GOSPEL“Rejoice because your names are written in heaven” Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 10:17-24

GOSPEL

“Rejoice because your names are written in heaven” 

Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 10:17-24

At that time

    the 72 disciples whom Jesus had sent

returned rejoicing, saying:

“Lord, even the demons

are subject to us in your name. »

    Jesus said to them:

“I watched Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

    Behold, I have given you power

to crush serpents and scorpions,

and over all the power of the Enemy:

absolutely nothing will harm you.

    However, do not rejoice

because the spirits are subject to you;

but rejoice

because your names are written in heaven. »

    At that very hour, Jesus exulted with joy under the action of the Holy Spirit,

and he said:

“Father, Lord of heaven and earth,

I proclaim your praise:

what you have hidden from the wise and learned. ,

you revealed it to the little ones.

Yes, Father, you wanted it this way in your benevolence.

    Everything was handed over to me by my Father.

No one knows who the Son is except the Father;

and no one knows who the Father is, except the Son

and the one to whom the Son wishes to reveal him. »

    Then he turned to his disciples

and said to them in particular:

“Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

    For I tell you,

many prophets and kings

wanted to see what you see

and did not see it, and

to hear what you hear

and did not hear it. »

            – Let us acclaim the Word of God.