Reading 3, Phil 3: 16-21 : Let us hold what we have attained.

 

16	Only let us hold true to what we have attained.
17	Brethren, join in imitating me, and mark those who so live as you have an example in us.
18	For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
19	Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
20	But our commonwealth is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
21	who will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power which enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Gospel, Jn 11: 17-27 : Jesus is the resurrection and life

 

17	Now when Jesus came, he found that Laz'arus had already been in the tomb four days.
18	Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off,
19	and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.
20	When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary sat in the house.
21	Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
22	And even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you."
23	Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
24	Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."
25	Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
26	and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"
27	She said to him, "Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, he who is coming into the world."