--- title: "Mass Readings for April 30, 2027 (Friday) · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/04/30/ description: "April 30, 2027: Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter, Year B, Cycle I, white. Acts 15:22-31; Psalm 57:8-9, 10 and 12; John 15:12-17. Gospel in the CPDV." updated: 2026-10-20 --- Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter · Weekday # Mass Readings *for Friday, April 30, 2027* On Friday, April 30, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter (Cycle I); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is John 15:12-17. Updated October 20, 2026 ## The liturgical day Liturgical color White - **Celebration**: Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter - **Season**: Easter Time · Week 5 - **Rank**: Weekday - **Sunday cycle**: Year B - **Weekday cycle**: Cycle I ## Mass readings (US) ### First Reading: Acts 15:22-31 - 22 Then it pleased the Apostles and elders, with the whole Church, to choose men from among them, and to send to Antioch, with Paul and Barnabas, and Judas, who was surnamed Barsabbas, and Silas, preeminent men among the brothers, - 23 what was written by their own hands: “The Apostles and elders, brothers, to those who are at Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, brothers from the Gentiles, greetings. - 24 Since we have heard that some, going out from among us, have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, to whom we gave no commandment, - 25 it pleased us, being assembled as one, to choose men and to send them to you, with our most beloved Barnabas and Paul: - 26 men who have handed over their lives on behalf of the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. - 27 Therefore, we have sent Judas and Silas, who themselves also will, with the spoken word, reaffirm to you the same things. - 28 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose no further burden upon you, other than these necessary things: - 29 that you abstain from things immolated to idols, and from blood, and from what has been suffocated, and from fornication. You will do well to keep yourselves from these things. Farewell.” - 30 And so, having been dismissed, they went down to Antioch. And gathering the multitude together, they delivered the epistle. - 31 And when they had read it, they were gladdened by this consolation. Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Acts 15](https://blessbible.app/bible/acts/15/) ### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 57:8-9, 10 and 12 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 57 (56 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/56/) ### Alleluia: John 15:15b Read in the CPDV: [John 15](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/15/) ### Gospel: John 15:12-17 - 12 This is my precept: that you love one another, just as I have loved you. - 13 No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends. - 14 You are my friends, if you do what I instruct you. - 15 I will no longer call you servants, for the servant does not know what his Lord is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything whatsoever that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you. - 16 You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. And I have appointed you, so that you may go forth and bear fruit, and so that your fruit may last. Then whatever you have asked of the Father in my name, he shall give to you. - 17 This I command you: that you love one another. Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of John 15](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/15/) 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. Pius V](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-pius-v/) Pope · Remembered on April 30 [Read about St. Pius V](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-pius-v/) The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Friday of the Fifth Week 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 Thu, Apr 29](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/04/29/) [Next day Sat, May 1](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/05/01/)