October 2025 Feast Days and Sunday Gospel Preview

October, the tenth month of the year, is the month dedicated to the Holy Rosary. Catholics are encouraged to pray it. Additionally, Pope Leo XIV requests that Catholics pray for his intention for world peace.

October is filled with feast days of saints worthy of celebrating.

Here is the breakdown of the different feats of the church.

The commemorations of St. Faustina and Bl. Francis Xavier Seelos (USA) (October 5), St. Carlo Acutis (October 12), and Sts. John de Brébeuf, Isaac Jogues, and Companions (October 19), fall on a Sunday so they are superseded by the Sunday Liturgy.

Feasts for October 2025

1. St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Memorial First Wednesday dedicated to the Chaste Heart of Joseph

2. Holy Guardian Angels, Memorial

3. First Friday dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

4. St. Francis of Assisi, Memorial First Saturday of the month dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

5. TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, Sunday

6. St. Bruno; Bl. Marie Rose Durocher (USA and CAN), Opt. Mem.

7. Our Lady of the Rosary, Memorial

9. Our Lady of Champion

11. St. John XXIII, Opt. Mem.

12. TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, Sunday

14. St. Callistus I, Opt. Mem.

15. St. Teresa of Avila, Memorial

16. Sts. Hedwig and Margaret Mary Alacoque, Opt. Mem.

17. St. Ignatius of Antioch, Memorial

18. St. Luke, Evangelist, Feast

19. TWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, Sunday

20. St. Paul of the Cross, Opt. Mem.

22. St. John Paul II, Opt. Mem.

23.St. John of Capistrano, Opt. Mem.

24. St. Anthony Mary Claret, Opt. Mem.

26. THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, Sunday

28. St. Simon & Jude, Apostles, Feast

Focus of the Liturgy

The Gospels for the Sundays in October 2025 are taken from St. Luke for Cycle C; Weekdays follow Year I.

October 5th
Twenty-Seventh Sunday
in Ordinary Time
Luke 17:5-10: If you have faith!

October 12th
Twenty-Eighth Sunday
in Ordinary Time
Luke 17:11-19: None but this foreigner has returned to give thanks to God.

October 19th
Twenty-Ninth Sunday
in Ordinary Time
Luke 18:1-8: God will secure the rights of his chosen ones who call out to him.

October 26th
Thirtieth Sunday
in Ordinary Time
Luke 18:9-14: The tax collector, not the Pharisee, went home justified.
 

Get to Mass on Sunday, pray the rosary, and most importantly, stay close to Christ in the sacraments.