Daily Readings for October 27, 2026 Also view the daily Readings at doctrinalstones.org/2026/10/… Liturgy of the Hours - Divine Office 10.27.26 | Tuesday Morning Prayer | Lauds youtube.com/watch?v=Yhx56dGq… - Divine Office 10.27.26 | Tuesday Evening Prayer | Vespers youtube.com/watch?v=HJDWhPjy… ORDINARY ROMAN CALENDAR (O.R.C) Click here to read text from the daily readings from the O.R.C 👇 en.peripsum.org/AM/gospel/20… - How Does God's Kingdom Grow? – Tuesday, October 27, 2026 youtube.com/watch?v=twiV4xQj… Saint John Chrysostom (c.345-407) priest at Antioch then Bishop of Constantinople, Doctor of the Church Homilies on the Acts of the apostles, no. 20 To be leaven in the dough Is there anything more ridiculous than a christian who couldn't care less about other people? Don't use your poverty as an excuse. The widow who put two small coins in the Temple coffer (Mk 12,42) would rise up against you; Peter, too, who said to the lame man: “Gold or silver have I none” (Acts 3,6) and Paul, who was so poor he often went hungry. Neither protest your social condition, for the apostles were also humble men of low degree. Don't plead your ignorance for they were unlettered. Even if you were a slave or a fugitive you would always be able to do what lies in your power. Onesimus, whose praises Paul sang, was such a one (Phlm; Col 4,9). Would you claim weak health? Timothy had it too. Yes, whoever we are, anyone at all can be of service to his neighbor if he genuinely wants to do what he can. Do you notice how the trees in the forest are flourishing, handsome, rising upwards? Nevertheless, we prefer fruit trees in our gardens or olive trees covered with fruit. Handsome, sterile trees..., such are they who are only thinking of their own interests... If leaven doesn't cause the dough to rise then it isn't a proper raising agent. If perfume doesn't give off scent to those who are approaching, can we still call it a perfume? So don't say it's impossible to have a good influence on others because, if you are a real christian, it's impossible that nothing should happen, this is part of the very essence of being a christian... It would be as contradictory to say that a christian cannot be of any use to his neighbor as to deny the sun its ability to give light and heat. 1962 Missal Readings & Reflection Epistle to the Philippians 1,6-11. Brethren, be confident of this very thing: that he who hath begun a good work in you will perfect it unto the day of Christ Jesus. As it is meet for me to think this for you all, for that I have you in my heart; and that, in my bands and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my joy. For God is my witness how I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. And this I pray: That your charity may more and more abound in knowledge and in all understanding: That you may approve the better things: that you may be sincere and without offence unto the day of Christ: Filled with the fruit of justice, through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 22,15-21. The Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare Jesus in his speech. And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying: Master, we know that thou art a true speaker and teachest the way of God in truth. Neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard the person of men. Tell us therefore what dost thou think? Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? But Jesus knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites? Shew me the coin of the tribute. And they offered him a penny. And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and inscription is this? They say to him: Caesar's. Then he saith to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the things that are God's. Tertullian (c.155-220) theologian On the Resurrection of the flesh, 5-6 (©The Ante-Nicene Fathers) “Whose image is this? ” At the beginning of the world all things were made by the Word of God “and without him nothing came to be” (Jn 1:3). Now man, too, had his existence from the Word of God because of the principle that there should be nothing without that Word. “Let us make man,” God said before he created him, and added, “with our hand” to express his pre-eminence so that he might not be compared to the rest of creation. “And God,” says Scripture, “formed man” (Gn 2:7) (…) ”And God formed man from the clay of the earth.” He now became man who was hitherto clay (…) That poor, paltry material, clay, found its way into the hands of God, happy enough at being merely touched by them. But why this honor? Was it that, without any further labor, the clay had instantly assumed its form at the touch of God? The truth is, a great matter was in progress out of which the creature under consideration was being fashioned. It is honoured whenever it experiences the hands of God, when it is touched by them, and pulled, and drawn out, and moulded into shape. Imagine God wholly absorbed in it: in his hand, his eye, his labor, his purpose, his wisdom, his providence and, above all, in his love, which was dictating the lineaments of this creature. For whatever was the form and expression given to the clay, Christ was in God's thoughts as one day to become man, because the Word, too, was to be both clay and flesh even as the earth was then. This is the meaning of the Father's first words to his Son: “Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness” (Gn 1:26). God made man, the creature which he moulded and fashioned, in the image of God, in other words of Christ (…) Thus, that clay that was even then putting on the image of Christ who was to come in the flesh, was not only the work but the pledge and surety given by God. en.peripsum.org/TRA/gospel/2… - TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS OCT 27, 2026 youtube.com/watch?v=KGNucUIT… Feast / Saint of the Day - St. Frumentius, Apostle of Ethiopia (27 October): Butler's Lives of the Saints youtube.com/watch?v=JHLdEiSz…

The Fisherman Who Became Pope | PopeCast EP1 - REGINA Unscripted How did an ordinary fisherman become the first Pope? And why did Jesus choose a man who would deny Him three times to lead His Church? In this episode of **The PopeCast**, Katherine Bennett and Mark Lambert explore the extraordinary life of **St Peter**, the apostle entrusted by Jesus Christ with the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven. From his humble beginnings as a fisherman on the Sea of Galilee to his martyrdom in Rome, Peter's story is one of faith, failure, forgiveness and extraordinary responsibility. But was Peter really the first Pope? Did Jesus establish the papacy Himself, or was it something the early Christians developed centuries later? Drawing on Scripture, the Acts of the Apostles and the writings of the early Church Fathers, Katherine and Mark examine the biblical and historical foundations of the papacy, including Christ's commission to Peter, the meaning of papal infallibility and the origins of apostolic succession. Along the way, they explore Peter's remarkable encounters with Christ, his threefold denial, his restoration beside the Sea of Galilee, his leadership of the early Church and his eventual martyrdom under the Emperor Nero. *IN THIS EPISODE:* Who was Simon Peter before he met Jesus? Why did Jesus rename Simon as Peter, meaning 'rock'? Did Jesus Christ establish the papacy? Why did Peter deny Jesus three times? How did Christ forgive Peter and restore his mission? What does papal infallibility actually mean? How did Peter lead the Church after Pentecost? Why did St Paul publicly challenge Peter? What evidence connects St Peter to Rome? Was Peter really crucified upside down? How did Peter's authority pass to his successors? Peter's life reveals something fundamental about the Catholic Church: *its foundation rests not on the perfection of its leaders, but on the promises of Jesus Christ.* From a fishing boat in Galilee to the heart of the Roman Empire, discover the remarkable story of the man who became the first Pope. *ABOUT THE POPECAST* Join Katherine Bennett and Mark Lambert on an extraordinary journey through 2,000 years of Church history, exploring the lives of the popes from St Peter to Pope Leo XIV. Discover the personalities, controversies, triumphs and tragedies that shaped the papacy and the Catholic Church. youtube.com/watch?v=nbzj3N47…