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Sunday, January 31, 2027

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Day 21 of the ninety

The liturgical day

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: Deuteronomy 18:15-20
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 7-9
Second reading: 1 Corinthians 7:32-35
Gospel: Mark 1:21-28

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: Deuteronomy 18:15-20

Douay-Rheims: Deuteronomy 18:15-20

¹⁵The Lord thy God will raise up to thee a PROPHET of thy nation and of thy brethren like unto me: him thou shalt hear: ¹⁶As thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the assembly was gathered together, and saidst: Let me not hear any more the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see any more this exceeding great fire, lest I die. ¹⁷And the Lord said to me: They have spoken all things well. ¹⁸I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their brethren like to thee: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. ¹⁹And he that will not hear his words, which he shall speak in my name, I will be the revenger. ²⁰But the prophet, who being corrupted with pride, shall speak in my name things that I did not command him to say, or in the name of strange gods, shall be slain.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 7-9

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 94:1-2, 6-9 (Psalm 95 at Mass)

¹Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour. ²Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

⁶Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us. ⁷For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. ⁸Today if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts: ⁹As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works.

Second reading: 1 Corinthians 7:32-35

Douay-Rheims: 1 Corinthians 7:32-35

³²But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife, is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please God. ³³But he that is with a wife, is solicitous for the things of the world, how he may please his wife: and he is divided. ³⁴And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of the world, how she may please her husband. ³⁵And this I speak for your profit: not to cast a snare upon you; but for that which is decent, and which may give you power to attend upon the Lord, without impediment.

Gospel: Mark 1:21-28

Douay-Rheims: Mark 1:21-28

²¹And they entered into Capharnaum, and forthwith upon the sabbath days going into the synagogue, he taught them. ²²And they were astonished at his doctrine. For he was teaching them as one having power, and not as the scribes. ²³And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, ²⁴Saying: What have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know who thou art, the Holy One of God. ²⁵And Jesus threatened him, saying: Speak no more, and go out of the man. ²⁶And the unclean spirit tearing him, and crying out with a loud voice, went out of him. ²⁷And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying: What thing is this? what is this new doctrine? for with power he commandeth even the unclean spirits, and they obey him. ²⁸And the fame of him was spread forthwith into all the country of Galilee.

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	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, this page

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ObligHoly day of obligation (also a solemnity)
SolSolemnity

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A word for the day

Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.

Saint Augustine, Confessions, Book I, 1. Translated by E. B. Pusey. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

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