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title: "Today in the Church: Liturgical Color, Season & Saint"
url: https://blessbible.app/today/
description: "Today's liturgical season, week and color, the celebration and its rank, the Mass reading citations and the saint of the day, for your device's date."
updated: 2026-10-29
---

Today in the Church · US calendar

# Thursday, October 29, 2026: Thursday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time

The liturgical color for Thursday, October 29, is green. It is a weekday in Ordinary Time (week 30). The Gospel at Mass is Luke 13:31-35, and Bless’s saint of the day is St. Narcissus of Jerusalem.

Updated October 29, 2026

[Full readings for today](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/10/29/)

Liturgical color

Green

- **Season**: Ordinary Time · Week 30
- **Rank**: Weekday
- **Lectionary**: Year A · Cycle II
- **Month**: [October 2026](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/10/)

## Mass readings (US)

1. First Reading
   Ephesians 6:10-20
   Read in the CPDV: [Ephesians 6](https://blessbible.app/bible/ephesians/6/)
2. Responsorial Psalm
   Psalm 144:1b, 2, 9-10
   Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 143 (144)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/143/)
3. Alleluia
   See Luke 19:38; 2:14
   Read in the CPDV: [Luke 19](https://blessbible.app/bible/luke/19/) [Luke 2](https://blessbible.app/bible/luke/2/)
4. Gospel
   Luke 13:31-35
   Read in the CPDV: [Luke 13](https://blessbible.app/bible/luke/13/)

[Full readings for today](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/10/29/)

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar.

The citations are printed as the US Lectionary gives them, so the Psalms carry their Hebrew numbers; the links open the chapter in the CPDV, where the Psalms follow the Vulgate numbering. Each day’s own page prints the New Testament readings in the CPDV; Bless shows the full text of every reading in the app.

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## Saint of the day

[St. Narcissus of Jerusalem](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-narcissus-of-jerusalem/)

Bishop · Remembered on October 29

Bishop of Jerusalem said to have been over a hundred when he died — slandered in old age by perjurers, he withdrew to the desert until the truth outed, then returned to his see and served on with a coadjutor.

[Read about St. Narcissus of Jerusalem](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-narcissus-of-jerusalem/)

Bless keeps a saint for every date; on some days it is not the saint celebrated at Mass.

## This week

1. [**30**Fri Friday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time Green](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/10/30/)
2. [**31**Sat Saturday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time Green](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/10/31/)
3. [**1**Sun All Saints White](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/11/01/)
4. [**2**Mon The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed Violet](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/11/02/)
5. [**3**Tue Tuesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time Green](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/11/03/)
6. [**4**Wed St. Charles Borromeo White](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/11/04/)
7. [**5**Thu Thursday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time Green](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/11/05/)

[The whole of October 2026](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2026/10/)

[The liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/)