Daily readings

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor. Ordinary Time. A clean reading layout for church, prayer, or preparation.

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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

Job 9:1-12, 14-16

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.

1And Job answered, and said:

2Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with

3If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.

4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has resisted him, and has had peace$1

5Who has removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his wrath, knew it not.

6Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

7Who commandeth tile sun and it rises not: and shutteth up the stars as it were under a seal:

8Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walks upon the waves of the sea.

9Who makes Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of the south.

10Who does things great and incomprehensible, and wonderful, of which there is no number.

11If he come to me, I shall not see him: if he depart I shall not understand.

12If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why do you so?

14What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?

15I, who although I should have any righteous thing, would not answer, but would make supplication to my judge.

16And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.

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Psalm

Psalm 88:10bc-11, 12-13, 14-15

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.

12Shall any one in the tomb declare your mercy: and your truth in destruction?

13Shall your wonders be known in the dark; and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

14But I, OH Lord, have cried to you: and in the morning my prayer shall prevent you.

15Lord, why castest you off my prayer: why turnest you away your face from me?

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Gospel

Luke 9:57-62

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.

57And it happened, as they walked in the way, that a certain man said to him: I will follow you withersoever you go.

58Jesus said to him: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air nests; but the Son of Man has not where to lay his head.

59But he said to another: Follow me. And he said: Lord, suffer me first to go, and to bury my father.

60And Jesus said to him: Let the dead bury their dead: but go you, and preach the kingdom of God.

61And another said: I will follow you, Lord; but let me first take my leave of them that are at my house.

62Jesus said to him: No man putting his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

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.