9 October 2025 (Thursday) / Thursday of week 27 in Ordinary Time or Saint Denis, Bishop, and his Companions, Martyrs or Saint John Leonardi, Priest / Ordinary Weekday/ Saint Denis, Bishop, Martyr, & Companions, Martyrs/ Saint John Leonardi, Priest

9 October 2025 (Thursday)

Thursday of week 27 in Ordinary Time or Saint Denis, Bishop, and his Companions, Martyrs or Saint John Leonardi, Priest.

Ordinary Weekday/ Saint Denis, Bishop, Martyr, & Companions, Martyrs/ Saint John Leonardi, Priest.

Readings from the Bible of the Roman Catholic Church:

First Reading: Malachi 3:13-4:2
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 1: 1-4,6
Alleluia: Acts 16: 14
Gospel: Luke 11: 5-13

First Reading : Malachi 3:13-4:2

You say harsh things about me, says the Lord. You ask, ‘What have we said against you?’ You say, ‘It is useless to serve God; what is the good of keeping his commands or of walking mournfully before the Lord of Hosts? Now we have reached the point when we call the arrogant blessed; yes, they prosper, these evil‐doers; they try God’s patience and yet go free.’ This is what those who fear the Lord used to say to one another. But the Lord took note and heard them: a book of remembrance was written in his presence recording those who fear him and take refuge in his name. On the day which I am preparing, says the Lord of Hosts, they are going to be my own special possession. I will make allowances for them as a man makes allowances for the son who obeys him. Then once again you will see the difference between an upright man and a wicked one, between the one who serves God and the one who does not serve him. For the day is coming now, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and the evil‐doers will be like stubble. The day that is coming is going to burn them up, says the Lord of Hosts, leaving them neither root nor stalk. But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness will shine out with healing in its rays.

Responsive Psalm : Psalm 1:1‐4,6

Happy the man who has placed his trust in the Lord.

Happy indeed is the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked; nor lingers in the way of sinners nor sits in the company of scorners, but whose delight is the law of the Lord and who ponders his law day and night.

Happy the man who has placed his trust in the Lord.

He is like a tree that is planted beside the flowing waters, that yields its fruit in due season and whose leaves shall never fade; and all that he does shall prosper.

Happy the man who has placed his trust in the Lord.

Not so are the wicked, not so! For they like winnowed chaff shall be driven away by the wind: for the Lord guards the way of the just but the way of the wicked leads to doom.

Happy the man who has placed his trust in the Lord.

Alleluia: Acts 16: 14
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
14 Open your hearts, O Lord, to listen to the words of your Son.
(13. After a few days in this city we went outside the gates beside a river as it was the Sabbath and this was a customary place for prayer. We sat down and preached to the women who had come to the meeting.
14. One of these women was called Lydia, a woman from the town of Thyatira who was in the purple-dye trade, and who revered God. She listened to us, and the Lord opened her heart to accept what Paul was saying).
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel : Luke 11:5‐13

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Suppose one of you has a friend and goes to him in the middle of the night to say, “My friend, lend me three loaves, because a friend of mine on his travels has just arrived at my house and I have nothing to offer him”; and the man answers from inside the house, “Do not bother me. The door is bolted now, and my children and I are in bed; I cannot get up to give it you.” I tell you, if the man does not get up and give it him for friendship’s sake, persistence will be enough to make him get up and give his friend all he wants. ‘So I say to you: Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For the one who asks always receives; the one who searches always finds; the one who knocks will always have the door opened to him. What father among you would hand his son a stone when he asked for bread? Or hand him a snake instead of a fish? Or hand him a scorpion if he asked for an egg? If you then, who are evil, know how to give your children what is good, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!’

For our reflection today:

We must often remember Christ's exhortation: “Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you.” In particular, we need to remember it when we lose trust or the desire to pray. We must also always relearn how to pray. We often excuse ourselves from praying by claiming that we don’t know how to do it. If we truly don’t know how to pray, then it is even more necessary to learn. This is important for everyone, and it seems to be particularly important for young people, who often neglect the prayer they learned as children because it seems too childish, naive, or shallow to them. However, such a state of mind should serve as an indirect stimulus to deepen our prayer, to make it more reflective, more mature, and to seek support for it in the Word of God itself and in the Holy Spirit, who “intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words,” as St. Paul writes (Romans 8:26). Yes, dear brothers and sisters, there is an immense need for prayer, for the great and unceasing prayer of the Church; there is a need for fervent, humble, and persevering prayer. It is the first front in which good and evil face each other in our world. It paves the way for good and helps to overcome evil. Prayer obtains divine grace and mercy for the world. It elevates humanity to the dignity given to it by the Son of God, when, united with Him, they repeat: “Our Father.” (St. John Paul II, Angelus, 1980)

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