--- title: "Mass Readings for April 22, 2027 (Thursday) · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/04/22/ description: "April 22, 2027: Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter, Year B, Cycle I, white. Acts 13:13-25; Psalm 89; John 13:16-20. Gospel in the CPDV." updated: 2026-10-20 --- Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter · Weekday # Mass Readings *for Thursday, April 22, 2027* On Thursday, April 22, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter (Cycle I); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is John 13:16-20. Updated October 20, 2026 ## The liturgical day Liturgical color White - **Celebration**: Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter - **Season**: Easter Time · Week 4 - **Rank**: Weekday - **Sunday cycle**: Year B - **Weekday cycle**: Cycle I ## Mass readings (US) ### First Reading: Acts 13:13-25 - 13 And when Paul and those who were with him had sailed from Paphos, they arrived at Perga in Pamphylia. Then John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem. - 14 Yet truly, they, traveling on from Perga, arrived at Antioch in Pisidia. And upon entering the synagogue on the Sabbath day, they sat down. - 15 Then, after the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent to them, saying: “Noble brothers, if there is in you any word of exhortation to the people, speak.” - 16 Then Paul, rising up and motioning for silence with his hand, said: “Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen closely. - 17 The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people, when they were settlers in the land of Egypt. And with an exalted arm, he led them away from there. - 18 And throughout a time of forty years, he endured their behavior in the desert. - 19 And by destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their land among them by lot, - 20 after about four hundred and fifty years. And after these things, he gave them judges, even until the prophet Samuel. - 21 And later on, they petitioned for a king. And God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. - 22 And having removed him, he raised up for them king David. And offering testimony about him, he said, ‘I have found David, the son of Jesse, to be a man according to my own heart, who will accomplish all that I will.’ - 23 From his offspring, according to the Promise, God has brought Jesus the Savior to Israel. - 24 John was preaching, before the face of his advent, a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. - 25 Then, when John completed his course, he was saying: ‘I am not the one you consider me to be. For behold, one arrives after me, the shoes of whose feet I am not worthy to loosen.’ Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Acts 13](https://blessbible.app/bible/acts/13/) ### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 89:2-3, 21-22, 25 and 27 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 89 (88 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/88/) ### Alleluia: See Revelation 1:5ab Read in the CPDV: [Revelation 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/revelation/1/) ### Gospel: John 13:16-20 - 16 Amen, amen, I say to you, the servant is not greater than his Lord, and the apostle is not greater than he who sent him. - 17 If you understand this, you shall be blessed if you will do it. - 18 I am not speaking about all of you. I know those whom I have chosen. But this is so that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me shall lift up his heel against me.’ - 19 And I tell you this now, before it happens, so that when it has happened, you may believe that I am. - 20 Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever receives anyone whom I send, receives me. And whoever receives me, receives him who sent me.” Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of John 13](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/13/) 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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