The 28th of August, 2022 is the Twenty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time. The Holy Bible verses for the mass readings for this day came from the Liturgical Calendar of the Year 2022.
Reading 1: SIR 3:17-18, 21, 29-30
The first reading from The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus.
My son, go on with your business in humility; so you will be loved by an acceptable man.
The greater you are, humble yourself the more, and you will find favor before the Lord.
Don’t seek things that are too hard for you, and don’t search out things that are above your strength.
The heart of the prudent will understand a proverb. A wise man desires the ear of a listener.
Water will quench a flaming fire; almsgiving will make atonement for sins.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 68:3-4, 5-6, 9-10
Response: You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.
But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: to Yah, his name! Rejoice before him!
R: You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
R: You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.
You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance when it was weary.
Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.
R: You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.
Reading 2: HEB 12:18-19, 22-24A
The second reading from The Letter to the Hebrews.
For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should 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 multitudes of angels, to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
Gospel of the Day: LK 14:1, 7-14
From the gospel scripture according to Luke.
When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.
He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them, “When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him, and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this person.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.
But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.
But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind; and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”
