St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr · Memorial

Mass Readings for Thursday, January 21, 2027

On Thursday, January 21, 2027, the Church in the United States celebrates the memorial of Saint Agnes, Virgin and Martyr (Cycle I); the liturgical color is red. The Gospel is Mark 3:7-12.

Updated October 20, 2026

Liturgical color

Red

Celebration: St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr
Season: Ordinary Time · Week 2
Rank: Memorial
Sunday cycle: Year B
Weekday cycle: Cycle I

Mass readings US

First Reading Hebrews 7:25—8:6

25And for this reason, he is able, continuously, to save those who approach God through him, since he is ever alive to make intercession on our behalf.
26For it was fitting that we should have such a High Priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted higher than the heavens.
27And he has no need, daily, in the manner of other priests, to offer sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for those of the people. For he has done this once, by offering himself.
28For the law appoints men as priests, though they have infirmities. But, by the word of the oath that is after the law, the Son has been perfected for eternity.
8:1Now the main point in the things that have been stated is this: that we have so great a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens,
2who is the minister of holy things, and of the true tabernacle, which was established by the Lord, not by man.
3For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, it is necessary for him also to have something to offer.
4And so, if he were upon the earth, he would not be a priest, since there would be others to offer gifts according to the law,
5gifts which serve as mere examples and shadows of the heavenly things. And so it was answered to Moses, when he was about to complete the tabernacle: “See to it,” he said, “that you make everything according to the example which was revealed to you on the mountain.”
6But now he has been granted a better ministry, so much so that he is also the Mediator of a better testament, which has been confirmed by better promises.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Hebrews 7 The whole of Hebrews 8

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 17

Read in the CPDV: Psalm 40 (39 in the Vulgate)

Alleluia 2 Timothy 1:10

Read in the CPDV: 2 Timothy 1

Gospel Mark 3:7-12

7But Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea. And a great crowd followed him from Galilee and Judea,
8and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea and across the Jordan. And those around Tyre and Sidon, upon hearing what he was doing, came to him in a great multitude.
9And he told his disciples that a small boat would be useful to him, because of the crowd, lest they press upon him.
10For he healed so many, that as many of them as had wounds would rush toward him in order to touch him.
11And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell prostrate before him. And they cried out, saying,
12“You are the Son of God.” And he strongly admonished them, lest they make him known.

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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