Sunday, 16 November 2025 Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle C

Send us Fan MailSunday, 16 November 2025Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle CWorld Day of the PoorAntiphons on p. 1458 and Readings on p. 1463 and of the Daily Missal and on p. 999 of the Sunday Missal.Entrance Antiphon.The Lord said; I think thoughts of peace and not of affliction. You will call upon me, and I will answer you, and I will lead back your captives from every place.First Reading: Malachi 4:1-2aA reading from the Book of the Prophet Malachi.Behold, the day comes, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings.The Word of the Lord.Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 98:5-6.7-9ab.9bc (R. cf. 9cd)R/. The Lord comes to judge the peoples with fairness.Sing psalms to the Lord with the harp,with the harp and the sound of song.With trumpets and the sound of the horn,raise a shout before the King, the Lord.Let the sea and all within it thunder;the world, and those who dwell in it.Let the rivers clap their hands,and the hills ring out their joyat the presence of the Lord, for he comes,he comes to judge the earth.He will judge the world with justice,and the peoples with fairness.R/. The Lord comes to judge the peoples with fairness.Second Reading: 2 Thessalonians 3:7-12A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Thessalonians.Brothers and sisters: You know how you ought to imitate us; we were not idle when we were with you, we did not eat anyone’s bread without paying, but with toil and labour we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you. It was not because we have not that right, but to give you in our conduct an example to imitate. For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If anyone will not work, let them not eat. For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work. Now, such persons, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work in quietness and to earn their own living.The Word of the Lord.Alleluia, Alleluia.Look up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.Alleluia.Gospel: Luke 21:5-19A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.At that time: As some spoke of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, Jesus said, “As for these things which you see, the days will come when there shall not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” And they asked him, “Teacher, when will this be, and what will be the sign when this is about to take place?” And he said, “Take heed that you are not led astray; for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and, ‘The time is at hand!’ Do not go after them. And when you hear of wars and tumults, do not be terrified; for this must first take place, but the end will not be at once.” Then Jesus said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven. But before all this they will lay