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Thursday after Epiphany · Weekday

Mass Readings for Thursday, January 7, 2027

On Thursday, January 7, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Thursday after Epiphany (Cycle I); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is Luke 4:14-22.

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The liturgical day

Liturgical color

White

Celebration
Thursday after Epiphany
Season
Christmas Time
Rank
Weekday
Sunday cycle
Year B
Weekday cycle
Cycle I

Mass readings US

First Reading 1 John 4:19—5:4

  • 19Therefore, let us love God, for God first loved us.

  • 20If anyone says that he loves God, but hates his brother, then he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother, whom he does see, in what way can he love God, whom he does not see?

  • 21And this is the commandment that we have from God, that he who loves God must also love his brother.

  • 5:1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And everyone who loves God, who provides that birth, also loves him who has been born of God.

  • 2In this way, we know that we love those born of God: when we love God and do his commandments.

  • 3For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not heavy.

  • 4For all that is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world: our faith.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of 1 John 4The whole of 1 John 5

Alleluia Luke 4:18

Read in the CPDV: Luke 4

Gospel Luke 4:14-22

  • 14And Jesus returned, in the power of the Spirit, into Galilee. And his fame spread throughout the entire region.

  • 15And he taught in their synagogues, and he was magnified by everyone.

  • 16And he went to Nazareth, where he had been raised. And he entered into the synagogue, according to his custom, on the Sabbath day. And he rose up to read.

  • 17And the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. And as he unrolled the book, he found the place where it was written:

  • 18“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because of this, he has anointed me. He has sent me to evangelize the poor, to heal the contrite of heart,

  • 19to preach forgiveness to captives and sight to the blind, to release the broken into forgiveness, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of retribution.”

  • 20And when he had rolled up the book, he returned it to the minister, and he sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.

  • 21Then he began to say to them, “On this day, this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

  • 22And everyone gave testimony to him. And they wondered at the words of grace that proceeded from his mouth. And they said, “Is this not the son of Joseph?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Luke 4

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar.

In US parishes the readings are proclaimed from the NABRE; the text shown here is the Catholic Public Domain Version.

Old Testament readings and the psalm are listed with a link to their chapter: the US Lectionary numbers some of their verses differently from the CPDV, so their text is not printed here. Psalm citations keep the Lectionary’s Hebrew numbering; the CPDV numbers the Psalms as the Vulgate does.

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Saint of the day

St. Raymond of Peñafort

Priest · Remembered on January 7

Patron of canon lawyers

Read about St. Raymond of Peñafort

The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Thursday after Epiphany).

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