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Friday, October 22, 2027

Friday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Friday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: Romans 7:18-25a
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 119:66, 68, 76, 77, 93, 94
Gospel: Luke 12:54-59

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 7:18-25a

Douay-Rheims: Romans 7:18-25

¹⁸For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my flesh, that which is good. For to will, is present with me; but to accomplish that which is good, I find not. ¹⁹For the good which I will, I do not; but the evil which I will not, that I do. ²⁰Now if I do that which I will not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. ²¹I find then a law, that when I have a will to do good, evil is present with me. ²²For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man: ²³But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me in the law of sin, that is in my members. ²⁴Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? ²⁵The grace of God, by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with the mind serve the law of God; but with the flesh, the law of sin.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 119:66, 68, 76, 77, 93, 94

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 118:66, 68, 76-77, 93-94 (Psalm 119 at Mass)

⁶⁶Teach me goodness and discipline and knowledge; for I have believed thy commandments.

⁶⁸Thou art good; and in thy goodness teach me thy justifications.

⁷⁶O! let thy mercy be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant. ⁷⁷Let thy tender mercies come unto me, and I shall live: for thy law is my meditation.

⁹³Thy justifications I will never forget: for by them thou hast given me life. ⁹⁴I am thine, save thou me: for I have sought thy justifications.

Gospel: Luke 12:54-59

Douay-Rheims: Luke 12:54-59

⁵⁴And he said also to the multitudes: When you see a cloud rising from the west, presently you say: A shower is coming: and so it happeneth: ⁵⁵And when ye see the south wind blow, you say: There will be heat: and it cometh to pass. ⁵⁶You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the heaven and of the earth: but how is it that you do not discern this time? ⁵⁷And why even of yourselves, do you not judge that which is just? ⁵⁸And when thou goest with thy adversary to the prince, whilst thou art in the way, endeavour to be delivered from him: lest perhaps he draw thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the exacter, and the exacter cast thee into prison. ⁵⁹I say to thee, thou shalt not go out thence, until thou pay the very last mite.

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	22, Friday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green, this page	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

Saint John Paul II, PopeOptional memorial. Died in 2005.

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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