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Thursday, October 21, 2027

Thursday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Thursday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: Romans 6:19-23
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6
Gospel: Luke 12:49-53

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 6:19-23

Douay-Rheims: Romans 6:19-23

¹⁹I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity; so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification. ²⁰For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice. ²¹What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death. ²²But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting. ²³For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 1:1-4, 6

¹Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence. ²But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night. ³And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper. ⁴Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

⁶For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.

Gospel: Luke 12:49-53

Douay-Rheims: Luke 12:49-53

⁴⁹I am come to cast fire on the earth; and what will I, but that it be kindled? ⁵⁰And I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized: and how am I straitened until it be accomplished? ⁵¹Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. ⁵²For there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided: three against two, and two against three. ⁵³The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against his father, the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother, the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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	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, this page	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

There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledge without the fear of God?

Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, chapter 2. Translated by William Benham. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

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