Tuesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time (II)

Official Translation

Reading 1 – Philippians 2.5-11

Brothers and sisters:
Have among yourselves the same attitude
that is also yours in Christ Jesus,
who, though existing in the form of God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped.
Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave,
being made in the likeness of humans.
And being found in human form,
he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death,
yes, the death of the cross.

Therefore God also highly exalted him,
and gave to him the name which is above every name;
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord
to the glory of God the Father.

Responsorial – Psalm 22.26b-27, 28-30ab, 30e, 31-32 Resp. 26a

R. My praise comes from you, Lord, in the great assembly.

I will pay my vows before those who fear the Lord.
The humble shall eat and be satisfied.
They shall praise the Lord who seek after him.
May your hearts live forever.

R. My praise comes from you, Lord, in the great assembly.

All the ends of the earth
shall remember and turn to the Lord.
All the families of the nations
shall worship before you.

R. My praise comes from you, Lord, in the great assembly.

For kingship belongs to the Lord,
and he rules over the nations.
All those shall bow before him,
who go down to the dust.

R. My praise comes from you, Lord, in the great assembly.

To him my soul shall live.
Posterity shall serve him.
Future generations shall be told about the Lord.
They shall declare to a people yet to be born,
his righteousness that he has done.

R. My praise comes from you, Lord, in the great assembly.

Gospel – Luke 14.15-24

When one of those who sat at the table with Jesus heard these things,
he said to him, “Blessed are those who will eat bread in the Kingdom of God!”
But he said to him, “A certain human prepared a great supper, and he invited many people.
He sent out his slave at the supper hour to tell those who were invited,
‘Come, for everything is ready now.’
They all as one began to make excuses.
The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I am going to see it. Please have me excused.’
Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am off to examine them. Please have me excused.’
Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’
The slave came back to his lord and reported this.
Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his slave,
‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city,
and bring in the beggars, the amputees, the blind, and lame.’
And the slave said, ‘Lord, what you commanded has happened, and there is still space.’
The lord said to the slave, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges,
and force them to come in, that my house may be filled.
For I say to you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’”