FIRST
READING: Philippians
2: 5 - 11
5
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
6
who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with
God a thing to be grasped,
7
but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the
likeness of men.
8
And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient
unto death, even death on a cross.
9
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name
which is above every name,
10
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on
earth and under the earth,
11
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of
God the Father.
PSALM:
Psalms 22:
26 - 32
26
The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall
praise the LORD! May your hearts live for ever!
27
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD; and
all the families of the nations shall worship before him.
28
For dominion belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.
29
Yea, to him shall all the proud of the earth bow down; before him
shall bow all who go down to the dust, and he who cannot keep himself
alive.
30
Posterity shall serve him; men shall tell of the Lord to the coming
generation,
31
and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn, that he has
wrought it.
GOSPEL:
Luke 14:
15 - 24
15
When one of those who sat at table with him heard this, he said to
him, "Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God!"
16
But he said to him, "A man once gave a great banquet, and
invited many;
17
and at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those
who had been invited, `Come; for all is now ready.'
18
But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, `I
have bought a field, and I must go out and see it; I pray you, have
me excused.'
19
And another said, `I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to
examine them; I pray you, have me excused.'
20
And another said, `I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot
come.'
21
So the servant came and reported this to his master. Then the
householder in anger said to his servant, `Go out quickly to the
streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and maimed and
blind and lame.'
22
And the servant said, `Sir, what you commanded has been done, and
still there is room.'
23
And the master said to the servant, `Go out to the highways and
hedges, and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.
24
For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my
banquet.'"
