Gospel of November 15 2018

Letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to Philemon 1,7-20.
Dearest one, your charity has been a cause of great joy and consolation for me, brother, because the hearts of believers have been comforted through your work.
For this reason, despite having full freedom in Christ to command you what you must do,
I prefer to pray to you in the name of charity, as I am, Paul, old man, and now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus;
please for my son, whom I begat in chains,
Onesimus, what was useless one day, but now it is useful to you and me.
I sent it back to you, him, my heart.
I would have liked to keep him with me so that he might serve me in your place in the chains I carry for the gospel.
But I didn't want to do anything without your opinion, because the good you will do did not know of constraint, but was spontaneous.
Maybe that's why he was separated from you for a moment because you got him back forever;
but no longer as a slave, but much more than a slave, as a dear brother first of all to me, but how much more to you, both as a man and as a brother in the Lord.
So if you consider me as a friend, welcome him as myself.
And if he offended you or owed you something, put everything on my account.
I write it in my own hand, I, Paolo: I will pay for it myself. Not to tell you that you too owe me and yourself!
Yes brother! May I obtain this favor from you in the Lord; gives this relief to my heart in Christ!

Salmi 146(145),7.8-9a.9bc-10.
The Lord is faithful forever,
does justice to the oppressed,
gives bread to the hungry.

The Lord frees prisoners.
The Lord restores sight to the blind,
the Lord raises up those who have fallen,
the Lord loves the righteous,

the Lord protects the stranger.
He supports the orphan and the widow,
but it upsets the ways of the wicked.
The Lord reigns forever,

your God, or Zion, for each generation.

From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Luke 17,20-25.
At that time, questioned by the Pharisees: "When will the kingdom of God come?", Jesus replied:
«The kingdom of God does not come in order to attract attention, and nobody will say: Here it is, or: here it is. Because the kingdom of God is among you! ».
He said again to the disciples: «A time will come when you will want to see even one of the days of the Son of man, but you will not see it.
They will say to you: Here it is, or: here it is; don't go there, don't follow them.
Because as the lightning flashes from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man in his day.
But first it is necessary that he suffers a lot and is repudiated by this generation ».