Daily readings

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Jerome. Ordinary Time. A clean reading layout for church, prayer, or preparation.

CelebrationJerome

TypeMemorial

SeasonOrdinary Time

Year2025 archive

The Roman Catholic readings for this date are shown below on-site. Use plain reading mode if you want clearer modern wording, or switch back to the original Douay-Rheims wording at any time.

Reading mode

Plain mode helps modern readers follow the text more easily.

On-site scripture text: Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Plain mode is a built-in reading aid that modernizes older wording for easier understanding while keeping the same Roman Catholic reading references for the day.

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First Reading

Zechariah 8:20-23

How to approach it

Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.

20Thus says the Lord of hosts, until people come, and dwell in many cities,

21And the inhabitants go one to another, saying: Let us go, and entreat the face of the Lord, and let us seek the Lord of hosts: I also will go.

22And many peoples, and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the face of the Lord.

23Thus says the Lord of hosts$1 In those days, in which ten men of all languages of the Gentiles shall take hold, and shall hold fast the shirt of one that is a Jew, saying: We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.

2

Psalm

Psalm 87:1b-3, 4-5, 6-7

How to pray it

The psalm is meant to be prayed, not rushed. If the wording feels older, focus on the main movement of the prayer: trust, praise, sorrow, gratitude, or hope.

4I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Look the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were there.

5Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself has founded her.

6The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of leaders, of them that have been in her.

7The dwelling in you is as it were of all rejoicing.

3

Gospel

Luke 9:51-56

What to watch for

The Gospel is the center of the reading set. Pay close attention to what Jesus says, what Jesus does, and what response he is asking for.

51And it happened, when the days of his assumption were accomplishing, that he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem.

52And he sent messengers before his face; and going, they entered into a city of the Samaritans, to prepare for him.

53And they received him not, because his face was of one going to Jerusalem.

54And when his disciples James and John had seen this, they said: Lord, will you that we command fire to come down from heaven, and destroy them?

55And turning, he rebuked them, saying: You know not of what spirit you are.

56The Son of Man came not to destroy souls, but to save. And they went into another town.

Source note

This page uses the Catholic Readings API for the day's references and liturgical celebration data, while the on-site scripture text is rendered from the public-domain Douay-Rheims Bible distributed through the Open Bibles project.