Wednesday, 14 October 2026

The liturgical day and the Mass readings.

Ordinary Time · Year A

Vestment: Green

Wednesday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time

Weekday

Feria quarta, hebdomada vigesima octava per annum

Saint / Celebration of the DayOptional memorial

Saint Callistus I, Pope and Martyr

S. Callisti I, papæ et martyris

Saint Callistus I, Pope and Martyr is solemnly commemorated today in the Roman Catholic Church and the sacred liturgy. The Church honours their heroic faith, steadfast love for Jesus Christ, and exemplary Christian virtue as an inspiring model and heavenly intercessor for all believers.

Through their prayers and intercession, we ask Almighty God for grace, healing, purity of heart, and perseverance in our daily Christian journey.

Source: Roman Martyrology & General Roman Calendar

Also today

Saint Callistus I, Pope and Martyr
Optional memorial · may be celebrated at the priest's choice

Daily Mass Readings

✓ Live Daily Lectionary (2026-10-14)

First Reading

Gal 5,18-25.

Brothers and sisters: If you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, licentiousness,

idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy, outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness, dissensions, factions,

occasions of envy, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

In contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,

gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

Now those who belong to Christ (Jesus) have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires.

If we live in the Spirit, let us also follow the Spirit.

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Responsorial Psalm

Ps 1,1-2.3.4.6.

Blessed the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked Nor walks in the way of sinners, nor sits in the company of the insolent,

But delights in the law of the LORD and meditates on his law day and night.

He is like a tree planted near running water, that yields its fruit in due season, and whose leaves never fade. Whatever he does, prospers.

Not so, the wicked, not so; they are like chaff which the wind drives away.

For the LORD watches over the way of the just, but the way of the wicked vanishes.

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Second Reading

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Holy Gospel

Luke 11,42-46.

The Lord said: "Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint and of rue and of every garden herb, but you pay no attention to judgment and to love for God. These you should have done, without overlooking the others.

Woe to you Pharisees! You love the seat of honor in synagogues and greetings in marketplaces.

Woe to you! You are like unseen graves over which people unknowingly walk."

Then one of the scholars of the law said to him in reply, "Teacher, by saying this you are insulting us too."

And he said, "Woe also to you scholars of the law! You impose on people burdens hard to carry, but you yourselves do not lift one finger to touch them."

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Calendar: General Roman Calendar. Celebrations proper to Nigeria, the Diocese of Abakaliki or the chaplaincy are celebrated as appointed.