Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle C

Send us Fan MailSunday, 3 August 2025Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle CAntiphons on p. 1113 Readings on p. 1117 and of the Daily Missal and on p. 940 of the Sunday MissalFirst Reading: Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.Sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave all to be enjoyed by a person who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. What has a person from all the toil and strain with which they toil beneath the sun? For all their days are full of pain, and their work is a vexation; even in the night their mind does not rest. This also is vanity. Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 90:3-4.5-6.13-13.14 & 17 (R. 1)R/. O Lord, you have been our refuge,​from generation to generation.You turn man back to dust,and say, “Return, O children of men.”To your eyes a thousand yearsare like yesterday, come and gone,or like a watch in the night.You sweep them away like a dream,like grass which is fresh in the morning.In the morning it sprouts and is fresh;by evening it withers and fades.Then teach us to number our days,that we may gain wisdom of heart.Turn back, O Lord! How long?Show pity to your servants.At dawn, fill us with your merciful love;we shall exult and rejoice all our days.Let the favour of the Lord our God be upon us;give success to the work of our hands.O give success to the work of our hands.R/. O Lord, you have been our refuge,​from generation to generation. Second Reading: Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11Gospel: Luke 12:13-21At that time: One of the multitude said to Jesus, “Teacher, bid my brother divide the inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or divider over you?” And he said to them, “Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of their possessions.” And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man brought forth plentifully; and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns, and build larger ones; and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is the one who lays up treasure for themself, and is not rich towards God.”