A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke 6:39-42
Jesus told his disciples a parable: “Can a blind person guide a blind person?
Jesus told his disciples a parable: “Can a blind person guide a blind person?
Jesus said to his disciples: “To you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
“Blessed are you who are poor,/ for the Kingdom of God is yours./ Blessed are you who are now hungry,/ for you will be satisfied./ Blessed are you who are now weeping,/ for you will laugh./ Blessed are you when people hate you,/ and when they exclude and insult you,/ and denounce your name as evil/ on account of the Son of Man.
Jesus departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.
[The Book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Great crowds were traveling with Jesus, and he turned and addressed them, “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a sabbath, his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.
The scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “The disciples of John the Baptist fast often and offer prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same; but yours eat and drink.” Jesus answered them, “Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?
While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret.
After Jesus left the synagogue, he entered the house of Simon.