Mass Readings

Monday, October 26, 2026

Monday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time

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

Reading I

Eph 4:32—5:8

And be ye kind one to another: merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children:

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.

But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints:

Or obscenity or foolish talking or scurrility, which is to no purpose: but rather giving of thanks.

For know you this and understand: That no fornicator or unclean or covetous person (which is a serving of idols) hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief.

Be ye not therefore partakers with them.

For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the light.

Responsorial Psalm

Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4+6

Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:

But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night.

And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.

Gospel Acclamation

John 17:17b, 17a

Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.

Gospel

Luke 13:10-17

And he was teaching in their synagogue on their sabbath.

And behold there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. And she was bowed together: neither could she look upwards at all.

Whom when Jesus saw, he called her unto him and said to her: Woman, thou art delivered from thy infirmity.

And he laid his hands upon her: and immediately she was made straight and glorified God.

And the ruler of the synagogue being angry that Jesus had healed on the sabbath answering, said to the multitude: Six days there are wherein you ought to work. In them therefore come and be healed: and not on the sabbath day.

And the Lord answering him, said: Ye hypocrites, doth not every one of you, on the sabbath day, loose his ox or his ass from the manger and lead them to water?

And ought not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

And when he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the things that were gloriously done by him.

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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