Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Lucam (22,24-30)
In illo tempore: Facta est conténtio inter Apóstolos, quis eórum viderétur esse maíor. Dixit autem Iesus eis: “Reges géntium dominántur eórum; et, qui potestátem habent super eos, benéfici vocántur. Vos autem non sic, sed qui maíor est in vobis, fiat sicut iúnior; et, qui præcéssor est, sicut ministrátor. Nam quis maíor est: qui recúmbit, an qui minístrat? Nonne qui recúmbit? Ego autem in médio vestrum sum, sicut qui minístrat. Vos autem estis, qui permansístis mecum in tentatiónibus meis; et ego dispóno vobis, sicut dispósuit mihi Pater meus regnum, ut edátis et bibátis super mensam meam in regno meo et sedeátis super thronos iudicántes duódecim tribus Israel.
At that time: fell a contention between the apostoles, which of them seemed to be greater. And he said to them: The Kings of the Gentiles overrule them; and they that have power upon them, are called beneficial. But you not so: but he that is the greater among you, let him become as the younger: & he that is the leader, as the waiter. For which is greater, he that sitteth at the table, or he that ministereth? Is not he that sitteth? But I am in the midst of you, as he that ministereth: & you are they that have remained with me in my tentations. And I dispose to you, as my Father disposed to me, a Kingdom: that you may eat & drink upon my table in my Kingdom, & may sit upon thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
