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Monday, October 12, 2026

Monday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time

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  • Year II
  • Psalter week 4

Gospel · Lk 11:29-32

This wicked generation will be given no sign but the sign of Jonah

Liturgical calendar

This generation is a wicked generation

Lk 11:29 · Gospel of the day

Readings at Mass

A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Galatians

We are children of the free woman, by the freedom with which Christ has set us free

Read Galatians 4 in the Bible

For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, and the other by a free woman. 23But he who was of the bondwoman, was born according to the flesh: but he of the free woman, was by promise. 24Which things are said by an allegory. For these are the two testaments. The one from mount Sina, engendering unto bondage; which is Agar: 26But that Jerusalem, which is above, is free: which is our mother. 27For it is written: Rejoice, thou barren, that bearest not: break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for many are the children of the desolate, more than of her that hath a husband. 31So then, brethren, we are not the children of the bondwoman, but of the free: by the freedom wherewith Christ has made us free.

1Stand fast, and be not held again under the yoke of bondage.

The word of the Lord.

Psalm · Ps 113:1-7

Blessed be the name of the Lord, now and for ever

Blessed be the name of the Lord for ever.

1Praise the Lord, ye children: praise ye the name of the Lord. 2Blessed be the name of the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever. 3From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, the name of the Lord is worthy of praise. 4The Lord is high above all nations; and his glory above the heavens. 5Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high: 6And looketh down on the low things in heaven and in earth? 7Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out of the dunghill:

Blessed be the name of the Lord for ever.

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke

This wicked generation will be given no sign but the sign of Jonah

Read Luke 11 in the Bible

Gospel Acclamation

To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

And the multitudes running together, he began to say: This generation is a wicked generation: it asketh a sign, and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. 30For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninivites; so shall the Son of man also be to this generation. 31The queen of the south shall rise in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them: because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold more than Solomon here. 32The men of Ninive shall rise in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it; because they did penance at the preaching of Jonas; and behold more than Jonas here.

The Gospel of the Lord.

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