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Saturday, October 9, 2027

Saturday of the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Saturday of the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: Joel 4:12-21
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 97:1-2, 5-6, 11-12
Gospel: Luke 11:27-28

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: Joel 4:12-21

Douay-Rheims: Joel 3:12-21

¹²Let them arise, and let the nations come up into the valley of Josaphat: for there I will sit to judge all nations round about. ¹³Put ye in the sickles, for the harvest is ripe: come and go down, for the press is full, the fats run over: for their wickedness is multiplied. ¹⁴Nations, nations in the valley of destruction: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of destruction. ¹⁵The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their shining. ¹⁶And the Lord shall roar out of Sion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem: and the heavens and the earth shall be moved, and the Lord shall be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. ¹⁷And you shall know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Sion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy and strangers shall pass through it no more. ¹⁸And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweetness, and the hills shall flow with milk: and waters shall flow through all the rivers of Juda: and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the torrent of thorns. ¹⁹Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a wilderness destroyed: because they have done unjustly against the children of Juda, and have shed innocent blood in their land. ²⁰And Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to generation and generation. ²¹And I will cleanse their blood which I had not cleansed: and the Lord will dwell in Sion.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 97:1-2, 5-6, 11-12

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 96:1-2, 5-6, 11-12 (Psalm 97 at Mass)

¹The Lord hath reigned, let the earth rejoice: let many islands be glad. ²Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne.

⁵The mountains melted like wax, at the presence of the Lord: at the presence of the Lord of all the earth. ⁶The heavens declared his justice: and all people saw his glory.

¹¹Light is risen to the just, and joy to the right of heart. ¹²Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: and give praise to the remembrance of his holiness.

Gospel: Luke 11:27-28

Douay-Rheims: Luke 11:27-28

²⁷And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the paps that gave thee suck. ²⁸But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it.

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
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, this page
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

White
Green
Red

The dot shows the liturgical color of the day. Fridays outside Lent carry no marker.

Saints of the day

Saint Denis, Bishop, and Companions, MartyrsOptional memorial.
Saint John Leonardi, PriestOptional memorial. Died in 1609.
Saint John Henry Newman, Priest and Doctor of the ChurchOptional memorial. Died in 1890.

A word for the day

For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright; it is a good life which maketh a man dear to God.

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

The Rosary today

The Joyful Mysteries, prayed on Monday and Saturday.

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Calendar computed with romcal (MIT License). Reading citations from the Catholic Readings API (MIT License), with gaps checked against the USCCB pages. Douay-Rheims text courtesy of eBible.org.