Tuesday, Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time, Year 1

Send us Fan MailTuesday, 2 September 2025Tuesday, Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time, Year 1Antiphons on p 1214 and Readings on p 1223 of the Daily Missal First Reading: 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6, 9-11As to the times and the seasons, brothers and sisters, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you, yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. When people say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labour pains come upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape. But you are not in darkness, brothers and sisters, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all sons and daughters of light and sons and daughters of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness. So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that whether we wake or sleep we might live with him.Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 27:1, 4, 13-14 (R. 13)R/. I believe I shall see the Lord’s goodness in the land of the living.The Lord is my light and my salvation;whom shall I fear?The Lord is the stronghold of my life;whom should I dread?There is one thing I ask of the Lord,only this do I seek:to live in the house of the Lordall the days of my life,to gaze on the beauty of the Lord,to inquire at his temple.I believe I shall see the Lord’s goodnessin the land of the living.Wait for the Lord; be strong;be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord!R/. I believe I shall see the Lord’s goodness in the land of the living.Gospel: Luke 4:31-37At that time: Jesus went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the sabbath; and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority. And in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon; and he cried out with a loud voice, “Ah! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.” But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in the midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm. And they were all amazed and said to one another, “What is this word? For with authority and power, he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.” And reports of him went out into every place in the surrounding region.