Saturday after Epiphany · Weekday

Mass Readings for Saturday, January 9, 2027

On Saturday, January 9, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Saturday after Epiphany (Cycle I); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is John 3:22-30.

Updated October 20, 2026

Liturgical color

White

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

Mass readings US

First Reading 1 John 5:14-21

14And this is the confidence which we have toward God: that no matter what we shall request, in accord with his will, he hears us.
15And we know that he hears us, no matter what we request; so we know that we can obtain the things that we request of him.
16Anyone who realizes that his brother has sinned, with a sin that is not unto death, let him pray, and life shall be given to him who has sinned not unto death. There is a sin which is unto death. I am not saying that anyone should ask on behalf of that sin.
17All that is iniquity is sin. But there is a sin unto death.
18We know that everyone who is born of God does not sin. Instead, rebirth in God preserves him, and the evil one cannot touch him.
19We know that we are of God, and that the entire world is established in wickedness.
20And we know that the Son of God has arrived, and that he has given us understanding, so that we may know the true God, and so that we may remain in his true Son. This is the true God, and this is Eternal Life.
21Little sons, keep yourselves from false worship. Amen.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of 1 John 5

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 149:1-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b

Read in the CPDV: Psalm 149

Alleluia Matthew 4:16

Read in the CPDV: Matthew 4

Gospel John 3:22-30

22After these things, Jesus and his disciples went into the land of Judea. And he was living there with them and baptizing.
23Now John was also baptizing, at Aenon near Salim, because there was much water in that place. And they were arriving and being baptized.
24For John had not yet been cast into prison.
25Then a dispute occurred between the disciples of John and the Jews, about purification.
26And they went to John and said to him: “Rabbi, the one who was with you across the Jordan, about whom you offered testimony: behold, he is baptizing and everyone is going to him.”
27John responded and said: “A man is not able to receive anything, unless it has been given to him from heaven.
28You yourselves offer testimony for me that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but that I have been sent before him.
29He who holds the bride is the groom. But the friend of the groom, who stands and listens to Him, rejoices joyfully at the voice of the groom. And so, this, my joy, has been fulfilled.
30He must increase, while I must decrease.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of John 3

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. Adrian of Canterbury

Abbot · Remembered on January 9

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