Alleluia
Praise the Lord, all you nations; all you peoples, praise him.
How great is his love for us! His faithfulness lasts forever.
2nd. READING (Heb 12, 5-7.11-13) Do not forget the comforting words that Wisdom addresses to you as children: My son, pay attention when the Lord corrects you and do not be discouraged when he punishes you. For the Lord corrects those he loves and chastises everyone he accepts as a son. What you endure is in order to correct you. God treats you like sons and what son is not corrected by his father? All correction is painful at the moment, rather than pleasant; later it brings the fruit of peace, that is, holiness to those who have been trained by it. Lift up, then, your drooping hands, and strengthen your trembling knees; make level the ways for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but healed.
Gospel
Jesus went through towns and villages teaching and making his way to Jerusalem.
Someone asked him, "Lord, is it true that few people will be saved?" And Jesus
answered, "Do your best to enter by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will try to
enter and will not be able. When once the master of the house has got up and locked
the door, you will stand outside; then you will knock at the door calling: 'Lord, open to
us.' But he will say to you: 'I do not know where you come from.' Then you will say:
We ate and drank with you and you taught in our streets! But he will reply: 'I don't
know where you come from. Away from me all you workers of evil.' You will weep
and grind your teeth when you see Abraham and Jacob and all the prophets in the
kingdom of God, and you yourselves left outside. Others will sit at table in the
kingdom of God, people coming from east and west, from north and south. Some who
are among the last will be the first, and others who were first will be last!"
