ΑΝΑΓΝΩΣΗ
Το βιβλίο του Λευιτικού 19:1-2, 17-18
| 19:1 | Ο Κύριος μίλησε στον Μωυσή, ρητό: |
| 19:2 | Μίλα σε ολόκληρη τη συνέλευση των γιων του Ισραήλ, και θα τους πεις: Να είσαι άγιος, Για εγώ, ο Κύριος ο Θεός σου, είμαι άγιος. |
| 19:16 | Δεν θα είσαι επικριτής, ούτε ψιθυριστή, ανάμεσα στους ανθρώπους. Δεν θα σταθείς ενάντια στο αίμα του πλησίον σου. Είμαι ο Κύριος. |
| 19:17 | Δεν θα μισήσεις τον αδελφό σου στην καρδιά σου, αλλά επίπλησέ τον ανοιχτά, για να μην έχεις αμαρτία πάνω του. |
| 19:18 | Μην ζητάτε εκδίκηση, ούτε να προσέχετε τον τραυματισμό των συμπολιτών σας. Θα αγαπάς τον φίλο σου όπως τον εαυτό σου. Είμαι ο Κύριος. |
Δεύτερη Ανάγνωση
First Letter of St. Παύλος προς Κορινθίους 3: 16-23
3:16 Do you not know that you are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God lives within you?
3:17 But if anyone violates the Temple of God, God will destroy him. For the Temple of God is holy, and you are that Temple.
3:18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish, so that he may be truly wise.
3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. And so it has been written: “I will catch the wise in their own astuteness.”
3:20 Και ξανα: “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.”
3:21 Και έτσι, let no one glory in men.
3:22 For all is yours: whether Paul, or Apollo, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or the present, or the future. Ναί, all is yours.
3:23 But you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
Ευαγγέλιο
Ματθαίος 5: 38-48
5:38 You have heard that it was said: ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’
5:39 Αλλά σου λέω, do not resist one who is evil, but if anyone will have struck you on your right cheek, offer to him the other also.
5:40 And anyone who wishes to contend with you in judgment, and to take away your tunic, release to him your cloak also.
5:41 And whoever will have compelled you for one thousand steps, go with him even for two thousand steps.
5:42 Whoever asks of you, give to him. And if anyone would borrow from you, do not turn away from him.
5:43 You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and you shall have hatred for your enemy.’
5:44 Αλλά σου λέω: Αγαπήστε τους εχθρούς σας. Κάνε καλό σε αυτούς που σε μισούν. And pray for those who persecute and slander you.
5:45 Με αυτόν τον τρόπο, you shall be sons of your Father, που είναι στον παράδεισο. He causes his sun to rise upon the good and the bad, and he causes it to rain upon the just and the unjust.
5:46 For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Do not even tax collectors behave this way?
5:47 And if you greet only your brothers, what more have you done? Do not even the pagans behave this way?
5:48 Επομένως, να είσαι τέλειος, even as your heavenly Father is perfect.”