Gospel
text (Luke 18,9-14): Jesus
told another parable to some persons fully convinced of their own righteousness,
who looked down on others: «Two men went up to the Temple to pray; one was a
Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and
said: ‘I thank you, God, that I am not like other people, grasping, crooked,
adulterous, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give the
tenth of all my income to the Temple’. In the meantime the tax collector,
standing far off, would not even lift his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast
saying: ‘O God, be merciful to me, a sinner’. I tell you, when this man went
down to his house, he had been set right with God, but not the other. For
whoever makes himself out to be great will be humbled, and whoever humbles
himself will be raised».
Gospel text ( L uke 11,1-4): One day Jesus was praying in a certain place and when He had finished, one of his disciples said to him, «Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples». And Jesus said to them, «When you pray, say this: Father, hallowed be your name, may your kingdom come, give us each day the kind of bread we need, and forgive us our sins, for we also for-give all who do us wrong, and do not bring us to the test»
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