Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Matthǽum (18,12-14)
In illo tempore: Dixit Iesus discipulis suis: Quid vobis vidétur? Si fúerint alícui centum oves, et erráverit una ex eis, nonne relínquet nonagínta novem in móntibus et vadit quǽrere eam, quæ errávit? Et si contígerit ut invéniat eam, amen dico vobis quia gaudébit super eam magis quam super nonagínta novem, quæ non erravérunt. Sic non est volúntas ante Patrem vestrum, qui in cælis est, ut péreat unus de pusíllis istis.
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples : What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, and go to seek that which is gone astray? And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth more for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Commentarium evangelii
Commentary on the Gospel