TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME — Year B

*Alternate* First Reading: Poem by Anne Osdieck

If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.

 

Who is greatest?
Who is first?
Jesus,
you were born in a stable
needing everything,
having only
life.
Then you were on the cross,
needing everything,
having no
life.
Yet
you are
greatest of all.
You taught the disciples
as you journeyed through Galilee.
Teach us.
To love you.
To care for your children, to serve your poor,
to welcome the immigrant,
to free the prisoner.
Lord, we ask you,
give us only
your
grace.

                                                                                      

A reading from Anne Osdieck.

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