Sunday, Eighth Week in Ordinary Time, Cycle C

Send us Fan MailSunday, 2 March 2025Sunday, Eighth Week in Ordinary Time, Cycle C Antiphons on p. 869  and Readings on p. 873  and of the Daily Missal and p. 903 in the Sunday MissalFirst Reading: Sirach 27:4-7When a sieve is shaken, the refuse remains; so a person’s filth remains in his thoughts. The kiln tests the potter’s vessels; so the test of just people is in tribulation.  The fruit discloses the cultivation of a tree; so the expression of a thought discloses the cultivation  of a person’s mind. Do not praise a person before you hear him speak, for this is the test of maturity.Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 92:1-2.12-13.14-15 (R. see 1a)R/: It is good to give thanks to you, O Lord.It is good to give thanks to you, O Lord, to make music to your name, O Most High, to proclaim your loving mercy in the morning, and your truth in the watches of the night.The just will flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a Lebanon cedar. Planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God.They will still bear fruit when they are old, still full of sap, still green, to proclaim that the Lord is upright. In him, my rock, there is no wrong.R/: It is good to give thanks to you, O Lord.Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 15: 54-58Brothers and sisters:  When the perishable puts on the imperishable,  and the mortal puts on immortality,  then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory?  O death, where is your sting?”The sting of death is sin,  and the power of sin is the law.  But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory  through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters,  be steadfast, immovable,  always abounding in the work of the Lord,  knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain..Gospel: Luke 6:39-45At that time:   Jesus told his disciples a parable:  “Can a blind man lead a blind man?  Will they not both fall into a pit?  A disciple is not above his teacher,  but every one when he is fully taught  will be like his teacher.  Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye,  but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?  Or how can you say to your brother,  ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’  when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye?  You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye,  and then you will see clearly  to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.“For no good tree bears bad fruit,  nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit;  for each tree is known by its own fruit.  For figs are not gathered from thorns,  nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.  The good person  out of the good treasure of his heart produces good,  and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil;  for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.