The lord be with you. A reading of the holy gospel according to Saint Luke. Jesus, on being asked by the pharisees when the reign of god would come, replied, you cannot tell by careful watching when the reign of God will come. Neither is it a matter of reporting that the reign of God is here or there. The reign of God is already in your midst.
Then Jesus said to his disciples, a time will come when you will long to see one day of the son of man, but will not see it. They will tell you he is to be found in this place or that place. Do not go running about excitedly. The son of man in his day will be like the lightning that flashes from one end of the sky to the other. First, however, he must suffer much and be rejected by the present age.
And this is the gospel of the Lord.