Official Translation
Reading 1 – Philemon 1.7-20
Beloved:
I have much joy and encouragement in your love,
because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.
Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you to do what is proper,
yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being as I am, Paul the elder, but now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,
who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.
I am sending him back, sending my own heart.
I desired to keep him with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Gospel,
but I was willing to do nothing without your consent,
that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.
For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever,
no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother,
especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.
But if he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, put that to my account.
I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I WILL REPAY IT.
Not to mention that you owe me even your own self besides.
Yes, brother, I will have profit from you in the Lord.
Refresh my heart in Christ.
Responsorial - Psalm 146.7, 8-9a, 9bc-10 Resp. 5a
R. Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help. or R. Alleluia.
The Lord executes justice for the oppressed.
He gives food to the hungry.
The Lord frees the prisoners.
R. Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help. or R. Alleluia.
The Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
The Lord raises up those who are bowed down.
The Lord loves the righteous.
The Lord protects immigrants.
R. Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help. or R. Alleluia.
He upholds the fatherless and widow,
but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
The Lord will reign forever;
Your God, O Zion, for all generations. Alleluia.
R. Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help. or R. Alleluia.
Gospel – Luke 17.20-25
Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come,
Jesus answered them, and said:
“The Kingdom of God does not come with observation.
Nor will it be announced:
“Behold here it is” or “Behold there it is”.
For the Kingdom of God is existing within you.
And he said to his disciples,
“The days will come when you will desire to see one day of the Son of Human but you shall not see it.
And they will say to you, “Behold, he is there” and “Behold, he is here.”
Do not go away with them. Do not follow them.
For as the lightning strikes, lighting up the sky from one part to the other,
so shall the Son of Human be in his day.
But first he must suffer many things, and be rejected by this kind.
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