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Wednesday, August 25, 2027

Wednesday of the twenty-first week of Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Wednesday of the twenty-first week of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: 1 Thessalonians 2:9-13
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 139:7-8, 9-10, 11-12ab
Gospel: Matthew 23:27-32

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 Thessalonians 2:9-13

Douay-Rheims: 1 Thessalonians 2:9-13

⁹For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God. ¹⁰You are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and justly, and without blame, we have been to you that have believed: ¹¹As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you, (as a father doth his children,) ¹²We testified to every one of you, that you would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. ¹³Therefore, we also give thanks to God without ceasing: because, that when you had received of us the word of the hearing of God, you received it not as the word of men, but (as it is indeed) the word of God, who worketh in you that have believed.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 139:7-8, 9-10, 11-12ab

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 138:7-12 (Psalm 139 at Mass)

⁷Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy face? ⁸If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present. ⁹If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea: ¹⁰Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me. ¹¹And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures. ¹²But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light as day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.

Gospel: Matthew 23:27-32

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 23:27-32

²⁷Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men’s bones, and of all filthiness. ²⁸So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. ²⁹Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; that build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the just, ³⁰And say: If we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. ³¹Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets. ³²Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

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	25, Wednesday of the twenty-first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green, this page	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

Green
White
Red
SolSolemnity

The dot shows the liturgical color of the day. Fridays outside Lent carry no marker.

Saints of the day

Saint LouisOptional memorial. Died in 1270.
Saint Joseph of Calasanz, PriestOptional memorial. Died in 1648.

A word for the day

To love is to wish good to someone.

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I-II, q. 26, a. 4. Translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province. Aquinas is quoting Aristotle (Rhetoric II, 4). Read it on Project Gutenberg.

The Rosary today

The Glorious Mysteries, prayed on Wednesday and Sunday.

Pray the Glorious Mysteries About the Glorious Mysteries

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Calendar computed with romcal (MIT License). Reading citations from the Catholic Readings API (MIT License), with gaps checked against the USCCB pages. Douay-Rheims text courtesy of eBible.org.