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Monday, October 18, 2027

Saint Luke, Evangelist

The liturgical day

Saint Luke, Evangelist

Feast
Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Red

The Mass readings

First reading: 2 Timothy 4:10-17b
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18
Gospel: Luke 10:1-9

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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: 2 Timothy 4:10-17b

Douay-Rheims: 2 Timothy 4:10-17

¹⁰Crescens into Galatia, Titus into Dalmatia. ¹¹Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry. ¹²But Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus. ¹³The cloak that I left at Troas, with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, especially the parchments. ¹⁴Alexander the coppersmith hath done me much evil: the Lord will reward him according to his works: ¹⁵Whom do thou also avoid, for he hath greatly withstood our words. ¹⁶At my first answer no man stood with me, but all forsook me: may it not be laid to their charge. ¹⁷But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that by me the preaching may be accomplished, and that all the Gentiles may hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 144:10-13, 17-18 (Psalm 145 at Mass)

¹⁰Let all thy works, O Lord, praise thee: and let thy saints bless thee. ¹¹They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom: and shall tell of thy power: ¹²To make thy might known to the sons of men: and the glory of the magnificence of thy kingdom. ¹³Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages: and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words: and holy in all his works.

¹⁷The Lord is just in all his ways: and holy in all his works. ¹⁸The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: to all that call upon him in truth.

Gospel: Luke 10:1-9

Douay-Rheims: Luke 10:1-9

¹And after these things the Lord appointed also other seventy-two: and he sent them two and two before his face into every city and place whither he himself was to come. ²And he said to them: The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send labourers into his harvest. ³Go: Behold I send you as lambs among wolves. ⁴Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes; and salute no man by the way. ⁵Into whatsoever house you enter, first say: Peace be to this house. ⁶And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon him; but if not, it shall return to you. ⁷And in the same house, remain, eating and drinking such things as they have: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Remove not from house to house. ⁸And into what city soever you enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you. ⁹And heal the sick that are therein, and say to them: The kingdom of God is come nigh 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	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, this page	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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Saint of the day

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A word for the day

Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.

Saint Augustine, Confessions, Book I, 1. Translated by E. B. Pusey. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

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