Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Lucam (13,22-30)
In illo tempore: Ibat Iesus per civitátes et castélla docens et iter fáciens in Hierosólymam. Ait autem illi quidam: “Dómine, pauci sunt, qui salvántur?” Ipse autem dixit ad illos: “Conténdite intráre per angústam portam, quia multi, dico vobis, quærent intráre et non póterunt. Cum autem surréxerit pater famílias et cláuserit óstium, et incipiétis foris stare et pulsáre óstium dicéntes: ‘Dómine, áperi nobis’; et respóndens dicet vobis: ‘Néscio vos unde sitis.’ Tunc incipiétis dícere: ‘Manducávimus coram te et bíbimus, et in platéis nostris docuísti’; et dicet loquens vobis: ‘Néscio vos unde sitis; discédite a me, omnes operárii iniquitátis.’ Ibi erit fletus et stridor déntium, cum vidéritis Ábraham et Ísaac et Iácob et omnes prophétas in regno Dei, vos autem expélli foras. Et vénient ab oriénte et occidénte et aquilóne et austro et accúmbent in regno Dei. Et ecce sunt novíssimi, qui erunt primi, et sunt primi, qui erunt novíssimi.”
In that time: Jesus went by the cities and towns teaching, and making his journey unto Jerusalem. And a certain man said to him: Lord, be they few that are saved? But he said to them: Strive to enter by the narrow gate: because many, I say to you, shall seek to enter, and shall not be able. But when the good-man of the house shall enter in, and shut the door, and you shall begin to stand without, and knock at the door, saying, Lord open to us: and he answering shall say to you, I know you not whence you are: then you shall begin to say: We did eat before thee and drink, and in our streets didst thou teach. And he shall say to you, I know you not whence you are, depart from me all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth: when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and all the Prophets in the Kingdom of God, and you to be thrust out. And there shall come from the East and West & the North and the South; and shall sit down in the Kingdom of God. And behold, they are last that shall be first, and they be first that shall be last.
Commentarium evangelii
Commentary on the Gospel
