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Sunday, October 31, 2027

Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: Deuteronomy 6:2-6
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51
Second reading: Hebrews 7:23-28
Gospel: Mark 12:28b-34

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: Deuteronomy 6:2-6

Douay-Rheims: Deuteronomy 6:2-6

²That thou mayst fear the Lord thy God, and keep all his commandments and precepts, which I command thee, and thy sons, and thy grandsons, all the days of thy life, that thy days may be prolonged. ³Hear, O Israel, and observe to do the things which the Lord hath commanded thee, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst be greatly multiplied, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath promised thee a land flowing with milk and honey. ⁴Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. ⁵Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength. ⁶And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart:

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 17:2-4, 47, 51 (Psalm 18 at Mass)

²I will love thee, O Lord, my strength: ³The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector and the horn of my salvation, and my support. ⁴Praising I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my enemies.

⁴⁷The Lord liveth, and blessed be my God, and let the God of my salvation be exalted:

⁵¹Giving great deliverance to his king, and shewing mercy to David his anointed: and to his seed for ever.

Second reading: Hebrews 7:23-28

Douay-Rheims: Hebrews 7:23-28

²³And the others indeed were made many priests, because by reason of death they were not suffered to continue: ²⁴But this, for that he continueth for ever, hath an everlasting priesthood, ²⁵Whereby he is able also to save for ever them that come to God by him; always living to make intercession for us. ²⁶For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; ²⁷Who needeth not daily (as the other priests) to offer sacrifices first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, in offering himself. ²⁸For the law maketh men priests, who have infirmity: but the word of the oath, which was since the law, the Son who is perfected for evermore.

Gospel: Mark 12:28b-34

Douay-Rheims: Mark 12:28-34

²⁸And there came one of the scribes that had heard them reasoning together, and seeing that he had answered them well, asked him which was the first commandment of all. ²⁹And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, O Israel: the Lord thy God is one God. ³⁰And thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength. This is the first commandment. ³¹And the second is like to it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these. ³²And the scribe said to him: Well, Master, thou hast said in truth, that there is one God, and there is no other besides him. ³³And that he should be loved with the whole heart, and with the whole understanding, and with the whole soul, and with the whole strength; and to love one’s neighbour as one’s self, is a greater thing than all holocausts and sacrifices. ³⁴And Jesus seeing that he had answered wisely, said to him: Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.

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	30, Saturday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
31, Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green, this page

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A word for the day

There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledge without the fear of God?

Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, chapter 2. Translated by William Benham. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

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