Week 29 of Ordinary Time

Tuesday of the Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Gospel for October 20, 2026.

Verse of the day

Gospel

Mass Lectionary · Gospel

Luke 12:35–38

Let your waists be girded, and let lamps be burning in your hands. And let you yourselves be like men awaiting their lord, when he will return from the wedding; so that, when he arrives and knocks, they may open to him promptly. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he returns, will find being vigilant. Amen I say to you, that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, while he, continuing on, will minister to them. And if he will return in the second watch, or if in the third watch, and if he will find them to be so: then blessed are those servants.

Prayer on Fire Gospel Lesson

He turns from money to readiness. Stay dressed for action. Keep the lamps burning. Be like servants waiting for the master to come back from a wedding.

Where this sits

This is what replaces the barn. The wait is the life.

The wait is the work

Blessed are the ones he finds awake, in the second watch or the third. The surprise is his response. He will gird himself, sit them down, and serve them. Readiness is not grim. It is met by his own table.

What to take

Live as if he could knock tonight. Expect welcome rather than inspection.

Original – Prayer on Fire

Gospel of the Day · Text: Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV) · Mass Lectionary · Gospel

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