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5 November 2025 Wednesday of week 31 in Ordinary Time Easter celebration, Nigeria Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 13:8-10Your only debt should be the debt of mutual loveAvoid getting into debt, except the debt of mutual love. If you love your fellow men you have carried out your obligations. All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbour as yourself. Love is the one thing that cannot hurt your neighbour;...

4 November 2025 Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop on Tuesday of week 31 in Ordinary Time Sacred Heart Cathedral, Calabar, Nigeria Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingRomans 12:5-16Use the gifts you have been givenAll of us, in union with Christ, form one body, and as parts of it we belong to each other. Our gifts differ according to the grace given us. If your gift is prophecy, then use it as your faith suggests; if administration, then use it for administration; if teaching, then use it...

3 November 2025 Monday of week 31 in Ordinary Time St. Mary Catholic Church, Enugu, Nigeria Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 11:29-36God never takes back his giftsGod never takes back his gifts or revokes his choice. Just as you changed from being disobedient to God, and now enjoy mercy because of their disobedience, so those who are disobedient now – and only because of the mercy shown to you – will also enjoy mercy eventually. God has imprisoned all men in their own disobedience only to show mercy to all mankind. How rich are the depths...

Sunday 2 November 2025All Souls St. Francis Xavier Owo Catholic Parish of Ondo Diocese in NigeriaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet or Black. Year: C(I).(The following psalms and readings are selected from the many options for this day.)First readingIsaiah 25:6a,7-9The Lord will swallow up death for everOn this mountain,the Lord of hosts will prepare for all peoplesa banquet of rich food.On this mountain he will removethe mourning veil covering all peoples,and the shroud enwrapping all nations,he will destroy Death for ever.The Lord will wipe awaythe tears from every cheek;he will take away his people’s shameeverywhere on earth,for the Lord has said...

Saturday 1 November 2025 All Saints Solemnity ABOUT Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).First readingApocalypse 7:2-4,9-14I saw a huge number, impossible to count, of people from every nation, race, tribe and languageI, John, saw another angel rising where the sun rises, carrying the seal of the living God; he called in a powerful voice to the four angels whose duty was to devastate land and sea, ‘Wait before you do any damage on land or at sea or to the trees, until we have put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.’ Then I heard...

31 October 2025Friday of week 30 in Ordinary TimeSt. Wolfgang, RegensburgReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 9:1-5I would willingly be condemned if it could help my brothersWhat I want to say now is no pretence; I say it in union with Christ – it is the truth – my conscience in union with the Holy Spirit assures me of it too. What I want to say is this: my sorrow is so great, my mental anguish so endless, I would willingly be condemned and be cut off from Christ if it could help my brothers of Israel,...

30 October 2025Thursday of week 30 in Ordinary TimeSt. Alphonsus Rodriguez parish, Woodstock, MarylandReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 8:31-39God did not spare his own SonWith God on our side who can be against us? Since God did not spare his own Son, but gave him up to benefit us all, we may be certain, after such a gift, that he will not refuse anything he can give. Could anyone accuse those that God has chosen? When God acquits, could anyone condemn? Could Christ Jesus? No! He not only died for us – he rose from the dead,...

29 October 2025 Wednesday of week 30 in Ordinary TimeThe Basilica Parish of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Southampton, New York Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 8:26-30The Spirit himself expresses our plea in a way that could never be put into wordsThe Spirit comes to help us in our weakness. For when we cannot choose words in order to pray properly, the Spirit himself expresses our plea in a way that could never be put into words, and God who knows everything in our hearts knows perfectly well what he means, and that...

Tuesday 28 October 2025 Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles FeastSt. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church (Atlanta, GA)Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(I).First readingEphesians 2:19-22In Christ you are no longer aliens, but citizens like usYou are no longer aliens or foreign visitors: you are citizens like all the saints, and part of God’s household. You are part of a building that has the apostles and prophets for its foundations, and Christ Jesus himself for its main cornerstone. As every structure is aligned on him, all grow into one holy temple in the Lord; and you too, in him, are...

27 October 2025Monday of week 30 in Ordinary TimeOn Sunday, January 17, 2021, Metropolitan Daniel of Axum officiated the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of St. Frumentius in Addis Ababa, EthiopiaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 8:12-17The Spirit himself and our spirit bear united witness that we are children of GodMy brothers, there is no necessity for us to obey our unspiritual selves or to live unspiritual lives. If you do live in that way, you are doomed to die; but if by the Spirit you put an end to the misdeeds of the body you will live....

26 October 2025 30th Sunday in Ordinary TimeSt. Demetrius of Thessaloniki Orthodox Church Thessaloniki, GreeceReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingEcclesiasticus 35:12-14, 16-19The humble man's prayer pierces the cloudsThe Lord is a judge who is no respecter of personages.He shows no respect of personages to the detriment of a poor man, he listens to the plea of the injured party.He does not ignore the orphan’s supplication, nor the widow’s as she pours out her story.The man who with his whole heart serves God will be accepted, his petitions will carry to the clouds.The humble man’s prayer pierces the...

25 October 2025Saturday of week 29 in Ordinary Time San Marcello al Corso - Interior after rebuilt. Pope Boniface I was consecrated hereReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 8:1-11The Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in youThe reason why those who are in Christ Jesus are not condemned is that the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. God has done what the Law, because of our unspiritual nature, was unable to do. God dealt with sin by sending his...

24 October 2025Friday of week 29 in Ordinary Time St Anthony Mary Claret Catholic Church, San AntonioReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 7:18-25Every time I want to do good it is something evil that comes to handI know of nothing good living in me – living, that is, in my unspiritual self – for though the will to do what is good is in me, the performance is not, with the result that instead of doing the good things I want to do, I carry out the sinful things I do not want. When I act against...

23 October 2025 Thursday of week 29 in Ordinary Time Serra Chapel at Mission San Juan Capistrano, CAReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 6:19-23Now you are set free from sin, and slaves to GodIf I may use human terms to help your natural weakness: as once you put your bodies at the service of vice and immorality, so now you must put them at the service of righteousness for your sanctification. When you were slaves of sin, you felt no obligation to righteousness, and what did you get from this? Nothing but experiences that now make you...

22 October 2025 Wednesday of week 29 in Ordinary Time St. John Paul II Church, K.Channasandra, Bangalore Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 6:12-18Make every part of your body a weapon fighting on the side of GodYou must not let sin reign in your mortal bodies or command your obedience to bodily passions, you must not let any part of your body turn into an unholy weapon fighting on the side of sin; you should, instead, offer yourselves to God, and consider yourselves dead men brought back to life; you should make every part of your body into...

21 October 2025 Tuesday of week 29 in Ordinary TimeBridlington Priory Church, Bridlington, East YorkshireReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 5:12,15,17-21Divine grace, coming through Jesus Christ, came as an abundant free giftSin entered the world through one man, and through sin death, and thus death has spread through the whole human race because everyone has sinned; but the gift itself considerably outweighed the fall. If it is certain that through one man’s fall so many died, it is even more certain that divine grace, coming through the one man, Jesus Christ, came to so many as an abundant...

20 October 2025Monday of week 29 in Ordinary Time Santa Iria chapel, Tomar, PortugalReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 4:20-25We must believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the deadSince God had made him a promise, Abraham refused either to deny it or even to doubt it, but drew strength from faith and gave glory to God, convinced that God had power to do what he had promised. This is the faith that was ‘considered as justifying him.’ Scripture however does not refer only to him but to us as well when it says that...

Saturday 18 October 2025 Saint Luke, Evangelist FeastSt. Luke the Evangelist, Westborough, MAReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(I).First reading2 Timothy 4:10-17Only Luke is with meDemas has deserted me for love of this life and gone to Thessalonika, Crescens has gone to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia; only Luke is with me. Get Mark to come and bring him with you; I find him a useful helper in my work. I have sent Tychicus to Ephesus. When you come, bring the cloak I left with Carpus in Troas, and the scrolls, especially the parchment ones. Alexander the coppersmith has...

17 October 2025 Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop, Martyr on Friday of week 28 in Ordinary TimeSaint Ignatius of Antioch Catholic Church, Tarpon Springs, FL Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingRomans 4:1-8Abraham was justified not by his actions but by faithWhat shall we say about Abraham, the ancestor from whom we are all descended? If Abraham was justified as a reward for doing something, he would really have had something to boast about, though not in God’s sight because scripture says: Abraham put his faith...

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...