Saturday of the First Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday

Mass Readings for Saturday, January 16, 2027

On Saturday, January 16, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Saturday of the First Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle I); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Mark 2:13-17.

Updated October 20, 2026

Liturgical color

Green

Celebration: Saturday 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 4:12-16

12For the Word of God is living and effective: more piercing than any two-edged sword, reaching to the division even between the soul and the spirit, even between the joints and the marrow, and so it discerns the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
13And there is no created thing that is invisible to his sight. For all things are naked and open to the eyes of him, about whom we are speaking.
14Therefore, since we have a great High Priest, who has pierced the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, we should hold to our confession.
15For we do not have a high priest who is unable to have compassion on our infirmities, but rather one who was tempted in all things, just as we are, yet without sin.
16Therefore, let us go forth with confidence toward the throne of grace, so that we may obtain mercy, and find grace, in a helpful time.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Hebrews 4

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 19:8, 9, 10, 15

Read in the CPDV: Psalm 19 (18 in the Vulgate)

Alleluia Luke 4:18

Read in the CPDV: Luke 4

Gospel Mark 2:13-17

13And he departed again to the sea. And the entire crowd came to him, and he taught them.
14And as he was passing by, he saw Levi of Alphaeus, sitting at the customs office. And he said to him, “Follow me.” And rising up, he followed him.
15And it happened that, as he sat at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners sat at table together with Jesus and his disciples. For those who followed him were many.
16And the scribes and the Pharisees, seeing that he ate with tax collectors and sinners, said to his disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
17Jesus, having heard this, said to them: “The healthy have no need of a doctor, but those who have maladies do. For I came not to call the just, but sinners.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of 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.

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Saint of the day

St. Marcellus I

Pope and Martyr · Remembered on January 16

Read about St. Marcellus I

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