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Tuesday, August 24, 2027

Saint Bartholomew, Apostle

The liturgical day

Saint Bartholomew, Apostle

Feast
Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Red

The Mass readings

First reading: Revelation 21:9b-14
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18
Gospel: John 1:45-51

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: Revelation 21:9b-14

Douay-Rheims: Apocalypse 21:9-14

⁹And there came one of the seven angels, who had the vials full of the seven last plagues, and spoke with me, saying: Come, and I will shew thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb. ¹⁰And he took me up in spirit to a great and high mountain: and he shewed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, ¹¹Having the glory of God, and the light thereof was like to a precious stone, as to the jasper stone, even as crystal. ¹²And it had a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and in the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. ¹³On the east, three gates: and on the north, three gates: and on the south, three gates: and on the west, three gates. ¹⁴And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them, the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 144:10-13, 17-18 (Psalm 145 at Mass)

¹⁰Let all thy works, O Lord, praise thee: and let thy saints bless thee. ¹¹They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom: and shall tell of thy power: ¹²To make thy might known to the sons of men: and the glory of the magnificence of thy kingdom. ¹³Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages: and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words: and holy in all his works.

¹⁷The Lord is just in all his ways: and holy in all his works. ¹⁸The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: to all that call upon him in truth.

Gospel: John 1:45-51

Douay-Rheims: John 1:45-51

⁴⁵Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith to him: We have found him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets did write, Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth. ⁴⁶And Nathanael said to him: Can any thing of good come from Nazareth? Philip saith to him: Come and see. ⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him: and he saith of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile. ⁴⁸Nathanael saith to him: Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered, and said to him: Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. ⁴⁹Nathanael answered him, and said: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel. ⁵⁰Jesus answered, and said to him: Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, thou believest: greater things than these shalt thou see. ⁵¹And he saith to him: Amen, amen I say to you, you shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

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	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, this page	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 Bartholomew, ApostleFeast.

A word for the day

Leave vain things to vain men, and mind thou the things which God hath commanded thee.

Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, chapter 20. Translated by William Benham. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

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