Saturday, Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time, Year I

Send us Fan MailSaturday 23 August 2025Saturday, Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time, Year IMass of Our LadyAntiphons on p. 1862 (CBVM 1) and readings on p.1189 (Daily Missal)First Reading: Ruth 2:1-3.8-11; 4:13-17Now Naomi had a kinsman of her husband’s, a man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz. And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favour.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.” So she set forth and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech. Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Now, listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my maidens. Let your eyes be upon the field which they are reaping and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to molest you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn.” Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favour in your eyes, that you should take notice of me when I am a foreigner?” But Boaz answered her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before. So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife, and he went into her, and the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son. Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without next of kin; and may his name be renowned in Israel! He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age; for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has borne him.” Then Naomi took the child and laid him in her bosom, and became his nurse. And the women of the neighbourhood gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed; he was the father of Jesse, the father of David. Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 128:1-2.3.4.5 (R. 4)R/. Indeed thus shall be blessed     the man who fears the Lord.Blessed are all who fear the Lord,and walk in his ways!By the labour of your hands you shall eat.You will be blessed and prosper.Your wife like a fruitful vinein the heart of your house;your children like shoots of the olivearound your table.Indeed thus shall be blessedthe man who fears the Lord.May the Lord bless you from Sion.May you see Jerusalem prosperall the days of your life!R/. Indeed thus shall be blessed     the man who fears the Lord.Gospel: Matthew 23:1-12At that time: Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat; so practice and observe whatever they tell you, but not what they do; for they preach, but do not practice. They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by people; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, and they love the place of honour at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues,&nbs