Twenty-sixth Sunday
in Ordinary Time
September 28, 2025 Cycle C
Green priestly vestments symbolize hope and the
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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)
Daniel 3:31, 29, 30, 43, 42
All that you have done to us, O Lord, you have done with
true judgment,
for we have sinned against you and not obeyed your
commandments. But give
glory to your name and deal with us according to the bounty of
your mercy.
The Priest Approaches and Kisses the Altar: The
altar is a symbol
of Christ. In it are cut five crosses to recall the
five wounds of
Christ. The altar also represents the Church and has
embedded in it the
relics of her saints. The priest comes to the altar to
celebrate the
Sacrifice in the Church's name. Because of the glory
surrounding the
altar upon which the divine Sacrifice will be made, the kiss
of the priest
unites the Church to Christ, its Redeemer.
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 the 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: O God, who manifest your almighty power
above all by
pardoning and showing mercy, bestow, we pray, your grace
abundantly upon us and
make those hastening to attain your promises heirs to the
treasures of heaven. 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
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 First Reading: From the Old Testament.
Amos 6:1a, 4-7
Thus says the Lord the God of hosts: Woe to the
complacent in
Zion! Lying upon beds of ivory, stretched comfortably on
their couches,
they eat lambs taken from the flock, and calves from the
stall!
Improvising to the music of the harp, like David, they devise
their own
accompaniment. They drink wine from bowls and anoint
themselves with the
best oils; yet they are not made ill by the collapse of
Joseph!
Therefore, now they shall be the first to go into exile, and
their wanton
revelry shall be done away with.
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 146:7, 8-9, 9-10
Cantor: Praise the Lord, my soul, my soul! Praise the Lord,
my soul!
All: R/: Praise
the Lord,
my soul, my soul! Praise the Lord, my soul!
Cantor: Blessed is he who keeps faith
forever, secures
justice for the oppressed, gives food to the hungry. The
Lord sets
captives free.
All: R/: Praise
the Lord,
my soul, my soul! Praise the Lord, my soul!
Cantor: The Lord gives sight to the blind; the
Lord raises up
those who
were bowed down. The Lord loves the just; the Lord
protects strangers.
All: Praise
the Lord, my
soul, my soul! Praise the Lord, my soul!
Cantor: The fatherless and the widow he sustains,
but the way of
the wicked he thwarts. The Lord shall reign forever; your
God, O Zion,
through all generations. Alleluia
All: Praise the Lord, my soul, my soul!
Praise the Lord, my
soul!
The Second Reading: Taken from the New Testament.
Second Reading 1 Timothy 6:11-16
But you, man of God, pursue righteousness, devotion, faith,
love,
patience, and gentleness. Compete well for the
faith. Lay hold of
eternal life, to which you were called when you made the noble
confession in
the presence of many witnesses. I charge you before God,
who gives life
to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who gave testimony under
Pontius Pilate
for the noble confession, to keep the commandment without stain
or reproach
until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ that the blessed
and only ruler
will make manifest at the proper time, the King of kings and
Lord of lords, who
alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, and
whom no human
being has seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal
power. Amen.
The Alleluia: An ancient expression of joy anticipating the Lord's
message we will hear
in the Gospel.
2 Corinthians 8:9
Cantor: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
All: R/ Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia!
Cantor: Though our Lord Jesus Christ was
rich, he became
poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.
All: R/ Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia!
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 16:19-31
Written by Luke to explain that
Christ came to save everyone.
Jesus said to the
Pharisees:
"There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine
linen and
dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a
poor man named
Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his
fill of the scraps
that fell from the rich man's table. Dogs even used to
come and lick his
sores. When the poor man died, he was carried away by
angels to the bosom
of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried, and
from the
netherworld, where he was in torment, he raised his eyes and
saw Abraham far
off and Lazarus at his side. And he cried out, 'Father
Abraham, have pity
on me. Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in
water and cool my
tongue, for I am suffering torment in these flames.'
Abraham replied, 'My
child, remember that you received what was good during your
lifetime while
Lazarus likewise received what was bad; but now he is
comforted here, whereas
you are tormented. Moreover, between us and you a great
chasm is
established to prevent anyone from crossing who might wish to
go from our side
to yours or from your side to ours.' He said, 'Then I
beg you, father,
send him to my father's house, for I have five brothers, so
that he may warn
them, lest they too come to this place of torment.' But
Abraham replied,
'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen
them.' He said,
'Oh no, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to
them, they will
repent.' Then Abraham said, 'If they will not listen to
Moses and the
prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone should
rise from the
dead.'"
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 my
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: Grant us, O merciful God, that
this our offering
may find acceptance with you and that through it the wellspring
of all blessing
may be laid open before us. 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 and just, our duty and our
salvation,
always and everywhere to give you thanks, Lord, holy Father,
almighty and
eternal God.
For we know it belongs to your boundless glory, that you
came to the aid
of mortal beings with your divinity and even fashioned for us a
remedy out of
mortality itself, that the cause of our downfall might become
the means of our
salvation, through Christ our Lord.
Through him the host of Angels adores your majesty and
rejoices in your
presence forever. May our voices, we pray, join with
theirs in one chorus
of exultant praise, 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: Save us, Savior of the world, for by your
Cross and
Resurrection you have set us free.
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.
To all of us, your children, grant, O merciful Father, that
we may enter
into a heavenly inheritance with the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother
of God, with
blessed Joseph, her Spouse, and with your Apostles and Saints in
your
kingdom. There, with the whole of creation, freed from the
corruption of
sin and death, may we glorify you through Christ our Lord,
through whom you
bestow on the world all that is good.
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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 forever
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.
Communion of the Priest:
Priestly Preparation: May the
receiving of
your Body and Blood, Lord Jesus Christ, not bring me to judgment
and
condemnation, but through your loving mercy be for me protection
in mind and
body and a healing remedy.
All: Amen
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 119:49-50
Remember your word to your servant, O Lord, by which you
have given me
hope. This is my comfort when I am brought low.
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 this heavenly
mystery, O Lord,
restore us in mind and body, that we may be coheirs in glory
with Christ, to
whose suffering we are united whenever we proclaim his
death. Who lives
and reigns forever and ever.
All: Amen.
Concluding Rite
Greeting
Priest: The Lord be with you.
All: And with
your
spirit.
Priest: Bow down
for the
blessing.
Blessing: (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: May God keep your hearts attentive to his
words, that they
may be filled with everlasting gladness.
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.
Dismissal Prayer:
O my
Jesus, forgive us
our sins.