--- title: "Mass Readings for March 14, 2027: Fifth Sunday of Lent" url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/03/14/ description: "March 14, 2027: Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year B, violet. Jeremiah 31:31-34; Psalm 51:3-4, 12-13, 14-15; Hebrews 5:7-9; John 12:20-33. Gospel in the CPDV." updated: 2026-10-20 --- Fifth Sunday of Lent # Mass Readings *for Sunday, March 14, 2027* On Sunday, March 14, 2027, the Church in the United States celebrates the Fifth Sunday of Lent (Year B); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is John 12:20-33. Updated October 20, 2026 ## The liturgical day Liturgical color Violet - **Celebration**: Fifth Sunday of Lent - **Season**: Lent · Week 5 - **Rank**: Sunday - **Sunday cycle**: Year B - **Weekday cycle**: Cycle I ## Mass readings (US) ### Year B readings #### First Reading: Jeremiah 31:31-34 Read in the CPDV: [Jeremiah 31](https://blessbible.app/bible/jeremiah/31/) #### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 51:3-4, 12-13, 14-15 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 51 (50 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/50/) #### Second Reading: Hebrews 5:7-9 - 7 It is Christ who, in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offered prayers and supplications to the One who was able to save him from death, and who was heard because of his reverence. - 8 And although, certainly, he is the Son of God, he learned obedience by the things that he suffered. - 9 And having reached his consummation, he was made, for all who are obedient to him, the cause of eternal salvation, Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Hebrews 5](https://blessbible.app/bible/hebrews/5/) #### Verse before the Gospel: John 12:26 Read in the CPDV: [John 12](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/12/) #### Gospel: John 12:20-33 - 20 Now there were certain Gentiles among those who went up so that they might worship on the feast day. - 21 Therefore, these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and they petitioned him, saying: “Sir, we want to see Jesus.” - 22 Philip went and told Andrew. Next, Andrew and Philip told Jesus. - 23 But Jesus answered them by saying: “The hour arrives when the Son of man shall be glorified. - 24 Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, - 25 it remains alone. But if it dies, it yields much fruit. Whoever loves his life, will lose it. And whoever hates his life in this world, preserves it unto eternal life. - 26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me. And where I am, there too my minister shall be. If anyone has served me, my Father will honor him. - 27 Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say? Father, save me from this hour? But it is for this reason that I came to this hour. - 28 Father, glorify your name!” And then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.” - 29 Therefore, the crowd, which was standing near and had heard it, said that it was like thunder. Others were saying, “An Angel was speaking with him.” - 30 Jesus responded and said: “This voice came, not for my sake, but for your sakes. - 31 Now is the judgment of the world. Now will the prince of this world be cast out. - 32 And when I have been lifted up from the earth, I will draw all things to myself.” - 33 (Now he said this, signifying what kind of death he would die.) Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of John 12](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/12/) ### Year A readings (may be used in any year) #### First Reading: Ezekiel 37:12-14 Read in the CPDV: [Ezekiel 37](https://blessbible.app/bible/ezekiel/37/) #### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 130 (129 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/129/) #### Second Reading: Romans 8:8-11 - 8 So those who are in the flesh are not able to please God. - 9 And you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if it is true that the Spirit of God lives within you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him. - 10 But if Christ is within you, then the body is indeed dead, concerning sin, but the spirit truly lives, because of justification. - 11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead lives within you, then he who raised up Jesus Christ from the dead shall also enliven your mortal bodies, by means of his Spirit living within you. Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Romans 8](https://blessbible.app/bible/romans/8/) #### Verse before the Gospel: John 11:25a, 26 Read in the CPDV: [John 11](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/11/) #### Gospel: John 11:1-45 - 1 Now there was a certain sick man, Lazarus of Bethania, from the town of Mary and her sister Martha. - 2 And Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was sick. - 3 Therefore, his sisters sent to him, saying: “Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick.” - 4 Then, upon hearing this, Jesus said to them: “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it.” - 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister Mary, and Lazarus. - 6 Even so, after he heard that he was sick, he then still remained in the same place for two days. - 7 Then, after these things, he said to his disciples, “Let us go into Judea again.” - 8 The disciples said to him: “Rabbi, the Jews are even now seeking to stone you. And would you go there again?” - 9 Jesus responded: “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the daylight, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. - 10 But if he walks in the nighttime, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.” - 11 He said these things, and after this, he said to them: “Lazarus our friend is sleeping. But I am going, so that I may awaken him from sleep.” - 12 And so his disciples said, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he shall be healthy.” - 13 But Jesus had spoken about his death. Yet they thought that he spoke about the repose of sleep. - 14 Therefore, Jesus then said to them plainly, “Lazarus has died. - 15 And I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” - 16 And then Thomas, who is called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go, too, so that we may die with him.” - 17 And so Jesus went. And he found that he had already been in the tomb for four days. - 18 (Now Bethania was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia.) - 19 And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, so as to console them over their brother. - 20 Therefore, Martha, when she heard that Jesus was arriving, went out to meet him. But Mary was sitting at home. - 21 And then Martha said to Jesus: “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. - 22 But even now, I know that whatever you will request from God, God will give to you.” - 23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother shall rise again.” - 24 Martha said to him, “I know that he shall rise again, at the resurrection on the last day.” - 25 Jesus said to her: “I am the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in me, even though he has died, he shall live. - 26 And everyone who lives and believes in me shall not die for eternity. Do you believe this?” - 27 She said to him: “Certainly, Lord. I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God, who has come into this world.” - 28 And when she had said these things, she went and called her sister Mary quietly, saying, “The Teacher is here, and he is calling you.” - 29 When she heard this, she rose up quickly and went to him. - 30 For Jesus had not yet arrived in the town. But he was still at that place where Martha had met him. - 31 Therefore, the Jews who were with her in the house and who were consoling her, when they had seen that Mary rose up quickly and went out, they followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb, so that she may weep there.” - 32 Therefore, when Mary had arrived to where Jesus was, seeing him, she fell down at his feet, and she said to him. “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” - 33 And then, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had arrived with her weeping, he groaned in spirit and became troubled. - 34 And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” - 35 And Jesus wept. - 36 Therefore, the Jews said, “See how much he loved him!” - 37 But some of them said, “Would not he who opened the eyes of one born blind have been able to cause this man not to die?” - 38 Therefore, Jesus, again groaning from within himself, went to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone had been placed over it. - 39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who had died, said to him, “Lord, by now it will smell, for this is the fourth day.” - 40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe, you shall see the glory of God?” - 41 Therefore, they took away the stone. Then, lifting up his eyes, Jesus said: “Father, I give thanks to you because you have heard me. - 42 And I know that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the people who are standing nearby, so that they may believe that you have sent me.” - 43 When he had said these things, he cried in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.” - 44 And immediately, he who had been dead went forth, bound at the feet and hands with winding bands. And his face was bound with a separate cloth. Jesus said to them, “Release him and let him go.” - 45 Therefore, many of the Jews, who had come to Mary and Martha, and who had seen the things that Jesus did, believed in him. Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of John 11](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/11/) 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. Spotted a wrong date, color or citation? 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