Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children · Weekday

Mass Readings for Friday, January 22, 2027

On Friday, January 22, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children (Cycle I); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is Mark 3:13-19.

Updated October 20, 2026

Liturgical color

White

Celebration: Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children
Season: Ordinary Time · Week 2
Rank: Weekday
Sunday cycle: Year B
Weekday cycle: Cycle I

Mass readings US

First Reading Hebrews 8:6-13

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.
7For if the former one had been entirely without fault, then a place certainly would not have been sought for a subsequent one.
8For, finding fault with them, he says: “Behold, the days shall arrive, says the Lord, when I will consummate a New Testament over the house of Israel and the house of Judah,
9not according to the testament which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand, so that I might lead them away from the land of Egypt. For they did not remain in my testament, and so I disregarded them, says the Lord.
10For this is the testament which I will set before the house of Israel, after those days, says the Lord. I will instill my laws in their minds, and I will inscribe my laws on their hearts. And so, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
11And they will not teach, each one his neighbor, and each one his brother, saying: ‘Know the Lord.’ For all shall know me, from the least, even to the greatest of them.
12For I will forgive their iniquities, and I will no longer remember their sins.”
13Now in saying something new, he has made the former old. But that which decays and grows old is close to passing away.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Hebrews 8

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 85:8 and 10, 11-12, 13-14

Read in the CPDV: Psalm 85 (84 in the Vulgate)

Alleluia 2 Corinthians 5:19

Read in the CPDV: 2 Corinthians 5

Gospel Mark 3:13-19

13And ascending onto a mountain, he called to himself those whom he willed, and they came to him.
14And he acted so that the twelve would be with him, and so that he might send them out to preach.
15And he gave them authority to cure infirmities, and to cast out demons:
16and he imposed on Simon the name Peter;
17and also he imposed on James of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, the name ‘Boanerges,’ that is, ‘Sons of Thunder;’
18and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Canaanite,
19and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed 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. Vincent of Saragossa

Deacon and Martyr · Remembered on January 22

Read about St. Vincent of Saragossa

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