Gospel: September 5, 2026
September 5, 2026 (Saturday)
22nd Week in Ordinary Time
Psalter: Week 2 (Green/White)
Blessed Virgin Mary
St. Teresa of Calcutta, virgin
Ps 145:17-18, 19-20, 21
The Lord is near to all who call upon him.
1st Reading: 1 Corinthians 4:6b-15
Learn by this example, not to believe yourselves superior by siding with one against the other. How, then, are you more than the others? What have you that you have not received? And if you received it, why are you proud, as if you did not receive it?
So, then, you are already rich and satisfied, and feel like kings, without us! I wish you really were kings, so that we might enjoy the kingship with you!
It seems to me, that God has placed us, the apostles, in the last place, as if condemned to death, and as spectacles for the whole world, for the angels as well as for mortals.
We are fools for Christ, while you show forth the wisdom of Christ. We are weak, you are strong. You are honored, while we are despised. Until now we hunger and thirst, we are poorly clothed and badly treated, while moving from place to place. We labor, working with our hands. People insult us and we bless them, they persecute us and we endure everything; they speak evil against us, and ours are works of peace. We have become like the scum of the earth, like the garbage of humankind until now.
I do not write this to shame you, but to warn you, as very dear children. Because, even though you may have 10,000 guardians in the Christian life, you have only one father; and it was I who gave you life in Christ through the gospel.
Gospel: Luke 6:1-5
One Sabbath Jesus was going through a field of grain, and his disciples began to pick heads of grain, crushing them
in their hands for food. Some of the Pharisees asked them, “Why do you do what is forbidden on the Sabbath?” Then Jesus spoke up and asked them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his men were hungry? He entered the house of God, took and ate the bread of the offering, and even gave some to his men, though only priests are allowed to eat that bread.” And Jesus added, “The Son of Man is Lord and rules over the Sabbath.”
Reflection:
A humble heart
Faithful obedience to God’s commandments is seen in caring for our neighbors. We may have memorized the Church’s laws, but they are useless if they do not teach us to practice humility, compassion and empathy for others. Like the Pharisees, they know the law, but instead of being humble and putting it into practice, they use it to show off and criticize others. Let us ask the Lord Jesus to take away our pride and arrogance. Instead, replace it with a humble heart willing to obey and love God and our neighbors.
