Daily readings

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Monica. Ordinary Time. A clean reading layout for church, prayer, or preparation.

CelebrationMonica

TypeMemorial

SeasonOrdinary Time

Year2025 archive

The Roman Catholic readings for this date are shown below on-site. Use plain reading mode if you want clearer modern wording, or switch back to the original Douay-Rheims wording at any time.

Reading mode

Plain mode helps modern readers follow the text more easily.

On-site scripture text: Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Plain mode is a built-in reading aid that modernizes older wording for easier understanding while keeping the same Roman Catholic reading references for the day.

1

First Reading

1 Thessalonians 2:9-13

How to approach it

Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.

9For you remember, brothers and sisters, our work and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

10You are people giving testimony, and God also, how holily, and justly, and without blame, we have been to you that have believed:

11As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you, (as a father does his children,)

12We testified to every one of you, that you would walk worthy of God, who has called you to his kingdom and glory.

13Therefore, we also give thanks to God without ceasing: because, that when you had received of us the word of the hearing of God, you received it not as the word of men, but (as it is indeed) the word of God, who works in you that have believed.

2

Psalm

Psalm 139:7-8, 9-10, 11-12ab

How to pray it

The psalm is meant to be prayed, not rushed. If the wording feels older, focus on the main movement of the prayer: trust, praise, sorrow, gratitude, or hope.

7If I shall walk in the midst of trouble, you will quicken me: and you have stretched forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies: and your right hand has saved me.

8The Lord will repay for me: your mercy, OH Lord, lasts forever: OH despise not the work of your hands.

3

Gospel

Matthew 23:27-32

What to watch for

The Gospel is the center of the reading set. Pay close attention to what Jesus says, what Jesus does, and what response he is asking for.

27Sorrow to you teachers of the law and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited tombs, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all filthiness.

28So you also outwardly indeed appear to men righteous; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and sin.

29Sorrow to you teachers of the law and Pharisees, hypocrites; that build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the righteous,

30And say: If we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

31Therefore you are people giving testimony against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.

32Fill you up then the measure of your fathers.

Source note

This page uses the Catholic Readings API for the day's references and liturgical celebration data, while the on-site scripture text is rendered from the public-domain Douay-Rheims Bible distributed through the Open Bibles project.