Catholic Daily Readings.

Wednesday 31st October Weekday (30)   Vestment: Green Today’s Rosary: The Glorious Mystery FIRST READING “Not as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ.” A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians (Ephesians 6:1-9) Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honour your father and mother”  (this  is  the  first  commandment  with a promise), “that it may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Slaves, be obedient to those who are your earthly masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as to Christ; not in the way of eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that whatever good any one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether...

Tuesday 30th October Weekday (30) Vestment: Green Today’s Rosary: The Sorrowful Mystery FIRST READING        “This is a great mystery, and I mean in reference to Christ and the Church.” A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians (Ephesians5:21-33) Brethren: Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church, his body, and is himself its Saviour. As the Church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that he might present the Church to himself in splendour, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodie...

Monday 29th October Weekday (30) Vestment: Green Today’s Rosary: The Joyful Mystery FIRST READING “Walk in love, as Christ loved us.” A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians (Ephesians 4: 32—5 :8) Brethren: Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is fitting among saints. Let there be no filthiness, nor silly talk, nor levity, which are not fitting; but instead let there be thanksgiving. Be sure of this, that no immoral or impure man, or one who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is because of these things that the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. There...

Sunday 28 October Thirtenth Sunday of the Year Vestment: Green Today’s Rosary: Glorious Mystery SAINTS SIMON AND JUDE, Apostles Feast Theme of the Sunday:   Enlightened to Follow Christ . The episode of the healing of Bartimaeus in the gospel has a lot to teach about the light that the Christian receives when meeting Christ in Baptism. It is in this sacrament that the eyes of men and women are opened. That is where they understand what it means to follow Christ. The first reading prepares this teaching as it describes the journey of the “blind” people of Israel from slavery to freedom. God himself is their guide. The second reading contains words of consolation for those who, after receiving the light of Christ, follow the Master along the road: he is a travelling ‘companion who can understand our weakness. The Gloria       When indicated this hymn is either sung or said Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will. We bl...

Saturday 27 October Weekday (29) Vestment: White/Green Today’s Rosary: The Joyful Mystery FIRST READING                    Christ is the head from whom the whole body is joined and knit together. A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians (Ephesians 4:7-16) Brethren: Grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore it is said, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.”  (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,  for the equipment of the saints, for the work of ministry, for building up the body  of Christ, until we all att...

Friday 26th October Weekday (29) Vestment: Green Today’s Rosary: The Sorrowful Mystery FIRST READING One body, one Lord, one faith, one baptism. A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians ( Ephesians 4:1-6) Brethren: I, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all lowliness and meekness, with patience, forbearing one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all. The word of the Lord. RESPONSORIAL PSALM  Psalm 24: 1-2.3-4ab.5-6 (R. 6) R.  These are the people who seek your face, O Lord. The Lord’s is the earth and its fullness, the world, and all who dwell in it. It is he who set it on the seas; on the rivers he made it firm.  R. Who s...

Thursday 25th October Weekday (29) Vestment: Green Today’s Rosary: The Luminous Mystery FIRST READING    Rooted and grounded in love, may you be filled with all the fullness of God. A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians (Ephesians 3 :14-21) Brethren: I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who by the power at   work within us is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, to him be glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus to all g...

Wednesday 24th October Weekday (29) Vestment: White/Green Today’s Rosary: The Glorious Mystery St. Anthony Mary Claret, Bishop (Opt Mem) FIRST READING        The mystery of Christ has now been revealed, how the Gentiles are fellow heirs of the promise. A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians (Ephesians 3:2- 12) Brethren: I assume that you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you, how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. When you read this you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ; which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; that is, how the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel. Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace which was given me by t...

Tuesday 23rd October Weekday (29) Vestment: White/Green Today’s Rosary: The Sorrowful Mystery St John of Capastrano, Priest (Opt Mem) FIRST READING “He is our peace, who has made us both one.” A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians  (Ephesians 2 : 12-22) Brethren: Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near in the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby bringing the hostility to an end. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and p...

Monday 22nd October Weekday (29) Vestment: White Today’s Rosary: The Joyful Mystery ST. JOHN PAUL II, Pp. (Memorial) FIRST READING      “He made us alive together with Christ and made us sit with him in the heavenly places.” A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians (Ephesians 2: 1-10) Brethren: You  he made alive, when you were dead through  the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience. Among these we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of body and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with him, and made us sit, with him ...

October Sunday 21 TWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR Vestment: Green Today’s Rosary: Glorious Mystery MISSION SUNDAY Theme of the Sunday:   An Authority to Command?  No, to Serve! In the Church we should not have leaders who issue orders and subjects who obey; a class of people who are respected, honoured and full of privileges and a lower class with lower dignity. All are brothers and sisters, and all must see themselves as the servants of others. The various abilities and talents we are granted by God are not to cause division, to help us rule over, or to compete with others. All our gifts must be a source of communion and complementarity. To be great means to be the last and the servant of all, just as Christ was, This is the message of the gospel. The first reading shows us God preparing his people to adopt the mentality of service and of giving up one’s life that Jesus was to illustrate later. The second reading tells us that the Son of God was not afraid to come down to...

Saturday 20th October Weekday (28) ordinary Time Vestment: Red Today’s Rosary: The Luminous Mystery B. V. M. on Saturday BLESSED DAUDI OKELO and JILDO IRWA, Martyrs, In Uganda: Feast FIRST READING         “He made Christ the head over all things for the Church, which is his body.” A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians (Ephesians 1:15-23) Brethren: Because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love towards all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering  you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power in us who believe, according to the working of his great might which...