Tuesday, 21 October 2025 Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time – Year 1

Send us Fan MailTuesday, 21 October 2025Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time – Year 1Antiphons on p. 1371 and Readings on p. 1380 of the Daily Missal.Entrance Antiphon.To you I call; for you will surely heed me, O God; turn your ear to me; hear my words. Guard me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings.First Reading: Romans 5:12.15b.17-19.20b-21A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans.Brothers and sisters: As sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all people sinned. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.If, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.Then as one man’s trespass led to condemnation for all people, so one man’s act of righteousness leads to acquittal and life for all people. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man’s obedience, many will be made righteous. Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.The Word of the Lord.Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 40:7-8a.8b-9.10.17 (R. see 8a.9a)R/. See, I have come, Lord, to do your will.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.O let there be rejoicing and gladnessfor all who seek you.Let them ever say, “The Lord is great,”who long for your salvation.R/. See, I have come, Lord, to do your will.Alleluia, alleluia.Watch at all times, praying that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.Alleluia.Gospel: Luke 12:35-38A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.At that time: Jesus said to his disciples, “Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning, and be like those who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so that they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes; truly, I say to you, he will put on his apron and have them sit at table, and he will come and serve them. If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those servants!”The Gospel of the Lord.Communion Antiphon.Behold, the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, who hope in his merciful love, to rescue their souls from death, to keep them alive in famine.