--- title: "Mass Readings for April 3, 2027 (Saturday) · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/04/03/ description: "April 3, 2027: Saturday in the Octave of Easter, Year B, Cycle I, white. Acts 4:13-21; Psalm 118; Mark 16:9-15. Gospel in the CPDV." updated: 2026-10-20 --- Saturday in the Octave of Easter · Weekday # Mass Readings *for Saturday, April 3, 2027* On Saturday, April 3, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Saturday in the Octave of Easter (Cycle I); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is Mark 16:9-15. Updated October 20, 2026 ## The liturgical day Liturgical color White - **Celebration**: Saturday in the Octave of Easter - **Season**: Easter Time · Week 1 - **Rank**: Weekday - **Sunday cycle**: Year B - **Weekday cycle**: Cycle I ## Mass readings (US) ### First Reading: Acts 4:13-21 - 13 Then, seeing the constancy of Peter and John, having verified that they were men without letters or learning, they wondered. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus. - 14 Also, seeing the man who had been cured standing with them, they were unable to say anything to contradict them. - 15 But they ordered them to withdraw outside, away from the council, and they conferred among themselves, - 16 saying: “What shall we do to these men? For certainly a public sign has been done through them, before all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. It is manifest, and we cannot deny it. - 17 But lest it spread further among the people, let us threaten them not to speak anymore in this name to any man.” - 18 And calling them in, they warned them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. - 19 Yet truly, Peter and John said in response to them: “Judge whether it is just in the sight of God to listen to you, rather than to God. - 20 For we are unable to refrain from speaking the things that we have seen and heard.” - 21 But they, threatening them, sent them away, having not found a way that they might punish them because of the people. For all were glorifying the things that had been done in these events. Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Acts 4](https://blessbible.app/bible/acts/4/) ### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 118:1 and 14-15ab, 16-18, 19-21 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 118 (117 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/117/) ### Alleluia: Psalm 118:24 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 118 (117 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/117/) ### Gospel: Mark 16:9-15 - 9 But he, rising early on the first Sabbath, appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. - 10 She went and announced it to those who had been with him, while they were mourning and weeping. - 11 And they, upon hearing that he was alive and that he had been seen by her, did not believe it. - 12 But after these events, he was shown in another likeness to two of them walking, as they were going out to the countryside. - 13 And they, returning, reported it to the others; neither did they believe them. - 14 Finally, he appeared to the eleven, as they sat at table. And he rebuked them for their incredulity and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen that he had risen again. - 15 And he said to them: “Go forth to the whole world and preach the Gospel to every creature. Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Mark 16](https://blessbible.app/bible/mark/16/) 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? [Report an error](https://blessbible.app/support/#report) and we’ll fix it in the app and here. ## Saint of the day [St. Richard of Chichester](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-richard-of-chichester/) Bishop · Remembered on April 3 [Read about St. Richard of Chichester](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-richard-of-chichester/) The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Saturday in the Octave of Easter). [April 2027, day by day](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/04/) [Liturgical calendar 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/) [Today in the Church](https://blessbible.app/today/) [Previous day Fri, Apr 2](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/04/02/) [Next day Sun, Apr 4](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/04/04/)