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Daily Readings - 23/10/2026

FRIDAY OF THE TWENTY-NINTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME, feria or SAINT JOHN OF CAPISTRANO, priest, optional memorial

Ordinary Time Week XXIX Green

First Reading : Eph 4, 1-6

A call to unity

4:1 I, the prisoner in the Lord, implore you therefore to lead a life worthy of your vocation.

4:2 Bear with one another charitably, in complete selflessness, gentleness and patience.

4:3 Do all you can to preserve the unity of the Spirit by the peace that binds you together.

4:4 There is one Body, one Spirit, just as you were all called into one and the same hope when you were called.

4:5 There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

4:6 and one God who is Father of all, over all, through all and within all.

Psalm : Ps 23

R. Such is the people that seeks your face, O Lord.

Of David

23:1 Yahweh is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

23:2 In meadows of green grass he lets me lie. To the waters of repose he leads me;

23:3 there he revives my soul. He guides me by paths of virtue for the sake of his name.

23:4 Though I pass through a gloomy Valley, beside me your rod and your staff are there, to hearten me.

23:5 You prepare a table before me under the eyes of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil, my cup brims over.

23:6 Ah, how goodness and kindness pursue me, every day of my life, my home, the house of Yahweh, as long as I live!

Gospel : Lk 12, 54-59

On reading the signs of the times

12:54 He said again to the crowds, ‘When you see a cloud looming up in the west you say at once that rain is coming, and so it does.

12:55 And when the wind is from the south you say it will be hot, and it is.

12:56 Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the face of the earth and the sky. How is it you do not know how to interpret these times?

12:57 ‘Why not judge for yourselves what is right?

12:58 For example: when you go to court with your opponent, try to settle with him on the way, or he may drag you before the judge and the judge hand you over to the bailiff and the bailiff have you thrown into prison.

12:59 I tell you, you will not get out till you have paid the very last penny.’