Friday after Epiphany · Weekday

Mass Readings for Friday, January 8, 2027

On Friday, January 8, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Friday after Epiphany (Cycle I); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is Luke 5:12-16.

Updated October 20, 2026

Liturgical color

White

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

Mass readings US

First Reading 1 John 5:5-13

5Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God!
6This is the One who came by water and blood: Jesus Christ. Not by water only, but by water and blood. And the Spirit is the One who testifies that the Christ is the Truth.
Some verses are not read.
8And there are three who give testimony on earth: the Spirit, and the water, and the blood. And these three are one.
9If we accept the testimony of men, then the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony of God, which is greater: that he has testified about his Son.
10Whoever believes in the Son of God, holds the testimony of God within himself. Whoever does not believe in the Son, makes him a liar, because he does not believe in the testimony which God has testified about his Son.
11And this is the testimony which God has given to us: Eternal Life. And this Life is in his Son.
12Whoever has the Son, has Life. Whoever does not have the Son, does not have Life.
13I am writing this to you, so that you may know that you have Eternal Life: you who believe in the name of the Son of God.

Catholic Public Domain Version · in the CPDV this is 1 John 5:5–6, 8–13

Read in the CPDV: The whole of 1 John 5

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20

Read in the CPDV: Psalm 147:12–20 (147 in the Vulgate)

Alleluia See Matthew 4:23

Read in the CPDV: Matthew 4

Gospel Luke 5:12-16

12And it happened that, while he was in a certain city, behold, there was a man full of leprosy who, upon seeing Jesus and falling to his face, petitioned him, saying: “Lord, if you are willing, you are able to cleanse me.”
13And extending his hand, he touched him, saying: “I am willing. Be cleansed.” And at once, the leprosy departed from him.
14And he instructed him that he should tell no one, “But go, show yourself to the priest, and make the offering for your cleansing, just as Moses has commanded, as a testimony for them.”
15Yet word of him traveled around all the more. And great crowds came together, so that they might listen and be cured by him from their infirmities.
16And he withdrew into the desert and prayed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Luke 5

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. Severinus of Noricum

Abbot · Remembered on January 8

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