣言。 答唱咏 咏95:1-2,6-9答：请你们前来，向上主欢呼。领：请你们前来，向上主欢呼，向拯救我们的磐石歌舞。一齐到他面前感恩赞颂，向他歌唱圣诗，欢呼吟咏。答：请你们前来，向上主欢呼。领：请大家前来叩首致敬，向造我们的天主跪拜，因为他是我们的天主，我们是他牧养的子民，是他亲手领导的羊群。答：请你们前来，向上主欢呼。领：你们今天要听从他的声音；不要像在默黎巴那样心硬，不要像在旷野中玛撒那天，你们的祖先看到我的工作，在那里仍然试探我、考验我。答：请你们前来，向上主欢呼。 福音前欢呼词 咏130:5,7答：基督，愿光荣和赞颂归于你。领：我期待上主，期待上主的诺言。因为他富于仁慈，乐于救赎。答：基督，愿光荣和赞颂归于你。 福音（不赞同我的，就是反对我。） 恭读圣路加福音 11:14-23 那时候，耶稣驱逐了一个使人哑巴的魔鬼；它出去以后，哑巴便说起话来，群众都惊讶不止。有人说：“他仗赖魔王贝耳则步驱魔。”又有人试探耶稣，向他要求一个从天上来的征兆。耶稣知道了他们的心意，便给他们说：“如果一个国家自相纷争，必成废墟；如果一个家庭互相倾轧，必将败落。如果撒殚自相纷争，它的国怎能存立呢？你们说我仗赖贝耳则步驱魔，如果我仗赖贝耳则步驱魔，你们的子弟们又仗赖谁驱魔呢？因此，他们将是你们的裁判官。如果我仗赖天主的手指驱魔，那么，天主的国已经来到你们中间了。一个壮士佩带武器，看守自己的房舍，他的财产必能安全。但是，如果有一个比他更强的人来战胜他，必会把他所依仗的武器夺去，而分了他的财物。不赞同我的，就是反对我；不同我收集的，就是分散。”——基督的福音。

读经一（但愿我们能藉着忏悔的心和谦虚的精神蒙你悦纳。） 恭读达尼尔先知书 3:25,34-43 那时，阿匝利亚站在火中，开口这样祈祷说：“为了你的名，求你不要永远抛弃我们，也不要废除你的盟约；为了你的朋友亚巴郎，你的仆人依撒格和你的圣者以色列，求你不要使你的仁爱离开我们，因为你曾应许过他们，要使他们的后裔繁多，如同天上的星，海边的沙。恩主啊！由于我们的罪过，我们比任何民族都渺小，我们今天在全世界上到处受轻视。目前我们没有元首，没有先知，没有领袖，没有全燔祭，没有祭祀，没有供物，没有馨香祭，没有地方可以给你奉献初果，蒙受你的恩惠。但愿我们能藉着忏悔的心和谦虚的精神蒙你悦纳，如同献上公羊和公牛的全燔祭。又如献上了万只肥羊；这样也希望我们所举行的祭献今天呈到你面前，并使我们获得你的宽恕；因为凡信赖你的，决不会蒙羞。现在我们全心随从你，敬畏你，寻求你的慈颜，望你不要使我们羞惭。但愿你按照你的宽容和你无限的仁慈，善待我们，以你的奇能拯救我们！上主，愿光荣归于你的名！”——上主的圣言。 答唱咏 咏25:4-9答：上主，求你念及你的仁爱。领：上主，请指示我你的道路，教给我你的途径。求你教训我，以真理指导我，我终日仰望你，因为你是我的救主。答：上主，求你念及你的仁爱。领：上主，求你念及你的仁爱，你一向就以慈悲为怀。上主，求你忘掉我青春的罪愆与过犯，你慈爱宽厚，请垂念我。答：上主，求你念及你的仁爱。领：因为上主温良而公正，指示罪人应走的道路；引导谦卑的人履行正义，教训善良的人遵循坦途。答：上主，求你念及你的仁爱。 福音前欢呼词 岳2:12-13答：基督，愿光荣和赞颂归于你。领：上主说：你们要全心归向我，因为我宽仁慈悲。答：基督，愿光荣和赞颂归于你。 福音（如果你们各人不从心里宽恕你的弟兄，我的天父也不宽恕你们。） 恭读圣玛窦福音 18:21-35 那时候，伯多禄前来问耶稣说：“主啊！如果我的弟兄得罪了我，我该宽恕他多少次呢？七次够了吗？”耶稣对他说：“我对你说：不是七次，而是七十个七次。因此，天国好比一个国王，要和他的仆人结账。他开始结账的时候，有人带来一个欠他一万金元宝的仆人，他没有钱偿还。主人就下令，要他把自己和他妻子、儿女，以及一切所有的都变卖了，来还债。那仆人就俯伏在地，叩拜他，说：‘主啊！宽容我吧！我一定会还清的。’主人就动了怜悯的心，把他释放了，并且免了他的债。那仆人一出门，遇见了一个欠他一百银币的同伴，就抓住他，扼住他的喉咙，说：‘还你欠我的债！’他的同伴就俯伏在地哀求他，说：‘宽容我吧！我一定会还清的。’可是他不肯答应，反而把他押在监里，直到他还清欠债。其他的同伴看见这事的经过，都愤愤不平，便去把这事告诉了主人。于是主人把那仆人叫来，对他说：‘恶仆！你哀求了我，我就免了你一切的债；难道你不该怜悯你的同伴，如同我怜悯了你一样吗？’于是主人大怒，把他交给刑役，直到他还清全部债务。如果你们不从心里宽恕你的弟兄，我的天父也要这样对待你们。”——基督的福音。

Reading I Exodus 17:3-7 In those days, in their thirst for water, the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “Why did you ever make us leave Egypt? Was it just to have us die here of thirst with our children and our livestock?” So Moses cried out to the LORD, “What shall I do with this people? a little more and they will stone me!” The LORD answered Moses, “Go over there in front of the people, along with some of the elders of Israel, holding in your hand, as you go, the staff with which you struck the river. I will be standing there in front of you on the rock in Horeb. Strike the rock, and the water will flow from it for the people to drink.” This Moses did, in the presence of the elders of Israel. The place was called Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled there and tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD in our midst or not?” Responsorial Psalm Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 R. (8) If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD; let us acclaim the Rock of our salvation. Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us joyfully sing psalms to him.R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Come, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the LORD who made us. For he is our God, and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides.R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Oh, that today you would hear his voice: “Harden not your hearts as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the desert, Where your fathers tempted me; they tested me though they had seen my works.”R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Reading II Romans 5:1-2, 5-8 Brothers and sisters: Since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God. And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. For Christ, while we were still helpless, died at the appointed time for the ungodly. Indeed, only with difficulty does one die for a just person, though perhaps for a good person one might even find courage to die. But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us. Verse Before the Gospel John 4:42, 15 Lord, you are truly the Savior of the world; give me living water, that I may never thirst again. Gospel John 4:5-42 Jesus came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well. It was about noon. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?” —For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.— Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink, ‘ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you do not even have a bucket and the cistern is deep; where then can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this cistern and drank from it himself with his children and his flocks?” Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.” Jesus said to her, “Go call your husband and come back.” The woman answered and said to him, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus answered her, “You are right in saying, ‘I do not have a husband.’ For you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true.” The woman said to him, “Sir, I can see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain; but you people say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.” Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You people worship what you do not understand; we worship what we understand, because salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth; and indeed the Father seeks such people to worship him. God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and truth.” The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming, the one called the Christ; when he comes, he will tell us everything.” Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one speaking with you.” At that moment his disciples returned, and were amazed that he was talking with a woman, but still no one said, “What are you looking for?” or “Why are you talking with her?” The woman left her water jar and went into the town and said to the people, “Come see a man who told me everything I have done. Could he possibly be the Christ?” They went out of the town and came to him. Meanwhile, the disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat.” But he said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.” So the disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought him something to eat?” Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to finish his work. Do you not say, ‘In four months the harvest will be here’? I tell you, look up and see the fields ripe for the harvest. The reaper is already receiving payment and gathering crops for eternal life, so that the sower and reaper can rejoice together. For here the saying is verified that ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the work, and you are sharing the fruits of their work.” Many of the Samaritans of that town began to believe in him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me everything I have done.” When the Samaritans came to him, they invited him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. Many more began to believe in him because of his word, and they said to the woman, “We no longer believe because of your word; for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the savior of the world.”

读经一（他必将我们一切的罪过投入海底。） 恭读米该亚先知书 7:14-15,18-20 上主，求你拿起牧杖，牧放你的子民——孤独地居留在草莽中，在田园间，做你基业的羊群；让他们在巴商和基肋阿德获得豢养，像从前一样。上主，让我们见到奇迹，像你出离埃及的日子一样；哪个神明能与你相比？你赦免罪恶，宽宥遗民的过错，不长久怀怒，反而喜爱仁慈。你必定再次怜悯我们，把我们的邪恶用脚踏碎，把我们一切的罪过投入海底。你必按照你从前向我们祖先所发的誓，对雅各伯表示信实，对亚巴郎施行仁慈。——上主的圣言。 答唱咏 咏103:1-4,9-12答：上主富于仁爱宽恕。领：我的心灵，请歌颂上主；我的五内，请赞美他的圣名。我的心灵，请歌颂上主，不要忘记他的一切恩宠。答：上主富于仁爱宽恕。领：他赦免了你所有的罪行，治愈了你的各种病症；他救你脱离阴间，给你加上仁爱和慈悲的荣冠。答：上主富于仁爱宽恕。领：他绝不长期责问，也不会永远气愤。我们犯罪，他没有惩罚我们；我们作孽，他没有报复我们。答：上主富于仁爱宽恕。领：天离地有多么高，他的慈爱对敬畏他的人也多么深厚；东离西有多么远，他使罪过离开我们也多么遥远。答：上主富于仁爱宽恕。 福音前欢呼词 路15:18答：基督，愿光荣和赞颂归于你。领：我要起身到我父那里去，给他说：父亲！我得罪了天，也得罪了你。答：基督，愿光荣和赞颂归于你。 福音（你这个弟弟是死而复生，失而复得的。） 恭读圣路加福音 15:1-3,11-32 那时候，众税务员和罪人们都来接近耶稣，要听他讲道。法利塞人和经师们纷纷议论说：“这个人交结罪人，又同他们吃饭。”耶稣就对他们讲了这个比喻，说：“某一个人有两个儿子，小儿子对父亲说：‘爸爸，请把我应得的那份家产给我吧！’父亲就把财产分给他们了。过了不多几天，小儿子就把所有的一切都收拾起来，往远方去了，他在那里荒淫度日，浪费了他的钱财，他把所有的都挥霍尽了以后，那地方正遇上了大荒年，他就穷困潦倒；于是他去投靠当地的一个居民，那人打发他到田里去放猪，他恨不得把猪吃的豆荚拿来充饥，可是没有人给他。他自己反省说：‘我父亲有那么多工人，都口粮丰富，我竟在这里饿死！我要起身，到我父亲那里去，对他说：‘爸爸，我得罪了天，也得罪了你，不配再称为你的儿子了，把我当做工人看待吧！’他便起身到他父亲那里去了。他还在远处的时候，他父亲就看见了他，动了怜悯的心，跑过去，抱住他的脖子，热情地亲吻他。儿子说：‘爸爸，我得罪了天，也得罪了你，不配再称为你的儿子！’父亲却吩咐仆人说：‘你们快拿出最好的袍子来给他穿上，给他戴上戒指，穿上鞋，把那只肥牛犊牵来宰掉，让我们一齐吃喝欢乐吧，因为我这个儿子是死而复生，失而复得的。'他们就欢宴起来。那时，大儿子正在田里，他回来快到家的时候，听见奏乐和歌舞的声音，就叫一个仆人过来，问他这是怎么一回事。仆人对他说：‘你弟弟回来了，你父亲因为他无恙归来，便给他宰了那只肥牛犊。’大儿子就生气，不肯进去，他的父亲出来劝他。他对父亲说：‘你看，这些年来我服事你，从来没有违背过你的命令，而你从来没有给我一只小山羊，让我同我的朋友们一同欢乐。但是你这个儿子，同娼妓们在一起，耗尽了你的财产，他一回来，你却为他宰了那只肥牛犊。’父亲对他说：‘孩子！你常和我在一起，我所有的一切都是你的。只是因为你这个弟弟死而复生，失而复得，我们应当欢乐庆祝！’”——基督的福音。

读经一（信赖世人的人，该受诅咒；信赖上主的人，应受称赞。） 恭读耶肋米亚先知书 17:5-10 上主这样说：“信赖世人，以血肉的人为依靠，决心远离上主的人，该受诅咒！他好像旷野中的柳树，幸福来到，也不觉察，他生长在干燥的旷野，在无人居住的盐地里。信赖上主，以上主做依靠的人，应受称赞：他好像种在水边的树木，树根伸入水中，不怕炎热的侵袭，枝叶茂盛，不怕旱灾，不断结出果实。 人心比什么都狡猾，已不可救药；谁能看得透呢？上主我，探察人心，考验肺腑，依照各人的行为和他工作的成果来施以报应。”——上主的圣言。 答唱咏 咏1:1-4,6答：全心依靠上主的人，真是有福。领：不随从恶人的计谋，不与罪人同路，不与讥讽者为伍的人，真是有福。他喜爱上主的诫命，昼夜默想他的法令。答：全心依靠上主的人，真是有福。领：他好像种在溪畔的树木，按时结果，枝叶常青，所作所为，顺利成功。答：全心依靠上主的人，真是有福。领：恶人并不如此，他们好像被风吹散的糠秕。因为上主赏识义人，邪恶的人必自趋沉沦。答：全心依靠上主的人，真是有福。 福音前欢呼词 路8:15答：基督，愿光荣和赞颂归于你。领：那些以良善的心接受真道，并在坚忍中结出果实的人是有福的。答：基督，愿光荣和赞颂归于你。 福音（你已享尽了你的福，而拉匝禄却受尽了苦。现在他在这里受安慰，你却该受苦了。） 恭读圣路加福音 16:19-31 那时，耶稣对法利塞人说：“有一个富翁，身穿紫红袍和细麻衣，天天奢华宴乐。又有一个乞丐，名叫拉匝禄，满身是疮，躺在富翁的大门前，希望得到富翁桌子上掉下的碎屑充饥，却只有狗来舐他的疮。后来乞丐死了，天使把他送到亚巴郎的怀里。那个富翁也死了，被人埋葬了。他在阴间受痛苦，举目一望，远远看见亚巴郎，和他怀中的拉匝禄，便喊叫说：‘我祖亚巴郎！可怜我吧！请打发拉匝禄用他的指头尖，蘸点水来润润我的舌头吧！因为我在这火焰中非常痛苦。’亚巴郎说：‘孩子，你要记得，你活着的时候享尽了福，拉匝禄却受尽了苦；现在，他在这里受安慰，你反而应受苦。而且，我们与你们之间，隔着深渊，人想从这边到你们那边去是不可能的，从那边到我们这边来也不可能。’那人说：‘我祖！那么就请你打发拉匝禄到我家里去，因为我有五个兄弟，他可以警告他们，免得他们也来到这痛苦的地方。’亚巴郎说：‘他们有梅瑟和先知，听从他们就好了。’他说：‘不．我祖亚巴郎！倘若有人从死人中到他们那里去，他们必定会悔改。’亚巴郎说：‘如果他们不听从梅瑟和先知，即使有人从死人中复活了，他们也不肯信服。’”——基督的福音。

读经一（你们应该学习行善，并寻求正义。） 恭读依撒意亚先知书 1:10,16-20 索多玛的统治者，你们要听上主的话！哈摩辣的人民，你们要听天主的训示：“你们应该洗涤，应该自洁，从我眼前革除你们的恶行，停止作孽，学习行善，责斥压迫人的人，为孤儿伸冤，为寡妇辩护。现在你们来吧，让我们互相辩论——上主说：你们的罪虽似朱红，将变成雪一样的洁白；虽然深红，仍能变成羊毛一样的雪白。如果你们乐意服从我，将能享用地上美好的产物；假使你们拒绝我，反抗我，便将在刀剑下丧生。”这是上主亲口说的。——上主的圣言。 答唱咏 咏50:8-9,16-17,21-23答：谁行为正直，我必拯救他。领：我并不因你的祭献而责备你，因为你不断向我献上全燔祭。你家里的牛，我用不着；你圈中的羊，我不需要。答：谁行为正直，我必拯救他。领：你怎配传述我的规诫？你怎配提起我的盟约？你总是恼恨我的管教，将我的话置诸脑后。答：谁行为正直，我必拯救他。领：你如此行事，我一直缄默，你还以为我像你一样！谁奉献赞颂之祭，就是光荣我；谁行为正直，我必拯救他。答：谁行为正直，我必拯救他。 福音前欢呼词 则18:31答：基督，愿光荣和赞颂归于你。领：要抛弃你们所做的一切坏事，要改造一颗崭新的心，一种新的精神。答：基督，愿光荣和赞颂归于你。 福音（他们只说不做。） 恭读圣玛窦福音 23:1-12 那时候，耶稣对民众和门徒说：“经师和法利塞人坐在梅瑟的讲座上，凡他们对你们所说的，你们都要遵守，但不要效法他们的行为，因为他们只说不做。他们把沉重而难以负荷的担子捆好，放在别人的肩上，自己却连一个指头也不动。他们的一举一动，都要使人看见：他们把经匣放宽，衣边加长；他们喜爱筵席上的首位，会堂中的上座；喜爱人在街市上向他们致敬，称他们为‘老师’。然而，你们不要被称为‘老师’，因为你们的老师只有一位，你们都是弟兄；也不要在地上称人为父，因为你们的父只有一位，就是天上的父。你们也不要被人称为导师，因为你们的导师只有一位，就是默西亚。你们中间最大的，该做你们的仆役。自高自大的人，必被贬抑；自谦自卑的人，必被高举。”——基督的福音。

Reading 1 Genesis 12:1-4a The LORD said to Abram: “Go forth from the land of your kinsfolk and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you. “I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All the communities of the earth shall find blessing in you.” Abram went as the LORD directed him. Responsorial Psalm Psalm 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22. R. (22) Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you. Upright is the word of the LORD, and all his works are trustworthy. He loves justice and right; of the kindness of the LORD the earth is full. R. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you. See, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him, upon those who hope for his kindness, To deliver them from death and preserve them in spite of famine. R. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you. Our soul waits for the LORD, who is our help and our shield. May your kindness, O LORD, be upon us who have put our hope in you. R. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you. Reading 2 2 Timothy 1:8b-10 Beloved: Bear your share of hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God. He saved us and called us to a holy life, not according to our works but according to his own design and the grace bestowed on us in Christ Jesus before time began, but now made manifest through the appearance of our savior Christ Jesus, who destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. Verse Before the Gospel Matthew 17:5 From the shining cloud the Father’s voice is heard: This is my beloved Son, hear him. Gospel Matthew 17:1-9 Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light. And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, conversing with him. Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, “Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud cast a shadow over them, then from the cloud came a voice that said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.” When the disciples heard this, they fell prostrate and were very much afraid. But Jesus came and touched them, saying, “Rise, and do not be afraid.” And when the disciples raised their eyes, they saw no one else but Jesus alone. As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, “Do not tell the vision to anyone until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”

读经一（你们要成为属于上主的圣洁子民。） 恭读申命纪 26:16-19 梅瑟对民众说：“你们的天主上主，今天吩咐你们遵行这些法令和规则，你们要全心全灵切实遵行。今天，你们明认上主是你们的天主，愿履行他的道路，谨守他的法令、诫命和规则，听从他的话。上主今天也照他对你们所说的，明认你们是他自己的子民，只要你们谨守他的一切诫命。他还要使你们在名誉、声望和光荣上，远超他所造的一切民族，你们要照他所说的，成为属于上主的圣洁子民。”——上主的圣言。 答唱咏 咏一一九(118):1-2,4-5,7-8答：遵行上主法律的真是有福。领：品行完美，履行上主法律的人，真是有福！遵行约法，全心寻求上主的人，真是有福。答：遵行上主法律的真是有福。领：你颁发了命令，使人严格奉行。愿我的行径坚定，常遵守你的章程。答：遵行上主法律的真是有福。领：当我学会了你公义的条例，就必以至诚的心颂谢你。我要遵守你的规律，千万不要把我抛弃。答：遵行上主法律的真是有福。 福音前欢呼词 格后6:2b答：主耶稣，我们赞美你，光荣你。领：现在正是施恩的时候，正是得救的日子。答：主耶稣，我们赞美你，光荣你。 福音（你们应当努力做完人，就像你们的天父那样完美。） 恭读圣玛窦福音 5:43-48 耶稣对门徒说：“你们一向听说过：‘要爱近人，恨仇人！’我却对你们说：要爱仇人，甚至为迫害你们的人祈祷，这样你们才算是天父的儿女，因为他使太阳升起，光照恶人，也光照善人；降雨给义人，也给不义的人。你们如果只爱那些爱你们的人，有什么值得嘉奖呢？税务员不也是这样做吗？如果你们只问候你们的弟兄，你们做了什么特别的事呢？外邦人不也是这样做吗？所以你们应当努力做完人，就像你们的天父那样完美。”——基督的福音。