Daily readings

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

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

CelebrationPeter Claver

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

Colossians 2:6-15

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.

6As therefore you have received Jesus Christ the Lord, walk you in him;

7Rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as also you have learned, abounding in him in thanksgiving.

8Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy, and vain deceit; according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ:

9For in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead corporeally;

10And you are satisfied in him, who is the head of all principality and power:

11In whom also you are circumcised with circumcision not made by hand, in despoiling of the body of the flesh, but in the circumcision of Christ:

12Buried with him in baptism, in whom also you are risen again by the faith of the operation of God, who has raised him up from the dead.

13And you, when you were dead in your sins, and the uncircumcision of your flesh; he has quickened together with him, forgiving you all offences:

14Blotting out the handwriting of the command that was against us, which was contrary to us. And he has taken the same out of the way, fastening it to the cross:

15And despoiling the principalities and powers, he has exposed them confidently in open show, triumphing over them in himself.

2

Psalm

Psalm 145:1b-2, 8-9, 10-11

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.

8Whose mouth has said emptiness: and their right hand is the right hand of sin.

9To you, OH God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to you.

10Who givest salvation to kings: who have rescued your servant David from the malicious sword:

11Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth has said emptiness: and their right hand is the right hand of sin:

3

Gospel

Luke 6:12-19

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.

12And it happened in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and he passed the whole night in the prayer of God.

13And when day was come, he called to him his disciples; and he chose twelve of them (whom also he named apostles):

14Simon, whom he surnamed Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,

15Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon who is called Zelotes,

16And Jude, the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, who was the traitor.

17And coming down with them, he stood in a plain place, and the company of his disciples, and a very great crowd of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast both of Tyre and Sidon,

18Who were come to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases. And those who were troubled with unclean spirits, were cured.

19And all the crowd sought to touch him, for virtue went out from him, and healed all.

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.