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Saturday, October 2, 2027

The Holy Guardian Angels

The liturgical day

The Holy Guardian Angels

Memorial
Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: White

The Mass readings

First reading: Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 69:33-35, 36-37
Gospel: Matthew 18:1-5, 10

Read today's Mass readings on the USCCB site

The readings open on the USCCB website. They follow the Lectionary for Mass approved for the United States, a different translation from the Douay-Rheims we use on this site. Desert Road Catholic is not affiliated with the USCCB.

First reading: Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29

Douay-Rheims: Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29

⁵Be of good comfort, O people of God, the memorial of Israel: ⁶You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but because you provoked God to wrath, you are delivered to your adversaries. ⁷For you have provoked him who made you, the eternal God, offering sacrifice to devils, and not to God. ⁸For you have forgotten God, who brought you up, and you have grieved Jerusalem that nursed you. ⁹For she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, and she said: Give ear, all you that dwell near Sion, for God hath brought upon me great mourning: ¹⁰For I have seen the captivity of my people, of my sons, and my daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them. ¹¹For I nourished them with joy: but I sent them away with weeping and mourning. ¹²Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and desolate: I am forsaken of many for the sins of my children, because they departed from the law of God.

²⁷Be of good comfort, my children, and cry to the Lord: for you shall be remembered by him that hath led you away. ²⁸For as it was your mind to go astray from God; so when you return again you shall seek him ten times as much. ²⁹For he that hath brought evils upon you, shall bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 69:33-35, 36-37

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 68:33-37 (Psalm 69 at Mass)

³³Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall live. ³⁴For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners. ³⁵Let the heavens and the earth praise him; the sea, and every thing that creepeth therein. ³⁶For God will save Sion, and the cities of Juda shall be built up. And they shall dwell there, and acquire it by inheritance. ³⁷And the seed of his servants shall possess it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

Gospel: Matthew 18:1-5, 10

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 18:1-5, 10

¹At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who thinkest thou is the greater in the kingdom of heaven? ²And Jesus calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them, ³And said: Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. ⁴Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven. ⁵And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me.

¹⁰See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

The same passages in the Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), the translation we use on this site. The words read at Mass come from the Lectionary for Mass and differ. Where a reading begins or ends partway through a verse, the whole verse is shown. For the official text, open the readings on the USCCB site.

October 2027

October 2027
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
					1, Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white	2, The Holy Guardian Angels, liturgical color white, this page
3, Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	4, Saint Francis of Assisi, liturgical color white	5, Tuesday of the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	6, Wednesday of the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	7, Our Lady of the Rosary, liturgical color white	8, Friday of the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	9, Saturday of the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
10, Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	11, Monday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	12, Tuesday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	13, Wednesday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	14, Thursday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	15, Saint Teresa of Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white	16, Saturday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
17, Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	18, Saint Luke, Evangelist, liturgical color red	19, Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs, liturgical color red	20, Wednesday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	21, Thursday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	22, Friday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	23, Saturday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
24, Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	25, Monday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	26, Tuesday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	27, Wednesday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	28, Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles, liturgical color red	29, Friday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	30, Saturday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
31, Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green

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A word for the day

It is better to be unknown and take heed to oneself than to neglect oneself and work wonders.

Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, chapter 20. Translated by William Benham. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

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