Léctio Epístolæ beáti Pauli apóstoli ad Philippénses (3,8-14)
Fratres: Exístimo ómnia detriméntum esse propter eminéntiam sciéntiæ Christi Iésu Dómini mei, propter quem ómnia detriméntum feci et árbitror ut stércora, ut Christum lucrifáciam et invéniar in illo non habens meam iustítiam, quæ ex lege est, sed illam, quæ per fidem est Christi, quæ ex Deo est iustítia in fide; ad cognoscéndum illum et virtútem resurrectiónis eíus et communiónem passiónum illíus, confórmans me morti eíus, si quo modo occúrram ad resurrectiónem, quæ est ex mórtuis. Non quod iam accéperim aut iam perféctus sim; pérsequor autem si umquam comprehéndam, sicut et comprehénsus sum a Christo Iésu. Fratres, ego me non árbitror comprehendísse; unum autem: quæ quidem retro sunt, oblivíscens, ad ea vero, quæ ante sunt, exténdens me ad destinátum pérsequor, ad bravíum supérnæ vocatiónis Dei in Christo Iésu.
Brethren: I esteem all things to be detriment for the passing knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord: for whom I have made all things as detriment, and do esteem them as dung, that I may gain Christ: and may be found in him not having my justice which is of the Law, but that which is of the faith of Christ, which is of God, justice in faith: to know him, and the virtue of his resurrection, and the society of his passions, configured to his death, if by any means I may come to the resurrection which is from the dead. Not that now I have received, or now am perfect: but I pursue, if I may comprehend, wherein I am also comprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not account that I have comprehended. Yet one thing: forgetting the things that are behind, but stretching forth myself to those that are before, I pursue to the mark, to the prize of the supernal vocation of God in Christ Jesus.
