---
title: "Mass Readings for March 3, 2027 (Wednesday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/03/03/
description: "March 3, 2027: Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent, Year B, Cycle I, violet. Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9; Psalm 147; Matthew 5:17-19. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Wednesday, March 3, 2027*

On Wednesday, March 3, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent (Cycle I); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Matthew 5:17-19.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Violet

- **Celebration**: Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent
- **Season**: Lent · Week 3
- **Rank**: Weekday
- **Sunday cycle**: Year B
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle I

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9

Read in the CPDV: [Deuteronomy 4](https://blessbible.app/bible/deuteronomy/4/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 147:12–20 (147 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/147/)

### Verse before the Gospel: See John 6:63c, 68c

Read in the CPDV: [John 6](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/6/)

### Gospel: Matthew 5:17-19

- 17 Do not think that I have come to loosen the law or the prophets. I have not come to loosen, but to fulfill.
- 18 Amen I say to you, certainly, until heaven and earth pass away, not one iota, not one dot shall pass away from the law, until all is done.
- 19 Therefore, whoever will have loosened one of the least of these commandments, and have taught men so, shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever will have done and taught these, such a one shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Matthew 5](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/5/)

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. Katharine Drexel](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-katharine-drexel/)

Virgin · Remembered on March 3

[Read about St. Katharine Drexel](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-katharine-drexel/)

The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent).

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