恭讀聖路加福音　18:9-14

那時，耶穌也向幾個自充為義人，而輕視他人的人，設了這個比喻：「有兩個人上聖殿去祈禱：一個是法利塞人，另一個是稅吏。那個法利塞人立著，心裏這樣祈禱：天主，我感謝你，因為我不像其他的人，勒索、不義、姦淫，也不像這個稅吏。我每周兩次禁食，凡我所得的，都捐獻十分之一。那個稅吏卻遠遠地站著，連舉目望天都不敢，只是捶著自己的胸膛說：天主，可憐我這個罪人吧！我告訴你們：這人下去，到他家裏，成了正義的，而那個人卻不然。因為凡高舉自己的，必被貶抑；凡貶抑自己的，必被高舉。」

—上主的話。

(3rd Week of Lent – Saturday)

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 18:9-14

Jesus addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else. “Two people went up to the temple area to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector. The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself, ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity — greedy, dishonest, adulterous — or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week, and I pay tithes on my whole income.’ But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner.’I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

—The Gospel of the Lord.

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