Gospel
Mass Lectionary · GospelLuke 9:57–62
It happened that, as they were walking along the way, someone said to him, “I will follow you, wherever you will go.”
Jesus said to him: “Foxes have dens, and the birds of the air have nests. But the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.”
Then he said to another, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.”
And Jesus said to him: “Let the dead bury their dead. But you go and announce the kingdom of God.”
And another said: “I will follow you, Lord. But permit me first to explain this to those of my house.”
Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow, and then looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Gospel of the Day · Text: Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV) · Mass Lectionary · Gospel
The Mass of Saint Jerome may also use this Gospel. (Matthew 13:47–52)
Optional memorial Gospel
Matthew 13:47–52
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net cast into the sea, which gathers together all kinds of fish.
When it has been filled, drawing it out and sitting beside the shore, they selected the good into vessels, but the bad they threw away.
So shall it be at the consummation of the age. The Angels shall go forth and separate the bad from the midst of the just.
And they shall cast them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Have you understood all these things?” They say to him, “Yes.”
He said to them, “Therefore, every scribe well-taught about the kingdom of heaven, is like a man, the father of a family, who offers from his storehouse both the new and the old.”
Not the weekday Gospel of the day · Text: Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV) · Matthew 13:47–52