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Saturday, July 17, 2027

Saturday of the fifteenth week of Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Saturday of the fifteenth week of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: Exodus 12:37-42
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 136:1 and 23-24, 10-12, 13-15
Gospel: Matthew 12:14-21

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: Exodus 12:37-42

Douay-Rheims: Exodus 12:37-42

³⁷And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to Socoth, being about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children. ³⁸And a mixed multitude without number went up also with them, sheep and herds and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many. ³⁹And they baked the meal, which a little before they had brought out of Egypt, in dough: and they made earth cakes unleavened: for it could not be leavened, the Egyptians pressing them to depart, and not suffering them to make any stay: neither did they think of preparing any meat. ⁴⁰And the abode of the children of Israel that they made in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. ⁴¹Which being expired, the same day all the army of the Lord went forth out of the land of Egypt. ⁴²This is the observable night of the Lord, when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: this night all the children of Israel must observe in their generations.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 136:1 and 23-24, 10-12, 13-15

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 135:1, 23-24, 10-15 (Psalm 136 at Mass)

¹Praise the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

²³For he was mindful of us in our affliction: for his mercy endureth for ever. ²⁴And he redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever.

¹⁰Who smote Egypt with their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever. ¹¹Who brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever. ¹²With a mighty hand and a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever. ¹³Who divided the Red Sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever. ¹⁴And brought out Israel through the midst thereof: for his mercy endureth for ever. ¹⁵And overthrew Pharao and his host in the Red Sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Gospel: Matthew 12:14-21

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 12:14-21

¹⁴And the Pharisees going out made a consultation against him, how they might destroy him. ¹⁵But Jesus knowing it, retired from thence: and many followed him, and he healed them all. ¹⁶And he charged them that they should not make him known. ¹⁷That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaias the prophet, saying: ¹⁸Behold my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul hath been well pleased. I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles. ¹⁹He shall not contend, nor cry out, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. ²⁰The bruised reed he shall not break: and smoking flax he shall not extinguish: till he send forth judgment unto victory. ²¹And in his name the Gentiles shall hope.

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
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, this page
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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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.

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