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Saturday, 16 October 2027

Saint Hedwig, Religious/Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin

Ordinary Time · Green

Readings for the universal ChurchGeneral Roman Calendar, used by Catholics worldwide

First Reading

Romans 4:13, 16-18

13For not through the law was the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world; but through the justice of faith.

16Therefore is it of faith, that according to grace the promise might be firm to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, 17(As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations,) before God, whom he believed, who quickeneth the dead; and calleth those things that are not, as those that are. 18Who against hope believed in hope; that he might be made the father of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So shall thy seed be.

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 105:6-7, 8-9, 42-43

6O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.

7He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.

8He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

9Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac:

42Because he remembered his holy word, which he had spoken to his servant Abraham.

43And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness.

Gospel

Luke 12:8-12

8And I say to you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God. 9But he that shall deny me before men, shall be denied before the angels of God. 10And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but to him that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven. 11And when they shall bring you into the synagogues, and to magistrates and powers, be not solicitous how or what you shall answer, or what you shall say; 12For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what you must say.

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.