15 September 2025 (Monday) / Our Lady of Sorrows on Monday of week 24 in Ordinary Time / Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows

15 September 2025 (Monday)

Our Lady of Sorrows on Monday of week 24 in Ordinary Time.

Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows.

Readings from the Bible of the Roman Catholic Church:

First Reading: First Timothy 2: 1-8
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 28: 2, 7, 8-9
Gospel: John 19: 25-27 or Luke 2: 33-35

First Reading : 1 Timothy 2:1‐8

My advice is that, first of all, there should be prayers offered for everyone – petitions, intercessions and thanksgiving – and especially for kings and others in authority, so that we may be able to live religious and reverent lives in peace and quiet. To do this is right, and will please God our saviour: he wants everyone to be saved and reach full knowledge of the truth. For there is only one God, and there is only one mediator between God and mankind, himself a man, Christ Jesus, who sacrificed himself as a ransom for them all. He is the evidence of this, sent at the appointed time, and I have been named a herald and apostle of it and – I am telling the truth and no lie – a teacher of the faith and the truth to the pagans. In every place, then, I want the men to lift their hands up reverently in prayer, with no anger or argument.

Responsive Psalm : Psalm 27(28):2,7‐9

Blessed be the Lord, for he has heard my cry.

Hear the voice of my pleading as I call for help, as I lift up my hands in prayer to your holy place.

Blessed be the Lord, for he has heard my cry.

The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts. I was helped, my heart rejoices and I praise him with my song.

Blessed be the Lord, for he has heard my cry.

The Lord is the strength of his people, a fortress where his anointed find salvation. Save your people; bless Israel your heritage. Be their shepherd and carry them for ever.

Blessed be the Lord, for he has heard my cry.

Gospel : John 19:25‐27

Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’ And from that moment the disciple made a place for her in his home.

For our reflection today:

John, the only one of the Twelve present at Calvary, saw and testified that beneath the cross stood Jesus’ mother together with the other women (cf. Jn 19:25). And he heard with his own ears the last words of the Master, among which were these: “Woman, here is your son!” and then, turning to him, “Here is your mother!” (Jn 19:26-27). Mary’s motherhood through the mystery of the Cross took an unimaginable leap: the mother of Jesus became the new Eve, the source of new and eternal life for every person who comes into the world. The fruitfulness of the Church is the same fruitfulness as Mary’s; it is realized in the lives of her members to the extent that they relive, “in miniature,” what the Mother lived, namely, they love according to the love of Jesus. All the fruitfulness of the Church depends on the Cross of Christ. (Pope Leo XIV, Jubilee of the Holy See, 9 June 2025)

Jonathan Fabian Ginunggil,
Most High Servant,
Jesus, Mary, Joseph Ministry of Love (Blessed  and Saints and the Nine Choirs of Angels)