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Saturday, August 7, 2027

Saturday of the eighteenth week of Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Saturday of the eighteenth week of Ordinary Time

  • Ordinary Time
  • Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading
Deuteronomy 6:4-13
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 18:2-3a, 3bc-4, 47 and 51
Gospel
Matthew 17:14-20

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: Deuteronomy 6:4-13

Douay-Rheims: Deuteronomy 6:4-13

4Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. 5Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength. 6And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart: 7And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising. 8And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes. 9And thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy house. 10And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, for which he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall have given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build, 11Houses full of riches, which thou didst not set up, cisterns which thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards, which thou didst not plant, 12And thou shalt have eaten and be full: 13Take heed diligently lest thou forget the Lord, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and shalt serve him only, and thou shalt swear by his name.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 18:2-3a, 3bc-4, 47 and 51

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 17:2-4, 47, 51 (Psalm 18 at Mass)

2I will love thee, O Lord, my strength: 3The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector and the horn of my salvation, and my support. 4Praising I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my enemies.

47The Lord liveth, and blessed be my God, and let the God of my salvation be exalted:

51Giving great deliverance to his king, and shewing mercy to David his anointed: and to his seed for ever.

Gospel: Matthew 17:14-20

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 17:14-19

14And when he was come to the multitude, there came to him a man falling down on his knees before him, saying: Lord, have pity on my son, for he is a lunatic, and suffereth much: for he falleth often into the fire, and often into the water. 15And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. 16Then Jesus answered and said: O unbelieving and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me. 17And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went out of him, and the child was cured from that hour. 18Then came the disciples to Jesus secretly, and said: Why could not we cast him out? 19Jesus said to them: Because of your unbelief. For, amen I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you.

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.

August 2027

August 2027
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1, Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green2, Monday of the eighteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green3, Tuesday of the eighteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green4, Saint John Mary Vianney, Priest, liturgical color white5, Thursday of the eighteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green6, The Transfiguration of the Lord, liturgical color white7, Saturday of the eighteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green, this page
8, Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green9, Monday of the nineteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green10, Saint Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr, liturgical color red11, Saint Clare, Virgin, liturgical color white12, Thursday of the nineteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green13, Friday of the nineteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green14, Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe, Priest and Martyr, liturgical color red
15, The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, liturgical color white, Solemnity16, Monday of the twentieth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green17, Tuesday of the twentieth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green18, Wednesday of the twentieth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green19, Thursday of the twentieth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green20, Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white21, Saint Pius X, Pope, liturgical color white
22, Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green23, Monday of the twenty-first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green24, Saint Bartholomew, Apostle, liturgical color red25, Wednesday of the twenty-first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green26, Thursday of the twenty-first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green27, Saint Monica, liturgical color white28, Saint Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white
29, Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green30, Monday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green31, Tuesday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green

Key

  • Green
  • White
  • Red
  • SolSolemnity

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

Saints of the day

  • Saint Sixtus II, Pope, and Companions, MartyrsOptional memorial.
  • Saint Cajetan, PriestOptional memorial. Died in 1547.

A word for the day

For man proposeth, but God disposeth.

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.