30 October 2025 (Thursday)
Ordinary Weekday.
Thursday of week 30 in Ordinary Time.
Thursday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time.
Readings from the Bible of the Roman Catholic Church:
First Reading: Romans 8: 31-39
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 109: 21-22, 26-27, 30-31
Alleluia: Luke 19: 38; 2: 14
Gospel: Luke 13: 31-35
First Reading : Romans 8:31‐39
With God on our side who can be against us? Since God did not spare his own Son, but gave him up to benefit us all, we may be certain, after such a gift, that he will not refuse anything he can give. Could anyone accuse those that God has chosen? When God acquits, could anyone condemn? Could Christ Jesus? No! He not only died for us – he rose from the dead, and there at God’s right hand he stands and pleads for us. Nothing therefore can come between us and the love of Christ, even if we are troubled or worried, or being persecuted, or lacking food or clothes, or being threatened or even attacked. As scripture promised: For your sake we are being massacred daily, and reckoned as sheep for the slaughter. These are the trials through which we triumph, by the power of him who loved us. For I am certain of this: neither death nor life, no angel, no prince, nothing that exists, nothing still to come, not any power, or height or depth, nor any created thing, can ever come between us and the love of God made visible in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Responsive Psalm : Psalm 108(109):21‐22,26‐27,30‐31
Save me, O Lord, because of your love.
For your name’s sake act in my defence; in the goodness of your love be my rescuer. For I am poor and needy and my heart is pierced within me.
Save me, O Lord, because of your love.
Help me, Lord my God; save me because of your love. Let them know that is your work, That this is your doing, O Lord.
Save me, O Lord, because of your love.
Loud thanks to the Lord are on my lips. I will praise him in the midst of the throng, for he stands at the poor man’s side to save him from those who condemn him.
Save me, O Lord, because of your love.
Alleluia: Luke 19: 38; 2: 14
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Lk 19:38; 2:14 Blessed on the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest heavens!
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel : Luke 13:31‐35
Some Pharisees came up to Jesus. ‘Go away’ they said. ‘Leave this place, because Herod means to kill you.’ He replied, ‘You may go and give that fox this message: Learn that today and tomorrow I cast out devils and on the third day attain my end. But for today and tomorrow and the next day I must go on, since it would not be right for a prophet to die outside Jerusalem. ‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often have I longed to gather your children, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you refused! So be it! Your house will be left to you. Yes, I promise you, you shall not see me till the time comes when you say: ‘Blessings on him who comes in the name of the Lord!’
For our reflection today:
God, in fact, “cannot help but love. This is our security”. I can reject this love, but that would mean choosing to be like the good thief who rejected love “until the end of his life”, and there at the end “love was waiting for him”. Even the man who is “the most wicked, the worst blasphemer, is loved by God with the tenderness of a father, of a dad”, and, to use Jesus’ words, “as a hen with her brood”. The mighty God, the Creator, can do all things”; yet “God weeps” and “in those tears” is all of his love. “God weeps over me, when I am separated from him; God weeps over each of us; God weeps for those wicked ones, who do so many bad things, so much harm to humanity.”. Indeed, he “he waits, he does not condemn, and he cries. Why? Because he loves!”. (Pope Francis, Santa Marta, 29 October 2015)
Jonathan Fabian Ginunggil,
Most High Servant,
Jesus, Mary, Joseph Ministry of Love (Blessed and Saints and the Nine Choirs of Angels)
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