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The feast the whole Church keeps today, the saints you can visit at their tomb, and what they are patrons of.

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The readings at Mass · 25 September 2025

Thursday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

  1. ReadingA reading from the Book of Haggai 1:1-8
  2. GospelFrom the Gospel according to Luke 9:7-9

From Vatican News — Word of the Day, following the General Roman Calendar, with a commentary from the Popes. Where a feast is kept on another day in your country, your parish’s readings may differ.

The General Roman Calendar; tombs and patronages verified against Catholic sources. Local calendars may keep other saints today.

From the Fathers

The Fathers speak

A precious deposit

… that well-grounded system which tends to man’s salvation, namely, our faith; which, having been received from the Church, we do preserve, and which always, by the Spirit of God, renewing its youth, as if it were some precious deposit in an excellent vessel, causes the vessel itself containing it to renew its youth also.

Saint Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies III, 24, 1Bishop of Lyons and Doctor of the Church, died c. 202 Cited in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, 175 · Translation: ANF 1

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