Today the Church celebrates the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The assigned readings are Wisdom 2:12, 17-20; James 3:16-4:3; and Mark 9:30-37. The Responsorial Psalm is Psalm 54 (Psalm 54:3-6, 8).
The Gospel reading is as follows:
Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a journey through Galilee, but he did not wish anyone to know about it. He was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise.” But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to question him.
They came to Capernaum and, once inside the house, he began to ask them, “What were you arguing about on the way?” But they remained silent. They had been discussing among themselves on the way who was the greatest.
Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.” Taking a child, he placed it in the their midst, and putting his arms around it, he said to them, “Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me.”
Reflections on these readings:
Oblates of St. Francis de Sales: Sundays Salesian: 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (September 23, 2012)
Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosio: Anatomy of Envy
The Deacon’s Bench:Homily for September 23, 2012: 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (22 SEP 12)
Father James | Pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe and Author: The Envy Trap (20 SEP 12)
Dr. Scott Hahn: Servant of All (September 23rd 2012 - Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
The Lectionary: When we serve others, we serve God (20 SEP 12)
The Word Encountered: Perils of Power (Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time B)
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