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Saturday, October 23, 2027

Saturday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Saturday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time

  • Ordinary Time
  • Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading
Romans 8:1-11
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 24:1b-2, 3-4ab, 5-6
Gospel
Luke 13:1-9

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 8:1-11

Douay-Rheims: Romans 8:1-11

1There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh. 2For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered me from the law of sin and of death. 3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh; God sending his own Son, in the likeness of sinful flesh and of sin, hath condemned sin in the flesh; 4That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. 5For they that are according to the flesh, mind the things that are of the flesh; but they that are according to the spirit, mind the things that are of the spirit. 6For the wisdom of the flesh is death; but the wisdom of the spirit is life and peace. 7Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither can it be. 8And they who are in the flesh, cannot please God. 9But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead, because of sin; but the spirit liveth, because of justification. 11And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you; he that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead, shall quicken also your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 24:1b-2, 3-4ab, 5-6

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 23:1-6 (Psalm 24 at Mass)

1The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell therein. 2For he hath founded it upon the seas; and hath prepared it upon the rivers. 3Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord: or who shall stand in his holy place? 4The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour. 5He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour. 6This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob.

Gospel: Luke 13:1-9

Douay-Rheims: Luke 13:1-9

1And there were present, at that very time, some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2And he answering, said to them: Think you that these Galileans were sinners above all the men of Galilee, because they suffered such things? 3No, I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish. 4Or those eighteen upon whom the tower fell in Siloe, and slew them: think you, that they also were debtors above all the men that dwelt in Jerusalem? 5No, I say to you; but except you do penance, you shall all likewise perish. 6He spoke also this parable: A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none. 7And he said to the dresser of the vineyard: Behold, for these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree and I find none. Cut it down therefore. Why cumbereth it the ground? 8But he answering, said to him: Lord, let it alone this year also, until I dig about it, and dung it. 9And if happily it bear fruit: but if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

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
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1, Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white2, The Holy Guardian Angels, liturgical color white
3, Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green4, Saint Francis of Assisi, liturgical color white5, Tuesday of the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green6, Wednesday of the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green7, Our Lady of the Rosary, liturgical color white8, Friday of the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green9, Saturday of the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
10, Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green11, Monday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green12, Tuesday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green13, Wednesday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green14, Thursday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green15, Saint Teresa of Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white16, Saturday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
17, Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green18, Saint Luke, Evangelist, liturgical color red19, Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs, liturgical color red20, Wednesday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green21, Thursday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green22, Friday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green23, Saturday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green, this page
24, Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green25, Monday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green26, Tuesday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green27, Wednesday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green28, Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles, liturgical color red29, Friday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green30, Saturday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
31, Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green

Key

  • White
  • Green
  • Red

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

Saint of the day

  • Saint John of Capistrano, PriestOptional memorial. Died in 1456.

A word for the day

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

The Rosary today

The Joyful Mysteries, prayed on Monday and Saturday.

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Calendar computed with romcal (MIT License). Reading citations from the Catholic Readings API (MIT License), with gaps checked against the USCCB pages. Douay-Rheims text courtesy of eBible.org.