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Sunday, September 19, 2027

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: Wisdom 2:12, 17-20
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 54:3-4, 5, 6 and 8
Second reading: James 3:16–4:3
Gospel: Mark 9:30-37

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.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 54:3-4, 5, 6 and 8

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 53:3-6, 8 (Psalm 54 at Mass)

³Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me in thy strength. ⁴O God, hear my prayer: give ear to the words of my mouth. ⁵For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have sought after my soul: and they have not set God before their eyes. ⁶For behold God is my helper: and the Lord is the protector of my soul.

⁸I will freely sacrifice to thee, and will give praise, O God, to thy name: because it is good:

Second reading: James 3:16–4:3

Douay-Rheims: James 3:16-18; 4:1-3

^3:16For where envying and contention is, there is inconstancy, and every evil work. ¹⁷But the wisdom, that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation. ¹⁸And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make peace.

^4:1From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members? ²You covet, and have not: you kill, and envy, and can not obtain. You contend and war, and you have not, because you ask not. ³You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.

Gospel: Mark 9:30-37

Douay-Rheims: Mark 9:29-36

²⁹And departing from thence, they passed through Galilee, and he would not that any man should know it. ³⁰And he taught his disciples and said to them: The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise again the third day. ³¹But they understood not the word, and they were afraid to ask him. ³²And they came to Capharnaum. And when they were in the house, he asked them: What did you treat of in the way? ³³But they held their peace, for in the way they had disputed among themselves, which of them should be the greatest. ³⁴And sitting down, he called the twelve, and saith to them: If any man desire to be first, he shall be the last of all, and the minister of all. ³⁵And taking a child, he set him in the midst of them. Whom when he had embraced, he saith to them: ³⁶Whosoever shall receive one such child as this in my name, receiveth me. And whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me.

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	18, Saturday of the twenty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
19, Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green, this page	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

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.

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