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Thursday, September 9, 2027

Saint Peter Claver, Priest

The liturgical day

Saint Peter Claver, Priest

Memorial
Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: White

The Mass readings

First reading: Colossians 3:12-17
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 150:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6
Gospel: Luke 6:27-38

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 3:12-17

Douay-Rheims: Colossians 3:12-17

¹²Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy, and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience: ¹³Bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another: even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also. ¹⁴But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection: ¹⁵And let the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts, wherein also you are called in one body: and be ye thankful. ¹⁶Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly, in all wisdom: teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God. ¹⁷All whatsoever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 150:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 150:1-6

¹Praise ye the Lord in his holy places: praise ye him in the firmament of his power. ²Praise ye him for his mighty acts: praise ye him according to the multitude of his greatness. ³Praise him with sound of trumpet: praise him with psaltery and harp. ⁴Praise him with timbrel and choir: praise him with strings and organs. ⁵Praise him on high sounding cymbals: praise him on cymbals of joy: ⁶let every spirit praise the Lord. Alleluia.

Gospel: Luke 6:27-38

Douay-Rheims: Luke 6:27-38

²⁷But I say to you that hear: Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you. ²⁸Bless them that curse you, and pray for them that calumniate you. ²⁹And to him that striketh thee on the one cheek, offer also the other. And him that taketh away from thee thy cloak, forbid not to take thy coat also. ³⁰Give to every one that asketh thee, and of him that taketh away thy goods, ask them not again. ³¹And as you would that men should do to you, do you also to them in like manner. ³²And if you love them that love you, what thanks are to you? for sinners also love those that love them. ³³And if you do good to them who do good to you, what thanks are to you? for sinners also do this. ³⁴And if you lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thanks are to you? for sinners also lend to sinners, for to receive as much. ³⁵But love ye your enemies: do good, and lend, hoping for nothing thereby: and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest; for he is kind to the unthankful, and to the evil. ³⁶Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. ³⁷Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you shall be forgiven. ³⁸Give, and it shall be given to you: good measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you shall mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.

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	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, this page	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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Saint of the day

Saint Peter Claver, PriestMemorial. Died in 1654.

A word for the day

For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright; it is a good life which maketh a man dear to God.

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

The Rosary today

The Luminous Mysteries, prayed on Thursday.

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