Philippians 1:18b-26
26so that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus for me, through my return to you again.
Psalm 41
2As the deer longs for fountains of water, so my soul longs for you, O God. 3My soul has thirsted for the strong living God. When will I draw close and appear before the face of God?
Alleluia — Matthew 11:29ab
1And it happened that, when Jesus had completed instructing his twelve disciples, he went away from there in order to teach and to preach in their cities.
Luke 14:1, 7-11
1And it happened that, when Jesus entered the house of a certain leader of the Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread, they were observing him. 2And behold, a certain man before him was afflicted with edema. 3And responding, Jesus spoke to the experts in the law and to the Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to cure on the Sabbath?” 4But they kept silent. Yet truly, taking hold of him, he healed him and sent him away. 5And responding to them, he said, “Which of you will have a donkey or an ox fall into a pit, and will not promptly pull him out, on the day of the Sabbath?” 6And they were unable to respond to him about these things. 7Then he also told a parable, to those who were invited, noticing how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them: 8“When you are invited to a wedding, do not sit down in the first place, lest perhaps someone more honored than yourself may have been invited by him. 9And then he who called both you and him, approaching, may say to you, ‘Give this place to him.’ And then you would begin, with shame, to take the last place. 10But when you are invited, go, sit down in the lowest place, so that, when he who invited you arrives, he may say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher.’ Then you will have glory in the sight of those who sit at table together with you. 11For everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.”