Wednesday, 22 October 2025 Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time – Year 1

Send us Fan MailWednesday, 22 October 2025Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time – Year 1St John Paul II, PopeAntiphons on page 1916 and Readings on page 1383 of the Daily Missal. Entrance Antiphon: The Lord chose him for himself as high priest, and opening his treasure house, made him rich in all good things.First Reading: Romans 6:12-18A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans.Brothers and sisters: Let not sin reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness but yield yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you since you are not under law but under grace.What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.The Word of the Lord.Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 124:1-3.4-6.7-8 (R. 8a)R/. Our help is in the name of the Lord.“If the Lord had not been on our side,”let Israel say—“If the Lord had not been on our sidewhen people rose against us,then would they have swallowed us alivewhen their anger was kindled.”Then would the waters have engulfed us,the torrent gone over us;over our head would have sweptthe raging waters.”Blest be the Lord who did not give usa prey to their teeth!Our life, like a bird, has escapedfrom the snare of the fowler.Indeed, the snare has been broken,and we have escaped.Our help is in the name of the Lord,who made heaven and earth.R/. Our help is in the name of the Lord.Alleluia, alleluia.Watch, therefore, and be ready; the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.Alleluia.Gospel: Luke 12:39-48A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.At that time: Jesus said to his disciples, “Know this, that if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would have been awake and would not have left his house to be broken into. You also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”Peter said, “Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for all?” And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master when he comes will find so doing. Truly, I tell you, he will set him over all his possessions. But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will punish him, and put him with the unfaithful. And that servant who knew his master’s will, but