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Wednesday, October 13, 2027

Wednesday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Wednesday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: Romans 2:1-11
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 62:2-3, 6-7, 9
Gospel: Luke 11:42-46

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 2:1-11

Douay-Rheims: Romans 2:1-11

¹Wherefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. For thou dost the same things which thou judgest. ²For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth, against them that do such things. ³And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who do such things, and dost the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? ⁴Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and patience, and longsuffering? Knowest thou not, that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance? ⁵But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath, and revelation of the just judgment of God. ⁶Who will render to every man according to his works. ⁷To them indeed, who according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life: ⁸But to them that are contentious, and who obey not the truth, but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation. ⁹Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek. ¹⁰But glory, and honour, and peace to every one that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. ¹¹For there is no respect of persons with God.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 62:2-3, 6-7, 9

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 61:2-3, 6-7, 9 (Psalm 62 at Mass)

²Shall not my soul be subject to God? for from him is my salvation. ³For he is my God and my saviour: he is my protector, I shall be moved no more.

⁶But be thou, O my soul, subject to God: for from him is my patience. ⁷For he is my God and my saviour: he is my helper, I shall not be moved.

⁹Trust in him, all ye congregation of people: pour out your hearts before him. God is our helper for ever.

Gospel: Luke 11:42-46

Douay-Rheims: Luke 11:42-46

⁴²But woe to you, Pharisees, because you tithe mint and rue and every herb; and pass over judgment, and the charity of God. Now these things you ought to have done, and not to leave the other undone. ⁴³Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the marketplace. ⁴⁴Woe to you, because you are as sepulchres that appear not, and men that walk over are not aware. ⁴⁵And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him: Master, in saying these things, thou reproachest us also. ⁴⁶But he said: Woe to you lawyers also, because you load men with burdens which they cannot bear, and you yourselves touch not the packs with one of your fingers.

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	13, Wednesday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green, this page	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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Green
Red

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

A word for the day

Leave vain things to vain men, and mind thou the things which God hath commanded thee.

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

The Rosary today

The Glorious Mysteries, prayed on Wednesday and Sunday.

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