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Thursday, August 26, 2027

Thursday of the twenty-first week of Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Thursday of the twenty-first week of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: 1 Thessalonians 3:7-13
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 90:3-5a, 12-13, 14 and 17
Gospel: Matthew 24:42-51

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: 1 Thessalonians 3:7-13

Douay-Rheims: 1 Thessalonians 3:7-13

⁷Therefore we were comforted, brethren, in you, in all our necessity and tribulation, by your faith, ⁸Because now we live, if you stand in the Lord. ⁹For what thanks can we return to God for you, in all the joy wherewith we rejoice for you before our God, ¹⁰Night and day more abundantly praying that we may see your face, and may accomplish those things that are wanting to your faith? ¹¹Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. ¹²And may the Lord multiply you, and make you abound in charity towards one another, and towards all men: as we do also towards you, ¹³To confirm your hearts without blame, in holiness, before God and our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints. Amen.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 90:3-5a, 12-13, 14 and 17

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 89:3-5, 12-14, 17 (Psalm 90 at Mass)

³Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men. ⁴For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night, ⁵Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

¹²Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom. ¹³Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy servants. ¹⁴We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days.

¹⁷And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.

Gospel: Matthew 24:42-51

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 24:42-51

⁴²Watch ye therefore, because ye know not what hour your Lord will come. ⁴³But know this ye, that if the goodman of the house knew at what hour the thief would come, he would certainly watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken open. ⁴⁴Wherefore be you also ready, because at what hour you know not the Son of man will come. ⁴⁵Who, thinkest thou, is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath appointed over his family, to give them meat in season. ⁴⁶Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall come he shall find so doing. ⁴⁷Amen I say to you, he shall place him over all his goods. ⁴⁸But if that evil servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming: ⁴⁹And shall begin to strike his fellow servants, and shall eat and drink with drunkards: ⁵⁰The lord of that servant shall come in a day that he hopeth not, and at an hour that he knoweth not: ⁵¹And shall separate him, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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	26, Thursday of the twenty-first week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green, this page	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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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.

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