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Saturday, May 22, 2027

Saturday of the seventh week of Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Saturday of the seventh week of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: Sirach 17:1-15
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 103:13-14, 15-16, 17-18
Gospel: Mark 10:13-16

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 103:13-14, 15-16, 17-18

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 102:13-18 (Psalm 103 at Mass)

¹³As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that fear him: ¹⁴For he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust: ¹⁵Man’s days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish. ¹⁶For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he shall know his place no more. ¹⁷But the mercy of the Lord is from eternity and unto eternity upon them that fear him: And his justice unto children’s children, ¹⁸To such as keep his covenant, And are mindful of his commandments to do them.

Gospel: Mark 10:13-16

Douay-Rheims: Mark 10:13-16

¹³And they brought to him young children, that he might touch them. And the disciples rebuked them that brought them. ¹⁴Whom when Jesus saw, he was much displeased, and saith to them: Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God. ¹⁵Amen I say to you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall not enter into it. ¹⁶And embracing them, and laying his hands upon them, he blessed them.

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.

May 2027

May 2027
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
						1, Saturday of the fifth week of Easter, liturgical color white
2, Sixth Sunday of Easter, liturgical color white	3, Saints Philip and James, Apostles, liturgical color red	4, Tuesday of the sixth week of Easter, liturgical color white	5, Wednesday of the sixth week of Easter, liturgical color white	6, Thursday of the sixth week of Easter, liturgical color white	7, Friday of the sixth week of Easter, liturgical color white	8, Saturday of the sixth week of Easter, liturgical color white
9, The Ascension of the Lord, liturgical color white, Solemnity	10, Monday of the seventh week of Easter, liturgical color white	11, Tuesday of the seventh week of Easter, liturgical color white	12, Wednesday of the seventh week of Easter, liturgical color white	13, Thursday of the seventh week of Easter, liturgical color white	14, Saint Matthias, Apostle, liturgical color red	15, Saturday of the seventh week of Easter, liturgical color white
16, Pentecost Sunday, liturgical color red, Solemnity	17, Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, liturgical color white	18, Tuesday of the seventh week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	19, Wednesday of the seventh week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	20, Thursday of the seventh week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	21, Friday of the seventh week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	22, Saturday of the seventh week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green, this page
23, The Most Holy Trinity, liturgical color white, Solemnity	24, Monday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	25, Tuesday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	26, Saint Philip Neri, Priest, liturgical color white	27, Thursday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	28, Friday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	29, Saturday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
30, The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, liturgical color white, Solemnity	31, The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, liturgical color white

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Saint of the day

Saint Rita of Cascia, ReligiousOptional memorial. Died in 1456.

A word for the day

For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright; it is a good life which maketh a man dear to God.

Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, chapter 1. Translated by William Benham. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

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.