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Friday, October 29, 2027

Friday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Friday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: Romans 9:1-5
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20
Gospel: Luke 14:1-6

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 9:1-5

Douay-Rheims: Romans 9:1-5

¹I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost: ²That I have great sadness, and continual sorrow in my heart. ³For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my brethren, who are my kinsmen according to the flesh, ⁴Who are Israelites, to whom belongeth the adoption as of children, and the glory, and the testament, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises: ⁵Whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all things, God blessed for ever. Amen.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 147:1-4, 8-9

¹Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Sion. ²Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath blessed thy children within thee. ³Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the fat of corn. ⁴Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth swiftly.

⁸Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments to Israel. ⁹He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia.

Gospel: Luke 14:1-6

Douay-Rheims: Luke 14:1-6

¹And it came to pass, when Jesus went into the house of one of the chief of the Pharisees, on the sabbath day, to eat bread, that they watched him. ²And behold, there was a certain man before him that had the dropsy. ³And Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? ⁴But they held their peace. But he taking him, healed him, and sent him away. ⁵And answering them, he said: Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fall into a pit, and will not immediately draw him out, on the sabbath day? ⁶And they could not answer him to these things.

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	29, Friday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green, this page	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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A word for the day

For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright; it is a good life which maketh a man dear to God.

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

The Rosary today

The Sorrowful Mysteries, prayed on Tuesday and Friday.

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