August 31, 2025 – TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

+ From the Gospel according to Luke (14:1, 7-14)

One Sabbath, Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and they were watching him closely.
He told a parable to those invited, noting how they chose the places of honor: “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit in the place of honor, lest a more distinguished guest than you be invited, and the one who invited you and him come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place!’ Then you will be ashamed to take the lowest place. Instead, when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher!’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Then he said to the man who had invited him, “When you give a lunch or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers, your relatives, or rich neighbors, lest they invite you back and you be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”

The Word of the Lord