Lectio Divina: For the 31st Sunday 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 LUKE (FIRST READER ONLY)

Jesus entered Jericho and was walking through the city/

Zaccheus, a tax collector and a wealthy man, wanted to see Jesus/

He was short and could not see because of the crowd/

He ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree/

Whe Jesus came to the place, he looked up/

He said to him, "Zaccheus, come down quickly, for I must stay in your house today,/

Zaccheus hurried down, and received him joyfully./