10月25日主日读经默想：爱神与爱人是最大的诫命，改革主日省思教会如何不断更新
10月25日是常年期第三十主日，也是路德宗教会的改革主日。这一天的读经包括《出谷纪》第22章20至26节、《圣咏》第18篇、《得撒洛尼前书》第1章5节下半至10节，以及《玛窦福音》第22章34至40节。福音中，法利塞人问耶稣，法律中哪一条诫命最大；耶稣回答：第一是「你要全心、全灵、全意爱上主你的天主」，第二是「你要爱近人如你自己」，「全部法律和先知都系于这两条诫命」。
克利夫兰教区主教爱德华·马莱西克（Edward Malesic）在当日默想中写道，当年的宗教经师在圣经中数出600多条诫命，争论哪一条最大，耶稣却把全部法律归结为两条：爱天主，爱近人。他提醒信徒，当人陷入细枝末节的争论时，应记起生命的要义在于爱创造主天主，也关爱天主所造的每一个人。《出谷纪》的读经也呼应了这一点：天主特别眷顾寄居者、寡妇、孤儿与穷人，要求祂的子民以同样的怜悯对待最有需要的人。
在路德宗教会，这一天同时是改革主日。美国福音路德会（ELCA）「信仰透镜」（Faith Lens）栏目10月25日的省思以「回望与前瞻」为题，提醒会众：马丁·路德既是圣人也是罪人，近年来教会一面庆祝宗教改革，一面也正视路德部分著作中存在的问题；路德当年想要的是改革他成长于其中的教会，而不是另立新教。栏目说，教会既要记住过去，也要面向未来——改革的本质是不断更新，而非忘记过去。
来源：GSM·美国
Sunday Reflection for October 25: Love of God and Neighbor as the Greatest Commandment; Reformation Sunday on a Church Always Being Made New
October 25 is the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, and also Reformation Sunday in the Lutheran church. The day's readings are Exodus 22:20-26, Psalm 18, 1 Thessalonians 1:5c-10, and Matthew 22:34-40. In the Gospel, the Pharisees ask Jesus which commandment in the law is the greatest. He answers that the first is, 'You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind,' and the second, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself,' adding that 'the whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.'
Bishop Edward Malesic of the Diocese of Cleveland wrote in his reflection for the day that the religious scholars of Jesus' time identified more than 600 commandments in Scripture and debated which was the greatest, while Jesus summed up the entire law in two: love of God and love of neighbor. He reminded the faithful that when they become embroiled in arguments over smaller things, they should remember what life is truly about — loving the God who created us and caring for everyone else God has made. The Exodus reading echoes the point: God gives special attention to the stranger, widows and orphans, and the poor, and asks His people to make them their neighbors too.
For Lutherans, the day is also Reformation Sunday. The October 25 edition of Faith Lens, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's youth-ministry column, titled 'Looking Back and Looking Forward,' reminds congregations that Martin Luther was a sinner as much as he was a saint, and that in recent years the church, while celebrating the Reformation, has also faced the problems in some of Luther's writings. Luther, the column notes, wanted to reform the church he grew up in, not to start a new one. The church, it says, must remember its past while looking to the future — reformation means continual renewal, not forgetting.
Source: GSM·USA
来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）
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