--- title: "Mass Readings for January 15, 2027 (Friday) · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/01/15/ description: "January 15, 2027: Friday of the First Week in Ordinary Time, Year B, Cycle I, green. Hebrews 4:1-5, 11; Psalm 78; Mark 2:1-12. Gospel in the CPDV." updated: 2026-10-20 --- Friday of the First Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday # Mass Readings *for Friday, January 15, 2027* On Friday, January 15, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Friday of the First Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle I); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Mark 2:1-12. Updated October 20, 2026 ## The liturgical day Liturgical color Green - **Celebration**: Friday of the First Week in Ordinary Time - **Season**: Ordinary Time · Week 1 - **Rank**: Weekday - **Sunday cycle**: Year B - **Weekday cycle**: Cycle I ## Mass readings (US) ### First Reading: Hebrews 4:1-5, 11 - 1 Therefore, we should be afraid, lest the promise of entering into his rest may be relinquished, and some of you may be judged to be lacking. - 2 For this was announced to us in a similar manner as to them. But the mere hearing of the word did not benefit them, since it was not joined together with a faith in those things that they heard. - 3 For we who have believed shall enter into rest, in the same manner as he said: “So it is as I have sworn in my wrath: They shall not enter into my rest!” And certainly, this is when the works from the foundation of the world have been finished. - 4 For, in a certain place, he spoke about the seventh day in this manner: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” - 5 And in this place again: “They shall not enter into my rest!” - 11 Therefore, let us hasten to enter into that rest, so that no one may fall into the same example of unbelief. Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Hebrews 4](https://blessbible.app/bible/hebrews/4/) ### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 78:3 and 4bc, 6c-7, 8 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 78 (77 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/77/) ### Alleluia: Luke 7:16 Read in the CPDV: [Luke 7](https://blessbible.app/bible/luke/7/) ### Gospel: Mark 2:1-12 - 1 And after some days, he again entered into Capernaum. - 2 And it was heard that he was in the house. And so many gathered that there was no room left, not even at the door. And he spoke the word to them. - 3 And they came to him, bringing a paralytic, who was being carried by four men. - 4 And when they were not able to present him to him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was. And opening it, they lowered down the stretcher on which the paralytic was lying. - 5 Then, when Jesus had seen their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.” - 6 But some of the scribes were sitting in that place and thinking in their hearts: - 7 “Why is this man speaking in this way? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins, but God alone?” - 8 At once, Jesus, realizing in his spirit that they were thinking this within themselves, said to them: “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? - 9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up, take up your stretcher, and walk?’ - 10 But so that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” he said to the paralytic: - 11 “I say to you: Rise up, take up your stretcher, and go into your house.” - 12 And immediately he got up, and lifting up his stretcher, he went away in the sight of them all, so that they all wondered. And they honored God, by saying, “We have never seen anything like this.” Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Mark 2](https://blessbible.app/bible/mark/2/) 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. Spotted a wrong date, color or citation? [Report an error](https://blessbible.app/support/#report) and we’ll fix it in the app and here. ## Saint of the day [St. Paul the First Hermit](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-paul-the-first-hermit/) Hermit · Remembered on January 15 [Read about St. Paul the First Hermit](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-paul-the-first-hermit/) The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Friday of the First Week in Ordinary Time). [January 2027, day by day](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/01/) [Liturgical calendar 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/) [Today in the Church](https://blessbible.app/today/) [Previous day Thu, Jan 14](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/01/14/) [Next day Sat, Jan 16](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/01/16/)