Readings for

October 26, 2026

Monday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time

Mass of the Day
Reading I

Ephesians 4:32-5:8

32[And] be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another as God has forgiven you in Christ. 1So be imitators of God, as beloved children, 2and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma. 3Immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is fitting among holy ones, 4no obscenity or silly or suggestive talk, which is out of place, but instead, thanksgiving. 5Be sure of this, that no immoral or impure or greedy person, that is, an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6Duty to Live in the Light. Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the disobedient. 7So do not be associated with them. 8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light,
Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4, 6

1First Book—Psalms 1–41 Psalm 1 True Happiness in God’s Law I - Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in company with scoffers. 2Rather, the law of the LORD is his joy; and on his law he meditates day and night. 3He is like a tree planted near streams of water, that yields its fruit in season; Its leaves never wither; whatever he does prospers. 4II - But not so are the wicked, not so! They are like chaff driven by the wind. 6Because the LORD knows the way of the just, but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.
Alleluia

John 17:17, 17

17Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth.
Gospel

Luke 13:10-17

10He was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath. 11And a woman was there who for eighteen years had been crippled by a spirit; she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect. 12When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said, “Woman, you are set free of your infirmity.” 13He laid his hands on her, and she at once stood up straight and glorified God. 14But the leader of the synagogue, indignant that Jesus had cured on the sabbath, said to the crowd in reply, “There are six days when work should be done. Come on those days to be cured, not on the sabbath day.” 15The Lord said to him in reply, “Hypocrites! Does not each one of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his ass from the manger and lead it out for watering? 16This daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for eighteen years now, ought she not to have been set free on the sabbath day from this bondage?” 17When he said this, all his adversaries were humiliated; and the whole crowd rejoiced at all the splendid deeds done by him. The Parable of the Mustard Seed.