First Reading Genesis 9:8-15
Read in the CPDV: Genesis 9
First Sunday of Lent
Mass Readings for Sunday, February 14, 2027
On Sunday, February 14, 2027, the Church in the United States celebrates the First Sunday of Lent (Year B); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Mark 1:12-15.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Violet
- Celebration
- First Sunday of Lent
- Season
- Lent · Week 1
- Rank
- Sunday
- Sunday cycle
- Year B
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle I
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 25 (24 in the Vulgate)
Second Reading 1 Peter 3:18-22
18For Christ also died once for our sins, the Just One on behalf of the unjust, so that he might offer us to God, having died, certainly, in the flesh, but having been enlivened by the Spirit.
19And in the Spirit, he preached to those who were in prison, going to those souls
20who had been unbelieving in past times, while they waited for the patience of God, as in the days of Noah, when the ark was being built. In that ark, a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.
21And now you also are saved, in a similar manner, by baptism, not by the testimony of sordid flesh, but by the examination of a good conscience in God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
22He is at the right hand of God, devouring death, so that we may be made heirs to eternal life. And since he has journeyed to heaven, the Angels and powers and virtues are subject to him.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of 1 Peter 3
Verse before the Gospel Matthew 4:4b
Read in the CPDV: Matthew 4
Gospel Mark 1:12-15
12And immediately the Spirit prompted him into the desert.
13And he was in the desert for forty days and forty nights. And he was tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the Angels ministered to him.
14Then, after John was handed over, Jesus went into Galilee, preaching the Gospel of the kingdom of God,
15and saying: “For the time has been fulfilled and the kingdom of God has drawn near. Repent and believe in the Gospel.”
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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Saint of the day
Apostles to the Slavs · Feast day February 14
The day’s Mass celebrates the First Sunday of Lent.