Where can I find the Latin Mass readings for today?

Here: this page gives the Epistle and the Gospel of today's Mass from the Roman Missal of 1962, in Latin and in English, and changes every day with the calendar.

Why is this not the Gospel read at my parish?

Because the 1962 Missal and the reformed lectionary of 1969 do not read the same passages. The first follows a one-year cycle, the second a three-year one. This page serves the 1962 Missal.

What is the difference between the Epistle and the Gospel?

The Epistle is the first reading, most often from the letters of the Apostles; the Gospel is the second, from the four evangelists. In the traditional rite the Mass has only these two.

Can one read the day's Gospel at home?

Yes, and it is an old practice. Reading it the evening before, or the same morning, prepares a man to hear it at Mass; nothing more than attention is required.

Why is the Latin first?

Because it is the language in which it is proclaimed at the altar. The English runs beside it line by line, and the filter at the top of the page shows either one alone.

Roman Missal of 1962

October 30, 2026

Today's Latin Mass readings

Dominica XXII Post Pentecosten

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This page gives the Epistle and the Gospel of today's Mass, whole, from the Roman Missal of 1962 — the Latin and the English side by side. They change every day with the calendar.

Why these two readings, and what the rest of today's Mass holds: the propers of the Tridentine Mass, explained piece by piece.

These are the readings of the Roman Missal of 1962. The reformed lectionary of 1969 reads different passages on most days.

Epistle

Léctio Epístolæ beáti Pauli Apóstoli ad Philippénses

Lesson from the letter of St. Paul the Apostle to the Philippians

Phil 1:6-11

Fratres: Confídimus in Dómino Jesu, quia, qui cœpit in vobis opus bonum, perfíciet usque in diem Christi Jesu. Sicut est mihi justum hoc sentíre pro ómnibus vobis: eo quod hábeam vos in corde, et in vínculis meis, et in defensióne, et confirmatióne Evangélii, sócios gáudii mei omnes vos esse. Testis enim mihi est Deus, quómodo cúpiam omnes vos in viscéribus Jesu Christi. Et hoc oro, ut cáritas vestra magis ac magis abúndet in sciéntia et in omni sensu: ut probétis potióra, ut sitis sincéri et sine offénsa in diem Christi, repléti fructu justítiæ per Jesum Christum, in glóriam et laudem Dei.

Brethren: We are confident in the Lord Jesus that He Who has begun a good work in you will bring it to perfection until the day of Christ Jesus. And I have the right to feel so about you all, because I have you in my heart, all of you, alike in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel, as sharers in my joy. For God is my witness how I long for you all in the heart of Christ Jesus. And this I pray, that your charity may more and more abound in knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve the better things, that you may be upright and without offense unto the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of justice, through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Gospel

Sequéntia ☩ sancti Evangélii secúndum Matthǽum

Continuation ☩ of the Holy Gospel according to Matthew

Matt 22:15-21

In illo témpore: Abeúntes pharisǽi consílium iniérunt, ut cáperent Jesum in sermóne. Et mittunt ei discípulos suos cum Herodiánis, dicéntes: Magíster, scimus, quia verax es et viam Dei in veritáte doces, et non est tibi cura de áliquo: non enim réspicis persónam hóminum: dic ergo nobis, quid tibi vidétur, licet censum dare Cǽsari, an non? Cógnita autem Jesus nequítia eórum, ait: Quid me tentátis, hypócritæ? Osténdite mihi numísma census. At illi obtulérunt ei denárium. Et ait illis Jesus: Cujus est imágo hæc et superscríptio? Dicunt ei: Cǽsaris. Tunc ait illis: Réddite ergo, quæ sunt Cǽsaris, Cǽsari; et, quæ sunt Dei, Deo.

At that time, the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might trap Jesus in His talk. And they sent to Him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that You are truthful, and that You teach the way of God in truth, and that You care naught for any man; for You do not regard the person of men. Tell us, therefore, what do You think: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? But Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said, Why do you test Me, you hypocrites? Show Me the coin of the tribute. So they offered Him a denarius. Then Jesus said to them, Whose are this image and the inscription? They said to Him, Caesar’s. Then He said to them, Render, therefore, to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.

The Gospel of the Mass, in short

In the traditional Roman rite the Mass has two readings: the Epistle and the Gospel. They do not turn over three years as in the reformed lectionary of 1969, but over one — so the same Gospel returns on the same Sunday, year after year, and settles into memory.

The Gospel is sung or read by the priest facing north, after the Gradual. The faithful stand, and at the end each signs his forehead, his lips and his heart. It is the piece of the proper that stays with a man, and it is the one this page gives whole.

Besides the two readings, the day's proper holds the Introit, the Collect, the Gradual, the Offertory, the Secret, the Communion and the Postcommunion, and the unchanging ordinary carries the rest. That is what one takes to Mass, and it is in the application.

Common questions

Where can I find the Latin Mass readings for today?: Here: this page gives the Epistle and the Gospel of today's Mass from the Roman Missal of 1962, in Latin and in English, and changes every day with the calendar.
Why is this not the Gospel read at my parish?: Because the 1962 Missal and the reformed lectionary of 1969 do not read the same passages. The first follows a one-year cycle, the second a three-year one. This page serves the 1962 Missal.
What is the difference between the Epistle and the Gospel?: The Epistle is the first reading, most often from the letters of the Apostles; the Gospel is the second, from the four evangelists. In the traditional rite the Mass has only these two.
Can one read the day's Gospel at home?: Yes, and it is an old practice. Reading it the evening before, or the same morning, prepares a man to hear it at Mass; nothing more than attention is required.
Why is the Latin first?: Because it is the language in which it is proclaimed at the altar. The English runs beside it line by line, and the filter at the top of the page shows either one alone.