Catholic Mass Readings for September 7 2025, Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C

Catholic Daily Mass Readings for September 7 2025, Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C

First Reading – Wisdom 9:13-18B

¹³ Who can know God’s counsel, or who can conceive what the LORD intends?

¹⁴ For the deliberations of mortals are timid, and unsure are our plans.

¹⁵ For the corruptible body burdens the soul and the earthen shelter weighs down the mind that has many concerns.

¹⁶ And scarce do we guess the things on earth, and what is within our grasp we find with difficulty; but when things are in heaven, who can search them out?

¹⁷ Or who ever knew your counsel, except you had given wisdom and sent your holy spirit from on high?

^18B And thus were the paths of those on earth made straight.

Responsorial Psalm – Psalms 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14 AND 17

R. ⁽¹⁾ In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.

³ You turn man back to dust,

saying, “Return, O children of men.”

⁴ For a thousand years in your sight

are as yesterday, now that it is past,

or as a watch of the night.

R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.

⁵ You make an end of them in their sleep;

the next morning they are like the changing grass,

⁶ Which at dawn springs up anew,

but by evening wilts and fades.

R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.

¹² Teach us to number our days aright,

that we may gain wisdom of heart.

¹³ Return, O LORD! How long?

Have pity on your servants!

R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.

¹⁴ Fill us at daybreak with your kindness,

that we may shout for joy and gladness all our days.

¹⁷ And may the gracious care of the LORD our God be ours;

prosper the work of our hands for us!

Prosper the work of our hands!

R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.

Second Reading – Philemon 9-10, 12-17

⁹ I, Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus,

¹⁰ urge you on behalf of my child Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment;

¹² I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you.

¹³ I should have liked to retain him for myself, so that he might serve me on your behalf in my imprisonment for the gospel,

¹⁴ but I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that the good you do might not be forced but voluntary.

¹⁵ Perhaps this is why he was away from you for a while, that you might have him back forever,

¹⁶ no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a brother, beloved especially to me, but even more so to you, as a man and in the Lord.

¹⁷ So if you regard me as a partner, welcome him as you would me.

Alleluia – Psalms 119:135

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

¹³⁵ Let your face shine upon your servant;

and teach me your laws.

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel Reading for September 7 2025 – Luke 14:25-33

²⁵ Great crowds were traveling with Jesus, and he turned and addressed them,

²⁶ “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

²⁷ Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

²⁸ Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion?

²⁹ Otherwise, after laying the foundation and finding himself unable to finish the work the onlookers should laugh at him

³⁰ and say, ‘This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.’

³¹ Or what king marching into battle would not first sit down and decide whether with ten thousand troops he can successfully oppose another king advancing upon him with twenty thousand troops?

³² But if not, while he is still far away, he will send a delegation to ask for peace terms.

³³ In the same way, anyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.”

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Catholic Mass Readings for September 7 2025, Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C