09/19/2025
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Saturday September 20, 2025
ST ANDREW KIM TAEGON & Comp., M.
(MEMORIAL)
Office: Memorial, Psalter week 4
Mass and Preface of the Memorial;
Vestment: Red
Today’s Rosary: The Joyful Mystery
Vespers I of the 25th Sunday of the Year
Entrance Antiphon
The blood of the holy Martyrs was poured out for Christ upon the earth; therefore they have gained everlasting rewards.
Collect
O God, who have been pleased to increase your adopted children in all the world, and who made the blood of the Martyrs Saint Andrew Kim Tae-gÇ’n and his companions a most fruitful seed of Christians, grant that we may be defended by their help and profit always from their example. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
-FIRST READING-
“Keep the commandment unstained until the appearing of the Lord.”
A reading from the first Letter of Saint Paul to Timothy (1Timothy 6:13-16)
Beloved: In the presence of God who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ; and this will be made manifest at the proper time by the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honour and eternal dominion. Amen.
The word of the Lord.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM Psa1in 100:1-2.3.4.5 (R.2b)
R/. Come before the Lord, singing for joy.
Cry out with joy to the Lord, all the earth.
Serve the Lord with gladness.
Come before him, singing for joy. R/.
Know that he, the Lord, is God.
He made us; we belong to him.
We are his people, the sheep of his flock. R/.
R/. Come before the Lord, singing for joy.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving
And his courts with songs of praise.
Give thanks to him, and bless his name. R/.
Indeed, how good is the Lord,
Eternal his merciful love.
He is faithful from age to age. R/.
ALLELUIA Matt. 8:15
Alleluia. Blessed are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bring forth fruit with patience. Alleluia.
-GOSPEL-
“As for the seed in the good soil, they are those who hold fast and bring forth fruit with patience.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Luke 8:4-15)
At that time: When a great crowd came together and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable: “A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell along the path, and was trodden under foot, and the birds of the air devoured it. And some fell on the rock; and as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns grew with it and choked it. And some fell into good soil and grew, and yielded a hundred fold.” As he said this, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant, he said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but for others they are in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, that they may not believe and be saved. And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy; but these have no root, they believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away. And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature. And as for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bring forth fruit with patience.”
The Gospel of the Lord.
