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Friday, August 20, 2027

Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church

The liturgical day

Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church

Memorial
Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: White

The Mass readings

First reading: Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 146:5-6ab, 6c-7, 8-9a, 9bc-10
Gospel: Matthew 22:34-40

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: Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22

Douay-Rheims: Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14-16, 22

¹In the days of one of the judges, when the judges ruled, there came a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem Juda, went to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons.

³And Elimelech the husband of Noemi died: and she remained with her sons. ⁴And they took wives of the women of Moab, of which one was called Orpha, and the other Ruth. And they dwelt there ten years. ⁵And they both died, to wit, Mahalon and Chelion: and the woman was left alone, having lost both her sons and her husband. ⁶And she arose to go from the land of Moab to her own country with both her daughters in law: for she had heard that the Lord had looked upon his people, and had given them food.

¹⁴And they lifted up their voice, and began to weep again: Orpha kissed her mother in law and returned: Ruth stuck close to her mother in law. ¹⁵And Noemi said to her: Behold thy kinswoman is returned to her people, and to her gods, go thou with her. ¹⁶She answered: Be not against me, to desire that I should leave thee and depart: for whithersoever thou shalt go, I will go: and where thou shalt dwell, I also will dwell. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.

²²So Noemi came with Ruth the Moabitess her daughter in law, from the land of her sojournment: and returned into Bethlehem, in the beginning of the barley harvest.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 146:5-6ab, 6c-7, 8-9a, 9bc-10

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 145:5-10 (Psalm 146 at Mass)

⁵Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God: ⁶Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them. ⁷Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that are fettered: ⁸The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: the Lord loveth the just. ⁹The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy. ¹⁰The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation and generation.

Gospel: Matthew 22:34-40

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 22:34-40

³⁴But the Pharisees hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, came together: ³⁵And one of them, a doctor of the law, asking him, tempting him: ³⁶Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law? ³⁷Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. ³⁸This is the greatest and the first commandment. ³⁹And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. ⁴⁰On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.

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	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, this page	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 Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the ChurchMemorial. Died in 1153.

A word for the day

For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright; it is a good life which maketh a man dear to God.

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

The Rosary today

The Sorrowful Mysteries, prayed on Tuesday and Friday.

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