2025-08-10 Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reading 1Wisdom 18:6-9The night of the passover was known beforehand to our fathers, that, with sure knowledge of the oaths in which they put their faith, they might have courage. Your people awaited the salvation of the just and the destruction of their foes. For when you punished our adversaries, in this you glorified us whom you had summoned. For in secret the holy children of the good were offering sacrifice and putting into effect with one accord the divine institution.Responsorial PsalmPsalm 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22R. (12b) Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.Exult, you just, in the LORD; praise from the upright is fitting.Blessed the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he has chosen for his own inheritance.R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.See, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him, upon those who hope for his kindness,To deliver them from death and preserve them in spite of famine.R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.Our soul waits for the LORD, who is our help and our shield.May your kindness, O LORD, be upon us who have put our hope in you.R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.Reading 2Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-12Brothers and sisters:Faith is the realization of what is hoped forand evidence of things not seen.Because of it the ancients were well attested.By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a placethat he was to receive as an inheritance;he went out, not knowing where he was to go.By faith he sojourned in the promised land as in a foreign country,dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs of the same promise;for he was looking forward to the city with foundations,whose architect and maker is God.By faith he received power to generate,even though he was past the normal age—and Sarah herself was sterile—for he thought that the one who had made the promise wastrustworthy. So it was that there came forth from one man,himself as good as dead,descendants as numerous as the stars in the skyand as countless as the sands on the seashore.AlleluiaMatthew 24;42a, 44R. Alleluia, alleluia.Stay awake and be ready!For you do not know on what day your Lord will come.R. Alleluia, alleluia.GospelLuke 12:35-40Jesus said to his disciples:“Gird your loins and light your lampsand be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding,ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.Blessed are those servantswhom the master finds vigilant on his arrival.Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself,have the servants recline at table, and proceed to wait on them.And should he come in the second or third watchand find them prepared in this way,blessed are those servants.Be sure of this:if the master of the house had known the hourwhen the thief was coming,he would not have let his house be broken into.You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect,the Son of Man will come.”