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Saint of the Day
The feast the whole Church keeps today, the saints you can visit at their tomb, and what they are patrons of.
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The readings at Mass · 18 September 2025
Thursday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
- ReadingA reading from the First Letter to Timothy 4:12-16
- GospelFrom the Gospel according to Luke 7:36-50
From Vatican News — Word of the Day, following the General Roman Calendar, with a commentary from the Popes. Where a feast is kept on another day in your country, your parish’s readings may differ.
Ordinary Time · Green
Thursday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
Patron saints of the day
- Saint Joseph of Cupertino — patron of exams, pilots and air travellers
The General Roman Calendar; tombs and patronages verified against Catholic sources. Local calendars may keep other saints today.
From the Fathers
The Fathers speak
A precious deposit
… that well-grounded system which tends to man’s salvation, namely, our faith; which, having been received from the Church, we do preserve, and which always, by the Spirit of God, renewing its youth, as if it were some precious deposit in an excellent vessel, causes the vessel itself containing it to renew its youth also.