Daily readings

Monday, November 3, 2025

Martin de Porres. Ordinary Time. A clean reading layout for church, prayer, or preparation.

CelebrationMartin de Porres

TypeOptional Memorial

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.

1

First Reading

Romans 11:29-36

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.

29For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.

30For as you also in times past did not believe God, but now have obtained mercy, through their unbelief;

31So these also now have not believed, for your mercy, that they also may obtain mercy.

32For God has concluded all in unbelief, that he may have mercy on all.

33OH the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

34For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?

35Or who has first given to him, and recompense shall be made him?

36For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things: to him be glory forever. Amen.

2

Psalm

Psalm 69:30-31, 33-34, 36

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.

30But I am poor and sorrowful: your salvation, OH God, has set me up.

31I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify him with praise.

33Let the poor see and rejoice: seek you God, and your soul shall live.

34For the Lord has heard the poor: and has not despised his prisoners.

36For God will save Sion, and the cities of Juda shall be built up. And they shall dwell there, and acquire it by gift.

3

Gospel

Luke 14:12-14

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.

12And he said to him also that had invited him: When you makest a dinner or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brothers and sisters, nor your kinsmen, nor your neighbours who are rich; lest perhaps they also invite you again, and a recompense be made to you.

13But when you makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind;

14And you shall be blessed, because they have not with what to make you recompense: for recompense shall be made you at the resurrection of the righteous.

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.