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Friday, September 24, 2027

Friday of the twenty-fifth week of Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Friday of the twenty-fifth week of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: Haggai 2:1-9
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 43:1, 2, 3, 4
Gospel: Luke 9:18-22

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: Haggai 2:1-9

Douay-Rheims: Aggeus 2:2-10

²And in the seventh month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Aggeus the prophet, saying: ³Speak to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel the governor of Juda, and to Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, and to the rest of the people, saying: ⁴Who is left among you, that saw this house in its first glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in comparison to that as nothing in your eyes? ⁵Yet now take courage, O Zorobabel, saith the Lord, and take courage, O Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, and take courage, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord of hosts: and perform (for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts) ⁶The word that I covenanted with you when you came out of the land of Egypt: and my spirit shall be in the midst of you: fear not. ⁷For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Yet one little while, and I will move the heaven and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land. ⁸And I will move all nations: AND THE DESIRED OF ALL NATIONS SHALL COME: and I will fill this house with glory: saith the Lord of hosts. ⁹The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts. ¹⁰Great shall be the glory of this last house more than of the first, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place I will give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 43:1, 2, 3, 4

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 42:1-5 (Psalm 43 at Mass)

¹Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man. ²For thou art God my strength: why hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me? ³Send forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and brought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles. ⁴And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth. ⁵To thee, O God my God, I will give praise upon the harp: why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me?

Gospel: Luke 9:18-22

Douay-Rheims: Luke 9:18-22

¹⁸And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples also were with him: and he asked them, saying: Whom do the people say that I am? ¹⁹But they answered, and said: John the Baptist; but some say Elias; and others say that one of the former prophets is risen again. ²⁰And he said to them: But whom do you say that I am? Simon Peter answering, said: The Christ of God. ²¹But he strictly charging them, commanded they should tell this to no man. ²²Saying: The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the ancients and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day rise again.

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	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, this page	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

To love is to wish good to someone.

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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