Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Lucam (14,25-33)
In illo tempore: Ibant autem turbæ multæ cum Iesu, et convérsus dixit ad illos: “Si quis venit ad me et non odit patrem suum et matrem et uxórem et fílios et fratres et soróres, adhuc et ánimam suam, non potest esse meus discípulus. Et, qui non baíulat crucem suam et venit post me, non potest esse meus discípulus. Quis enim ex vobis volens turrem ædificáre, non prius sedens cómputat sumptus, si habet ad perficiéndum? Ne, posteáquam posúerit fundaméntum et non potúerit perfícere, omnes, qui vident, incípiant illúdere ei dicéntes: ‘Hic homo cœpit ædificáre et non pótuit consummáre.’ Aut quis rex, itúrus commíttere bellum advérsus álium regem, non sedens prius cógitat, si possit cum decem mílibus occúrrere ei, qui cum vigínti mílibus venit ad se? Alióquin, adhuc illo longe agénte, legatiónem mittens rogat ea, quæ pacis sunt. Sic ergo omnis ex vobis, qui non renúntiat ómnibus, quæ póssidet, non potest meus esse discípulus.
At that time: great multitudes went with Jesus; and turning, he said to them: If any man come to me and hateth not his father and mother, and wife and children, and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life besides; he cannot be my disciple. And he that doth not bear his cross and come after me; cannot be my Disciple. For, which of you minding to build a tower, doth not first sit down and reckon the charges that are necessary, whether he have to finish it: lest, after that he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that see it, begin to mock him, saying, That this man began to build, and he could not finish it? Or what king about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down and think whether he be able with ten thousands to meet him that with twenty thousands cometh against him? Otherwise whiles he is yet far off, sending a legacy he asketh those things that belong to peace. So therefore every one of you that doth not renounce all that he possesseth, cannot be my disciple.
Commentarium evangelii
Commentary on the Gospel
