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Sunday, August 8, 2027

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: 1 Kings 19:4-8
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9
Second reading: Ephesians 4:30–5:2
Gospel: John 6:41-51

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: 1 Kings 19:4-8

Douay-Rheims: 3 Kings 19:4-8

⁴And he went forward, one day’s journey into the desert. And when he was there, and sat under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul that he might die, and said: It is enough for me, Lord, take away my soul: for I am no better than my fathers. ⁵And he cast himself down, and slept in the shadow of the juniper tree: and behold an angel of the Lord touched him, and said to him: Arise and eat. ⁶He looked, and behold there was at his head a hearth cake, and a vessel of water: and he ate and drank, and he fell asleep again. ⁷And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said to him: Arise, eat: for thou hast yet a great way to go. ⁸And he arose, and ate, and drank, and walked in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 33:2-9 (Psalm 34 at Mass)

²I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall be always in my mouth. ³In the Lord shall my soul be praised: let the meek hear and rejoice. ⁴O magnify the Lord with me; and let us extol his name together. ⁵I sought the Lord, and he heard me; and he delivered me from all my troubles. ⁶Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be confounded. ⁷This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him: and saved him out of all his troubles. ⁸The angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear him: and shall deliver them. ⁹O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that hopeth in him.

Second reading: Ephesians 4:30–5:2

Douay-Rheims: Ephesians 4:30-32; 5:1-2

^4:30And grieve not the holy Spirit of God: whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption. ³¹Let all bitterness, and anger, and indignation, and clamour, and blasphemy, be put away from you, with all malice. ³²And be ye kind one to another; merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ.

^5:1Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children; ²And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.

Gospel: John 6:41-51

Douay-Rheims: John 6:41-52

⁴¹The Jews therefore murmured at him, because he had said: I am the living bread which came down from heaven. ⁴²And they said: Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then saith he, I came down from heaven? ⁴³Jesus therefore answered, and said to them: Murmur not among yourselves. ⁴⁴No man can come to me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw him; and I will raise him up in the last day. ⁴⁵It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that hath heard of the Father, and hath learned, cometh to me. ⁴⁶Not that any man hath seen the Father; but he who is of God, he hath seen the Father. ⁴⁷Amen, amen I say unto you: He that believeth in me, hath everlasting life. ⁴⁸I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead. ⁵⁰This is the bread which cometh down from heaven; that if any man eat of it, he may not die. ⁵¹I am the living bread which came down from heaven. ⁵²If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world.

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
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1, Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	2, Monday of the eighteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	3, Tuesday of the eighteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	4, Saint John Mary Vianney, Priest, liturgical color white	5, Thursday of the eighteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	6, The Transfiguration of the Lord, liturgical color white	7, Saturday of the eighteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
8, Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green, this page	9, Monday of the nineteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	10, Saint Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr, liturgical color red	11, Saint Clare, Virgin, liturgical color white	12, Thursday of the nineteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	13, Friday of the nineteenth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	14, Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe, Priest and Martyr, liturgical color red
15, The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, liturgical color white, Solemnity	16, Monday of the twentieth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	17, Tuesday of the twentieth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	18, Wednesday of the twentieth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	19, Thursday of the twentieth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	20, Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white	21, Saint Pius X, Pope, liturgical color white
22, Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	23, Monday of the twenty-first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	24, Saint Bartholomew, Apostle, liturgical color red	25, Wednesday of the twenty-first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	26, Thursday of the twenty-first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	27, Saint Monica, liturgical color white	28, Saint Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white
29, Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	30, Monday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	31, Tuesday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green

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A word for the day

If thou wouldst profit by thy reading, read humbly, simply, honestly, and not desiring to win a character for learning.

Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, chapter 5. Translated by William Benham. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

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