Wednesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday

Mass Readings for Wednesday, January 20, 2027

On Wednesday, January 20, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Wednesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle I); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Mark 3:1-6.

Updated October 20, 2026

Liturgical color

Green

Celebration: Wednesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time
Season: Ordinary Time · Week 2
Rank: Weekday
Sunday cycle: Year B
Weekday cycle: Cycle I

Mass readings US

First Reading Hebrews 7:1-3, 15-17

1For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham, as he was returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him.
2And Abraham divided to him a tenth part of everything. And in translation his name is first, indeed, king of justice, and next also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.
3Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life, he is thereby likened to the Son of God, who remains a priest continuously.
Some verses are not read.
15And yet it is far more evident that, according to the likeness of Melchizedek, there rises up another priest,
16who was made, not according to the law of a carnal commandment, but according to the virtue of an indissoluble life.
17For he testifies: “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Hebrews 7

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 110:1, 2, 3, 4

Read in the CPDV: Psalm 110 (109 in the Vulgate)

Alleluia See Matthew 4:23

Read in the CPDV: Matthew 4

Gospel Mark 3:1-6

1And again, he entered into the synagogue. And there was a man there who had a withered hand.
2And they observed him, to see if he would cure on the Sabbaths, so that they might accuse him.
3And he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Stand up in the middle.”
4And he said to them: “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbaths, or to do evil, to give health to a life, or to destroy?” But they remained silent.
5And looking around at them with anger, being very saddened over the blindness of their hearts, he said to the man, “Extend your hand.” And he extended it, and his hand was restored to him.
6Then the Pharisees, going out, immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him, as to how they might destroy him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Mark 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. Sebastian

Martyr · Remembered on January 20

Patron of athletes, soldiers, and archers

Read about St. Sebastian

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