Sunday 4 September 2022 – XXIII in Ordinary Time

+ From the Gospel according to Luke (14,25-33)

At that time, a large crowd was going with Jesus. He turned and said to them:
“If anyone comes to me and does not love me more than he loves his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
He who does not carry his own cross and does not come after me cannot be my disciple.
Who among you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down first to calculate the expense and see if he has the means to complete it? To avoid that, if he lays the foundation and is unable to finish the job, everyone they see begins to laugh at him, saying, “He started building, but he wasn’t able to finish the job.”
Or what king, going to war against another king, does not sit down first to examine whether he can confront with ten thousand men whoever comes to meet him with twenty thousand? If not, while the other is still far away, he sends him messengers to ask for peace.
So whoever of you does not renounce all the possessions of him, cannot be my disciple ».

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