November 4, 2014

Reading

Paul’s Letter to the Philippians     2: 5-11

2:5	For this understanding in you was also in Christ Jesus:
2:6	who, though he was in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be seized.
2:7	Instead, he emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and accepting the state of a man.
2:8	He humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, even the death of the Cross.
2:9	Because of this, God has also exalted him and has given him a name which is above every name,
2:10	so that, at the name of Jesus, every knee would bend, of those in heaven, of those on earth, and of those in hell,
2:11	and so that every tongue would confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.

Gospel

The Holy Gospel According to Luke     14: 15-24

14:15	When someone sitting at table with him had heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is he who will eat bread in the kingdom of God.”
14:16	So he said to him: “A certain man prepared a great feast, and he invited many.
14:17	And he sent his servant, at the hour of the feast, to tell the invited to come; for now everything was ready.
14:18	And at once they all began to make excuses. The first said to him: ‘I bought a farm, and I need to go out and see it. I ask you to excuse me.’
14:19	And another said: ‘I bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine them. I ask you to excuse me.’
14:20	And another said, ‘I have taken a wife, and therefore I am not able to go.’
14:21	And returning, the servant reported these things to his lord. Then the father of the family, becoming angry, said to his servant: ‘Go out quickly into the streets and neighborhoods of the city. And lead here the poor, and the disabled, and the blind, and the lame.’
14:22	And the servant said: ‘It has been done, just as you ordered, lord, and there is still room.’
14:23	And the lord said to the servant: ‘Go out to the highways and hedges, and compel them to enter, so that my house may be filled.
14:24	For I tell you, that none of those men who were invited will taste of my feast.’ ”