Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
See also:
- Gospel Commentary, by Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, EP
Mass Readings
First Reading – Sir 3:17-18, 20, 28-29
My child, conduct your affairs with humility, and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts. Humble yourself the more, the greater you are, and you will find favor with God. What is too sublime for you, seek not, into things beyond your strength search not. The mind of a sage appreciates proverbs, and an attentive ear is the joy of the wise. Water quenches a flaming fire, and alms atone for sins.
Responsorial Psalm – Ps 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11 (R.cf. 11b)
R. God, in your goodness, you have made a home for the poor.
The just rejoice and exult before God;
they are glad and rejoice.
Sing to God, chant praise to his name;
whose name is the LORD. R.
The father of orphans and the defender of widows
is God in his holy dwelling.
God gives a home to the forsaken;
he leads forth prisoners to prosperity. R.
A bountiful rain you showered down, O God, upon your inheritance;
you restored the land when it languished;
your flock settled in it;
in your goodness, O God, you provided it for the needy. R.
Second Reading – Heb 12:18-19, 22-24a
Brothers and sisters: You have not approached that which could be touched and a blazing fire and gloomy darkness and storm and a trumpet blast and a voice speaking words such that those who heard begged that no message be further addressed to them. No, you have approached Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and countless angels in festal gathering, and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, and God the judge of all, and the spirits of the just made perfect, and Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and the sprinkled blood that speaks more eloquently than that of Abel.
Gospel – Lk 14:1, 7-14
On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. He told a parable to those who had been invited, noticing how they were choosing the places of honor at the table. “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at table in the place of honor. A more distinguished guest than you may have been invited by him, and the host who invited both of you may approach you and say, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and then you would proceed with embarrassment to take the lowest place. Rather, when you are invited, go and take the lowest place so that when the host comes to you he may say, ‘My friend, move up to a higher position.’ Then you will enjoy the esteem of your companions at the table. For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” Then he said to the host who invited him, “When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they may invite you back and you have repayment. Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
Featured Saints
Sts. Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus. They took the Body of Our Lord Jesus Christ down from the Cross and wrapped it with spices in linens and placed it in the sepulchre.
St. Aidan, Bishop (†651). Having been appointed Bishop of Lindisfarne (England), he founded a monastery there to efficaciously carry out the evangelization of the Kingdom of Northumbria.
St. Paulinus of Trier, bishop and martyr (†358). Bishop of Trier, in present-day Germany, he defended St. Athanasius against the Arians in the Synod of Arles, in 353 and was consequently exiled to Phrygia, Turkey, where he was martyred.
St. Aristides, apologist (†c.150). Athenian philosopher who converted to Christianity and renowned for his faith and wisdomhe addressed an Apology on the Christian Faith to Emperor Hadrian.
St. Raymond Nonnatus, religious (†circa 1240). One of the first companions of St. Peter Nolasco in the Order of the Mercedarians, who died on the way to Rome, where he was going to received the cardinal’s biretta.
Blessed Andrea Dotti, priest (†1315). Italian noble; he left the life of the court to join the Servite Order.
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