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September 2025 Sunday Readings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Scripture<\/strong> Readings for Sundays in September 2025<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Follow the Scripture readings for Sundays of the Year. Read and reflect on them as part of your daily prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Select Month:<\/strong> January<\/a><\/strong> \/ February<\/strong><\/a> \/ March<\/strong><\/a> \/ April<\/strong><\/a> \/ May<\/strong><\/a> \/ June<\/strong><\/a> \/ July<\/strong><\/a> \/ August<\/strong><\/a> \/ September<\/strong><\/a> \/ October<\/strong><\/a> \/ November<\/strong><\/a> \/ December<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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September 2025  – Year C<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n

Sunday 7th September 2025 – 23rd Sunday of the Year<\/a>
Sunday 14th September 2025 – The Exaltation of the Cross<\/a>
Sunday 21st September 2025 – 25th Sunday of the Year<\/a>
Sunday 28th September 2025 – 26th Sunday of the Year<\/a>
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Sunday 7th September 2025 – 23rd Sunday of the Year <\/b><\/p> \n\n

23rd Sunday of the Year<\/p>\n\n \n

A reading from the Book of Wisdom 9:13-18 <\/b> <\/font color>
\n\n Who can divine the will of God? <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

What man indeed can know the intentions of God?
\nWho can divine the will of the Lord?
\nThe reasonings of mortals are unsure
\nand our intentions unstable;
\nfor a perishable body presses down the soul,
\nand this tent of clay weighs down the teeming mind.
\nIt is hard enough for us to work out what is on earth,
\nlaborious to know what lies within our reach;
\nwho, then, can discover what is in the heavens?
\nAs for your intention, who could have learnt it, had you not granted Wisdom
\nand sent your holy spirit from above?
\nThus have the paths of those on earth been straightened
\nand men been taught what pleases you,
\nand saved, by Wisdom. <\/p> \n\n\n

\nPsalm: 89(90):3-6, 12-14, 17 <\/font>
<\/b> \n\nYou turn men back to dust
\nand say: \u2018Go back, sons of men.\u2019
\nTo your eyes a thousand years
\nare like yesterday, come and gone,
\nno more than a watch in the night. <\/p> \n\n

You sweep men away like a dream,
\nlike the grass which springs up in the morning.
\nIn the morning it springs up and flowers:
\nby evening it withers and fades. <\/p> \n\n

Make us know the shortness of our life
\nthat we may gain wisdom of heart.
\nLord, relent! Is your anger for ever?
\nShow pity to your servants. <\/p> \n\n

In the morning, fill us with your love;
\nwe shall exult and rejoice all our days.
\nLet the favour of the Lord be upon us:
\ngive success to the work of our hands. <\/p> \n\n

\nA reading from the Letter of St Paul to Philemon 9-10,12-17 <\/font color>
<\/b> \n\n He is a slave no longer, but a dear brother in the Lord <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

This is Paul writing, an old man now and, what is more, still a prisoner of Christ Jesus. I am appealing to you for a child of mine, whose father I became while wearing these chains: I mean Onesimus. I am sending him back to you, and with him \u2013 I could say \u2013 a part of my own self. I should have liked to keep him with me; he could have been a substitute for you, to help me while I am in the chains that the Good News has brought me. However, I did not want to do anything without your consent; it would have been forcing your act of kindness, which should be spontaneous. I know ou have been deprived of Onesimus for a time, but it was only so that you could have him back for ever, not as a slave any more, but something much better than a slave, a dear brother; especially dear to me, but how much more to you, as a blood-brother as well as a brother in the Lord. So if all that we have in common means anything to you, welcome him as you would me. <\/p> \n\n

\nA reading from the Gospel of St Luke 14:25-33 <\/font color>
<\/b> \n\n Anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

Great crowds accompanied Jesus on his way and he turned and spoke to them. \u2018If any man comes to me without hating his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple. Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
\n\u2018And indeed, which of you here, intending to build a tower, would not first sit down and work out the cost to see if he had enough to complete it? Otherwise, if he laid the foundation and then found himself unable to finish the work, the onlookers would all start making fun of him and saying, \u201cHere is a man who started to build and was unable to finish.\u201d Or again, what king marching to war against another king would not first sit down and consider whether with ten thousand men he could stand up to the other who advanced against him with twenty thousand? If not, then while the other king was still a long way off, he would send envoys to sue for peace. So in the same way, none of you can be my disciple unless he gives up all his possessions.\u2019 <\/p>
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Sunday 14th September 2025 – The Exaltation of the Cross<\/b><\/p>\n\n

Exaltation of the Cross<\/p> \n\n \n

A reading from the Book of Numbers 21:4-9 <\/b> <\/font color>
\n\n If anyone was bitten by a serpent, he looked up at the bronze serpent and lived <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

On the way through the wilderness the people lost patience. They spoke against God and against Moses, \u2018Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in this wilderness? For there is neither bread nor water here; we are sick of this unsatisfying food.\u2019
\nAt this God sent fiery serpents among the people; their bite brought death to many in Israel. The people came and said to Moses, \u2018We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you. Intercede for us with the Lord to save us from these serpents.\u2019 Moses interceded for the people, and the Lord answered him, \u2018Make a fiery serpent and put it on a standard. If anyone is bitten and looks at it, he shall live.\u2019 So Moses fashioned a bronze serpent which he put on a standard, and if anyone was bitten by a serpent, he looked at the bronze serpent and lived. <\/p> \n\n\n

\nPsalm: 77(78):1-2, 34-38 <\/font color>
<\/b> \n\nGive heed, my people, to my teaching;
\nturn your ear to the words of my mouth.
\nI will open my mouth in a parable
\nand reveal hidden lessons of the past. <\/p> \n\n

When he slew them then they would seek him,
\nreturn and seek him in earnest.
\nThey would remember that God was their rock,
\nGod the Most High their redeemer. <\/p> \n\n

But the words they spoke were mere flattery;
\nthey lied to him with their lips.
\nFor their hearts were not truly with him;
\nthey were not faithful to his covenant. <\/p> \n\n

\nA reading from the Letter of St Paul to the Philippians 2:6-11 <\/font color>
<\/b> \n\n Christ humbled himself but God raised him high <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

His state was divine,
\nyet Christ Jesus did not cling
\nto his equality with God
\nbut emptied himself
\nto assume the condition of a slave
\nand became as men are;
\nand being as all men are,
\nhe was humbler yet,
\neven to accepting death,
\ndeath on a cross.
\nBut God raised him high
\nand gave him the name
\nwhich is above all other names
\nso that all beings
\nin the heavens, on earth and in the underworld,
\nshould bend the knee at the name of Jesus
\nand that every tongue should acclaim
\nJesus Christ as Lord,
\nto the glory of God the Father. <\/p> \n\n

\nA reading from the Gospel of St John 3:13-17 <\/font color>
<\/b> \n\n God sent his Son so that through him the world might be saved <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

Jesus said to Nicodemus:
\n\u2018No one has gone up to heaven
\nexcept the one who came down from heaven,
\nthe Son of Man who is in heaven;
\nand the Son of Man must be lifted up
\nas Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,
\nso that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.
\nYes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son,
\nso that everyone who believes in him may not be lost
\nbut may have eternal life.
\nFor God sent his Son into the world
\nnot to condemn the world,
\nbut so that through him the world might be saved.\u2019 <\/p>
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25th Sunday of the Year<\/p> \n\n \n

A reading from the Prophet Amos 8:4-7 <\/b> <\/font color>
\n\n I will never forget your deeds, you who trample on the needy <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

Listen to this, you who trample on the needy
\nand try to suppress the poor people of the country,
\nyou who say, \u2018When will New Moon be over
\nso that we can sell our corn,
\nand sabbath, so that we can market our wheat?
\nThen by lowering the bushel, raising the shekel,
\nby swindling and tampering with the scales,
\nwe can buy up the poor for money,
\nand the needy for a pair of sandals,
\nand get a price even for the sweepings of the wheat.\u2019
\nThe Lord swears it by the pride of Jacob,
\n\u2018Never will I forget a single thing you have done.\u2019 <\/p> \n\n\n

\nPsalm: 112(113):1-2,4-8 <\/font color>
<\/b> \n\nPraise, O servants of the Lord,
\npraise the name of the Lord!
\nMay the name of the Lord be blessed
\nboth now and for evermore! <\/p> \n\n

High above all nations is the Lord,
\nabove the heavens his glory.
\nWho is like the Lord, our God,
\nwho has risen on high to his throne
\nyet stoops from the heights to look down,
\nto look down upon heaven and earth? <\/p> \n\n

From the dust he lifts up the lowly,
\nfrom the dungheap he raises the poor
\nto set him in the company of princes,
\nyes, with the princes of his people. <\/p> \n\n

\nA reading from the First Letter of St Paul to Timothy 2:1-8 <\/font color>
<\/b> \n\n Pray for everyone to God, who wants everyone to be saved <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

My advice is that, first of all, there should be prayers offered for everyone \u2013 petitions, intercessions and thanksgiving \u2013 and especially for kings and others in authority, so that we may be able to live religious and reverent lives in peace and quiet. To do this is right, and will please God our saviour: he wants everyone to be saved and reach full knowledge of the truth. For there is only one God, and there is only one mediator between God and mankind, himself a man, Christ Jesus, who sacrificed himself as a ransom for them all. He is the evidence of this, sent at the appointed time, and I have been named a herald and apostle of it and \u2013 I am telling the truth and no lie \u2013 a teacher of the faith and the truth to the pagans.
\nIn every place, then, I want the men to lift their hands up reverently in prayer, with no anger or argument. <\/p> \n\n

\nA reading from the Gospel of St Luke 16:1-13 <\/font color>
<\/b> \n\n You cannot be the slave of both God and money <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

Jesus said to his disciples:
\n\u2018There was a rich man and he had a steward denounced to him for being wasteful with his property. He called for the man and said, \u201cWhat is this I hear about you? Draw me up an account of your stewardship because you are not to be my steward any longer.\u201d Then the steward said to himself, \u201cNow that my master is taking the stewardship from me, what am I to do? Dig? I am not strong enough. Go begging? I should be too ashamed. Ah, I know what I will do to make sure that when I am dismissed from office there will be some to welcome me into their homes.\u201d
\nThen he called his master\u2019s debtors one by one. To the first he said, \u201cHow much do you owe my master?\u201d \u201cOne hundred measures of oil\u201d was the reply. The steward said, \u201cHere, take your bond; sit down straight away and write fifty.\u201d To another he said, \u201cAnd you, sir, how much do you owe?\u201d \u201cOne hundred measures of wheat\u201d was the reply. The steward said, \u201cHere, take your bond and write eighty.\u201d
\n\u2018The master praised the dishonest steward for his astuteness. For the children of this world are more astute in dealing with their own kind than are the children of light.
\n\u2018And so I tell you this: use money, tainted as it is, to win you friends, and thus make sure that when it fails you, they will welcome you into the tents of eternity. The man who can be trusted in little things can be trusted in great; the man who is dishonest in little things will be dishonest in great. If then you cannot be trusted with money, that tainted thing, who will trust you with genuine riches? And if you cannot be trusted with what is not yours, who will give you what is your very own?
\n\u2018No servant can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or treat the first with respect and the second with scorn. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money.\u2019 <\/p>
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Sunday 28th September 2025 – 26th Sunday of the Year<\/b><\/p> \n\n

26th Sunday of the Year<\/p>\n\n \n

A reading from the Prophet Amos 6:1,4-7 <\/b> <\/font color>
\n\n Woe to those who live in luxury <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

The almighty Lord says this:
\nWoe to those ensconced so snugly in Zion
\nand to those who feel so safe on the mountain of Samaria,
\nthose famous men of this first of nations
\nto whom the House of Israel goes as client.
\nLying on ivory beds
\nand sprawling on their divans,
\nthey dine on lambs from the flock,
\nand stall-fattened veal;
\nthey bawl to the sound of the harp,
\nthey invent new instruments of music like David,
\nthey drink wine by the bowlful,
\nand use the finest oil for anointing themselves,
\nbut about the ruin of Joseph they do not care at all.
\nThat is why they will be the first to be exiled;
\nthe sprawlers\u2019 revelry is over. <\/p> \n\n\n

\nPsalm: 145(146):7-10 <\/font color>
<\/b> \n\nIt is the Lord who keeps faith for ever,
\nwho is just to those who are oppressed.
\nIt is he who gives bread to the hungry,
\nthe Lord, who sets prisoners free. <\/p> \n\n

It is the Lord who gives sight to the blind,
\nwho raises up those who are bowed down.
\nIt is the Lord who loves the just,
\nthe Lord, who protects the stranger. <\/p> \n\n

The Lord upholds the widow and orphan
\nbut thwarts the path of the wicked.
\nThe Lord will reign for ever,
\nZion\u2019s God, from age to age. <\/p> \n\n

Strong is his love for us;
\nhe is faithful for ever. <\/p> \n\n

\nA reading from the First Letter of St Paul to Timothy 6:11-16 <\/font color>
<\/b> \n\n Do all that you have been told, until the Appearing of the Lord <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

As a man dedicated to God, you must aim to be saintly and religious, filled with faith and love, patient and gentle. Fight the good fight of the faith and win for yourself the eternal life to which you were called when you made your profession and spoke up for the truth in front of many witnesses. Now, before God the source of all life and before Christ, who spoke up as a witness for the truth in front of Pontius Pilate, I put to you the duty of doing all that you have been told, with no faults or failures, until the Appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, <\/p> \n\n

who at the due time will be revealed
\nby God, the blessed and only Ruler of all,
\nthe King of kings and the Lord of lords,
\nwho alone is immortal,
\nwhose home is in inaccessible light,
\nwhom no man has seen and no man is able to see:
\nto him be honour and everlasting power. Amen. <\/p> \n\n

\nA reading from the Gospel of St Luke 16:19-31 <\/font color>
<\/b> \n\n Dives and Lazarus <\/i> <\/p> \n\n

Jesus said to the Pharisees: \u2018There was a rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and feast magnificently every day. And at his gate there lay a poor man called Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to fill himself with the scraps that fell from the rich man\u2019s table. Dogs even came and licked his sores. Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to the bosom of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.
\n\u2018In his torment in Hades he looked up and saw Abraham a long way off with Lazarus in his bosom. So he cried out, \u201cFather Abraham, pity me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in agony in these flames.\u201d \u201cMy son,\u201d Abraham replied \u201cremember that during your life good things came your way, just as bad things came the way of Lazarus. Now he is being comforted here while you are in agony. But that is not all: between us and you a great gulf has been fixed, to stop anyone, if he wanted to, crossing from our side to yours, and to stop any crossing from your side to ours.\u201d
\n\u2018The rich man replied, \u201cFather, I beg you then to send Lazarus to my father\u2019s house, since I have five brothers, to give them warning so that they do not come to this place of torment too.\u201d \u201cThey have Moses and the prophets,\u201d said Abraham \u201clet them listen to them.\u201d \u201cAh no, father Abraham,\u201d said the rich man \u201cbut if someone comes to them from the dead, they will repent.\u201d Then Abraham said to him, \u201cIf they will not listen either to Moses or to the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone should rise from the dead.\u201d\u2019 <\/p>
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