Priestly branch. The gospel for the 23rd sunday in ordinary time today is taken from the gospel of saint luke, chapter 14, versus 25 to 33. The gospel will be read in latin. Allay lieu ul alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia great crowds accompanied jesus on his way and he turned and spoke to them. If any man comes to me without his father, mother, wife, children, yes, his own life, too, he cannot be my disciple. Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. Indeed which of you here intending to build a tower would not first sit down and work out the cost to see if he had enough to complete it . Otherwise if he had laid the foundation and then found himself unable to finish the wo work, they would start making fun of him and say here is a man who started to build a tower and was unable to finish it. Or again, what king marching to war against another king would not first sit down and consider whether with 10,000 men he could stand up
Several years ago in 1954, I was interviewing for a teaching position. At that time, school superintendents came to Iowa State Teachers College — University of Northern Iowa today —