Week 29 of Ordinary Time

Monday of the Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time

Monday, October 19, 2026

Today’s verse

About today

In the seventeenth century Jesuit missionaries from France lived among the Huron and were killed in what is now Canada and New York. Isaac Jogues returned after mutilation and was martyred at Ossernenon; John de Brébeuf died with steadfast prayer. The United States keeps their obligatory memorial on 19 October, a hard memory of both grace and blood on this land. Ask today for a mission that learns the language of the other, and for a faith that will not curse those who do harm.

Original – Prayer on Fire.

Scripture

Sequential New Testament

Acts 10:34–43

Then, Peter, opening his mouth, said: “I have concluded in truth that God is not a respecter of persons. But within every nation, whoever fears him and works justice is acceptable to him. God sent the Word to the sons of Israel, announcing the peace through Jesus Christ, for he is the Lord of all. You know that the Word has been made known throughout all Judea. For beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached, Jesus of Nazareth, whom God anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power, traveled around doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil. For God was with him. And we are witnesses of all that he did in the region of Judea and in Jerusalem, he whom they killed by hanging him on a tree. God raised him up on the third day and permitted him to be made manifest, not to all the people, but to the witnesses preordained by God, to those of us who ate and drank with him after he rose again from the dead. And he instructed us to preach to the people, and to testify that he is the One who was appointed by God to be the judge of the living and of the dead. To him all the Prophets offer testimony that through his name all who believe in him receive the remission of sins.”

Text: Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV) · Sequential New Testament

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