Sunday: Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Am 8:4-7/1 Tm 2:1-8/Lk 16:1-13 or 16:10-13
“Hear this, you that trample on the needy,
and bring to ruin the poor of the land,
The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.”
Amos 8:4,7 NRSVCE
Monday
Ezr 1:1-6/Lk 8:16-18
“The heads of the families of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—got ready to go up and rebuild the house of the Lord in Jerusalem. All their neighbors aided them with silver vessels, with gold, with goods, with animals, and with valuable gifts, besides all that was freely offered.”
Ezra 1:5-6, NRSVCE
Tuesday
Ezr 6:7-8, 12b, 14-20/Lk 8:19-21
“Then his mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not reach him because of the crowd. And he was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.” But he said to them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.””
Luke 8:19-21, NRSVCE
Wednesday
Ezr 9:5-9/Lk 9:1-6
“For we are slaves; yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to give us new life to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judea and Jerusalem.”
Ezra 9:9, NRSVCE
Thursday
Hg 1:1-8/Lk 9:7-9
“Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening, and he was greatly perplexed because some were saying, “John has been raised from the dead”; others were saying, “Elijah has appeared”; still others, “One of the ancient prophets has arisen.” But Herod said, “John I beheaded. Who then is this about whom I hear such things?” And he kept trying to see him.”
Luke 9:7-9, NABRE
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Friday
Hg 2:1-9/Lk 9:18-22
“For thus says the Lord of hosts:
In just a little while,
I will shake the heavens and the earth,
the sea and the dry land.
I will shake all the nations,
so that the treasures of all the nations will come in.
And I will fill this house with glory—
says the Lord of hosts.”
Haggai 2:6-7, NABRE
Saturday
Zec 2:5-9, 14-15a/Lk 9:43b-45
“Then the angel who spoke with me advanced as another angel came out to meet him 8 and he said to the latter, “Run, speak to that official: Jerusalem will be unwalled, because of the abundance of people and beasts in its midst. 9 I will be an encircling wall of fire for it—oracle of the Lord—and I will be the glory in its midst.””
Zechariah 2:7-9, NABRE
