Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Lucam (9,57-62)
In illo tempore: Ambulántibus Iesu et discipulis suis in via, dixit quidam ad illum: “Séquar te, quocúmque íeris.” Et ait illi Iésus: “Vúlpes fóveas habent, et vólucres cæli nidos, Fílius autem hóminis non habet, ubi caput réclinet.” Ait autem ad álterum: “Séquere me.” Ille autem dixit: “Dómine, permítte mihi primum ire et sepelíre patrem meum.” Dixítque ei Iésus: “Sine, ut mórtui sepéliant mórtuos suos; tu autem vade, annúntia regnum Dei.” Et ait alter: “Séquar te, Dómine, sed primum permítte mihi renuntiáre his, qui domi sunt.” Ait ad illum Iésus: “Némo mittens manum suam in arátrum et aspíciens retro, aptus est regno Dei.”
At that time: while Jesus and His disciples walked in the way, a certain man said to him: I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. Jesus said to him: The foxes have holes, and the fowls of the air nests; but the Son of man hath not where to repose his head. But he said to another: Follow me. And he said: Lord, permit me first to go, and to bury my father. And Jesus said to him: Let the dead bury their dead; but go thou, set forth the Kingdom of God. And another said: I will follow thee Lord, but permit me first to take my leave of them that are at home. Jesus said to him: No man putting his hand to the plough, and looking back, is apt for the Kingdom of God.
