Reading I
Eccl/Qoh 3:1-11
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Mass Readings
Friday, September 25, 2026
Friday of the twenty-fifth week of Ordinary Time
Weekday · Ordinary Time · Cycle A · Year II · Green
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 144:1b+2abc, 3-4
Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.
My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.
Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.
Gospel Acclamation
Mark 10:45
For the Son of man also is not come to be ministered unto: but to minister and to give his life a redemption for many.
Gospel
Luke 9:18-22
And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples also were with him: and he asked them, saying: Whom do the people say that I am?
But they answered and said: John the Baptist; but some say Elias: and others say that one of the former prophets is risen again.
And he said to them: But whom do you say that I am? Simon Peter answering, said: The Christ of God.
But he strictly charging them, commanded they should tell this to no man.
Saying: The Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by the ancients and chief priests and scribes and be killed and the third day rise again.
About These Readings
Scripture text from the Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision, 1899), which is in the public domain. The Mass readings appointed for today follow the Lectionary for Mass approved for the dioceses of the United States.
Psalm verses follow the Vulgate numbering in the Douay-Rheims, which may differ by one chapter and a few verses from the Hebrew numbering used by the modern Lectionary. The substance of each Psalm is the same.
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