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Saturday, July 3, 2027

Saint Thomas, Apostle

The liturgical day

Saint Thomas, Apostle

Feast
Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Red

The Mass readings

First reading: Ephesians 2:19-22
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 117:1bc, 2
Gospel: John 20:24-29

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: Ephesians 2:19-22

Douay-Rheims: Ephesians 2:19-22

¹⁹Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners; but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and the domestics of God, ²⁰Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone: ²¹In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord. ²²In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 117:1bc, 2

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 116:1-2 (Psalm 117 at Mass)

¹O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. ²For his mercy is confirmed upon us: and the truth of the Lord remaineth for ever.

Gospel: John 20:24-29

Douay-Rheims: John 20:24-29

²⁴Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who is called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. ²⁵The other disciples therefore said to him: We have seen the Lord. But he said to them: Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe. ²⁶And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Jesus cometh, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said: Peace be to you. ²⁷Then he saith to Thomas: Put in thy finger hither, and see my hands; and bring hither thy hand, and put it into my side; and be not faithless, but believing. ²⁸Thomas answered, and said to him: My Lord, and my God. ²⁹Jesus saith to him: Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and have believed.

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.

July 2027

July 2027
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
				1, Thursday of the thirteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	2, Friday of the thirteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	3, Saint Thomas, Apostle, liturgical color red, this page
4, Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	5, Monday of the fourteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	6, Tuesday of the fourteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	7, Wednesday of the fourteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	8, Thursday of the fourteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	9, Friday of the fourteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	10, Saturday of the fourteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
11, Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	12, Monday of the fifteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	13, Tuesday of the fifteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	14, Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin, liturgical color white	15, Saint Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white	16, Friday of the fifteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	17, Saturday of the fifteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
18, Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	19, Monday of the sixteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	20, Tuesday of the sixteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	21, Wednesday of the sixteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	22, Saint Mary Magdalene, liturgical color white	23, Friday of the sixteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	24, Saturday of the sixteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
25, Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	26, Saints Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, liturgical color white	27, Tuesday of the seventeenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	28, Wednesday of the seventeenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	29, Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus, liturgical color white	30, Friday of the seventeenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	31, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Priest, liturgical color white

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Saint of the day

Saint Thomas, ApostleFeast.

A word for the day

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

Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, chapter 2. Translated by William Benham. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

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