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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n25th Week in Ordinary Time\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (C)\, Weekdays (I)\nSeptember 21 – 27\, 2025\n\n\n\nSun\n21\nMon\n22\nTue\n23\nWed\n24\nThu\n25\nFri\n26\nSat\n27\n\n\nOffice\n25th Sunday\nWeekday\nSt Pius of Peitrelcina\nOffice for Vocations\nWeekday\nWeekday\nSt Vincent de Paul\n\n\nVigils\nSong 6:4-7:6\nSong 7:7-8:4\nSong 8:5-14\nSir 31:1-17\nSir 31:18-31\nSir 32:1-13\nSir 32:14-24\n\n\nLauds\nZephaniah 1:1-6\nZeph 1:7-13\nZeph 1:14-18\nZeph 2:1-7\nZeph 2:8-15\nZeph 3:1-7\nZeph 3:8-13\n\n\nMass\n135\n449\n450\n451\n452\n453\n454\n\n\n1st\nAmos 8:4-7\nEzra 1:1-6\nEzra 6:7-8\, 12b\, 14-20\nEzra 9:5-9\nHag 1:1-8\nHag 2:1-9\nZech 2:5-9\, 14-15a\n\n\n2nd\n1 Tim 2:1-8\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nLuke 16:1-13\nLuke 8:16-18\nLuke 8:19-21\nLuke 9:1-6\nLuke 9:7-9\nLuke 9:18-22\nLuke 9:43b-45\n\n\nVespers\n1 Tim 3:1-7\n1 Tim 3:8-13\n1 Tim 3:14-4:5\n1 Tim 4:6-10\n1 Tim 4:11-16\n1 Tim 5:1-8\n1 Tim 5:17-25
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 25th Sunday
DESCRIPTION:OUR HOMELAND IN HEAVEN \nFrom a commentary by Gaudentius of Brescia \n◊◊◊ \nThe Lord Jesus\, true teacher of the precepts that lead to salvation\, wished \nto urge the apostles in his own time and all believers today the Christian duty of \nalmsgiving. He therefore related the parable of the steward to make us realize \nthat nothing in this world really belongs to us. We have been entrusted with the \nadministration of our Lord’s property to use what we need with thanksgiving\, \nand to distribute the rest among our fellow servants according to the need of \neach one. We must not squander the wealth entrusted to us\, nor use it on \nsuperfluities\, for when the Lord comes we shall be required to account for our \nexpenditure. \nFinally\, at the end of the parable\, the Lord adds: Use worldly wealth to \nmake friends with the poor\, so that when it fails you\, when you have spent all \nyou possess on the needs of the poor and have nothing left\, they may welcome \nyou into eternal dwellings. \nIn other words\, these same poor people will befriend you by assuring your \nsalvation\, for Christ\, the giver of eternal rewards\, will declare that he himself \nreceived the acts of kindness done to them. Not in their own name\, then\, will \nthese poor folk welcome us\, but in the name of him who is refreshed in their \npersons by the fruit of our faith and obedience. Those who exercised this \nministry of love will be received into the eternal dwellings of the kingdom of \nheaven\, for the King will say: Come\, blessed of my Father\, take possession of the \nkingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world; for I was hungry \nand you fed me\, thirsty and you gave me a drink. \nBut if you have been untrustworthy in the administration of worldly \nwealth\, who is going to trust you with true riches? For if someone cannot be \nrelied on to administer worldly possessions that provide the means for all sorts \nof wrong doing\, would anyone dream of trusting that person with the true \nheavenly riches rightly and deservedly enjoyed by those who have been faithful \nin giving to the poor? \nThe Lord’s query above is immediately followed by another: If you cannot \nbe trusted with another’s property\, who will give you your own? Nothing in \nthis world really belongs to us. We who hope for a future reward are told to live \nin this world as strangers and pilgrims\, so as to be able to say to the Lord without \nfear of contradiction: I am a stranger and a pilgrim like all my ancestors. \nWhat believers can regard as their own is that eternal and heavenly \npossession where our heart is and our treasure\, and where intense longing \nmakes us dwell already through faith\, for as Saint Paul teaches\, Our homeland \nis in heaven.
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