Sunday, 10 August 2025
Sunday, Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time – Cycle C
Antiphons on p. 1139 and Readings on p. 1143 of the Daily Missal and on p. 943 of the Sunday Missal.
First Reading: Wisdom 18:6-9
That night was made known beforehand to our fathers,
so that they might rejoice in the sure knowledge
of the oaths in which they trusted.
The deliverance of the righteous
and the destruction of their enemies
were expected by your people.
For by the same means by which you punished our enemies
you called us to yourself and glorified us.
For in secret the holy children of good men offered sacrifices,
and with one accord agreed to the divine law,
that the saints would share alike the same things,
both blessings and dangers;
and already they were singing the praises of the fathers.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 33:1 & 12.18-19.20 & 22 (R.12b)
R/. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen as his heritage.
Ring out your joy to the Lord, O you just;
for praise is fitting for the upright.
Blessed the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people he has chosen as his heritage.
Yes, the Lord’s eyes are on those who fear him,
who hope in his merciful love,
to rescue their souls from death,
to keep them alive in famine.
Our soul is waiting for the Lord.
He is our help and our shield.
May your merciful love be upon us,
as we hope in you, O Lord.
R/. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen as his heritage.
Second Reading: Hebrews 11:1-2.8-19
Gospel: Luke 12:32-48
At that time:
Jesus said to his disciples,
“Fear not, little flock,
for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Sell your possessions, and give alms;
provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old,
with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail,
where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
For where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also.
Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning,
and be like men who are waiting for their master
to come home from the marriage feast,
so that they may open to him at once
when he comes and knocks.
Blessed are those servants
whom the master finds awake when he comes;
truly, I say to you,
he will put on his apron and have them sit at table,
and he will come and serve them.
If he comes in the second watch, or in the third,
and finds them so,
blessed are those servants!
But know this,
that if the householder had known
at what hour the thief was coming,
he would have been awake
and would not have left his house to be broken into.
You also must be ready;
for the Son of man is coming
at an hour you do not expect.”
Peter said,
“Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for all?”
And the Lord said,
“Who then is the faithful and wise steward,
whom his master will set over his household,
to give them their portion of food at the proper time?
Blessed is that servant
whom his master when he comes will find so doing.
Truly, I tell you,
he will set him over all his possessions.
But if that servant says to himself,
‘My master is delayed in coming,’
and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants
and to eat and drink and get drunk,
the master of that servant will come
on a day when he does not expect him
and at an hour he does not know,
and will punish him,
and put him with the unfait
