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Sunday, September 12, 2027

Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: Isaiah 50:5-9a
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 116:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9
Second reading: James 2:14-18
Gospel: Mark 8:27-35

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: Isaiah 50:5-9a

Douay-Rheims: Isaias 50:5-9

⁵The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not gone back. ⁶I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me. ⁷The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded: therefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not be confounded. ⁸He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us stand together, who is my adversary? let him come near to me. ⁹Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is he that shall condemn me? Lo, they shall all be destroyed as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 116:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 114:1-6, 8-9 (Psalm 116 at Mass)

¹I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer. ²Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call upon him. ³The sorrows of death have encompassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow: ⁴And I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul. ⁵The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy. ⁶The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was little and he delivered me.

⁸For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling. ⁹I will please the Lord in the land of the living.

Second reading: James 2:14-18

Douay-Rheims: James 2:14-18

¹⁴What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him? ¹⁵And if a brother or sister be naked, and want daily food: ¹⁶And one of you say to them: Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; yet give them not those things that are necessary for the body, what shall it profit? ¹⁷So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself. ¹⁸But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without works; and I will shew thee, by works, my faith.

Gospel: Mark 8:27-35

Douay-Rheims: Mark 8:27-35

²⁷And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi. And in the way, he asked his disciples, saying to them: Whom do men say that I am? ²⁸Who answered him, saying: John the Baptist; but some Elias, and others as one of the prophets. ²⁹Then he saith to them: But whom do you say that I am? Peter answering said to him: Thou art the Christ. ³⁰And he strictly charged them that they should not tell any man of him. ³¹And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the ancients and by the high priests, and the scribes, and be killed: and after three days rise again. ³²And he spoke the word openly. And Peter taking him, began to rebuke him. ³³Who turning about and seeing his disciples, threatened Peter, saying: Go behind me, Satan, because thou savorest not the things that are of God, but that are of men. ³⁴And calling the multitude together with his disciples, he said to them: If any man will follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. ³⁵For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel, shall save it.

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	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, this page	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

It is better to be unknown and take heed to oneself than to neglect oneself and work wonders.

Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, chapter 20. Translated by William Benham. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

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