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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n27th Week in Ordinary Time\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (C)\, Weekdays (I)\nOctober 5 – 11\, 2025\n\n\n\nSun\n5\nMon\n6\nTue\n7\nWed\n8\nThu\n9\nFri\n10\nSat\n11\n\n\nOffice\n27th Sunday\nSt Bruno\nOur Lady of the Rosary\nOffice for the Dead\nWeekday\nWeekday\nSt John XXIII\n\n\nVigils\nSir 35:15-26\nSir 36:1-22\nJudith 15:8-16:2\, 11-16\nSir 36:23-31\nSir 37:1-15\nSir 37:16-31\nSir 38:1-23\n\n\nLauds\nHag 2:10-14\nHag 2:15-19\nSir 39:12-22\nHag 2:20-23\nZechariah 1:1-6\nZech 1:7-13\nZech 1:14-17\n\n\nMass\n141\n461\n462\n463\n464\n465\n466\n\n\n1st\nHabb 1:2-3; 2:2-4\nJonah 1:1-2:2\, 11\nJonah 3:1-10\nJonah 4:1-11\nMal 3:13-20b\nJoel 1:13-15; 2:1-2\nJoel 4:12-21\n\n\n2nd\n2 Tim 1:6-8\, 13-14\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nLuke 17:5-10\nLuke 10:25-37\nLuke 10:38-42\nLuke 11:1-4\nLuke 11:5-13\nLuke 11:15-26\nLuke 11:27-28\n\n\nVespers\n2 Tim 2:1-7\n2 Tim 2:8-13\nActs 1:12-14\n2 Tim 2:14-19\n2 Tim 2:20-26\n2 Tim 3:1-9\n2 Tim 3:10-17
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 27th Sunday
DESCRIPTION:WATCH AND PRAY \nFrom a commentary by St Augustine \n◊◊◊ \nReading the holy gospel nourishes in us the habit of prayer\, builds up our \nfaith\, and disposes us to trust in the Lord rather than in ourselves. What more \npowerful motive to prayer could be proposed to us than the parable of the unjust \njudge? An unprincipled man\, without fear of God or regard for other people\, \nthat judge nevertheless ended by granting the widow’s petition. No kindly \nsentiment moved him to do so; he was rather worn down by her pestering. Now \nif a man can grant a request even when it is odious to him to be asked\, how can \nwe be refused by the one who urges us to ask? \nHaving persuaded us\, therefore\, by a comparison of opposites that we \nought always to pray and never lose heart\, the Lord goes on to put the \nquestion: Nevertheless\, when the Son of Man comes\, do you think he will find \nfaith on earth? Where there is no faith\, there is no prayer. Who would pray for \nsomething he did not believe in? So when the blessed apostle exhorts us to pray \nhe begins by declaring: Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved; \nbut to show that faith is the source of prayer and the stream will not flow if its \nsprings are dried up\, he continues: But can people call upon him in whom they \ndo not believe? \nWe must believe\, then\, in order to pray; and we must ask God that the \nfaith enabling us to pray may not fail. Faith gives rise to prayer\, and this prayer \nobtains an increase of faith. Faith\, I say\, gives rise to prayer\, and is in turn \nstrengthened by prayer. It was to guard against their faith failing in times of \ntemptation that the Lord told his disciples: Watch and pray that you may not \nenter into temptation… \nWhat does it mean to enter into temptation? It means to turn one’s back \non faith. Temptation grows stronger in proportion as faith weakens\, and \nbecomes weaker in proportion as faith grows strong. To convince you\, beloved\, \nthat he was speaking of the weakening and loss of faith when he told his \ndisciples to watch and pray that they might not enter into temptation\, the Lord \nsaid in this same passage of the gospel: This night Satan has demanded to sift \nyou like wheat; but I have prayed for you\, Peter\, that your faith may not fail. \nIs the protector to pray\, while the person in danger has no need to do so? \nBut in asking whether the Son of Man would find faith on earth at his \ncoming\, the Lord was speaking of perfect faith. That kind of faith is indeed \nhardly to be found on earth. Look at God’s Church: it is full of people. Who \nwould come here if faith were non-existent? But who would not move \nmountains if that faith were present in full measure? Mark the apostles: they \nwould never have left everything they possessed and spurned worldly ambition \nto follow the Lord unless their faith had been great; and yet that faith of theirs \ncould not have been perfect\, otherwise they would not have asked the Lord to \nincrease it.
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