First Reading - Is 66:18-21
Thus says the Lord: “I
know their works and their
thoughts, and I come to gather
nations of every language; they
shall come and see my glory. I
will set a sign among them. I
will spare some of them and
send them to the nations: to
Tarshish, Put and Lud, Mosoch, Tubal and Javan, to the
distant coastlands that have
never heard of my fame, or
seen my glory; and they shall
proclaim my glory among the
nations.
They shall bring all your
brothers and sisters from all
the nations as an offering to the
Lord, on horses and in chariots,
in carts, upon mules and dromedaries, to Jerusalem, my holy
mountain,” says the Lord, “just
as the Israelites bring their offering to the house of the Lord
in clean vessels.
Some of these I will take as
priests and Levites,” says the
Lord.
Responsorial Psalm - Ps 117
R –Go out to all the world and
tell the Good News!
* Praise the Lord, all you
nations; glorify him, all you
peoples! R.
* For steadfast is his kindness toward us, and the fidelity
of the Lord endures forever. R.
Second Reading - Heb 12:5-7.11-13
Brothers and sisters,
You have forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as
children: “My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord
or lose heart when reproved by
him; for whom the Lord loves,
he disciplines. He scourges every son he acknowledges.”
Endure your trials as
“discipline.” God treats you
as sons. For what son is there
whom his father does not discipline? At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy
but for pain, yet later it brings
the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained
by it.
So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak
knees. Make straight paths
for your feet, that what is lame
may not be disjointed but
healed.
Gospel Acclamation - Jn 14:6
Alleluia! Alleluia!
“I am the way, the truth,
and the life,” says the
Lord; “no one comes
to the Father, except
through me.”
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Gospel - Lk 13:22-30
Jesus passed through
towns and villages, teaching
as he went and making his way
to Jerusalem.
Someone asked him,
“Lord, will only a few people
be saved?” He answered them,
“Strive to enter through the
narrow gate, for many, I tell
you, will attempt to enter but
will not be strong enough.
After the master of the
house has arisen and locked
the door, then will you stand
outside knocking and saying,
‘Lord, open the door for us!’
He will say to you in reply, ‘I
do not know where you are
from.’ And you will say, ‘We
ate and drank in your company
and you taught in our streets.’
Then he will say to you, ‘I do
not know where you are from.
Depart from me, all you evildoers!’ And there will be wailing
and grinding of teeth when
you see Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, and all the prophets in
the Kingdom of God, and you
yourselves cast out.
And people will come
from the east and the west and
from the north and the south
and will recline at table in the
Kingdom of God. For behold,
some are last who will be first,
and some are first who will be
last.”
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