Readings for the day · Pentecost Season · All Four Lectionaries
The readings for October 31, 2027, in all four lectionaries
Revised Common keeps Proper 26; Roman Catholic keeps Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time; LSB Three-Year keeps Reformation Day; Historic One-Year keeps The Twenty-Third Sunday after Trinity. No reading is common to all four.
| Reading | Revised CommonProper 26Year B · Oct 31 | Roman CatholicThirty-first Sunday in Ordinary TimeYear B · Oct 31 | LSB Three-YearReformation DayYear B · Oct 31also Proper 26 | Historic One-YearThe Twenty-Third Sunday after TrinityOne-year · Oct 31also Reformation Day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gospel2 of 4 read Mark 12 | Mark 12:28-34 | Mark 12:28b-34 | John 8:31-36or Matthew 11:12-19 | Matthew 22:15-22 |
| Epistle / Second ReadingEvery one differs | Hebrews 9:11-14 | Hebrews 7:23-28 | Romans 3:19-28 | Philippians 3:17-21 |
| Old Testament / First ReadingEvery one differs | Ruth 1:1-18or Deuteronomy 6:1-9 | Deuteronomy 6:2-6 | Revelation 14:6-7 | Micah 4:1-7 |
| PsalmEvery one differs | Psalm 146or Psalm 119:1-8 | Psalm 18:2-3, 3-4, 47+51 (2) | Psalm 46 | not appointed |
More than one service is appointed on this date. The table shows the first of each tradition’s; the others are linked under the column they belong to.
Every citation above opens its own page: the passage, verse-by-verse commentary, background and word study, the Church Fathers, and worship resources. An “or” line is the second track a lectionary offers for the same day, not a different Sunday. Agreement is judged by chapter, because the four rarely cut a passage to the same length.
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