The 4th of October, 2025, Saturday is the Memorial of Saint Francis of Assisi. The Holy Bible verses for the mass readings for this day came from the Liturgical Calendar Year 2025.
Reading 1: BAR 4:5-12, 27-29
The first reading from the Book of Baruch.
Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.
You were not sold to the nations for destruction, but because you moved God to wrath, you were delivered to your adversaries.
For you provoked him who made you by sacrificing to demons and not to God.
You forgot the everlasting God who brought you up. You also grieved Jerusalem, who nursed you.
For she saw the wrath that came upon you from God, and said, Listen, you who dwell near Zion; for God has brought upon me great mourning.
For I have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them.
For with joy I nourished them, but sent them away with weeping and mourning.
Let no man rejoice over me, a widow and forsaken by many. For the sins of my children, I am left desolate, because they turned away from the law of God.
Take courage, my children, and cry to God; for you will be remembered by him who has brought this upon you.
For as it was your decision to go astray from God, return and seek him ten times more.
For he who brought these calamities upon you will bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 69:32-34, 35-36
Response: For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!
R: For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.
The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.
R: For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
Gospel of the Day: LK 10:17-24
From the gospel scripture according to Luke.
The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”
He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.
Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.
Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
In that same hour, Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”
Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”
Turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see, for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.”
