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Tuesday, October 12, 2027

Tuesday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Tuesday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: Romans 1:16-25
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 19:2-3, 4-5
Gospel: Luke 11:37-41

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: Romans 1:16-25

Douay-Rheims: Romans 1:16-25

¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the gospel. For it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth, to the Jew first, and to the Greek. ¹⁷For the justice of God is revealed therein, from faith unto faith, as it is written: The just man liveth by faith. ¹⁸For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those men that detain the truth of God in injustice: ¹⁹Because that which is known of God is manifest in them. For God hath manifested it unto them. ²⁰For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made; his eternal power also, and divinity: so that they are inexcusable. ²¹Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God, or given thanks; but became vain in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened. ²²For professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. ²³And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man, and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts, and of creeping things. ²⁴Wherefore God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness, to dishonour their own bodies among themselves. ²⁵Who changed the truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 19:2-3, 4-5

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 18:2-5 (Psalm 19 at Mass)

²The heavens shew forth the glory of God, and the firmament declareth the work of his hands. ³Day to day uttereth speech, and night to night sheweth knowledge. ⁴There are no speeches nor languages, where their voices are not heard. ⁵Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the world.

Gospel: Luke 11:37-41

Douay-Rheims: Luke 11:37-41

³⁷And as he was speaking, a certain Pharisee prayed him, that he would dine with him. And he going in, sat down to eat. ³⁸And the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself, why he was not washed before dinner. ³⁹And the Lord said to him: Now you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter; but your inside is full of rapine and iniquity. ⁴⁰Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without, make also that which is within? ⁴¹But yet that which remaineth, give alms; and behold, all things are clean unto you.

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

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.

The Rosary today

The Sorrowful Mysteries, prayed on Tuesday and Friday.

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