Catholic Mass Readings and Reflection September 09, 2025
Tuesday – 23rd Week in Ordinary Time
09th September 2025 (Tuesday)
Psalter: Week 3
Readings of the Day
First Reading: Colossians 2:6-15
Brethren: As you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by cancelling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.
Psalm 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11 (R. 9a)
R/. How good is the Lord to all.
Gospel Acclamation
V/. Alleluia
R/. Alleluia
V/. I chose you from the world that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, says the Lord.
R/. Alleluia
Gospel: Luke 6:12-19
In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. And those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came out from him and healed them all.
Daily Gospel Reflection
Tuesday – 23rd Week in Ordinary Time
Main Point: Jesus is the Power of God that empowers all our weaknesses; he is the forgiveness of God that cancels all our trespasses; he is the expiation that reconciles us to God
1. Jesus lives an integrated life: he prays, he preaches, and he heals. It is a life perfectly balanced and harmonious. Rooted in God in prayer, flourishes in announcing about God and bears fruit in concrete actions of healing of infirmities and demons. His preaching and healing were filled with a power that made people believe and also be healed.
2. All his ministry was always springing from the spring of prayer. It was his source and fountain of light and energy. It is not just reciting some prayers. Rather, it was a deep, intimate bonding and communion with the Father.
3. This spring becomes the springboard for plunging into the ministry. And his ministry is not a single man or a monopoly ministry. He makes it participative and collaborative. That is why he chooses twelve apostles out of his numerous disciples.
4. This shows the nature of God itself. He never wants to do things all by Himself, although He is absolutely capable of it. He wants to involve us as sharers and partakers in the same mission of Christ.
5. The choosing of the disciples, each by name, shows that it is all according to God’s plan and each one is significant. No decision and no action of Jesus would be a mere private enterprise. It is always within the spectrum of God’s will, the realm of the Spirit, and oriented to human salvation.
My Practice: In a world that is increasingly found wanting in the integrity and authenticity of life, one clear remedy will be to strive for an integration of heart, word, and deed.
