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Wednesday, September 1, 2027

Wednesday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Wednesday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: Colossians 1:1-8
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 52:10, 11
Gospel: Luke 4:38-44

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: Colossians 1:1-8

Douay-Rheims: Colossians 1:1-8

¹Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy, a brother, ²To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ Jesus, who are at Colossa. ³Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. We give thanks to God, and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you. ⁴Hearing your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love which you have towards all the saints. ⁵For the hope that is laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard in the word of the truth of the gospel, ⁶Which is come unto you, as also it is in the whole world, and bringeth forth fruit and groweth, even as it doth in you, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth. ⁷As you learned of Epaphras, our most beloved fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ Jesus; ⁸Who also hath manifested to us your love in the spirit.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 52:10, 11

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 51:10-11 (Psalm 52 at Mass)

¹⁰But I, as a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God for ever, yea for ever and ever. ¹¹I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name, for it is good in the sight of thy saints.

Gospel: Luke 4:38-44

Douay-Rheims: Luke 4:38-44

³⁸And Jesus rising up out of the synagogue, went into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever, and they besought him for her. ³⁹And standing over her, he commanded the fever, and it left her. And immediately rising, she ministered to them. ⁴⁰And when the sun was down, all they that had any sick with divers diseases, brought them to him. But he laying his hands on every one of them, healed them. ⁴¹And devils went out from many, crying out and saying: Thou art the Son of God. And rebuking them he suffered them not to speak, for they knew that he was Christ. ⁴²And when it was day, going out he went into a desert place, and the multitudes sought him, and came unto him: and they stayed him that he should not depart from them. ⁴³To whom he said: To other cities also I must preach the kingdom of God: for therefore am I sent. ⁴⁴And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

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.

September 2027

September 2027
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
			1, Wednesday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green, this page	2, Thursday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	3, Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white	4, Saturday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
5, Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	6, Monday of the twenty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	7, Tuesday of the twenty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	8, The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, liturgical color white	9, Saint Peter Claver, Priest, liturgical color white	10, Friday of the twenty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	11, Saturday of the twenty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
12, Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	13, Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white	14, The Exaltation of the Holy Cross, liturgical color red	15, Our Lady of Sorrows, liturgical color white	16, Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs, liturgical color red	17, Friday of the twenty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	18, Saturday of the twenty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
19, Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	20, Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, Priest, Paul Chŏng Ha-sang and Companions, Martyrs, liturgical color red	21, Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist, liturgical color red	22, Wednesday of the twenty-fifth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	23, Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest, liturgical color white	24, Friday of the twenty-fifth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	25, Saturday of the twenty-fifth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
26, Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	27, Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest, liturgical color white	28, Tuesday of the twenty-sixth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	29, Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels, liturgical color white	30, Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white

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A word for the day

There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledge without the fear of God?

Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, chapter 2. Translated by William Benham. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

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