First Reading Deuteronomy 18:15-20
Read in the CPDV: Deuteronomy 18
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings for Sunday, January 31, 2027
On Sunday, January 31, 2027, the Church in the United States celebrates the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Mark 1:21-28.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Green
- Celebration
- Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Season
- Ordinary Time · Week 4
- Rank
- Sunday
- Sunday cycle
- Year B
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle I
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 7-9
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 95 (94 in the Vulgate)
Second Reading 1 Corinthians 7:32-35
32But I would prefer you to be without worry. Whoever is without a wife is worried about the things of the Lord, as to how he may please God.
33But whoever is with a wife is worried about the things of the world, as to how he may please his wife. And so, he is divided.
34And the unmarried woman and the virgin think about the things that are of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit. But she who is married thinks about the things that are of the world, as to how she may please her husband.
35Furthermore, I am saying this for your own benefit, not in order to cast a snare over you, but toward whatever is honest and whatever may provide you with the ability to be without hindrance, so as to worship the Lord.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of 1 Corinthians 7
Alleluia Matthew 4:16
Read in the CPDV: Matthew 4
Gospel Mark 1:21-28
21And they entered into Capernaum. And entering into the synagogue promptly on the Sabbaths, he taught them.
22And they were astonished over his doctrine. For he was teaching them as one who has authority, and not like the scribes.
23And in their synagogue, there was a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,
24saying: “What are we to you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God.”
25And Jesus admonished him, saying, “Be silent, and depart from the man.”
26And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, departed from him.
27And they were all so amazed that they inquired among themselves, saying: “What is this? And what is this new doctrine? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.”
28And his fame went out quickly, throughout the entire region of Galilee.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Mark 1
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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