And having moved on from there, they were passing through the Galilee area, and he did not want anyone to know, for he was teaching his disciples and was saying to them ‘The Son of Man will be handed over into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and having been killed he will rise after three days.’
But they were not understanding the saying, and were frightened to ask him.
And they came to Capernaum, and being in the house, he asked them ‘What were you discussing on the road?’ But they were silent, for on the road they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.
And when he sat down he called the twelve and said to them: ‘If someone wants to be first, he must be the last of all and a servant of all.
And taking a little child he set it in the middle of them and wrapping his arms around the child he said to them: ‘Whoever welcomes in my name one of these little children, welcomes me. And whoever welcomes me, does not welcome me, but the one who sent me.’
Teach us, good Lord,
to serve thee as thou deservest;
to give and not to count the cost;
to fight and not to heed the wounds;
to toil and not to seek for rest;
to labour and not to ask for any reward,
save that of knowing that we do thy will,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen
St Ignatius