Sunday, 21 September 2025
Sunday, Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time – Cycle C.
Antiphons on p. 1280 and Readings on p. 1284 of the Daily Missal and on p. 969 of the Sunday Missal.
First Reading: Amos 8:4-7
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 113:1-2.4-6.7-8 (R. see 1a, 7a)
R/. Praise the Lord, who raises the poor from the dust.
Praise, O servants of the Lord,
praise the name of the Lord!
May the name of the Lord be blest
both now and forevermore!
High above all nations is the Lord,
above the heavens his glory.
Who is like the Lord, our God,
who dwells on high,
who lowers himself to look down
upon heaven and earth?
From the dust, he lifts up the lowly,
from the ash heap, he raises the poor,
to set them in the company of princes,
yes, with the princes of his people.
R/. Praise the Lord, who raises the poor from the dust.
Second Reading: 1 Timothy 2:1-8
Gospel: Luke 16:1-13
At that time:
Jesus said to his disciples,
“There was a rich man who had a steward,
and charges were brought to him
that this man was wasting his goods.
And he called him and said to him,
‘What is this that I hear about you?
Turn in the account of your stewardship,
for you can no longer be steward.’
And the steward said to himself,
‘What shall I do
since my master is taking the stewardship away from me?
I am not strong enough to dig,
and I am ashamed to beg.
I have decided what to do,
so that people may receive me into their houses
when I am put out of the stewardship.’
So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one,
he said to the first,
‘How much do you owe my master?’
He said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’
And he said to him,
‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’
Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’
He said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’
He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’
The master commended the dishonest steward
for his prudence;
for the sons of this world are wiser in their own generation
than the sons of light.
And I tell you,
make friends for yourselves
by means of unrighteous mammon,
so that when it fails
they may receive you into the eternal habitations.
“He who is faithful in a very little
is faithful also in much,
and he who is dishonest in a very little
is dishonest also in much.
If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon,
who will entrust to you the true riches?
And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s,
who will give you that which is your own?
No servant can serve two masters;
for either he will hate the one and love the other,
or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.
You cannot serve God and mammon.”
