Thursday, Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time, Year 1- Memorial, St Pius X, Pope

Send us Fan MailThursday, 21 August 2025Thursday, Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time, Year 1Memorial, St Pius X, PopeAntiphons on p 1916 and readings on p 1182 of the Daily Missal.First Reading: Judges 11:29-39aResponsorial Psalm: Psalm 40:5.7-8a.8b-9.10 (R. see 8a.9a)R/. See, I have come, Lord, to do your will.Blessed the man who has placedhis trust in the Lord,and has not gone over to the proudwho follow false gods.You delight not in sacrifice and offerings,but in an open ear.You do not ask for holocaust and victim.Then I said, “See, I have come.”In the scroll of the book it stands written of me:“I delight to do your will, O my God;your instruction lies deep within me.”Your justice I have proclaimedin the great assembly.My lips I have not sealed;you know it, O Lord.R/. See, I have come, Lord, to do your will.Gospel: Matthew 22:1-14At that time: Again Jesus spoke to the chief priests and the elders of the people in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a marriage feast for his son and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have made ready my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves are killed, and everything is ready; come to the marriage feast.’ But they made light of it and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. Go therefore to the streets, and invite to the marriage feast as many as you find.’ And those servants went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good; so the wedding hall was filled with guests.“But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment; and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ For many are called, but few are chosen.”