Mass Readings

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Tuesday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time

Weekday · Ordinary Time · Cycle A · Year II · Green

Reading I

Gal 5:1-6

Stand fast and be not held again under the yoke of bondage.

Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

And I testify again to every man circumcising himself that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

You are made void of Christ, you who are justified in the law: you are fallen from grace.

For we in spirit, by faith, wait for the hope of justice.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by Charity.

Responsorial Psalm

Ps 119:41, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48

Let thy mercy also come upon me, O Lord: thy salvation according to thy word.

And take not thou the word of truth utterly out of my mouth: for in thy words, I have hoped exceedingly.

So shall I always keep thy law, for ever and ever.

And I walked at large: because I have sought after thy commandments.

I meditated also on thy commandments, which I loved.

And I lifted up my hands to thy commandments, which I loved: and I was exercised in thy justifications.

Gospel Acclamation

Heb 4:12

For the word of God is living and effectual and more piercing than any two edged sword; and reaching unto the division of the soul and the spirit, of the joints also and the marrow: and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Gospel

Luke 11:37-41

And as he was speaking, a certain Pharisee prayed him that he would dine with him. And he going in, sat down to eat.

And the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself, why he was not washed before dinner.

And the Lord said to him: Now you, Pharisees, make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter: but your inside is full of rapine and iniquity.

Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make also that which is within?

But yet that which remaineth, give alms: and behold, all things are clean unto you.

About These Readings

Scripture text from the Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision, 1899), which is in the public domain. The Mass readings appointed for today follow the Lectionary for Mass approved for the dioceses of the United States.

Psalm verses follow the Vulgate numbering in the Douay-Rheims, which may differ by one chapter and a few verses from the Hebrew numbering used by the modern Lectionary. The substance of each Psalm is the same.

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