7 October 2025 (Tuesday) / Our Lady of the Rosary on Tuesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time / Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary

7 October 2025 (Tuesday)

Our Lady of the Rosary on Tuesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time.

Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary.

Readings from the Bible of the Roman Catholic Church:

First Reading: Jonah 3: 1-10
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 130: 1-4, 7-8
Alleluia: Luke 11: 28
Gospel: Luke 10: 38-42

First Reading : Jonah 3:1‐10

The word of the Lord was addressed to Jonah: ‘Up!’ he said ‘Go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach to them as I told you to.’ Jonah set out and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was a city great beyond compare: it took three days to cross it. Jonah went on into the city, making a day’s journey. He preached in these words, ‘Only forty days more and Nineveh is going to be destroyed.’ And the people of Nineveh believed in God; they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least. The news reached the king of Nineveh, who rose from his throne, took off his robe, put on sackcloth and sat down in ashes. A proclamation was then promulgated throughout Nineveh, by decree of the king and his ministers, as follows: ‘Men and beasts, herds and flocks, are to taste nothing; they must not eat, they must not drink water. All are to put on sackcloth and call on God with all their might; and let everyone renounce his evil behaviour and the wicked things he has done. Who knows if God will not change his mind and relent, if he will not renounce his burning wrath, so that we do not perish?’ God saw their efforts to renounce their evil behaviour, and God relented: he did not inflict on them the disaster which he had threatened.

Responsive Psalm : Psalm 129(130):1‐4,7‐8

If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt: Lord, who would survive?

Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord, Lord, hear my voice! O let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleading.

If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt: Lord, who would survive?

If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt, Lord, who would survive? But with you is found forgiveness: for this we revere you.

If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt: Lord, who would survive?

Because with the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption, Israel indeed he will redeem from all its iniquity.

If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt: Lord, who would survive?

Alleluia: Luke 11: 28
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
28 Blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.
(27. It happened that as he was speaking, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, 'Blessed the womb that bore you and the breasts that fed you!'
28. But he replied, 'More blessed still are those who hear the word of God and keep it!').
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel : Luke 10:38‐42

Jesus came to a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. She had a sister called Mary, who sat down at the Lord’s feet and listened to him speaking. Now Martha who was distracted with all the serving said, ‘Lord, do you not care that my sister is leaving me to do the serving all by myself? Please tell her to help me.’ But the Lord answered: ‘Martha, Martha,’ he said ‘you worry and fret about so many things, and yet few are needed, indeed only one. It is Mary who has chosen the better part; it is not to be taken from her.’

For our reflection today:

Gabriel was sent by God to Mary of Nazareth to announce to her, and, in her, to all of humanity, the mission of the Word. Behold, God wants to send the eternal Son so that, becoming man, He can grant man divine life, divine sonship, grace, and truth. The mission of the Son begins precisely at that moment in Nazareth, when Mary listens to the words spoken by the mouth of Gabriel. The Word, of the same substance as the Father, becomes flesh in the womb of the Virgin. The Virgin herself cannot comprehend how all this is to be accomplished. Therefore, before answering, “Let it be unto me,” she asks, “How can this be? I do not know a man” (Luke 1:34). And she receives the decisive response: “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore, the Child to be born will be holy, and will be called the Son of God, nothing is impossible for God” (Luke 1:35-37). In that moment, Mary understands. And she no longer questions. She simply says: “Let it be unto me according to your word” (Luke 1:38). And the Word became flesh (cf. John 1:14). (St. John Paul II, Homily, Pompei, 21 October 1979)

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