21 October 2025 (Tuesday) / Tuesday of week 29 in Ordinary Time / Tuesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time

21 October 2025 (Tuesday)

Tuesday of week 29 in Ordinary Time.

Tuesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time.

Readings from the Bible of the Roman Catholic Church:

First Reading: Romans 5: 12, 15, 17-21
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 40: 7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 17
Alleluia: Luke 21: 36
Gospel: Luke 12: 35-38

First Reading : Romans 5:12,15,17‐21

Sin entered the world through one man, and through sin death, and thus death has spread through the whole human race because everyone has sinned; but the gift itself considerably outweighed the fall. If it is certain that through one man’s fall so many died, it is even more certain that divine grace, coming through the one man, Jesus Christ, came to so many as an abundant free gift. If it is certain that death reigned over everyone as the consequence of one man’s fall, it is even more certain that one man, Jesus Christ, will cause everyone to reign in life who receives the free gift that he does not deserve, of being made righteous. Again, as one man’s fall brought condemnation on everyone, so the good act of one man brings everyone life and makes them justified. As by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man’s obedience many will be made righteous. When law came, it was to multiply the opportunities of failing, but however great the number of sins committed, grace was even greater; and so, just as sin reigned wherever there was death, so grace will reign to bring eternal life thanks to the righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Responsive Psalm : Psalm 39(40):7‐10,17

Here I am, Lord! I come to do your will.

You do not ask for sacrifice and offerings, but an open ear. You do not ask for holocaust and victim. Instead, here am I.

Here I am, Lord! I come to do your will.

In the scroll of the book it stands written that I should do your will. My God, I delight in your law in the depth of my heart.

Here I am, Lord! I come to do your will.

Your justice I have proclaimed in the great assembly. My lips I have not sealed; you know it, O Lord.

Here I am, Lord! I come to do your will.

O let there be rejoicing and gladness for all who seek you. Let them ever say: ‘The Lord is great’, who love your saving help.

Here I am, Lord! I come to do your will.

Alleluia: Luke 21: 36
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
36 Be vigilant at all times and pray that you may have the strength to stand before the Son of Man.
(34. 'Watch yourselves, or your hearts will be coarsened by debauchery and drunkenness and the cares of life, and that day will come upon you unexpectedly,
35. like a trap. For it will come down on all those living on the face of the earth.
36. Stay awake, praying at all times for the strength to survive all that is going to happen, and to hold your ground before the Son of man.'
37. All day long he would be in the Temple teaching, but would spend the night in the open on the hill called the Mount of Olives.
38. And from early morning the people thronged to him in the Temple to listen to him).
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel : Luke 12:35‐38

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘See that you are dressed for action and have your lamps lit. Be like men waiting for their master to return from the wedding feast, ready to open the door as soon as he comes and knocks. Happy those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. I tell you solemnly, he will put on an apron, sit them down at table and wait on them. It may be in the second watch he comes, or in the third, but happy those servants if he finds them ready.’

For our reflection today:

The Lord reminds us that life is a journey towards eternity; therefore, we are called to employ all the talents that we have, without ever forgetting that “here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city which is to come” (Heb 13:14). We cannot truly understand in what this supreme joy consists. However, Jesus lets us sense it with the analogy of the master who, finding his servants still awake on his return: “will gird himself and have them sit at table, and he will come and serve them” (v. 37). The eternal joy in heaven is manifested this way: the situation will be reversed and it will no longer be the servants, that is, we who will serve God, but God himself will place himself at our service. And Jesus does this as of now: Jesus prays for us, Jesus looks at us and prays to the Father for us. Jesus serves us now. He is our servant. And this will be the definitive joy. The thought of the final encounter with the Father, abundant in mercy, fills us with hope and stirs us to constant commitment, for our sanctification and for the building of a more just and fraternal world. May the Virgin Mary support this commitment of ours through her maternal intercession. (Pope Francis, Angelus, 11 August 2019)

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