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Friday, January 22, 2027

Friday of the second week of Ordinary Time

Day 12 of the ninety

The liturgical day

Friday of the second week of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: Hebrews 8:6-13
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 85:8 and 10, 11-12, 13-14
Gospel: Mark 3:13-19

Read today's Mass readings on the USCCB site

The readings open on the USCCB website. They follow the Lectionary for Mass approved for the United States, a different translation from the Douay-Rheims we use on this site. Desert Road Catholic is not affiliated with the USCCB.

First reading: Hebrews 8:6-13

Douay-Rheims: Hebrews 8:6-13

⁶But now he hath obtained a better ministry, by how much also he is a mediator of a better testament, which is established on better promises. ⁷For if that former had been faultless, there should not indeed a place have been sought for a second. ⁸For finding fault with them, he saith: Behold, the days shall come, saith the Lord: and I will perfect unto the house of Israel, and unto the house of Juda, a new testament: ⁹Not according to the testament which I made to their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt: because they continued not in my testament: and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. ¹⁰For this is the testament which I will make to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my laws into their mind, and in their heart will I write them: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: ¹¹And they shall not teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the least to the greatest of them: ¹²Because I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more. ¹³Now in saying a new, he hath made the former old. And that which decayeth and groweth old, is near its end.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 85:8 and 10, 11-12, 13-14

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 84:8, 10-14 (Psalm 85 at Mass)

⁸Shew us, O Lord, thy mercy; and grant us thy salvation.

¹⁰Surely his salvation is near to them that fear him: that glory may dwell in our land. ¹¹Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed. ¹²Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down from heaven. ¹³For the Lord will give goodness: and our earth shall yield her fruit. ¹⁴Justice shall walk before him: and shall set his steps in the way.

Gospel: Mark 3:13-19

Douay-Rheims: Mark 3:13-19

¹³And going up into a mountain, he called unto him whom he would himself: and they came to him. ¹⁴And he made that twelve should be with him, and that he might send them to preach. ¹⁵And he gave them power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils. ¹⁶And to Simon he gave the name Peter: ¹⁷And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he named them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder: ¹⁸And Andrew and Philip, and Bartholomew and Matthew, and Thomas and James of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Cananean: ¹⁹And Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

The same passages in the Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), the translation we use on this site. The words read at Mass come from the Lectionary for Mass and differ. Where a reading begins or ends partway through a verse, the whole verse is shown. For the official text, open the readings on the USCCB site.

January 2027

January 2027
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
					1, The Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord: Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God, liturgical color white, Holy day of obligation (also a solemnity)	2, Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors of the Church, liturgical color white
3, The Epiphany of the Lord, liturgical color white, Solemnity	4, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Religious, liturgical color white	5, Saint John Neumann, Bishop, liturgical color white	6, Wednesday after the Epiphany of the Lord, liturgical color white	7, Thursday after the Epiphany of the Lord, liturgical color white	8, Friday after the Epiphany of the Lord, liturgical color white	9, Saturday after the Epiphany of the Lord, liturgical color white
10, The Baptism of the Lord, liturgical color white	11, Monday of the first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	12, Tuesday of the first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	13, Wednesday of the first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	14, Thursday of the first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	15, Friday of the first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	16, Saturday of the first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
17, Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	18, Monday of the second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	19, Tuesday of the second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	20, Wednesday of the second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	21, Saint Agnes, Virgin and Martyr, liturgical color red	22, Friday of the second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green, this page	23, Saturday of the second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
24, Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, or Sunday of the Word of God, liturgical color green	25, The Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle, liturgical color white	26, Saints Timothy and Titus, Bishops, liturgical color white	27, Wednesday of the third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	28, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white	29, Friday of the third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	30, Saturday of the third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
31, Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green

White
Green
Red
ObligHoly day of obligation (also a solemnity)
SolSolemnity

The dot shows the liturgical color of the day. Fridays outside Lent carry no marker.

A word for the day

For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright; it is a good life which maketh a man dear to God.

Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, chapter 1. Translated by William Benham. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

The Rosary today

The Sorrowful Mysteries, prayed on Tuesday and Friday.

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Calendar computed with romcal (MIT License). Reading citations from the Catholic Readings API (MIT License), with gaps checked against the USCCB pages. Douay-Rheims text courtesy of eBible.org.