August 2025 Feast Day and Sunday Readings

August is the month of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Summer will have its last full month. Before anyone could blink, school will be back in session as families look to go to the beach for one last getaway. 

Feasts for August

1. Alphonsus Liguori, Memorial First Friday of the month
2. Eusebius of Vercelli; Peter Julian Eymard, Opt. Mem. First Saturday of the month
3. EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, Sunday
4. St. John Vianney, Memorial
5. Dedication of St. Mary Major, Opt. Mem.
6. Transfiguration, Feast First Wednesday dedicated to St. Joseph
7. St. Sixtus II and companions; St. Cajetan, Opt. Mem.
8. St. Dominic, Memorial
9. St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Opt. Mem.
10. NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, Sunday
11. St. Clare, Memorial
12. St. Jane Frances de Chantal, Opt. Mem.
13. St. Pontian and Hippolytus, Opt. Mem.
14. St. Maximilian Kolbe, Memorial
15. ASSUMPTION OF MARY, Solemnity (Holy Day of Obligation)
16. St. Stephen of Hungary, Opt. Mem.
17. TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, Sunday
19. St. John Eudes, Opt. Mem.
20. St. Bernard, Memorial
21. St. Pius X, Memorial
22. Queenship of Mary, Memorial
23. St. Rose of Lima, Opt. Mem.
24. TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, Sunday
25. St. Louis IX of France; St. Joseph Calasanz, Opt. Mem.
27. St. Monica, Memorial
28. St. Augustine, Memorial
29. Passion of St. John the Baptist, Memorial
31. TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, Sunday

The Gospel readings for August are taken from St. Luke. All Sunday readings are from Cycle C, and Weekday readings are from Year I.

August 3rd
Eighteenth Sunday
in Ordinary Time
Cycle C, Luke 12:13-21: The things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?
August 10th
Nineteenth Sunday
in Ordinary Time

Cycle C, Luke 12:32-48: You also must be prepared.
August 17th
Twentieth Sunday
in Ordinary Time

Cycle C, Luke 12:49-53: I have come not to establish peace, but rather division.
August 24th
Twenty-First Sunday
in Ordinary Time

Cycle C, Luke 13:22-30: They will come from east and west and recline at the table in the kingdom of God.
August 31st
Twenty-Second Sunday
in Ordinary Time

Cycle C, Luke 14:1, 7-14: Everyone who exults himself will be humbled, everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.