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Monday, August 16, 2027

Monday of the twentieth week of Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Monday of the twentieth week of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: Judges 2:11-19
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 106:34-35, 36-37, 39-40, 43ab and 44
Gospel: Matthew 19:16-22

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: Judges 2:11-19

Douay-Rheims: Judges 2:11-19

¹¹And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim. ¹²And they left the Lord the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt: and they followed strange gods, and the gods of the people that dwelt round about them, and they adored them: and they provoked the Lord to anger. ¹³Forsaking him, and serving Baal and Astaroth. ¹⁴And the Lord being angry against Israel, delivered them into the hands of plunderers: who took them and sold them to their enemies, that dwelt round about: neither could they stand against their enemies: ¹⁵But whithersoever they meant to go, the hand of the Lord was upon them, as he had said, and as he had sworn to them: and they were greatly distressed. ¹⁶And the Lord raised up judges, to deliver them from the hands of those that oppressed them: but they would not hearken to them, ¹⁷Committing fornication with strange gods, and adoring them. They quickly forsook the way, in which their fathers had walked: and hearing the commandments of the Lord, they did all things contrary. ¹⁸And when the Lord raised them up judges, in their days he was moved to mercy, and heard the groanings of the afflicted, and delivered them from the slaughter of the oppressors. ¹⁹But after the judge was dead, they returned, and did much worse things than their fathers had done, following strange gods, serving them and adoring them. They left not their own inventions, and the stubborn way, by which they were accustomed to walk.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 106:34-35, 36-37, 39-40, 43ab and 44

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 105:34-37, 39-40, 43-44 (Psalm 106 at Mass)

³⁴They did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto them. ³⁵And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their works: ³⁶And served their idols, and it became a stumblingblock to them. ³⁷And they sacrificed their sons, and their daughters to devils.

³⁹And was defiled with their works: and they went aside after their own inventions. ⁴⁰And the Lord was exceedingly angry with his people: and he abhorred his inheritance.

⁴³Many times did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their counsel: and they were brought low by their iniquities. ⁴⁴And he saw when they were in tribulation: and he heard their prayer.

Gospel: Matthew 19:16-22

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 19:16-22

¹⁶And behold one came and said to him: Good master, what good shall I do that I may have life everlasting? ¹⁷Who said to him: Why asketh thou me concerning good? One is good, God. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. ¹⁸He said to him: Which? And Jesus said: Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness. ¹⁹Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. ²⁰The young man saith to him: All these I have kept from my youth, what is yet wanting to me? ²¹Jesus saith to him: If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come follow me. ²²And when the young man had heard this word, he went away sad: for he had great possessions.

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	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, this page	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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Saint of the day

Saint Stephen of HungaryOptional memorial. Died in 1038.

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.

The Rosary today

The Joyful Mysteries, prayed on Monday and Saturday.

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