The Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost 2025 — Year C

Observed

The Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost
Anno Domini 2025, The 31st of August
Sunday, Holy Day and Commemoration Lectionary — Year C
Proper 17, Liturgical Colors: Green

Acclamations

Celebrant: Blessed be God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
People: And blessed be his kingdom, now and for ever. Amen.

Collects

O Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow after us, that we may continually be given to good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Amen.

Lessons

Sirach 10:7–18 (included below) or Proverbs 25:6–7
Psalm 112
Hebrews 13:1–8
Luke 14:1, 7–14

Arrogance is hateful before the Lord and before men,
    and injustice is outrageous to both.
Sovereignty passes from nation to nation
    on account of injustice and insolence and wealth.
How can he who is dust and ashes be proud?
    for even in life his bowels decay.
A long illness baffles the physician;
    the king of today will die tomorrow.
For when a man is dead,
    he will inherit creeping things, and wild beasts, and worms.
The beginning of man’s pride is to depart from the Lord;
    his heart has forsaken his Maker.
For the beginning of pride is sin,
    and the man who clings to it pours out abominations.
Therefore the Lord brought upon them extraordinary afflictions,
    and destroyed them utterly.
The Lord has cast down the thrones of rulers,
    and has seated the lowly in their place.
The Lord has plucked up the roots of the nations,
    and has planted the humble in their place.
The Lord has overthrown the lands of the nations,
    and has destroyed them to the foundations of the earth.
He has removed some of them and destroyed them,
    and has extinguished the memory of them from the earth.
Pride was not created for men,
    nor fierce anger for those born of women.

Sirach 10:7–18 (RSV)

Prefaces

Through Jesus Christ our Lord, who on the first day of the week overcame death and the grave, and by his glorious resurrection opened to us the way of everlasting life.