Daily Mass Readings for November 16, 2025: Gospel — Lc 21,5-19

¹ “I am about to send my messenger, who will clear the way before me. Indeed, the Lord you are seeking will suddenly come to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant, whom you long for, is certainly coming,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

⁷ For you know yourselves how you must imitate us, because we did not behave without discipline among you, ⁸ and we did not eat anyone’s food without paying. Instead, in toil and drudgery we worked night and day in order not to burden any of you. ⁹ It was not because we do not have that right, but to give ourselves as an example for you to imitate. 1 ⁰ For even when we were with you, we used to give you this command: “If anyone is not willing to work, neither should he eat.” 1 ¹ For we hear that some among you are living an undisciplined life, not doing their own work but meddling in the work of others. 1 ² Now such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and so provide their own food to eat.