Preparation for Sunday mass: Luke 13:22-30


We present here the text that will be read at Sunday mass, the 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time, and we formulate some questions that might help us prepare to hear the reading.

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22 Jesus went through one town and village after another, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. 23 Someone asked him, "Lord, will only a few be saved?" He said to them, 24 "Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able. 25 When once the owner of the house has got up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, open to us,' then in reply he will say to you, 'I do not know where you come from.' 26 Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.' 27 But he will say, 'I do not know where you come from; go away from me, all you evildoers!' 28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrown out. 29 Then people will come from east and west, from north and south, and will eat in the kingdom of God. 30 Indeed, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last."

- Again Jesus tells us things that are not easy to hear. What is the narrow door?

- What does it mean that the Lord does not know those who are knocking?

- The last will be first, the first last? What does this mean?

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