Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday

Mass Readings for Thursday, October 21, 2027

On Thursday, October 21, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle I); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Luke 12:49-53.

Updated October 20, 2026

Liturgical color

Green

Celebration: Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time
Season: Ordinary Time · Week 29
Rank: Weekday
Sunday cycle: Year B
Weekday cycle: Cycle I

Mass readings US

First Reading Romans 6:19-23

19I am speaking in human terms because of the infirmity of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of your body to serve impurity and iniquity, for the sake of iniquity, so also have you now yielded the parts of your body to serve justice, for the sake of sanctification.
20For though you were once the servants of sin, you have become the children of justice.
21But what fruit did you hold at that time, in those things about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22Yet truly, having been freed now from sin, and having been made servants of God, you hold your fruit in sanctification, and truly its end is eternal life.
23For the wages of sin is death. But the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Romans 6

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6

Read in the CPDV: Psalm 1

Alleluia Philippians 3:8-9

Read in the CPDV: Philippians 3

Gospel Luke 12:49-53

49I have come to cast a fire upon the earth. And what should I desire, except that it may be kindled?
50And I have a baptism, with which I am to be baptized. And how I am constrained, even until it may be accomplished!
51Do you think that I have come to give peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division.
52For from this time on, there will be five in one house: divided as three against two, and as two against three.
53A father will be divided against a son, and a son against his father; a mother against a daughter and a daughter against a mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Luke 12

Computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

In US parishes the readings are proclaimed from the NABRE; the text shown here is the Catholic Public Domain Version.

Old Testament readings and the psalm are listed with a link to their chapter: the US Lectionary numbers some of their verses differently from the CPDV, so their text is not printed here. Psalm citations keep the Lectionary’s Hebrew numbering; the CPDV numbers the Psalms as the Vulgate does.

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