常年期第二週 (週四) (2009年1月22日) 聖文生(味增爵)執事殉道 2nd week in Ordinary Time - Thurs St. Vincent the Deacon

神父講道 - 常年期第二週 (週四) (2009年1月22日)
聖文生(味增爵)執事殉道
恭讀聖馬爾谷福音 3:7-12那時，耶穌同自己的門徒退到海邊去，有許多民眾從加里肋亞跟隨了來，並有從猶太、耶路撒冷、依杜默雅、約旦河彼岸、提洛和漆東一帶地方的許多群眾，聽說他 所作的一切事，都來到他跟前。因為人多，他遂吩咐他的門徒，為自己備好一隻小船，免得人擁擠他。因為他治好了許多人，所以，凡有病災的人都向他湧來，要觸 摸他。邪魔一見了他，就俯伏在他面前喊說：「你是天主子。」他卻嚴厲責斥他們，不許把他顯露出來。
—這是基督的福音。
(2nd week in Ordinary Time - Thurs.)
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark 3:7-12
7 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed; also from Judea 8 and Jerusalem and Idume’a and from beyond the Jordan and from about Tyre and Sidon a great multitude, hearing all that he did, came to him. 9 And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they should crush him; 10 for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed upon him to touch him. 11 And whenever the unclean spirits beheld him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.” 12 And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.
—The Gospel of the Lord.
聖味增爵(St. Vincent)（執事、殉道）一月二十二日
聖人是西班牙撒拉高撒教會的一位執事， 戴克里先迫害教會時，他在西班牙瓦倫西亞城， 飽受苦刑而為主殉道.
St. Vincent the Deacon
Feastday: January 22
Deacon and martyr. Born at Huesca, Spain, he became a deacon and served St, Valerius at Saragossa until their martyrdom at Valencia during the persecutions under Emperor Diocletian (r. 284-305). St. Valerius was exiled, but Vincent was cruelly tortured because he would not surrender the holy books. He converted the warden of the prison and then died. He was honored by Sts. Augustine, Pope Leo I, and Prudentius, and is considered the patron saint of vinedressers in some regions of Spain