Nineteenth
Sunday in Ordinary Time
August
10, 2025 Cycle C
Green
priestly vestments symbolize hope and the vitality of the life
of faith.
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Introductory
Acts of Worship
The Entrance Prayers:
On Sunday, usually a hymn praising God is sung in
place of reciting a Psalm from the Bible which invites
us to enter more deeply into the mystery of God's love
for us. The recited weekday Psalm expresses a
youthful heart and spirit, delighted that we may come
before the living God.
Entrance Song / Entrance Psalm (Antiphon)
Psalm
74:20,
19, 22, 23
Look to
your covenant, O Lord, and forget not the life of your poor ones
for- ever. Arise, O God, and defend your cause, and forget
not the cries of those who seek you.
Priest:
In the
name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
All:
Amen.
Priest: Grace to you and peace from God our Father
and our Lord Jesus Christ.
All: And with your spirit.
The Penitential Prayers:
We
recognize our guilt for past sins, express our sorrow
for them, and ask that Mary, the angels, the saints, and
our brothers and sisters in Christ pray for the Lord
God's mercy. (The priest may select from several
forms).
Priest: Brothers
and
sisters, let us acknowledge our sins, and so prepare ourselves
to celebrate the sacred mysteries.
Priest: Have mercy on us O Lord:
All: For we have sinned against you.
Priest: Show us, O Lord, your mercy.
All: And grant us your salvation.
The Absolution:
Priest:
May
almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us
to everlasting life.
All:
Amen.
The Gloria:
The Glory of God prayers have existed from the
second century. They repeat the angels praise of
God which heralded the birth of Christ on earth.
Our praise is lifted again through the years as we
rejoice at His coming as Lord, God, the Most High Jesus
Christ, who at Christmas took on our human nature while
at the same time being the son of Man. This ancient hymn
expresses our recognition of God's glory and love.
It calls upon Christ as our holy and divine mediator,
and the Holy Spirit who forever binds us together in
God's love.
Priest
and All: Glory
to God in the highest, and peace to his people on earth.
Lord God, heavenly King, almighty God and Father, we worship
you, we give you thanks, we praise you for your glory.
Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father, Lord God, Lamb of
God, you take away the sins of the world: have mercy on us; you
are seated at the right hand of the Father: receive our
prayer. For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the
Lord, you alone are the most high, Jesus Christ, with the Holy
Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.
The Collect:
The
priest lifts the united prayers and petitions of the
congregation to God the Father through the merits of
Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit.
Priest: Let
us
pray.
Priest: Almighty ever-living God, whom,
taught by the Holy Spirit, we dare to call our Father, bring, we
pray, to perfection in our hearts the spirit of adoption as your
sons and daughters, that we may merit to enter into the
inheritance which you have promised. Through our Lord
Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the
unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.
Liturgy
of the Word
The
First Reading: From
the Old Testament.
Wisdom
18:6-9
The night
of the Passover was known beforehand to our fathers, that, with
sure knowledge of the oaths in which they put their faith, they
might have courage. Your people awaited the salvation of
the just and the destruction of their foes. For when you
punished our adversaries, in this you glorified us whom you had
summoned. For in secret the holy children of the good were
offering sacrifice and putting into effect with one accord the
divine institution.
Priest/Reader:
The
Word of the Lord.
All: Thanks
be to God.
The
Responsorial Psalm: This
Psalm praising God is a prayer to God, or recommends the
practice of virtue. It is sung as an interlude between
the scriptural readings. It provides yet another
instructional setting and invites the assembly to imitate
the cantor who sings a repeated response to the verses of an
ancient Psalm many of which are attributed to King
David. The verses are sung first by a cantor (song
leader) accompanied by instruments, the refrain is sung by
the people.
Responsorial
Psalm 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22
Cantor: Blessed the
people the Lord has chosen to be his own, to be his own.
All R/. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to
be his own, to be his own.
Cantor: Exult,
you just, in the Lord; praise from the upright is fitting.
Blessed the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he has
chosen for his own
inheritance.
All R/. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to
be his own, to be his own.
Cantor: See, the eyes of the Lord are upon those
who fear him, upon those who hope for his kindness, to deliver
them from death and preserve them in spite of famine.
All R/. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to
be his own, to be his own.
Cantor: Our soul waits for the Lord, who is our
help and our shield. May your kindness, O Lord, be upon us
who have put our hope in you.
All R/. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be
his own, to be his own.
The
Second Reading:
Second
Reading Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19
Brothers
and sisters: Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and
evidence of things not seen. Because of it the ancients
were well attested.
By faith
Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he
was to receive as a inheritance; he went out, not knowing where
he was to go. By faith he sojourned in the promised land
as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob,
heirs of the same promise; for he was looking forward to the
city with foundations, whose architect and maker is God.
But faith he received power to generate, even though he was past
the normal age – and Sarah herself was sterile – for he thought
that the one who had made the promise was trustworthy. So
it was that there came forth from one man, himself as good as
dead, descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as
countless as the sands on the seashore.
All these
died in faith. They did not receive what had been promised
but saw it and greeted it from afar and acknowledged themselves
to be strangers and aliens on earth, for those who speak thus
show that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been
thinking of the land from which they had come, they would have
had opportunity to return. But now they desire a better
homeland, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to
be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
By faith
Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac, and he who had
received the promises was ready to offer his only son, of whom
it was said, “Through Isaac descendants shall bear your
name.” He reasoned that God was able to raise even from
the dead, and he received Isaac back as a symbol.
The
Alleluia: An
ancient expression of joy anticipating the Lord's message we
will hear in the Gospel.
Matthew
24:42a, 44
Christ
is made known to us through the Old Testament which
prepares us to recognize Him. In those days, God
inspired men who spoke His message. Now, the New
Testament Gospel reading announces His presence to us
directly through His Son. Both readings bring
God's message to us. Our responsibility is to
respond.
The Gospel: The
Liturgy of the Word is completed by the reading of the
Gospel. Before its reading, the members of the
assembly trace the sign of the cross upon the forehead
to indicate their mental acceptance of the Truth, on
the lips to indicate their readiness to announce it,
and over the heart to indicate their sincere desire to
accept it into their lives. The "Good News" of
the Gospel tells that God's kingdom has come for all
to hear, accept, and announce to the world for its
salvation. It is God who is speaking to
us. Christ comes to teach us by the example of
His life and by His own words.
The
Gospel Luke 12:32-48
Written
to explain that
Christ came to save everyone.
Jesus
said to his disciples: “Do not be afraid any longer, little
flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the
kingdom. Sell your belongings and give alms.
Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear out, an
inexhaustible treasure in heaven that no thief can reach nor
moth destroy. For where your treasure is, there also
will your heart be.
“Gird your
loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await
their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open
immediately when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those
servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival.
Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself, have them recline at
table, and proceed to wait on them. And should he come
during the second or third watch and find them prepared in
this way, blessed are those servants. Be sure of this:
if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief
was coming, he would not have let his house be broken
into. You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do
not expect, the Son of Man will come.”
Then Peter
said, “Lord, is this parable meant for us or for
everyone?” And the Lord replied, “Who, then, is the
faithful and prudent steward whom the master will put in charge
of his servants to distribute the food allowance at the proper
time? Blessed is that servant whom his master on arrival
finds doing so. Truly, I say to you, the master will put
the servant in charge of all his property. But if that
servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming.’ And
begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, to eat and
drink and get drunk, then that servant’s master will come on an
unexpected day and at an unknown hour and will punish the
servant severely and assign him a place with the
unfaithful That servant who knew his master’s will but did
not make preparations nor act in accord with his will shall be
beaten severely; and the servant who was ignorant of his
master’s will but acted in a way deserving of a serve beating
shall be beaten only lightly. Much will be required of the
person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of
the person entrusted with more.”
Priest: The
Gospel of the Lord.
All: Praise
to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
The
Priest's Sermon: The
priest develops, explains, and comments upon the Master's
words, so our minds may be
enlightened, and our hearts enriched.
(A
priestly reflection upon this Gospel)
Profession
of Faith:
We state
in the Nicene Creed the principles of our faith in precise
and definite terms.
All: I
believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven
and earth, of all that is seen and unseen. I believe in
one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of
the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from
Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made,
consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were
made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from
heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary,
and became man. For our sake he was crucified under
Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again
on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. He
ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the
Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living
and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. I believe
in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds
from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is
adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets.
I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. I
confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins, and I look for
the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to
come. Amen.
General
Intercessions: We pray
for the needs of the pope, civic leaders, our own needs,
those of others, the sick, the dying, those who have died,
the church, and the world. The response of all to each
intercession: Lord, hear our prayer.
All: Lord,
hear our prayer.
The
Liturgy
of the Eucharist
Gifts
of bread and wine symbolizing ourselves are presented
to the priest who will offer them to God the
Father. Through the Holy Spirit, they will
become the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ whom we
receive in Holy Communion. Jesus unites Himself
with us for our spiritual nourishment and
strength. Today, when individuals do not present
their own personal offerings of bread and wine, the
monetary contribution symbolizes the material of their
united sacrifice. The priest makes and offering
of the bread and wine to God.
Preparation of the Bread and Wine:
Priest: Blessed
are you, Lord God of all creation, for through your goodness we
have received the bread we offer you: fruit of the earth and
work of human hands, it will become for us the bread of
life.
All: Blessed
be God for ever.
Priest: By the
mystery of this water and wine may we come to share in the
divinity of Christ, who humbled himself to share in our
humanity.
Priest:
Blessed
are you, Lord God of all creation, for through your goodness we
have received the wine we offer you; fruit of the vine and work
of human hands it will become our spiritual drink.
All: Blessed
be God for ever.
Priest: With
humble spirit and contrite heart may we be accepted by you, O
Lord, and may our sacrifice in your sight this day be pleasing
to you, Lord God.
The
Priest's Hands are Washed: This act
was traditionally necessary because the priest handled the
various gifts presented by the people. Now, the
cleansing act using water reminds the priest and ourselves
of the need to cleanse not only the hands but the
soul. Soon, the priest's hands will hold the actual
body of Christ, and we will become His dwelling
place.
Priest: Wash me
O Lord, from m iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
Pray, brethren, that my sacrifice and yours may be
acceptable to God, the almighty Father.
All: May the
Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory
of his name, for our good and the good of all his holy Church.
Prayer
over the Gifts:
Speaking
in our name, the priest asks the Father to accept the gifts
we offer through him.
Priest: Be pleased,
O Lord, to accept the offerings of your Church, for in your
mercy you have given them to be offered and by your power you
transform them into the mystery of our salvation. Through
Christ our Lord.
Eucharistic
Prayer: (Number
Four: The priest may select from several forms).
Priest: The
Lord be with you.
All:
And
with your spirit.
Priest: Lift up
your hearts.
All: We lift
them up to the Lord.
Priest: Let us
give thanks to the Lord, our God.
All:
It is right
and just.
Preface
Prayer:
Priest: It
is truly right to give you thanks, truly just to give you glory,
Father most holy, for you are the one God living and true,
existing before all ages and abiding for all eternity, dwelling
in unapproachable light; yet you, who alone are good, the source
of life, have made all that is, so that you might fill your
creatures with blessings and bring joy to many of them by the
glory of your light.
And so, in
your presence are countless hosts of Angels, who serve you day
and night and, gazing upon the glory of your face, glorify you
without ceasing.
With them
we, too, confess your name in exultation, giving voice to every
creature under heaven, as we acclaim:
Acclamation:
Priest
and All: Holy,
Holy, Holy Lord, God of hosts. Heaven and earth are full
of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he
who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
Priest:
We give
you praise, Father most holy, for you are great and you have
fashioned all your works in wisdom and in love. You formed
man in your own image and entrusted the whole world to his care,
so that in serving you alone, the Creator, he might have
dominion over all creatures. And when through disobedience
he had lost your friendship, you did not abandon him to the
domain of death. For you came in mercy to the aid of all,
so that those who seek might find you. Time and again you
offered them covenants and through the prophets taught them to
look forward to salvation.
And you so
loved the world, Father most holy, that in the fullness of time
you sent your Only Begotten Son to be our Savior. Made
incarnate by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, he
shared our human nature in all things but sin. To the poor
he proclaimed the good news of salvation, to prisoners, freedom,
and to the sorrowful of heart, joy. To accomplish your
plan, he gave himself up to death, and, rising from the dead, he
destroyed death and restored life.
And that we
might live no longer for ourselves but for him who died and rose
again for us, he sent the Holy Spirit from you, Father, as the
first fruits for those who believe, so that, bringing to
perfection his work in the world, he might sanctify creation to
the full.
Priest:
Therefore,
O Lord, we pray may this same Holy Spirit graciously sanctify
these offerings, that they may become the Body and Blood of our
Lord Jesus Christ for the celebration of this great mystery,
which he himself left us as an eternal covenant.
The priest repeats the words which Christ used at
his Last Supper when He changed the bread into His
Body and the wine into His Blood. His Body and
Blood are truly present but under the appearance of
bread and wine. The death of Christ is prolonged
in each of those who receive Him worthily. We
apply His death to ourselves so that we may share His
glory. This moment is the most solemn on earth
because it is Divine act which enables us to apply to
ourselves the Cross which Christ willingly took upon
Himself.
We are
called to die to sin and lift our very selves to God so that
we become changed; to do as God would have us do, to become
what God would have us become. Our own little cross
can lift us into union with Christ's Cross so we may earn
the joys of everlasting happiness with God the Father.
The
Lord's Supper: For
when the hour had come for him to be glorified by you, Father
most holy, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved
them to the end: and while they were at supper, he took bread,
blessed and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying:
Take
this, all of you and eat of it: this is my Body which will
be given up for you.
In a
similar way, taking the chalice filled with the fruit of the
vine, he gave thanks, and gave the chalice to his disciples,
saying:
Take this, all of you, and drink from it; for this is the
chalice of my Blood, the Blood of the new and eternal
covenant, which will be poured out for you and for many for
the forgiveness of sins. Do this in memory of me.
Memorial
Acclamation: (The
priest may select from several forms).
Priest: The
mystery of faith.
Priest / All:
We
proclaim your Death, O Lord, and profess your Resurrection until
you come again.
Memorial
Prayer: (The
priest may select from several forms).
Priest:
Recalls
Christ's Passion, Resurrection, Ascension, the Church, the
dead, and ourselves.
Therefore,
O Lord, as we celebrate the memorial of our redemption, we
remember Christ's Death and his descent to the realm of the
dead, we proclaim his resurrection and his Ascension to your
right hand, and, as we await his coming in glory, we offer you
his Body and Blood, the sacrifice acceptable to you which
brings salvation to the whole world.
Look, O
Lord, upon the Sacrifice which you yourself have provided for
your Church, and grant in your loving kindness to all who
partake of this one Bread and one Chalice that, gathered into
one body by the Holy Spirit, they may truly become a living
sacrifice in Christ to the praise of your glory.
Therefore,
Lord, remember now all for whom we offer this sacrifice:
especially your servant _____ our Pope, _____ our Bishop, and
the whole Order of Bishops, all the clergy, those who take
part in this offering, those gathered here before you, your
entire people, and all who seek you with a sincere
heart. Remember also those who have died in the peace of
your Christ and all the dead, whose faith you alone have
known.
Doxology:
Prayer of Praise:
Through
him,
with him, and in him, O God, almighty Father, in the unity of
the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is yours, for ever and
ever.
All:
Amen.
Communion
Rite
In the Liturgy of the Eucharist, we symbolically
offer ourselves to the Lord through the gifts of bread
and wine. At the Consecration, we offer our very
lives to be united the God the Father through the Cross
of Christ. In Communion, we find that we have not
died at all, but have come to life. We have
surrendered ourselves to God through His Divine Son,
Jesus Christ. In return become ennobled and
enriched.
We give up time and we get eternity, we give up our sin
and we receive grace, we surrender our self-will and
receive the strength of the Divine Will, we give up
ourselves and we receive everything. For the Son
of God says to us that unless we receive Him we shall
not have Divine life in us. But it is not really
we who receive Christ as it is Christ who receives us,
bringing us into Himself.
God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation
and our life. While we have crucified Him, His
eternal love cannot be extinguished. Christ willed
to give us the very life we crucified in our Redemption,
the Consecration of Holy Thursday into Communion, His
death into our everlasting life.
The
Lord's Prayer:
Priest:
At the
Savior's command and formed by divine teaching, we dare to say:
Priest
and All: Our
Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be they name; Thy kingdom
come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give
us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as
we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into
temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Priest:
Deliver us,
Lord, we pray, from every evil, graciously grant peace in our
days, that, by the help of your mercy, we may be always free
from sin and safe from all distress, as we await the blessed
hope and the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
All:
For the
kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever.
Prayer
for Peace:
Priest:
Lord
Jesus Christ, who said to your Apostles: Peace I leave you, my
peace I give you, look not on our sins, but on the faith of your
Church, and graciously grant her peace and unity in accordance
with your will. Who live and reign for ever and ever.
All: Amen.
Priest:
The
peace of the Lord be with you always.
All: And with your spirit.
Priest: Let us offer each other the sign of
peace.
Breaking
of the Bread:
Priest:
May
this mingling of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ
bring eternal life to us who receive it.
Priest
and All: Lamb of
God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have
mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, grant
us peace.
Priest: Behold
the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away the sins of the
world. Blessed are those called to the supper of the
Lamb.
Priest
and All: Lord,
I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but
only say the word and my soul shall be healed.
Priest: May
the Body of Christ keep me safe for eternal life.
May the Blood of Christ keep me safe for eternal
life.
Communion Antiphon
Psalm
147:12,14
O Jerusalem,
glorify the Lord, who gives you your fill of finest wheat.
Communion of the Faithful:
Priest:
The
Body of Christ.
The
Faithful: Amen.
Priest/Deacon/
Extraordinary Eucharistic Minister: The
Blood of Christ.
The Faithful: Amen
Cleansing of the Vessels:
Priest:
What
has passed our lips as food, O Lord, may we possess in
purity of heart, that what has been given to us in time may
be our healing for eternity.
Prayer after Communion:
Priest: Let
us pray.
Priest: May
the communion in your Sacrament that we have consumed, save
us, O Lord, and confirm us in the light of your truth.
Through Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.
Concluding
Rite
Priest: The
Lord be with you.
All: And
with your spirit.
Priest: Bow
down for the blessing.
Dismissal Prayer: (The
priest may select from several forms)
Priest:
May
almighty God always keep every adversity far from you and in
his kindness pour out upon you the gifts of his blessing.
All: Amen.
Priest: And so, may you always understand what
is good and right, and be found ever hastening along in the
path of God's commands, made coheirs with the citizens of
heaven.
All: Amen.
Final Blessing:
Priest:
And may
the blessing of almighty God, the Father, and the Son, and
the Holy Spirit, come down on you and remain with you
forever.
All: Amen.
O my
Jesus, forgive us our sins.