Saturday, 2 October 2027
Guardian Angels
Readings for the universal ChurchGeneral Roman Calendar, used by Catholics worldwide
First Reading
5Be of good comfort, O people of God, the memorial of Israel: 6You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but because you provoked God to wrath, you are delivered to your adversaries. 7For you have provoked him who made you, the eternal God, offering sacrifice to devils, and not to God. 8For you have forgotten God, who brought you up, and you have grieved Jerusalem that nursed you. 9For she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, and she said: Give ear, all you that dwell near Sion, for God hath brought upon me great mourning: 10For I have seen the captivity of my people, of my sons, and my daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them. 11For I nourished them with joy: but I sent them away with weeping and mourning. 12Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and desolate: I am forsaken of many for the sins of my children, because they departed from the law of God.
27Be of good comfort, my children, and cry to the Lord: for you shall be remembered by him that hath led you away. 28For as it was your mind to go astray from God; so when you return again you shall seek him ten times as much. 29For he that hath brought evils upon you, shall bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation.
Responsorial Psalm
33Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall live.
34For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners.
35Let the heavens and the earth praise him; the sea, and every thing that creepeth therein.
36For God will save Sion, and the cities of Juda shall be built up. And they shall dwell there, and acquire it by inheritance.
37And the seed of his servants shall possess it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
Gospel
1At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who thinkest thou is the greater in the kingdom of heaven? 2And Jesus calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them, 3And said: Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 4Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven. 5And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me.
10See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
Same readings worldwide and in the United States.
Text: Douay-Rheims (public domain). Reading citations: cpbjr/catholic-readings-api (MIT license). The Lectionary text used at Mass in the United States is the NABRE, which you can read at USCCB.