Wednesday, Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time, Year 1 - Saint Monica, Memorial

Send us Fan MailWednesday, 27 August 2025Wednesday, Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time, Year 1Saint Monica, MemorialAntiphons on p 1979 and Readings on p 1203 of the Daily Missal  First Reading: 1 Thessalonians 2:9-13You remember our labour and toil, brethren; we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you, while we preached to you the gospel of God. You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our behaviour to you believers; for you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of people but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 139:7-12ab (R. see 1a)R/. O Lord, you search me and you know me.O where can I go from your spirit,or where can I flee from your face?If I climb the heavens, you are there.If I lie in the grave, you are there.If I take the wings of the dawnor dwell at the sea’s furthest end,even there your hand would lead me;your right hand would hold me fast.If I say, “Let the darkness hide meand the light around me be night,”even darkness is not dark to you,the night shall be as bright as day.R/. O Lord, you search me and you know me. Gospel: Matthew 23:27-32At that time: Jesus said, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ Thus you witness against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of your ancestors.”