文|Bishop Barron
翻译|Carrie

朋友们，在今天的福音中，耶稣给我们发出一道不寻常的命令，要我们考虑到社会中最弱势、最难自保的人群：“你几时设筵，要请贫穷的、残废的、瘸腿的、瞎眼的人。”这是耶稣的主要关注点之一，贯穿了所有福音书。外方人、陌生人、寡妇、孤儿、贫民——若这些弱势群体被忽略，天主将会生气。

 

天主的热爱不仅贯穿圣经传统，还在天主教会的社会教化中高潮迭起：“若你的衣柜有两件大衣，一件是你自己的，另一件则属于那个没有大衣的人。”

 

今天，让我们不要忘记贫民和边缘人群。

 

Friends, in today's Gospel Jesus gives us an extraordinary command to consider the weakest and most vulnerable in our society: "When you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind." This is one of his central concerns throughout the Gospels. Foreigners, strangers, widows, orphans, the poor—if these weak people are ignored, God will become angry.

 

God's passion not only runs right through the Biblical tradition, but it comes roaring up into the social teaching of the Catholic Church: "If you have two coats in your closet, one belongs to you; the other belongs to the man who has no coat."

 

Let us not forget the poor and marginalized today.