Thursday, 22 October 2026

The liturgical day and the Mass readings.

Ordinary Time · Year A

Vestment: Green

Thursday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time

Weekday

Feria quinta, hebdomada vigesima nona per annum

Saint / Celebration of the DayOptional memorial

Saint John Paul II, Pope

S. Ioannis Pauli II, papæ

Karol Józef Wojtyła (1920–2005) reigned as Pope from 1978 to 2005. One of the most influential pontiffs in Catholic history, he championed Christian unity, youth evangelisation through World Youth Days, the sanctity of human life, and the fall of totalitarianism. He instituted Divine Mercy Sunday, promulgated the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and gave the Church the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary.

Source: Holy See & Postulation of Saint John Paul II

Also today

Saint John Paul II, Pope
Optional memorial · may be celebrated at the priest's choice

Daily Mass Readings

✓ Live Daily Lectionary (2026-10-22)

First Reading

Eph 3,14-21.

Brothers and sisters: I kneel before the Father,

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

that he may grant you in accord with the riches of his glory to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner self,

and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, rooted and grounded in love,

may have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to accomplish far more than all we ask or imagine, by the power at work within us,

to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

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Responsorial Psalm

Ps 33(32),1-2.4-5.11-12.18-19.

Exult, you just, in the LORD; Praise from the upright is fitting.

Give thanks to the LORD on the harp; With the ten stringed lyre chant his praises

For upright is the word of the LORD, and all his works are trustworthy.

He loves justice and right; of the kindness of the LORD the earth is full.

But the plan of the LORD stands forever; The design of his heart, through all generations.

Blessed the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he has chosen for his own inheritance.

See, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him, upon those who hope for his kindness,

To deliver them from death and preserve them in spite of famine.

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Second Reading

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Holy Gospel

Luke 12,49-53.

Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!

There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!

Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.

From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three;

a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

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