Lectio Divina: For the 25th Week in Ordinary Time

Please read slowly and reflectively.

Slowly count to five at the end of each line.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL OF JESUS ACCORDING TO MARK (FIRST READER ONLY)

JESUS AND HIS COMPANIONS ARRIVED IN CAPERNAUM/

AFTER THEY ENTERED THE HOUSE, HE ASKED THEM/

“WHAT WERE YOU DISCUSSING ON THE WAY?”/

BUT THEY WERE SILENT/

FOR ON THE WAY THEY HAD DISCUSSED WITH ONE ANOTHER WHO WAS THE GREATEST./

HE SAID TO THEM, “IF YOU WOULD BE FIRST, YOU MUST BE LAST OF ALL/

AND SERVANT OF ALL./

HE TOOK A CHILD AND PUT THE LITTLE ONE IN THE MIDST OF THEM./

THEN,TAKING THE CHILD IN HIS ARMS, HE SAID TO THEM/

“WHOEVER RECEIVES A CHILD IN MY NAME, RECEIVES ME;/

AND WHOEVER RECEIVES ME, RECEIVES THE ONE WHO SENT ME.”