Catholic Mass Readings For This Sunday (Readings, Gospel, and Reflection)
Liturgical Calendar
Sunday, November 30, 2025: First Sunday of Advent
Solemnity
Sunday Readings and Gospel
Reading 1 :
Isaiah 2:1-5
Reading 2 :
Romans 13:11-14
Alleluia :
Cf. Psalm 85:8
Gospel :
Matthew 24:37-44
Liturgical vestments: Purple
Sunday, November 30, 2025: Readings & Responsorial Psalm & Gospel
Catholic Mass Readings for This Sunday – A Reflection of Faith
As we prepare for this Sunday’s Mass Readings, we are invited to open our hearts to God’s word and allow it to shape our lives. Sunday is a sacred day, a time to gather as a faith community, to listen to Scripture, and to receive the Eucharist, the source and summit of our Christian life.
The First Reading often takes us back to the Old Testament, reminding us of God’s covenant and His faithfulness to His people. The Responsorial Psalm invites us to lift our hearts in praise and trust. The Second Reading, usually from the New Testament letters, offers wisdom for our daily walk with Christ. Finally, the Gospel brings us the words and actions of Jesus, calling us to deeper faith, conversion, and love.
As we anticipate this Sunday’s Mass, let us take time to meditate on the readings, asking the Holy Spirit to enlighten our understanding. May we come to Mass with open hearts, ready to receive God’s grace and be strengthened for the week ahead.
🙏 Lord, speak to us through Your word this Sunday, and help us live it fully in our daily lives. Amen.
This is what Isaiah, son of Amoz,
saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
In days to come,
the mountain of the LORD's house
shall be established as the highest mountain
and raised above the hills.
All nations shall stream toward it;
many peoples shall come and say:
"Come, let us climb the LORD's mountain,
to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may instruct us in his ways,
and we may walk in his paths."
For from Zion shall go forth instruction,
and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations,
and impose terms on many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks;
one nation shall not raise the sword against another,
nor shall they train for war again.
O house of Jacob, come,
let us walk in the light of the Lord!
Reading 2
Romans 13:11-14
Brothers and sisters:
You know the time;
it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep.
For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed;
the night is advanced, the day is at hand.
Let us then throw off the works of darkness
and put on the armor of light;
let us conduct ourselves properly as in the day,
not in orgies and drunkenness,
not in promiscuity and lust,
not in rivalry and jealousy.
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Show us Lord, your love;
and grant us your salvation.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Jesus said to his disciples:
"As it was in the days of Noah,
so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
In those days before the flood,
they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage,
up to the day that Noah entered the ark.
They did not know until the flood came and carried them all away.
So will it be also at the coming of the Son of Man.
Two men will be out in the field;
one will be taken, and one will be left.
Two women will be grinding at the mill;
one will be taken, and one will be left.
Therefore, stay awake!
For you do not know on which day your Lord will come.
Be sure of this: if the master of the house
had known the hour of night when the thief was coming,
he would have stayed awake
and not let his house be broken into.
So too, you also must be prepared,
for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come."
Reflection
“Live your life as you would like your death to be.” (Saint Augustine)
“‘Watch!’. It is a salutary reminder to us that life does not only have an earthly dimension but reaches towards a ‘beyond’, like a plantlet that sprouts from the ground and opens towards the sky.” (Benedict XVI)
“The Church, especially during Advent and Lent and above all at the Easter Vigil, re-reads and re-lives the great events of salvation history in the ‘today’ of her liturgy.” (Catechism Of The Catholic Church, Nº 1.095)
Saint of the Day
Remembered on 30 November each year, Andrew the Apostle is Patron Saint of the Church of Constantinople. The brother of Saint Peter, he was the first apostle to be called by Jesus and to have been martyred on a diagonal cross. He is patron of fisherman.
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