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Daily Readings

October 8, 2025

Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time

Reading 1

Jonah 4:1–11

It displeased Jonah exceedingly, [that God did not do the evil which he had said he would do to Nineveh], and he was angry. And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster. Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.” And the Lord said, “Do you do well to be angry?” Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city. Now the Lord God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant. But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered. When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.” But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.” And the Lord said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labour, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night. And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 86:3–4, 5–6, 9–10

Response: You are slow to anger, O Lord, and abundant in mercy.

Have mercy on me, O Lord,

for I cry to you all the day long.

Gladden the soul of your servant,

for I lift up my soul to you, O Lord. 

Response: You are slow to anger, O Lord, and abundant in mercy.

O Lord, you are good and forgiving,

full of mercy to all who call to you.

Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer,

and attend to my voice in supplication.

Response: You are slow to anger, O Lord, and abundant in mercy.

All the nations you have made shall come;

they will bow down before you, O Lord,

and glorify your name,

for you are great

and do marvellous deeds,

you who alone are God. 

Response: You are slow to anger, O Lord, and abundant in mercy.

Alleluia

Romans 8:15bc

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

You have received the spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”.

Gospel

Luke 11:1–4

Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” And he said to them, “When you pray, say: “Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.”

Reflection

“Lord, teach us to pray” is the fervent plea of one of the disciples of Jesus; he is certainly voicing the sentiments of all those present with him and others too. They see Jesus praying, in deep encounters with his Father. Saint Luke’s Gospel is also referred to as the ‘Gospel of Prayer’ because ‘Jesus at prayer’ is highlighted several times. The disciples are also eager to pray the way Jesus does. Jesus teaches them what we commonly call today ‘the Lord’s Prayer’ or the ‘Our Father’. The prayer has all the dimensions of what a perfect prayer should be: of praise and petition, of a personal relationship with God and at the same time, having the courage to forgive others.

Saints Sergius and Bacchus (Martyrs) (A.D.-303)

Sergius and Bacchus were said to have been officers of the Roman army on the Syrian frontier; Sergius being described as commandant of the recruits’ school and Bacchus as his subaltern. They were personal favourites of the Emperor Maximian, until one day when he went into the temple of Jupiter to offer sacrifice he noticed that they did not enter with him.

Ordered to take part in the sacrifice, both of them refused and professed their faith in Christ, much to the dismay of the Emperor. They were soon stripped of their arms and ranks and instead paraded through the streets, dressed in women’s clothing. But none of these humiliations and threats could change their hearts.

They were then dispatched to Risafe in Mesopotamia, where the governor had them scourged so severely that St Bacchus died under the lash. His body was thrown out on the highway, where vultures protected it from being attacked by dogs—an incident recorded about several other martyrs. St Sergius was made to walk a long distance wearing shoes with nails thrust through into his feet, and was then beheaded.

In 431, Alexander, Metropolitan of Hierapolis, restored and blessed the church over the grave of St Sergius, whose walls in the middle of the sixth century were plated with silver. The church at Risafe was one of the most famous in the East, and Sergius and Bacchus became the heavenly protectors of the Byzantine army, with the two Theodores, Demetrius, Procopius and George.

Reflection: “When the enemy has been cast out of your hearts, renounce him, not only in word, but in work; not only by the sound of the lips, but in every act of your life” (St Augustine).

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