Gospel Verse, 1 Sm 3:9; Jn 6:68c:Speak, Lord, your servant is listening ; you have the words of everlasting life.Gospel Excerpt, Lk 9:57-58:As they were going along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.” Jesus calls us to follow him as he makes his way toward Jerusalem, where the mystery of death and rebirth is to be accomplished to follow these requires wholehearted commitment, the commitment of love. Nothing less is fit for the reign of God.