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Thursday, October 28, 2027

Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles

The liturgical day

Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles

Feast
Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Red

The Mass readings

First reading: Ephesians 2:19-22
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 19:2-3, 4-5
Gospel: Luke 6:12-16

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: Ephesians 2:19-22

Douay-Rheims: Ephesians 2:19-22

¹⁹Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners; but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and the domestics of God, ²⁰Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone: ²¹In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord. ²²In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 19:2-3, 4-5

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 18:2-5 (Psalm 19 at Mass)

²The heavens shew forth the glory of God, and the firmament declareth the work of his hands. ³Day to day uttereth speech, and night to night sheweth knowledge. ⁴There are no speeches nor languages, where their voices are not heard. ⁵Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the world.

Gospel: Luke 6:12-16

Douay-Rheims: Luke 6:12-16

¹²And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and he passed the whole night in the prayer of God. ¹³And when day was come, he called unto him his disciples; and he chose twelve of them (whom also he named apostles). ¹⁴Simon, whom he surnamed Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, ¹⁵Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon who is called Zelotes, ¹⁶And Jude, the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, who was the traitor.

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	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, this page	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

Saints Simon and Jude, ApostlesFeast.

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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