Sunday, 31 August 2025
Sunday, Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time – Cycle C
Antiphons on p. 1214 and Readings on p. 1218 of the Daily Missal and on p 956 of the Sunday Missal.
First Reading: Sirach 3:17-20, 28-29
My child, perform your tasks in meekness;
then you will be loved more than a giver of gifts.
The greater you are, the more you must humble yourself;
so you will find favour with God.
There are many who are noble and renowned,
but it is to the humble, that he reveals his mysteries.
For great is the might of the Lord;
he is glorified by the humble.
The affliction of the proud has no healing,
for a plant of wickedness has taken root in them,
though it will not be perceived.
The mind of the wise person will ponder the words of the wise,
and an attentive ear is the wise person’s desire.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 68: 4-5ac.6-7ab.10-11 (R. 11b)
R/. In your goodness, O God, you provided for the poor.
The just shall rejoice at the presence of God;
they shall exult with glad rejoicing.
O sing to God; make music to his name.
The Lord is his name.
Father of orphans, defender of widows:
such is God in his holy place.
God gives the desolate a home to dwell in;
he leads the prisoners forth into prosperity,
You poured down, O God, a generous rain;
when your people languished, you restored their inheritance.
It was there that your flock began to dwell.
In your goodness, O God, you provided for the poor.
R/. In your goodness, O God, you provided for the poor.
Second Reading: Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a
Gospel: Luke 14:1, 7-14
One sabbath when Jesus went to dine
at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees,
they were watching him.
Now he told a parable to those who were invited,
when he noticed how they chose the places of honour,
saying to them,
“When you are invited by any one to a marriage feast,
do not sit down in a place of honour,
lest a more eminent person than you be invited by your host
and the host who invited you both will come and say to you,
‘Give place to this person,’
and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place.
But when you are invited,
go and sit in the lowest place,
so that when your host comes, they may say to you,
‘Friend, go up higher’;
then you will be honoured
in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.
For everyone who exalt themselves will be humbled,
and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
He said also to the one who had invited him,
“When you give a dinner or a banquet,
do not invite your friends or your brothers
or your kinsmen or rich neighbours,
lest they also invite you in return,
and you be repaid.
But when you give a feast,
invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind
and you will be blessed,
because they cannot repay you.
You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
