HOLY MASS TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME 2025

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The Roman Catholic Church, according to the General Roman Calendar, celebrates the following in Sunday, 2025-09-21:

• Saint Matthew the Evangelist, Apostle, Evangelist 2025:

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Eph 4:1-7, 11-13

  Brothers and sisters:
  I, a prisoner for the Lord,
  urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received,
  with all humility and gentleness, with patience,
  bearing with one another through love,
  striving to preserve the unity of the Spirit
  through the bond of peace:
  one Body and one Spirit,
  as you were also called to the one hope of your call;
  one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
  one God and Father of all,
  who is over all and through all and in all.
  
  But grace was given to each of us
  according to the measure of Christ's gift.
  
  And he gave some as Apostles, others as prophets,
  others as evangelists, others as pastors and teachers,
  to equip the holy ones for the work of ministry,
  for building up the Body of Christ,
  until we all attain to the unity of faith
  and knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood,
  to the extent of the full stature of Christ.
  

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  Ps 19:2-3, 4-5

  R. (5) Their message goes out through all the earth.
  The heavens declare the glory of God;
  and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.
  Day pours out the word to day,
  and night to night imparts knowledge.
  R. Their message goes out through all the earth.
  Not a word nor a discourse
  whose voice is not heard;
  Through all the earth their voice resounds,
  and to the ends of the world, their message.
  R. Their message goes out through all the earth.
  

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Mt 9:9-13

  As Jesus passed by,
  he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the customs post.
  He said to him, "Follow me."
  And he got up and followed him.
  While he was at table in his house,
  many tax collectors and sinners came
  and sat with Jesus and his disciples.
  The Pharisees saw this and said to his disciples,
  "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
  He heard this and said,
  "Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do.
  Go and learn the meaning of the words,
  I desire mercy, not sacrifice.
  I did not come to call the righteous but sinners."
  

• TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME 2025:

  Ordinary Time.

  FIRST LECTURE OF THE MASS

  Am 8:4-7

  Hear this, you who trample upon the needy
  and destroy the poor of the land!
  "When will the new moon be over," you ask,
  "that we may sell our grain,
  and the sabbath, that we may display the wheat?
  We will diminish the ephah,
  add to the shekel,
  and fix our scales for cheating!
  We will buy the lowly for silver,
  and the poor for a pair of sandals;
  even the refuse of the wheat we will sell!"
  The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
  Never will I forget a thing they have done!
  

  RESPONSORIAL PSALM

  Ps 113:1-2, 4-6, 7-8

  R. (cf. 1a, 7b)
  Praise the Lord who lifts up the poor.
  or:
  R.Alleluia.
  Praise, you servants of the LORD,
  praise the name of the LORD.
  Blessed be the name of the LORD
  both now and forever.
  R.Praise the Lord who lifts up the poor.
  or:
  R.Alleluia.
  High above all nations is the LORD;
  above the heavens is his glory.
  Who is like the LORD, our God, who is enthroned on high
  and looks upon the heavens and the earth below?
  R.Praise the Lord who lifts up the poor.
  or:
  R.Alleluia.
  He raises up the lowly from the dust;
  from the dunghill he lifts up the poor
  to seat them with princes,
  with the princes of his own people.
  R.Praise the Lord who lifts up the poor.
  or:
  R.Alleluia.
  

  SECOND LECTURE OF THE MASS

  1 Tm 2:1-8

  Beloved:
  First of all, I ask that supplications, prayers,
  petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for everyone,
  for kings and for all in authority,
  that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life
  in all devotion and dignity.
  This is good and pleasing to God our savior,
  who wills everyone to be saved
  and to come to knowledge of the truth.
  For there is one God.
  There is also one mediator between God and men,
  the man Christ Jesus,
  who gave himself as ransom for all.
  This was the testimony at the proper time.
  For this I was appointed preacher and apostle
  — I am speaking the truth, I am not lying —,
  teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
  It is my wish, then, that in every place the men should pray,
  lifting up holy hands, without anger or argument.
  

  GOSPEL OF THE MASS

  Lk 16:1-13

  Jesus said to his disciples,
  "A rich man had a steward
  who was reported to him for squandering his property.
  He summoned him and said,
  ‘What is this I hear about you?
  Prepare a full account of your stewardship,
  because you can no longer be my steward.’
  The steward said to himself, ‘What shall I do,
  now that my master is taking the position of steward away from me?
  I am not strong enough to dig and I am ashamed to beg.
  I know what I shall do so that,
  when I am removed from the stewardship,
  they may welcome me into their homes.’
  He called in his master’s debtors one by one.
  To the first he said,
  ‘How much do you owe my master?’
  He replied, ‘One hundred measures of olive oil.’
  He said to him, ‘Here is your promissory note.
  Sit down and quickly write one for fifty.’
  Then to another the steward said, ‘And you, how much do you owe?’
  He replied, ‘One hundred kors of wheat.’
  The steward said to him, ‘Here is your promissory note;
  write one for eighty.’
  And the master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently.
  "For the children of this world
  are more prudent in dealing with their own generation
  than are the children of light.
  I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth,
  so that when it fails, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.
  The person who is trustworthy in very small matters
  is also trustworthy in great ones;
  and the person who is dishonest in very small matters
  is also dishonest in great ones.
  If, therefore, you are not trustworthy with dishonest wealth,
  who will trust you with true wealth?
  If you are not trustworthy with what belongs to another,
  who will give you what is yours?
  No servant can serve two masters.
  He will either hate one and love the other,
  or be devoted to one and despise the other.
  You cannot serve both God and mammon."