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

Mass Readings for Saturday, October 23, 2027

On Saturday, October 23, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Saturday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle I); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Luke 13:1-9.

Updated October 20, 2026

Liturgical color

Green

Celebration: Saturday 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 8:1-11

1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to the flesh.
2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin and death.
3For though this was impossible under the law, because it was weakened by the flesh, God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and because of sin, in order to condemn sin in the flesh,
4so that the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us. For we are not walking according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.
5For those who are in agreement with the flesh are mindful of the things of the flesh. But those who are in agreement with the spirit are mindful of the things of the spirit.
6For the prudence of the flesh is death. But the prudence of the spirit is life and peace.
7And the wisdom of the flesh is inimical to God. For it is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be.
8So those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.
9And you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if it is true that the Spirit of God lives within you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him.
10But if Christ is within you, then the body is indeed dead, concerning sin, but the spirit truly lives, because of justification.
11But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead lives within you, then he who raised up Jesus Christ from the dead shall also enliven your mortal bodies, by means of his Spirit living within you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Romans 8

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 24:1b-2, 3-4ab, 5-6

Read in the CPDV: Psalm 24 (23 in the Vulgate)

Alleluia Ezekiel 33:11

Read in the CPDV: Ezekiel 33

Gospel Luke 13:1-9

1And there were present, at that very time, some who were reporting about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate mixed with their sacrifices.
2And responding, he said to them: “Do you think that these Galileans must have sinned more than all other Galileans, because they suffered so much?
3No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you will all perish similarly.
4And those eighteen upon whom the tower of Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they also were greater transgressors than all the men living in Jerusalem?
5No, I tell you. But if you do not repent, you will all perish similarly.”
6And he also told this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree, which was planted in his vineyard. And he came seeking fruit on it, but found none.
7Then he said to the cultivator of the vineyard: ‘Behold, for these three years I came seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I have found none. Therefore, cut it down. For why should it even occupy the land?’
8But in response, he said to him: ‘Lord, let it be for this year also, during which time I will dig around it and add fertilizer.
9And, indeed, it should bear fruit. But if not, in the future, you shall cut it down.’”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Luke 13

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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Saint of the day

St. John of Capistrano

Priest · Remembered on October 23

Patron of military chaplains

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