First Reading Daniel 3:14-20, 91-92, 95
Read in the CPDV: Daniel 3
Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent · Weekday
Mass Readings for Wednesday, March 17, 2027
On Wednesday, March 17, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent (Cycle I); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is John 8:31-42.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Violet
- Celebration
- Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent
- Season
- Lent · Week 5
- Rank
- Weekday
- Sunday cycle
- Year B
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle I
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm Daniel 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56
Read in the CPDV: Daniel 3
Verse before the Gospel See Luke 8:15
Read in the CPDV: Luke 8
Gospel John 8:31-42
31Therefore, Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him: “If you will abide in my word, you will truly be my disciples.
32And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”
33They answered him: “We are the offspring of Abraham, and we have never been a slave to anyone. How can you say, ‘You shall be set free?’”
34Jesus answered them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.
35Now the slave does not abide in the house for eternity. Yet the Son does abide in eternity.
36Therefore, if the Son has set you free, then you will truly be free.
37I know that you are sons of Abraham. But you are seeking to kill me, because my word has not taken hold in you.
38I speak what I have seen with my Father. And you do what you have seen with your father.”
39They responded and said to him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them: “If you are the sons of Abraham, then do the works of Abraham.
40But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, which I have heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.
41You do the works of your father.” Therefore, they said to him: “We were not born out of fornication. We have one father: God.”
42Then Jesus said to them: “If God were your father, certainly you would love me. For I proceeded and came from God. For I did not come from myself, but he sent me.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of John 8
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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