10 October 2025 (Friday) / Friday of week 27 in Ordinary Time / Friday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time

10 October 2025 (Friday)

Friday of week 27 in Ordinary Time.

Friday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time.

Readings from the Bible of the Roman Catholic Church:

First Reading: Joel 1: 13-15; 2: 1-2

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 9: 2-3, 6 

and 16, 8-9

Alleluia: John 12: 31-32

Gospel: Luke 11: 15-26

First Reading : Joel 1:13‐15,2:1‐2

Priests, put on sackcloth and lament. Ministers of the altar, wail. Come, pass the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God. For the house of our God has been deprived of oblation and libation. Order a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly; elders, call together all the inhabitants of the country to the house of the Lord your God. Cry out to the Lord, ‘Oh, what a day! For the day of the Lord is near, it comes as a devastation from Shaddai.’

Sound the trumpet in Zion, give the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the country tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming, yes, it is near. Day of darkness and gloom, day of cloud and blackness. Like the dawn there spreads across the mountains a vast and mighty host, such as has never been before, such as will never be again to the remotest ages.

Responsive Psalm : Psalm 9:2‐3,6,16,8‐9

The Lord will judge the world with justice.

I will praise you, Lord, with all my heart; I will recount all your wonders. I will rejoice in you and be glad, and sing psalms to your name, O Most High.

The Lord will judge the world with justice.

You have checked the nations, destroyed the wicked; you have wiped out their name for ever and ever. The nations have fallen in the pit which they made, their feet caught in the snare they laid.

The Lord will judge the world with justice.

But the Lord sits enthroned for ever. He has set up his throne for judgement; he will judge the world with justice, he will judge the peoples with his truth.

The Lord will judge the world with justice.

Gospel : Luke 11:15‐26

Alleluia: John 12: 31-32

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

31-32 The prince of this world will now be cast out, and when I am lifted up from the earth I will draw all to myself, says the Lord.

(28. Father, glorify your name! A voice came from heaven, 'I have glorified it, and I will again glorify it.'

29. The crowd standing by, who heard this, said it was a clap of thunder; others said, 'It was an angel speaking to him.'

30. Jesus answered, 'It was not for my sake that this voice came, but for yours.

31. 'Now sentence is being passed on this world; now the prince of this world is to be driven out.

32. And when I am lifted up from the earth, I shall draw all people to myself.'

33. By these words he indicated the kind of death he would die).

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

When Jesus had cast out a devil, some of the people said, ‘It is through Beelzebul, the prince of devils, that he casts out devils.’ Others asked him, as a test, for a sign from heaven; but, knowing what they were thinking, he said to them, ‘Every kingdom divided against itself is heading for ruin, and a household divided against itself collapses. So too with Satan: if he is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? – since you assert that it is through Beelzebul that I cast out devils. Now if it is through Beelzebul that I cast out devils, through whom do your own experts cast them out? Let them be your judges then. But if it is through the finger of God that I cast out devils, then know that the kingdom of God has overtaken you. So long as a strong man fully armed guards his own palace, his goods are undisturbed; but when someone stronger than he is attacks and defeats him, the stronger man takes away all the weapons he relied on and shares out his spoil. ‘He who is not with me is against me; and he who does not gather with me scatters. ‘When an unclean spirit goes out of a man it wanders through waterless country looking for a place to rest, and not finding one it says, “I will go back to the home I came from.” But on arrival, finding it swept and tidied, it then goes off and brings seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and set up house there, so that the man ends up by being worse than he was before.’

For our reflection today:

Our initial conversion follows a certain pattern: the evil that we acknowledge and try to uproot from our lives does indeed leave us, but we would be naïve to think that it will long be gone. In short order, it comes back under a new guise. Before, it appeared rough and violent, now it shows up as elegant and refined. We need to realize that and once again to unmask it. Let me put it this way: they are “elegant demons”: they enter smoothly, without our even being conscious of them. Only the daily practice of the examination of conscience can enable us to be aware of them. Hence the importance of the examination of conscience, to keep watch over our house. (Pope Francis, Speech, Roman Curia, 22 December 2022)

Jonathan Fabian Ginunggil,

Most High Servant, 

Jesus, Mary, Joseph Ministry of Love (Blessed  and Saints and the Nine Choirs of Angels)