Sunday, 3 August 2025
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle C
Antiphons on p. 1113 Readings on p. 1117 and of the Daily Missal and on p. 940 of the Sunday Missal
First Reading: Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher,
vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
Sometimes a person who has toiled
with wisdom and knowledge and skill
must leave all to be enjoyed by a person who did not toil for it.
This also is vanity and a great evil.
What has a person from all the toil and strain
with which they toil beneath the sun?
For all their days are full of pain,
and their work is a vexation;
even in the night their mind does not rest.
This also is vanity.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 90:3-4.5-6.13-13.14 & 17 (R. 1)
R/. O Lord, you have been our refuge,
from generation to generation.
You turn man back to dust,
and say, “Return, O children of men.”
To your eyes a thousand years
are like yesterday, come and gone,
or like a watch in the night.
You sweep them away like a dream,
like grass which is fresh in the morning.
In the morning it sprouts and is fresh;
by evening it withers and fades.
Then teach us to number our days,
that we may gain wisdom of heart.
Turn back, O Lord! How long?
Show pity to your servants.
At dawn, fill us with your merciful love;
we shall exult and rejoice all our days.
Let the favour of the Lord our God be upon us;
give success to the work of our hands.
O give success to the work of our hands.
R/. O Lord, you have been our refuge,
from generation to generation.
Second Reading: Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11
Gospel: Luke 12:13-21
At that time:
One of the multitude said to Jesus,
“Teacher, bid my brother divide the inheritance with me.”
But he said to him,
“Man, who made me a judge or divider over you?”
And he said to them,
“Take heed, and beware of all covetousness;
for one’s life does not consist
in the abundance of their possessions.”
And he told them a parable, saying,
“The land of a rich man brought forth plentifully;
and he thought to himself,
‘What shall I do,
for I have nowhere to store my crops?’
And he said, ‘I will do this:
I will pull down my barns, and build larger ones;
and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
And I will say to my soul,
Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years;
take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.’
But God said to him,
‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you;
and the things you have prepared,
whose will they be?’
So is the one who lays up treasure for themself,
and is not rich towards God.”
