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16 October 2025 Thursday of week 28 in Ordinary TimeAlter of St. Hedwig of Silesia, Assumption church, Zagan, PolandReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 3:21-30It is the same justice of God that comes to Jew and pagan alikeGod’s justice that was made known through the Law and the Prophets has now been revealed outside the Law, since it is the same justice of God that comes through faith to everyone, Jew and pagan alike, who believes in Jesus Christ. Both Jew and pagan sinned and forfeited God’s glory, and both are justified through the free gift of...

15 October 2025 Saint Teresa of Ávila, Virgin, Doctor on Wednesday of week 28 in Ordinary TimeBasilica of St. Teresa, ÁvilaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingRomans 2:1-11Do you think you will escape God's judgement?No matter who you are, if you pass judgement you have no excuse. In judging others you condemn yourself, since you behave no differently from those you judge. We know that God condemns that sort of behaviour impartially: and when you judge those who behave like this while you are doing exactly...

14 October 2025 Tuesday of week 28 in Ordinary TimeThe Church of Santa Maria in Trastevere, where Callixtus' relics are housedReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 1:16-25These people knew God and failed to honour himI am not ashamed of the Good News: it is the power of God saving all who have faith – Jews first, but Greeks as well – since this is what reveals the justice of God to us: it shows how faith leads to faith, or as scripture says: The upright man finds life through faith. The anger of God is being revealed...

13 October 2025 Monday of week 28 in Ordinary Time St. Edward the Confessor Catholic Church, Tallulah, LouisianaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 1:1-7Our apostolic mission is to preach the obedience of faith to all pagan nationsFrom Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus who has been called to be an apostle, and specially chosen to preach the Good News that God promised long ago through his prophets in the scriptures. This news is about the Son of God who, according to the human nature he took was a descendant of David: it is about Jesus Christ our...

12 October 2025 28th Sunday in Ordinary TimeRipon Cathedral, Ripon, North Yorkshire, EnglandReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First reading2 Kings 5:14-17Naaman the leper returned to Elisha and acknowledged the LordNaaman the leper went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, as Elisha had told him to do. And his flesh became clean once more like the flesh of a little child. Returning to Elisha with his whole escort, he went in and stood before him. ‘Now I know’ he said ‘that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel. Now, please, accept a present...

11 October 2025Saturday of week 27 in Ordinary Time St. John XXIII Parish at Christmas, PAReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingJoel 4:12-21The day of the Lord is near; sun and moon grow darkThe Lord says this:‘Let the nations rouse themselves, let them marchto the Valley of Jehoshaphat,for I am going to sit in judgement thereon all the nations round.Put the sickle in:the harvest is ripe;come and tread:the winepress is full,the vats are overflowing,so great is their wickedness!’Host on hostin the Valley of Decision!For the day of the Lord is nearin the Valley of Decision!Sun and moon grow dark,the...

10 October 2025 Friday of week 27 in Ordinary TimeSt Paulinus Church, Crayford, UKReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingJoel 1:13-15,2:1-2Let all tremble, for the day of the Lord is comingPriests, put on sackcloth and lament.Ministers of the altar, wail.Come, pass the night in sackcloth,you ministers of my God.For the house of our God has been deprivedof oblation and libation.Order a fast,proclaim a solemn assembly;elders, call togetherall the inhabitants of the countryto the house of the Lord your God.Cry out to the Lord,‘Oh, what a day!For the day of the Lord is near,it comes as a devastation from...

9 October 2025 Thursday of week 27 in Ordinary Time St. John Henry Newman Catholic Church, TorontoReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingMalachi 3:13-20The day that is coming will burn up the wickedYou say harsh things about me, says the Lord. You ask, ‘What have we said against you?’ You say, ‘It is useless to serve God; what is the good of keeping his commands or of walking mournfully before the Lord of Hosts? Now we have reached the point when we call the arrogant blessed; yes, they prosper, these evil-doers; they try God’s patience and yet go...

8 October 2025 Wednesday of week 27 in Ordinary TimeChurch of St. Pelagia, Novigrad, Istria County, Croatia Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingJonah 4:1-11Jonah is angry at God's mercyJonah was very indignant; he fell into a rage. He prayed to the Lord and said, ‘Ah, Lord, is not this just as I said would happen when I was still at home? That was why I went and fled to Tarshish: I knew that you were a God of tenderness and compassion, slow to anger, rich in graciousness, relenting from evil. So now, Lord, please take away my...

7 October 2025 Our Lady of the Rosary on Tuesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time Basilica of Santa Giustina, PaduaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJonah 3:1-10The Ninevites repent, and God spares themThe word of the Lord was addressed to Jonah: ‘Up!’ he said ‘Go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach to them as I told you to.’ Jonah set out and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was a city great beyond compare: it took three...

6 October 2025 Monday of week 27 in Ordinary Time Inner view of the romaneque church St. Pantaleon, CologneReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingJonah 1:1-2:1,11Jonah flees from his callThe word of the Lord was addressed to Jonah son of Amittai: ‘Up!’ he said ‘Go to Nineveh, the great city, and inform them that their wickedness has become known to me.’ Jonah decided to run away from the Lord, and to go to Tarshish. He went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish; he paid his fare and went aboard, to go with them to...

5 October 2025 27th Sunday in Ordinary TimeCelebrating Saint Sr. Maria Faustina Kowalska, Apostle of God's MercyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingHabakkuk 1:2-3,2:2-4The upright man will live by his faithfulnessHow long, O Lord, am I to cry for helpwhile you will not listen;to cry ‘Oppression!’ in your earand you will not save?Why do you set injustice before me,why do you look on where there is tyranny?Outrage and violence, this is all I see,all is contention, and discord flourishes.Then the Lord answered and said,‘Write the vision down,inscribe it on tabletsto be easily read,since this vision is for its...

4 October 2025 Saint Francis of Assisi on Saturday of week 26 in Ordinary Time Basilica di San Francesco, Assisi, Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingBaruch 4:5-12,27-29Take courage, my children, call on GodTake courage, my people,constant reminder of Israel.You were sold to the nations,but not for extermination.You provoked God;and so were delivered to your enemies,since you had angered your creatorby offering sacrifices to demons, not to God.You had forgotten the eternal God who reared you.You had also grieved Jerusalem who nursed you,for when she saw...

3 October 2025 Friday of week 26 in Ordinary Time All Saints Church, Old Town Manassas Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingBaruch 1:15-22We have been disobedient to the Lord our GodIntegrity belongs to the Lord our God; to us the look of shame we wear today, to us, the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem, to our kings and princes, our priests, our prophets, as to our ancestors, because we have sinned in the sight of the Lord, have disobeyed him, and have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God telling us...

2 October 2025 The Holy Guardian Angels on Thursday of week 26 in Ordinary Time The Church of St. Leodegar, Lucerne. The Altar of the Deposition of Jesus from the CrossReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingNehemiah 8:1-12All the people listened attentively to the Book of the LawWhen the seventh month came, all the people gathered as one man on the square before the Water Gate. They asked Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses which the Lord had prescribed for...

1 October 2025 Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin, Doctor on Wednesday of week 26 in Ordinary Time St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church - Lansing, MI Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingNehemiah 2:1-8'Give me leave to go to the city of my ancestors and rebuild it'In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, the wine being my concern, I took up the wine and offered it to the king. Now I had never been downcast before. So the king said,...

30 September 2025 Saint Jerome, Priest, Doctor on Tuesday of week 26 in Ordinary Time St. Jerome Roman Catholic Church, ChicagoReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingZechariah 8:20-23Many peoples and great nations will come to seek the Lord of HostsThe Lord of Hosts says this: ‘There will be other peoples yet, and citizens of great cities. And the inhabitants of one city will go to the next and say, “Come, let us go and entreat the favour of the Lord, and seek the Lord of Hosts;...

29 September 2025 Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels FeastSt. Michael the Archangel Church in Leawood, KansasReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).First readingDaniel 7:9-10,13-14His robe was white as snowAs I watched:Thrones were set in placeand one of great age took his seat.His robe was white as snow,the hair of his head as pure as wool.His throne was a blaze of flames,its wheels were a burning fire.A stream of fire poured out,issuing from his presence.A thousand thousand waited on him,ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.A court was heldand the books were opened.I gazed into the visions of...

28 September 2025 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Lioba altar in the town church of St. Martin in TauberbischofsheimReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingAmos 6:1,4-7Woe to those who live in luxuryThe almighty Lord says this:Woe to those ensconced so snugly in Zionand to those who feel so safe on the mountain of Samaria,those famous men of this first of nationsto whom the House of Israel goes as client.Lying on ivory bedsand sprawling on their divans,they dine on lambs from the flock,and stall-fattened veal;they bawl to the sound of the harp,they invent new instruments of music like David,they...

27 September 2025 Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest on Saturday of week 25 in Ordinary TimeSt. Vincent de Paul in Kansas CityReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingZechariah 2:5-9,14-15'I will be the glory of Jerusalem'Raising my eyes, I saw a vision. It was this: there was a man with a measuring line in his hand. I asked him, ‘Where are you going?’ He said, ‘To measure Jerusalem, to find out her breadth and her length.’ And then, while the angel who was talking to me stood...