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Friday, March 12, 2027

Friday of the fourth week of Lent

Day 61 of the ninety

The liturgical day

Friday of the fourth week of Lent

Lent
Liturgical color: Violet

A Friday of Lent: abstinence from meat (age 14 and up).

The Mass readings

First reading: Wisdom 2:1a, 12-22
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 34:17-18, 19-20, 21 and 23
Gospel: John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30

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.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 34:17-18, 19-20, 21 and 23

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 33:17-21, 23 (Psalm 34 at Mass)

¹⁷But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil things: to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. ¹⁸The just cried, and the Lord heard them: and delivered them out of all their troubles. ¹⁹The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart: and he will save the humble of spirit. ²⁰Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will the Lord deliver them. ²¹The Lord keepeth all their bones, not one of them shall be broken.

²³The Lord will redeem the souls of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall offend.

Gospel: John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30

Douay-Rheims: John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30

¹After these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. ²Now the Jews’ feast of tabernacles was at hand.

¹⁰But after his brethren were gone up, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but, as it were, in secret.

²⁵Some therefore of Jerusalem said: Is not this he whom they seek to kill? ²⁶And behold, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers known for a truth, that this is the Christ? ²⁷But we know this man, whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is. ²⁸Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching, and saying: You both know me, and you know whence I am: and I am not come of myself; but he that sent me, is true, whom you know not. ²⁹I know him, because I am from him, and he hath sent me. ³⁰They sought therefore to apprehend him: and no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

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.

March 2027

March 2027
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
	1, Monday of the third week of Lent, liturgical color violet	2, Tuesday of the third week of Lent, liturgical color violet	3, Wednesday of the third week of Lent, liturgical color violet	4, Thursday of the third week of Lent, liturgical color violet	5, Friday of the third week of Lent, liturgical color violet, Abstinence from meat	6, Saturday of the third week of Lent, liturgical color violet
7, Fourth Sunday of Lent, liturgical color rose or violet	8, Monday of the fourth week of Lent, liturgical color violet	9, Tuesday of the fourth week of Lent, liturgical color violet	10, Wednesday of the fourth week of Lent, liturgical color violet	11, Thursday of the fourth week of Lent, liturgical color violet	12, Friday of the fourth week of Lent, liturgical color violet, this page, Abstinence from meat	13, Saturday of the fourth week of Lent, liturgical color violet
14, Fifth Sunday of Lent, liturgical color violet	15, Monday of the fifth week of Lent, liturgical color violet	16, Tuesday of the fifth week of Lent, liturgical color violet	17, Wednesday of the fifth week of Lent, liturgical color violet	18, Thursday of the fifth week of Lent, liturgical color violet	19, Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, liturgical color white, Solemnity	20, Saturday of the fifth week of Lent, liturgical color violet
21, Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord, liturgical color red	22, Monday of Holy Week, liturgical color violet	23, Tuesday of Holy Week, liturgical color violet	24, Wednesday of Holy Week, liturgical color violet	25, Thursday of Holy Week, liturgical color violet	26, Friday of the Passion of the Lord, liturgical color red, Fast and abstinence	27, Holy Saturday/Easter Vigil, liturgical color white
28, Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord, liturgical color white, Solemnity	29, Monday within the Octave of Easter, liturgical color white, Solemnity	30, Tuesday within the Octave of Easter, liturgical color white, Solemnity	31, Wednesday within the Octave of Easter, liturgical color white, Solemnity

Violet
Rose
White
Red
FastFast and abstinence
AbstAbstinence from meat
SolSolemnity

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

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.

The Rosary today

The Sorrowful Mysteries, prayed on Tuesday and Friday.

Pray the Sorrowful Mysteries About the Sorrowful Mysteries

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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.