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Friday, September 17, 2027

Friday of the twenty-fourth week of Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Friday of the twenty-fourth week of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: 1 Timothy 6:2c-12
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 49:6-7, 8-10, 17-18, 19-20
Gospel: Luke 8:1-3

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 6:2c-12

Douay-Rheims: 1 Timothy 6:2-12

²But they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but serve them the rather, because they are faithful and beloved, who are partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort. ³If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to that doctrine which is according to godliness, ⁴He is proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and strifes of words; from which arise envies, contentions, blasphemies, evil suspicions, ⁵Conflicts of men corrupted in mind, and who are destitute of the truth, supposing gain to be godliness. ⁶But godliness with contentment is great gain. ⁷For we brought nothing into this world: and certainly we can carry nothing out. ⁸But having food, and wherewith to be covered, with these we are content. ⁹For they that will become rich, fall into temptation, and into the snare of the devil, and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition. ¹⁰For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting have erred from the faith, and have entangled themselves in many sorrows. ¹¹But thou, O man of God, fly these things: and pursue justice, godliness, faith, charity, patience, mildness. ¹²Fight the good fight of faith: lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art called, and hast confessed a good confession before many witnesses.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 49:6-7, 8-10, 17-18, 19-20

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 48:6-10, 17-20 (Psalm 49 at Mass)

⁶Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me. ⁷They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches, ⁸No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom, ⁹Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever, ¹⁰And shall still live unto the end.

¹⁷Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be made rich, and when the glory of his house shall be increased. ¹⁸For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him. ¹⁹For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him. ²⁰He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.

Gospel: Luke 8:1-3

Douay-Rheims: Luke 8:1-3

¹And it came to pass afterwards, that he travelled through the cities and towns, preaching and evangelizing the kingdom of God; and the twelve with him: ²And certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities; Mary who is called Magdalen, out of whom seven devils were gone forth, ³And Joanna the wife of Chusa, Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others who ministered unto him of their substance.

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	16, Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs, liturgical color red	17, Friday of the twenty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green, this page	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.

Saints of the day

Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess and Doctor of the ChurchOptional memorial.
Saint Robert Bellarmine, Bishop and Doctor of the ChurchOptional memorial. Died in 1621.

A word for the day

If thou wouldst profit by thy reading, read humbly, simply, honestly, and not desiring to win a character for learning.

Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, chapter 5. Translated by William Benham. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

The Rosary today

The Sorrowful Mysteries, prayed on Tuesday and Friday.

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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.