SUNDAY, AUGUST 28TH 2022
TWENTY SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR C
FIRST READING
Humble yourself so you will find favour in the sight of the Lord.
SIRACH 3: 17 - 20, 25 - 29
My son, perform your tasks in meekness; then you will be loved more than a giver of gifts.
The greater you are, the more you must humble yourself; so you will find favour with God. There are many who are noble and renowned, but it is to the humble that he reveals his mysteries.
For great is the might of the Lord; he is glorified by the humble. The affliction of the proud has no healing, for a plant of wickedness has taken root in them, though it will not be perceived.
The mind of the wise man will ponder the words of the wise, and an attentive ear is the wise man’s desire.
The Word of the Lord
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
Psalm 65: 4 - 5ae, 6 - 7ab, 10 - 11 (R.) 11b
R/. In your goodness, O God, you provided for the poor.
The just shall rejoice at the presence of God;
they shall exult with glad rejoicing.
O sing to God; make music to his name.
The Lord is his name. R/.
Father of orphans, defender of widows:
such is God in his holy place.
God gives the desolate a home to dwell in;
he leads the prisoners forth into prosperity. R/.
You poured down, O God, a generous rain;
when your people languished,
you restored their inheritance.
It was there that your flock
began to dwell in your goodness,
O God, you provided for the poor. R/.
SECOND READING
“You have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God.”
HEBREWS 12: 18 - 19, 22 - 24a
Brethren: You have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers entreat that no further messages be spoken to them.
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant.
The Word of the Lord
ALLELUIA
Matthew 11: 29ab
Alleluia.
Take my yoke upon you, says the Lord; and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in Heart.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL
_“Every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”_
LUKE 14:1,7-14
One Sabbath when Jesus went to dine at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees, they were watching him. Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he marked how they chose the places of honour, saying to them, “When you are invited by any one to a marriage feast, do not sit down in a place of honour, lest a more eminent man than you be invited by him; and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give place to this man,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher’; then you will be honoured in the presence of all who sit at table with you. For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your kinsmen or rich neighbours, lest they also invite you in return, and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
The Gospel of the Lord
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