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Thursday, January 28, 2027

Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church

Day 18 of the ninety

The liturgical day

Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church

  • Memorial
  • Ordinary Time
  • Liturgical color: White

The Mass readings

First reading
Hebrews 10:19-25
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 24:1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6
Gospel
Mark 4:21-25

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 10:19-25

Douay-Rheims: Hebrews 10:19-25

19Having therefore, brethren, a confidence in the entering into the holies by the blood of Christ; 20A new and living way which he hath dedicated for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh, 21And a high priest over the house of God: 22Let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with clean water. 23Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering (for he is faithful that hath promised), 24And let us consider one another, to provoke unto charity and to good works: 25Not forsaking our assembly, as some are accustomed; but comforting one another, and so much the more as you see the day approaching.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 24:1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 23:1-6 (Psalm 24 at Mass)

1The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell therein. 2For he hath founded it upon the seas; and hath prepared it upon the rivers. 3Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord: or who shall stand in his holy place? 4The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour. 5He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour. 6This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob.

Gospel: Mark 4:21-25

Douay-Rheims: Mark 4:21-25

21And he said to them: Doth a candle come in to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? 22For there is nothing hid, which shall not be made manifest: neither was it made secret, but that it may come abroad. 23If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. 24And he said to them: Take heed what you hear. In what measure you shall mete, it shall be measured to you again, and more shall be given to you. 25For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, that also which he hath shall be taken away from 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
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
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, Solemnity4, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Religious, liturgical color white5, Saint John Neumann, Bishop, liturgical color white6, Wednesday after the Epiphany of the Lord, liturgical color white7, Thursday after the Epiphany of the Lord, liturgical color white8, Friday after the Epiphany of the Lord, liturgical color white9, Saturday after the Epiphany of the Lord, liturgical color white
10, The Baptism of the Lord, liturgical color white11, Monday of the first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green12, Tuesday of the first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green13, Wednesday of the first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green14, Thursday of the first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green15, Friday of the first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green16, Saturday of the first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
17, Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green18, Monday of the second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green19, Tuesday of the second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green20, Wednesday of the second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green21, Saint Agnes, Virgin and Martyr, liturgical color red22, Friday of the second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green23, 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 green25, The Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle, liturgical color white26, Saints Timothy and Titus, Bishops, liturgical color white27, Wednesday of the third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green28, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white, this page29, Friday of the third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green30, Saturday of the third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
31, Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green

Key

  • 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.

Saint of the day

  • Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the ChurchMemorial. Died in 1274.

A word for the day

To love is to wish good to someone.

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I-II, q. 26, a. 4. Translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province. Aquinas is quoting Aristotle (Rhetoric II, 4). Read it on Project Gutenberg.

The Rosary today

The Luminous Mysteries, prayed on Thursday.

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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.