Catholic Missal of the day: Sunday, September 24 2017

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Isaiah

55,6-9.

]Seek the LORD while he may be found, call him while he is near.
]Let the scoundrel forsake his way, and the wicked man his thoughts; Let him turn to the LORD for mercy; to our God, who is generous in forgiving.
]For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD.
]As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways above your ways and my thoughts above your thoughts.

Psalm

Psalms

145(144),2-3.8-9.17-18.

]Every day will I bless you,
and I will praise your name forever and ever.
]Great is the LORD and highly to be praised;
His greatness is unsearchable.
]The LORD is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger and of great kindness.
]The LORD is good to all
and compassionate toward all his works.
]The LORD is just in all his ways
and holy in all his works.
]The LORD is near to all who call upon him,
to all who call upon him in truth.

2. Reading

Letter to the Philippians

1,20c-24.27a.

]Brothers and sisters: Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
]For to me life is Christ, and death is gain.
]If I go on living in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. And I do not know which I shall choose.
]I am caught between the two. I long to depart this life and be with Christ, (for) that is far better.
]Yet that I remain (in) the flesh is more necessary for your benefit.
]Only, conduct yourselves in a way worthy of the gospel of Christ.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

20,1-16a.

]Jesus told his disciples this parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard.
]After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard.
]Going out about nine o'clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
]and he said to them, 'You too go into my vineyard, and I will give you what is just.'
]So they went off. (And) he went out again around noon, and around three o'clock, and did likewise.
]Going out about five o'clock, he found others standing around, and said to them, 'Why do you stand here idle all day?'
]They answered, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You too go into my vineyard.'
]When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Summon the laborers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and ending with the first.'
]When those who had started about five o'clock came, each received the usual daily wage.
]So when the first came, they thought that they would receive more, but each of them also got the usual wage.
]And on receiving it they grumbled against the landowner,
]saying, 'These last ones worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who bore the day's burden and the heat.'
]He said to one of them in reply, 'My friend, I am not cheating you. Did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage?
]Take what is yours and go. What if I wish to give this last one the same as you?
](Or) am I not free to do as I wish with my own money? Are you envious because I am generous?'
]Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last."

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St. Pacific of San Severino()

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