Tuesday, Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time, Year 1

Send us Fan MailTuesday, 19 August 2025Tuesday, Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time, Year 1Antiphons on p 1167 and readings on p.1176 of the Daily MissalFirst Reading: Judges 6:11-24aResponsorial Psalm: Psalm 85:9.11-14 (R. see 9b)R/. The Lord speaks of peace for his people.I will hear what the Lord God speaks;he speaks of peace for his people and his faithful,and those who turn their hearts to him.Merciful love and faithfulness have met;justice and peace have kissed.Faithfulness shall spring from the earth,and justice look down from heaven.Also the Lord will bestow his bounty,and our earth shall yield its increase.Justice will march before him,and guide his steps on the way.R/. The Lord speaks of peace for his people.Gospel: Matthew 19:23-30At that time: Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly, I say to you, it will be hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” When the disciples heard this they were greatly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?” But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Then Peter said in reply, “Behold, we have left everything and followed you. What then shall we have?” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of man shall sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. But many that are first will be last, and the last first.