13th Sunday Ordinary Time 
 
A reading from the holy gospel according to Luke 9:51-62
  
When the days drew near for him to be taken up,
Jesus set his face to go to Jerusalem.
And he sent messengers ahead of him.
On their way they entered a village of the Samaritans
to make ready for Jesus;
but the Samaritans did not receive him,
because his face was set toward Jerusalem.
 
When his disciples James and John saw it, they said,
“Lord, do you want us to command fire
to come down from heaven and consume them?”
But Jesus turned and rebuked them.
Then they went on to another village.
 
As they were going along the road, someone said to him,
"I will follow you wherever you go.”
 
And Jesus said to him,
“Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests;
but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
 
To another Jesus said,
“Follow me.”
But he replied,
"Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
But Jesus said to him,
"Let the dead bury their own dead;
but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
 
Another said,
“I will follow you, Lord;
but let me first say farewell to those at my home.”


Jesus said to him,
“No one who puts a hand to the plough and looks back
is fit for the kingdom of God.”
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The Gospel of the Lord
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