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Saturday, February 13, 2027

Saturday after Ash Wednesday

Day 34 of the ninety

The liturgical day

Saturday after Ash Wednesday

  • Lent
  • Liturgical color: Violet

The Mass readings

First reading
Isaiah 58:9b-14
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Gospel
Luke 5:27-32

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: Isaiah 58:9b-14

Douay-Rheims: Isaias 58:9-14

9Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall hear: thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou wilt take away the chain out of the midst of thee, and cease to stretch out the finger, and to speak that which profiteth not. 10When thou shalt pour out thy soul to the hungry, and shalt satisfy the afflicted soul then shall thy light rise up in darkness, and thy darkness shall be as the noonday. 11And the Lord will give thee rest continually, and will fill thy soul with brightness, and deliver thy bones, and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a fountain of water whose waters shall not fail. 12And the places that have been desolate for ages shall be built in thee: thou shalt raise up the foundations of generation and generation: and thou shalt be called the repairer of the fences, turning the paths into rest. 13If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy own will in my holy day, and call the sabbath delightful, and the holy of the Lord glorious, and glorify him, while thou dost not thy own ways, and thy own will is not found: to speak a word: 14Then shalt thou be delighted in the Lord, and I will lift thee up above the high places of the earth, and will feed thee with the inheritance of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 85:1-6 (Psalm 86 at Mass)

1Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor. 2Preserve my soul, for I am holy: save thy servant, O my God, that trusteth in thee. 3Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day. 4Give joy to the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul. 5For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee. 6Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer: and attend to the voice of my petition.

Gospel: Luke 5:27-32

Douay-Rheims: Luke 5:27-32

27And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom, and he said to him: Follow me. 28And leaving all things, he rose up and followed him. 29And Levi made him a great feast in his own house; and there was a great company of publicans, and of others, that were at table with them. 30But the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying to his disciples: Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners? 31And Jesus answering, said to them: They that are whole, need not the physician: but they that are sick. 32I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance.

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.

February 2027

February 2027
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1, Monday of the fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green2, The Presentation of the Lord, liturgical color white3, Wednesday of the fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green4, Thursday of the fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green5, Saint Agatha, Virgin and Martyr, liturgical color red6, Saint Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs, liturgical color red
7, Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green8, Monday of the fifth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green9, Tuesday of the fifth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green10, Ash Wednesday, liturgical color violet, Fast and abstinence11, Thursday after Ash Wednesday, liturgical color violet12, Friday after Ash Wednesday, liturgical color violet, Abstinence from meat13, Saturday after Ash Wednesday, liturgical color violet, this page
14, First Sunday of Lent, liturgical color violet15, Monday of the first week of Lent, liturgical color violet16, Tuesday of the first week of Lent, liturgical color violet17, Wednesday of the first week of Lent, liturgical color violet18, Thursday of the first week of Lent, liturgical color violet19, Friday of the first week of Lent, liturgical color violet, Abstinence from meat20, Saturday of the first week of Lent, liturgical color violet
21, Second Sunday of Lent, liturgical color violet22, The Chair of Saint Peter the Apostle, liturgical color white23, Tuesday of the second week of Lent, liturgical color violet24, Wednesday of the second week of Lent, liturgical color violet25, Thursday of the second week of Lent, liturgical color violet26, Friday of the second week of Lent, liturgical color violet, Abstinence from meat27, Saturday of the second week of Lent, liturgical color violet
28, Third Sunday of Lent, liturgical color violet

Key

  • Green
  • White
  • Red
  • Violet
  • FastFast and abstinence
  • AbstAbstinence from meat

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

A word for the day

There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledge without the fear of God?

The Rosary today

The Joyful Mysteries, prayed on Monday and Saturday.

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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.