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Tuesday, September 14, 2027

The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

The liturgical day

The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Feast
Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Red

The Mass readings

First reading: Numbers 21:4b-9
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 78:1bc-2, 34-35, 36-37, 38
Second reading: Philippians 2:6-11
Gospel: John 3:13-17

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: Numbers 21:4b-9

Douay-Rheims: Numbers 21:4-9

⁴And they marched from mount Hor, by the way that leadeth to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom. And the people began to be weary of their journey and labour: ⁵And speaking against God and Moses, they said: Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor have we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food. ⁶Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them. ⁷Upon which they came to Moses, and said: We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and thee: pray that he may take away these serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. ⁸And the Lord said to him: Make a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: whosoever being struck shall look on it, shall live. ⁹Moses therefore made a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: which when they that were bitten looked upon, they were healed.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 78:1bc-2, 34-35, 36-37, 38

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 77:1-2, 34-38 (Psalm 78 at Mass)

¹Attend, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. ²I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.

³⁴When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning. ³⁵And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high God their redeemer. ³⁶And they loved him with their mouth: and with their tongue they lied unto him: ³⁷But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant. ³⁸But he is merciful, and will forgive their sins: and will not destroy them. And many a time did he turn away his anger: and did not kindle all his wrath.

Second reading: Philippians 2:6-11

Douay-Rheims: Philippians 2:6-11

⁶Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: ⁷But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man. ⁸He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross. ⁹For which cause God also hath exalted him, and hath given him a name which is above all names: ¹⁰That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth: ¹¹And that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.

Gospel: John 3:13-17

Douay-Rheims: John 3:13-17

¹³And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven. ¹⁴And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up: ¹⁵That whosoever believeth in him, may not perish; but may have life everlasting. ¹⁶For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting. ¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be saved by him.

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	13, Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white	14, The Exaltation of the Holy Cross, liturgical color red, this page	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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Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I-II, q. 26, a. 4. Translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province. Aquinas is quoting Aristotle (Rhetoric II, 4). Read it on Project Gutenberg.

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