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Friday, August 27, 2027

Saint Monica

The liturgical day

Saint Monica

Memorial
Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: White

The Mass readings

First reading: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 97:1 and 2b, 5-6, 10, 11-12
Gospel: Matthew 25:1-13

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 4:1-8

Douay-Rheims: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8

¹For the rest therefore, brethren, we pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us, how you ought to walk, and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more. ²For you know what precepts I have given to you by the Lord Jesus. ³For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that you should abstain from fornication; ⁴That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour: ⁵Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God: ⁶And that no man overreach, nor circumvent his brother in business: because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told you before, and have testified. ⁷For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto sanctification. ⁸Therefore, he that despiseth these things, despiseth not man, but God, who also hath given his holy Spirit in us.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 97:1 and 2b, 5-6, 10, 11-12

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 96:1-2, 5-6, 10-12 (Psalm 97 at Mass)

¹The Lord hath reigned, let the earth rejoice: let many islands be glad. ²Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne.

⁵The mountains melted like wax, at the presence of the Lord: at the presence of the Lord of all the earth. ⁶The heavens declared his justice: and all people saw his glory.

¹⁰You that love the Lord, hate evil: the Lord preserveth the souls of his saints, he will deliver them out of the hand of the sinner. ¹¹Light is risen to the just, and joy to the right of heart. ¹²Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: and give praise to the remembrance of his holiness.

Gospel: Matthew 25:1-13

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 25:1-13

¹Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like to ten virgins, who taking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride. ²And five of them were foolish, and five wise. ³But the five foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil with them: ⁴But the wise took oil in their vessels with the lamps. ⁵And the bridegroom tarrying, they all slumbered and slept. ⁶And at midnight there was a cry made: Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye forth to meet him. ⁷Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. ⁸And the foolish said to the wise: Give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out. ⁹The wise answered, saying: Lest perhaps there be not enough for us and for you, go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. ¹⁰Now whilst they went to buy, the bridegroom came: and they that were ready, went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut. ¹¹But at last come also the other virgins, saying: Lord, Lord, open to us. ¹²But he answering said: Amen I say to you, I know you not. ¹³Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour.

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	27, Saint Monica, liturgical color white, this page	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 MonicaMemorial. Died in 387.

A word for the day

For man proposeth, but God disposeth.

Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, chapter 19. Translated by William Benham. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

The Rosary today

The Sorrowful Mysteries, prayed on Tuesday and Friday.

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