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Friday, March 19, 2027

Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Day 68 of the ninety

The liturgical day

Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Solemnity
Lent
Liturgical color: White

A solemnity on a Friday of Lent, so the Friday abstinence does not apply today (Code of Canon Law, canon 1251).

The Mass readings

First reading: 2 Samuel 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 89:2-3, 4-5, 27 and 29
Second reading: Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22
Gospel: Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24a

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: 2 Samuel 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16

Douay-Rheims: 2 Kings 7:4-5, 12-14, 16

⁴But it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying: ⁵Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord: Shalt thou build me a house to dwell in?

¹²And when thy days shall be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. ¹³He shall build a house to my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever. ¹⁴I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.

¹⁶And thy house shall be faithful, and thy kingdom for ever before thy face, and thy throne shall be firm for ever.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 89:2-3, 4-5, 27 and 29

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 88:2-5, 27, 29 (Psalm 89 at Mass)

²The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation. ³For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them. ⁴I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant: ⁵Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation.

²⁷He shall cry out to me: Thou art my father: my God, and the support of my salvation.

²⁹I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful to him.

Second reading: Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22

Douay-Rheims: Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22

¹³For not through the law was the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world; but through the justice of faith.

¹⁶Therefore is it of faith, that according to grace the promise might be firm to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, ¹⁷(As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations,) before God, whom he believed, who quickeneth the dead; and calleth those things that are not, as those that are. ¹⁸Who against hope believed in hope; that he might be made the father of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So shall thy seed be.

²²And therefore it was reputed to him unto justice.

Gospel: Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24a

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24

¹⁶And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

¹⁸Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost. ¹⁹Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing publicly to expose her, was minded to put her away privately. ²⁰But while he thought on these things, behold the angel of the Lord appeared to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost. ²¹And she shall bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name JESUS. For he shall save his people from their sins.

²⁴And Joseph rising up from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and took unto him his wife.

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, 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, this page, 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

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Saint of the day

Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin MarySolemnity.

A word for the day

Grace does not destroy nature but perfects it.

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I, q. 1, a. 8, reply to objection 2. Translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

The Rosary today

The Sorrowful Mysteries, prayed on Tuesday and Friday.

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