19/10/2025
READING FOR THE WORLD MISSION SUNDAY 29TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (YEAR C)
SUNDAY, 19 OCTOBER, 2025
FIRST READING
Jonah 3:10—4:11
When God saw what the people of Nineveh did, how they turned from their evil ways, God repented of the evil which he had said he would do to them; and he did not do it. But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. And he prayed to the Lord and said, “I pray you, Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repent of evil.”
And the Lord said, “Do you do well to be angry?” Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city, and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city. And the Lord God appointed a plant, and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant. But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm which attacked the plant, so that it withered. When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.” But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.” And the Lord said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labour, nor did you make it grow; which came into being in a night, and perished in a night. And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”
The word of the Lord
RESPONSORIAL PSALM – Psalm 98:1–6 (R. v.2b)
R/. The Lord has shown his deliverance to the nation. or All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
1. O sing a new song to the Lord,
for he has worked wonders.
His right hand and his holy arm
have brought salvation. (R.)
2. The Lord has made known his salvation,
has shown his deliverance to the nations.
He has remembered his merciful love
and his truth for the house of Israel. (R.)
3. All the ends of the earth have seen
the salvation of our God.
Shout to the Lord, all the earth;
break forth into joyous song, and sing out your praise. (R.)
4. Sing psalms to the Lord with the harp,
with the harp and the sound of song.
With trumpets and the sound of the horn
raise a shout before the King, the Lord.
SECOND READING
Ephesians 3:2–12
Brethren: I assume that you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for your sake, how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. When you read this you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; that is, how the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the Gospel.
Of this Gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace which was given me by the working of his power. To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all men see what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things; that through the Church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places. This was according to the eternal purpose which he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and confidence of access through our faith in him.
The word of the Lord
ALLELUIA
Alleluia, alleluia!
Go and make disciples of all nations, says the Lord;
I am with you always, to the end of the age.
Alleluia! (cf. Matthew 28:19–20)
GOSPEL
Luke 24:44–53
At that time: Jesus said to his disciples, “These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but stay in the city, until you are clothed with power from on high.”
Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them. While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven. And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and were continually in the temple blessing God.
The Gospel of the Lord