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Thursday, August 12, 2027

Thursday of the nineteenth week of Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Thursday of the nineteenth week of Ordinary Time

  • Ordinary Time
  • Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading
Joshua 3:7-10a, 11, 13-17
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 114:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Gospel
Matthew 18:21–19:1

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: Joshua 3:7-10a, 11, 13-17

Douay-Rheims: Josue 3:7-11, 13-17

7And the Lord said to Josue: This day will I begin to exalt thee before Israel: that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I am with thee also. 8And do thou command the priests that carry the ark of the covenant, and say to them: When you shall have entered into part of the water of the Jordan, stand in it. 9And Josue said to the children of Israel: Come hither and hear the word of the Lord your God. 10And again he said: By this you shall know that the Lord the living God is in the midst of you, and that he shall destroy before your sight the Chanaanite and the Hethite, the Hevite and the Pherezite, the Gergesite also and the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite. 11Behold the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth shall go before you into the Jordan.

13And when the priests, that carry the ark of the Lord the God of the whole earth, shall set the soles of their feet in the waters of the Jordan, the waters that are beneath shall run down and go off: and those that come from above, shall stand together upon a heap. 14So the people went out of their tents, to pass over the Jordan: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant. went on before them. 15And as soon as they came into the Jordan, and their feet were dipped in part of the water, (now the Jordan, it being harvest time, had filled the banks of its channel,) 16The waters that came down from above stood in one place, and swelling up like a mountain, were seen afar off from the city that is called Adom, to the place of Sarthan: but those that were beneath, ran down into the sea of the wilderness (which now is called the Dead Sea) until they wholly failed. 17And the people marched over against Jericho: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, stood girded upon the dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the people passed over through the channel that was dried up.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 114:1-2, 3-4, 5-6

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 113:1-6 (Psalm 114 at Mass)

1When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbarous people: 2Judea was made his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. 3The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back. 4The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of the flock. 5What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee: and thou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned back? 6Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs of the flock?

Gospel: Matthew 18:21–19:1

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 18:21-35; 19:1

18:21Then came Peter unto him and said: Lord, how often shall my brother offend against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? 22Jesus saith to him: I say not to thee, till seven times; but till seventy times seven times. 23Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened to a king, who would take an account of his servants. 24And when he had begun to take the account, one was brought to him, that owed him ten thousand talents. 25And as he had not wherewith to pay it, his lord commanded that he should be sold, and his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. 26But that servant falling down, besought him, saying: Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. 27And the lord of that servant being moved with pity, let him go and forgave him the debt. 28But when that servant was gone out, he found one of his fellow servants that owed him an hundred pence: and laying hold of him, throttled him, saying: Pay what thou owest. 29And his fellow servant falling down, besought him, saying: Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. 30And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he paid the debt. 31Now his fellow servants seeing what was done, were very much grieved, and they came and told their lord all that was done. 32Then his lord called him; and said to him: Thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all the debt, because thou besoughtest me: 33Shouldst not thou then have had compassion also on thy fellow servant, even as I had compassion on thee? 34And his lord being angry, delivered him to the torturers until he paid all the debt. 35So also shall my heavenly Father do to you, if you forgive not every one his brother from your hearts.

19:1And it came to pass when Jesus had ended these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea, beyond Jordan.

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
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 green, this page13, 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.

Saint of the day

  • Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, ReligiousOptional memorial. Died in 1641.

A word for the day

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

The Rosary today

The Luminous Mysteries, prayed on Thursday.

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