Mass Readings

Saturday, October 17, 2026

Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr

Memorial · Ordinary Time · Cycle A · Year II · Red

Reading I

Phil 3:17—4:1

Be ye followers of me, brethren: and observe them who walk so as you have our model.

For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you weeping) that they are enemies of the cross of Christ:

Whose end is destruction: whose God is their belly: and whose glory is in their shame: who mind earthly things.

But our conversation is in heaven: from whence also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ,

Who will reform the body of our lowness, made like to the body of his glory, according to the operation whereby also he is able to subdue all things unto himself.

Therefore my dearly beloved brethren and most desired, my joy and my crown: so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

Responsorial Psalm

Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9

I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall be always in my mouth.

In the Lord shall my soul be praised: let the meek hear and rejoice.

O magnify the Lord with me; and let us extol his name together.

I sought the Lord, and he heard me; and he delivered me from all my troubles.

Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be confounded.

This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him: and saved him out of all his troubles.

The angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear him: and shall deliver them.

O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that hopeth in him.

Gospel

John 12:24-26

Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die,

Itself remaineth alone. But if it die it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it and he that hateth his life in this world keepeth it unto life eternal.

If any man minister to me, let him follow me: and where I am, there also shall my minister be. If any man minister to me, him will my Father honour.

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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