Catholic Reading of the Day
I started this podcast during the pandemic when I was recovering from treatment for cancer. I found that it was hard to find an audio version of today’s Mass Reading. At the time it was also hard for some people to get to Mass so I thought what can I do to help? This podcast brings you the readings from the Catholic lectionary for today. I hope that you find this podcast inspirational.
6 November 26 - Friday of week 31 in Ordinary Time
Philippians 3:17-4:1 ·(Christ will configure us to his glorious body)
5 November 26 - Thursday of week 31 in Ordinary Time
Philippians 3:3-8 (Whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.)
4 November 26 - St Charles Borromeo
Philippians 2:12-18 ·(Work out your own salvation, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work.) Romans 12:3-13 ·(Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us.)
3 November 26 - St Martin de Porres
Philippians 2:5-11 ·(He humbled himself therefore God has highly exalted him.) Philippians 4:4-9 ·(Whatever is pure, think about these things.)
2 November 26 - All Souls
Isaiah 25:6a, 7-9 ·(The Lord will swallow up death for ever.)
Romans 5:5-11 ·(We have been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.)
1 November 26 - All Saints
Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14 (Behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages) 1 John 3:1-3 (We shall see God as he is)
30 October 26 - Friday of week 30 in Ordinary Time
Philippians 1:1-11 (He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.)
29 October 26 - Thursday of week 30 in Ordinary Time
Ephesians 6:10-20 (Take up the whole armour of God, that you may be able, having done all, to stand firm.)
28 October 26 - Saints Simon and Jude
Ephesians 2:19-22 (Built on the foundation of the Apostles.)
27 October 26 - Tuesday of week 30 in Ordinary Time
Ephesians 5:21-33 (This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the Church.)
26 October 26 - Saints Chad and Cedd
Ephesians 4:32-5:8 (Walk in love, as Christ loved us.)
Romans 12:3-13 (Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us.)
25 October 26 - 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Exodus 22:21-27 (If you mistreat any widow or fatherless child, my wrath will burn against you.) 1 Thessalonians 1:5-10 (You turned away from idols to serve God and to wait for his Son.)
31 October 26 - Saturday of week 30 in Ordinary Time
Philippians 1:18-26 ·(To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.)
24 October 26 - St Antony Mary Claret
Ephesians 4:7-16 ·(Christ is the head who makes the whole body grow.) 2 Samuel 7:1-5, 8b-11, 16 ·(God will give to him the throne of his father David.)
23 October 26 - St John of Capistrano
Ephesians 4:1-6 ·(One body, one Lord, one faith, one baptism.) 2 Corinthians 5:14-20 ·(He gave us the ministry of reconciliation.)
22 October 26 - St John Paul II
Ephesians 3:14-21 (Be rooted and grounded in love that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.) Isaiah 52:7-10 ·(All the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.)
21 October 26 - Wednesday of week 29 in Ordinary Time
Ephesians 3:2-12 ·(The mystery of Christ has now been revealed that the Gentiles are fellow heirs of the promise.)
20 October 26 - Tuesday of week 29 in Ordinary Time
Ephesians 2:12-22 ·(He himself is our peace, who has made us both one.)
20 October 26 - Saints John de Brebeuf and Isaac Jogues
Ephesians 2:1-10 (He made us alive together with Christ and seated us in the heavenly places.) 2 Corinthians 4:7-15 ·(He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.)
18 October 26 - 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Isaiah 45:1, 4-6 ·(I have grasped the right hand of Cyrus to subdue nations before him.) 1 Thessalonians 1:1-5 (Remembering your faith, love and hope.)
17 October 26 - St Ignatius of Antioch
Ephesians 1:15-23 (He gave Christ as head over all things to the Church, which is his body.) Philippians 3:17-4:1 ·(Christ will configure us to his glorious body)
16 October 26 - St Hedwig
Ephesians 1:11-14 ·(We who were the first to hope in Christ, were sealed with the Holy Spirit.) Sirach 26:1-4, 13-16 (Like the sun rising, so is the beauty of a good wife in her well-ordered home.)
15 October 26 - St Teresa of Avila
Ephesians 1:1-10 (God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world.) Romans 8:22-27 (The Spirit intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.)
14 October 26 - St Calistus
Galatians 5:18-25 ·(Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions.) 1 Peter 5:1-4 ·(A fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ.)
13 October 26 - St Edward the Confessor
Romans 8:26-30 ·(For those who love God all things work together for good.)
12 October 26 - St Wilfrid
Galatians 4:22-24, 26-27, 31-5:1 (We are not children of the slave but of the free woman.) 1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23
(Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!)
11 October 26 - 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Isaiah 25:6-10 (The Lord will make a feast, and he will wipe away tears from all faces.) Philippians 4:12-14, 19-20 ·(I can do all things through him who strengthens me.)
10 October 26 - St Denis
Galatians 3:22-29 (You are all sons of God, through faith.) 2 Corinthians 6:4-10 ·
(We are treated as dying, and behold, we live.
9 October 2026 - St John Henry Newman
2 Timothy 4:1-5 ·(Do the work of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry.) 1 Corinthians 2:10-16 ·(The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; the spiritual person judges all things.)
8th October 2026 - Thursday of week 27 in Ordinary Time
Galatians 3:1-5 ·(Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?)
7 October 26 - Our Lady of the Rosary
Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14(They perceived the grace that was given to me.) Acts 1:12-14 ·(All with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer.)
6 October 26 - St Bruno
Galatians 1:13-24 (He was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles.) Philippians 3:8-14 ·(For the sake of Christ I have suffered the loss of all things, becoming like him in his death.)
5 October 26 - Saint Faustina Kowalska
Galatians 1:6-12 ·(I did not receive the gospel from any man, nor was I taught it,but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.) Ephesians 3:14-19 (To know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge)
4 October 26 - 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Isaiah 5:1-7(The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel.) Philippians 4:6-9 ·(Practise these things, and the God of peace will be with you.)
3 October 26 - Saturday of week 26 in Ordinary Time
Job 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17 (Now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself)
2 October 26 - The Holy Guardian Angels
Job 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5 ( Have you commanded the morning; have you entered into the springs of the sea) Exodus 23:20-23 (My angel goes before you)
1 October 2026 - St Therese
Job 19:21-27 (I know that my Redeemer lives) Isaiah 66:10-14c (Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river)
30 September 26 - St Jerome
Job 9:1-12, 14-16 (How can a man be in the right before God) 2 Timothy 3:14-17 (All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching)
29 September 26 - Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael
Revelation 12:7-12 (Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon)
28 September 26 - St Wenceslaus
Job 1:6-22 (The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.) 1 Peter 3:14-17 (Have no fear of them, nor be troubled.)