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Saturday, October 30, 2027

Saturday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Saturday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time

  • Ordinary Time
  • Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading
Romans 11:1-2a, 11-12, 25-29
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 94:12-13a, 14-15, 17-18
Gospel
Luke 14:1, 7-11

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 11:1-2a, 11-12, 25-29

Douay-Rheims: Romans 11:1-2, 11-12, 25-29

1I say then: Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture saith of Elias; how he calleth on God against Israel?

11I say then, have they so stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid. But by their offence, salvation is come to the Gentiles, that they may be emulous of them. 12Now if the offence of them be the riches of the world, and the diminution of them, the riches of the Gentiles; how much more the fulness of them?

25For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, (lest you should be wise in your own conceits), that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in. 26And so all Israel should be saved, as it is written: There shall come out of Sion, he that shall deliver, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. 27And this is to them my covenant: when I shall take away their sins. 28As concerning the gospel, indeed, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are most dear for the sake of the fathers. 29For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 94:12-13a, 14-15, 17-18

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 93:12-15, 17-18 (Psalm 94 at Mass)

12Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law. 13That thou mayst give him rest from the evil days: till a pit be dug for the wicked. 14For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he forsake his own inheritance. 15Until justice be turned into judgment: and they that are near it are all the upright in heart.

17Unless the Lord had been my helper, my soul had almost dwelt in hell. 18If I said: My foot is moved: thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me.

Gospel: Luke 14:1, 7-11

Douay-Rheims: Luke 14:1, 7-11

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.

7And he spoke a parable also to them that were invited, marking how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them: 8When thou art invited to a wedding, sit not down in the first place, lest perhaps one more honourable than thou be invited by him: 9And he that invited thee and him, come and say to thee, Give this man place: and then thou begin with shame to take the lowest place. 10But when thou art invited, go, sit down in the lowest place; that when he who invited thee, cometh, he may say to thee: Friend, go up higher. Then shalt thou have glory before them that sit at table with thee. 11Because every one that exalteth himself, shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted.

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
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, this page
31, Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green

Key

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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

I had rather feel contrition than be skilful in the definition thereof.

The Rosary today

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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.