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Sunday, September 26, 2027

Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

  • Ordinary Time
  • Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading
Numbers 11:25-29
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 19:8, 10, 12-13, 14
Second reading
James 5:1-6
Gospel
Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48

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 11:25-29

Douay-Rheims: Numbers 11:25-29

25And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, taking away of the spirit that was in Moses, and giving to the seventy men. And when the spirit had rested on them they prophesied, nor did they cease afterwards. 26Now there remained in the camp two of the men, of whom one was called Eldad, and the other Medad, upon whom the spirit rested; for they also had been enrolled, but were not gone forth to the tabernacle. 27And when they prophesied in the camp, there ran a young man, and told Moses, saying: Eldad and Medad prophesy in the camp. 28Forthwith Josue the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, and chosen out of many, said: My lord Moses forbid them. 29But he said: Why hast thou emulation for me? O that all the people might prophesy, and that the Lord would give them his spirit!

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 19:8, 10, 12-13, 14

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 18:8, 10, 12-14 (Psalm 19 at Mass)

8The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones.

10The fear of the Lord is holy, enduring for ever and ever: the judgments of the Lord are true, justified in themselves.

12For thy servant keepeth them, and in keeping them there is a great reward. 13Who can understand sins? from my secret ones cleanse me, O Lord: 14And from those of others spare thy servant. If they shall have no dominion over me, then shall I be without spot: and I shall be cleansed from the greatest sin.

Second reading: James 5:1-6

Douay-Rheims: James 5:1-6

1Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. 2Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten. 3Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days. 4Behold the hire of the labourers, who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter. 6You have condemned and put to death the Just One, and he resisted you not.

Gospel: Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48

Douay-Rheims: Mark 9:37-42, 44, 46-47

37John answered him, saying: Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, who followeth not us, and we forbade him. 38But Jesus said: Do not forbid him. For there is no man that doth a miracle in my name, and can soon speak ill of me. 39For he that is not against you, is for you. 40For whosoever shall give you to drink a cup of water in my name, because you belong to Christ: amen I say to you, he shall not lose his reward. 41And whosoever shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me; it were better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck, and he were cast into the sea. 42And if thy hand scandalize thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life, maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into unquenchable fire:

44And if thy foot scandalize thee, cut it off. It is better for thee to enter lame into life everlasting, than having two feet, to be cast into the hell of unquenchable fire:

46And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out. It is better for thee with one eye to enter into the kingdom of God, than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire: 47Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not extinguished.

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
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1, Wednesday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green2, Thursday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green3, Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white4, Saturday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
5, Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green6, Monday of the twenty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green7, Tuesday of the twenty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green8, The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, liturgical color white9, Saint Peter Claver, Priest, liturgical color white10, Friday of the twenty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green11, Saturday of the twenty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
12, Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green13, Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white14, The Exaltation of the Holy Cross, liturgical color red15, Our Lady of Sorrows, liturgical color white16, Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs, liturgical color red17, Friday of the twenty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green18, Saturday of the twenty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
19, Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green20, Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, Priest, Paul Chŏng Ha-sang and Companions, Martyrs, liturgical color red21, Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist, liturgical color red22, Wednesday of the twenty-fifth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green23, Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest, liturgical color white24, Friday of the twenty-fifth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green25, Saturday of the twenty-fifth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
26, Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green, this page27, Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest, liturgical color white28, Tuesday of the twenty-sixth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green29, Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels, liturgical color white30, Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white

Key

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  • Red

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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.