Tuesday of the thirty-first week of Ordinary Time

For let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: ⁶Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: ⁷But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man. ⁸He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross. ⁹For which cause God also hath exalted him, and hath given him a name which is above all names: ¹⁰That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth: ¹¹And that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.

²⁶With thee is my praise in a great church: I will pay my vows in the sight of them that fear him. ²⁷The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever. ²⁸All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted to the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight. ²⁹For the kingdom is the Lord’s; and he shall have dominion over the nations. ³⁰All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: all they that go down to the earth shall fall before him. ³¹And to him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him. ³²There shall be declared to the Lord a generation to come: and the heavens shall shew forth his justice to a people that shall be born, which the Lord hath made.

℟ With thee is my praise in a great church.

When one of them that sat at table with him, had heard these things, he said to him: Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. ¹⁶But he said to him: A certain man made a great supper, and invited many. ¹⁷And he sent his servant at the hour of supper to say to them that were invited, that they should come, for now all things are ready. ¹⁸And they began all at once to make excuse. The first said to him: I have bought a farm, and I must needs go out and see it: I pray thee, hold me excused. ¹⁹And another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to try them: I pray thee, hold me excused. ²⁰And another said: I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. ²¹And the servant returning, told these things to his lord. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant: Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the feeble, and the blind, and the lame. ²²And the servant said: Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. ²³And the Lord said to the servant: Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. ²⁴But I say unto you, that none of those men that were invited, shall taste of my supper.