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title: "Mass Readings for March 18, 2027 (Thursday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/03/18/
description: "March 18, 2027: Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent, Year B, Cycle I, violet. Genesis 17:3-9; Psalm 105:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; John 8:51-59. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Thursday, March 18, 2027*

On Thursday, March 18, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent (Cycle I); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is John 8:51-59.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Violet

- **Celebration**: Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent
- **Season**: Lent · Week 5
- **Rank**: Weekday
- **Sunday cycle**: Year B
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle I

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: Genesis 17:3-9

Read in the CPDV: [Genesis 17](https://blessbible.app/bible/genesis/17/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 105:4-5, 6-7, 8-9

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 105 (104 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/104/)

### Verse before the Gospel: Psalm 95:8

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 95 (94 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/94/)

### Gospel: John 8:51-59

- 51 Amen, amen, I say to you, if anyone will have kept my word, he will not see death for eternity.”
- 52 Therefore, the Jews said: “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham is dead, and the Prophets; and yet you say, ‘If anyone will have kept my word, he shall not taste death for eternity.’
- 53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead. So who do you make yourself to be?”
- 54 Jesus responded: “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me. And you say about him that he is your God.
- 55 And yet you have not known him. But I know him. And if I were to say that I do not know him, then I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and I keep his word.
- 56 Abraham, your father, rejoiced that he might see my day; he saw it and was glad.”
- 57 And so the Jews said to him, “You have not yet reached fifty years, and you have seen Abraham?”
- 58 Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was made, I am.”
- 59 Therefore, they took up stones to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself, and he departed from the temple.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of John 8](https://blessbible.app/bible/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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## Saint of the day

[St. Cyril of Jerusalem](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cyril-of-jerusalem/)

Bishop and Doctor of the Church · Remembered on March 18

[Read about St. Cyril of Jerusalem](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cyril-of-jerusalem/)

The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent).

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