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

Mass Readings for Monday, October 23, 2028

On Monday, October 23, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Monday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle II); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Luke 12:13-21.

Updated October 20, 2026

Liturgical color

Green

Celebration: Monday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time
Season: Ordinary Time · Week 29
Rank: Weekday
Sunday cycle: Year C
Weekday cycle: Cycle II

Mass readings US

First Reading Ephesians 2:1-10

1And you were once dead in your sins and offenses,
2in which you walked in times past, according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of this sky, the spirit who now works in the sons of distrust.
3And we too were all conversant in these things, in times past, by the desires of our flesh, acting according to the will of the flesh and according to our own thoughts. And so we were, by nature, sons of wrath, even like the others.
4Yet still, God, who is rich in mercy, for the sake of his exceedingly great charity with which he loved us,
5even when we were dead in our sins, has enlivened us together in Christ, by whose grace you have been saved.
6And he has raised us up together, and he has caused us to sit down together in the heavens, in Christ Jesus,
7so that he may display, in the ages soon to arrive, the abundant wealth of his grace, by his goodness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God.
9And this is not of works, so that no one may glory.
10For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works which God has prepared and in which we should walk.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Ephesians 2

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 100:1b-2, 3, 4ab, 4c-5

Read in the CPDV: Psalm 100 (99 in the Vulgate)

Alleluia Matthew 5:3

Read in the CPDV: Matthew 5

Gospel Luke 12:13-21

13And someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.”
14But he said to him, “Man, who has appointed me as judge or arbitrator over you?”
15So he said to them: “Be cautious and wary of all avarice. For a person’s life is not found in the abundance of the things that he possesses.”
16Then he spoke to them using a comparison, saying: “The fertile land of a certain wealthy man produced crops.
17And he thought within himself, saying: ‘What should I do? For I have nowhere to gather together my crops.’
18And he said: ‘This is what I will do. I will tear down my barns and build larger ones. And into these, I will gather all the things that have been grown for me, as well as my goods.
19And I will say to my soul: Soul, you have many goods, stored up for many years. Relax, eat, drink, and be cheerful.’
20But God said to him: ‘Foolish one, this very night they require your soul of you. To whom, then, will those things belong, which you have prepared?’
21So it is with him who stores up for himself, and is not wealthy with God.”

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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Saint of the day

St. John of Capistrano

Priest · Remembered on October 23

Patron of military chaplains

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