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Wednesday, September 15, 2027

Our Lady of Sorrows

The liturgical day

Our Lady of Sorrows

Memorial
Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: White

The Mass readings

First reading: 1 Timothy 3:14-16
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 111:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Gospel: John 19:25-27

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 Timothy 3:14-16

Douay-Rheims: 1 Timothy 3:14-16

¹⁴These things I write to thee, hoping that I shall come to thee shortly. ¹⁵But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. ¹⁶And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto angels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world, is taken up in glory.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 111:1-2, 3-4, 5-6

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 110:1-6 (Psalm 111 at Mass)

¹I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; in the council of the just: and in the congregation. ²Great are the works of the Lord: sought out according to all his wills. ³His work is praise and magnificence: and his justice continueth for ever and ever. ⁴He hath made a remembrance of his wonderful works, being a merciful and gracious Lord: ⁵He hath given food to them that fear him. He will be mindful for ever of his covenant: ⁶He will shew forth to his people the power of his works.

Gospel: John 19:25-27

Douay-Rheims: John 19:25-27

²⁵Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen. ²⁶When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son. ²⁷After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own.

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	15, Our Lady of Sorrows, liturgical color white, this page	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

Green
White
Red

The dot shows the liturgical color of the day. Fridays outside Lent carry no marker.

A word for the day

Grace does not destroy nature but perfects it.

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I, q. 1, a. 8, reply to objection 2. Translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

The Rosary today

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Calendar computed with romcal (MIT License). Reading citations from the Catholic Readings API (MIT License), with gaps checked against the USCCB pages. Douay-Rheims text courtesy of eBible.org.