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Seventh Sunday of Easter — Ascension · Solemnity

Mass Readings for Sunday, May 9, 2027

On Sunday, May 9, 2027, most dioceses in the United States celebrate the Ascension of the Lord (Year B); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is Mark 16:15-20.

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The liturgical day

Liturgical color

White

Celebration
Seventh Sunday of Easter — Ascension
Season
Easter Time · Week 7
Rank
Solemnity
Sunday cycle
Year B
Weekday cycle
Cycle I

Mass readings US

The Ascension of the Lord, in most US dioceses

First Reading Acts 1:1-11

  • 1Certainly, O Theophilus, I composed the first discourse about everything that Jesus began to do and to teach,

  • 2instructing the Apostles, whom he had chosen through the Holy Spirit, even until the day on which he was taken up.

  • 3He also presented himself alive to them, after his Passion, appearing to them throughout forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God with many elucidations.

  • 4And dining with them, he instructed them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but that they should wait for the Promise of the Father, “about which you have heard,” he said, “from my own mouth.

  • 5For John, indeed, baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit, not many days from now.”

  • 6Therefore, those who had assembled together questioned him, saying, “Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom of Israel?”

  • 7But he said to them: “It is not yours to know the times or the moments, which the Father has set by his own authority.

  • 8But you shall receive the power of the Holy Spirit, passing over you, and you shall be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the ends of the earth.”

  • 9And when he had said these things, while they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight.

  • 10And while they were watching him going up to heaven, behold, two men stood near them in white vestments.

  • 11And they said: “Men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, shall return in just the same way that you have seen him going up to heaven.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Acts 1

Second Reading Ephesians 1:17-23

  • 17so that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give a spirit of wisdom and of revelation to you, in knowledge of him.

  • 18May the eyes of your heart be illuminated, so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and the wealth of the glory of his inheritance with the saints,

  • 19and the preeminent magnitude of his virtue toward us, toward we who believe in accord with the work of his powerful virtue,

  • 20which he wrought in Christ, raising him from the dead and establishing him at his right hand in the heavens,

  • 21above every principality and power and virtue and dominion, and above every name that is given, not only in this age, but even in the future age.

  • 22And he has subjected all things under his feet, and he has made him the head over the entire Church,

  • 23which is his body and which is the fullness of him who accomplishes everything in everyone.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Ephesians 1

Gospel Mark 16:15-20

  • 15And he said to them: “Go forth to the whole world and preach the Gospel to every creature.

  • 16Whoever will have believed and been baptized will be saved. Yet truly, whoever will not have believed will be condemned.

  • 17Now these signs will accompany those who believe. In my name, they shall cast out demons. They will speak in new languages.

  • 18They will take up serpents, and, if they drink anything deadly, it will not harm them. They shall lay their hands upon the sick, and they will be well.”

  • 19And indeed, the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and he sits at the right hand of God.

  • 20Then they, setting out, preached everywhere, with the Lord cooperating and confirming the word by the accompanying signs.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Mark 16

Seventh Sunday of Easter, where the Ascension was kept on Thursday

First Reading Acts 1:15-17, 20a, 20c-26

  • 15In those days, Peter, rising up in the midst of the brothers, said (now the crowd of men altogether was about one hundred and twenty):

  • 16“Noble brothers, the Scripture must be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit predicted by the mouth of David about Judas, who was the leader of those who apprehended Jesus.

  • 17He had been numbered among us, and he was chosen by lot for this ministry.

  • Some verses are not read.

  • 20For it has been written in the book of Psalms: ‘Let their dwelling place be desolate and may there be no one who dwells within it,’ and ‘Let another take his episcopate.’

  • 21Therefore, it is necessary that, out of these men who have been assembling with us throughout the entire time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

  • 22beginning from the baptism of John, until the day when he was taken up from us, one of these be made a witness with us of his Resurrection.”

  • 23And they appointed two: Joseph, who was called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

  • 24And praying, they said: “May you, O Lord, who knows the heart of everyone, reveal which one of these two you have chosen,

  • 25to take a place in this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas prevaricated, so that he might go to his own place.”

  • 26And they cast lots concerning them, and the lot fell upon Matthias. And he was numbered with the eleven Apostles.

Catholic Public Domain Version · part-verses shown as whole verses

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Acts 1

Second Reading 1 John 4:11-16

  • 11Most beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

  • 12No one has ever seen God. But if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

  • 13In this way, we know that we abide in him, and he in us: because he has given to us from his Spirit.

  • 14And we have seen, and we testify, that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

  • 15Whoever has confessed that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

  • 16And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love. And he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of 1 John 4

Alleluia Cf. John 14:18

Read in the CPDV: John 14

Gospel John 17:11b-19

  • 11And though I am not in the world, these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Father most holy, preserve them in your name, those whom you have given to me, so that they may be one, even as we are one.

  • 12While I was with them, I preserved them in your name. I have guarded those whom you have given to me, and not one of them is lost, except the son of perdition, so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

  • 13And now I am coming to you. But I am speaking these things in the world, so that they may have the fullness of my joy within themselves.

  • 14I have given them your word, and the world has hated them. For they are not of the world, just as I, too, am not of the world.

  • 15I am not praying that you would take them out of the world, but that you would preserve them from evil.

  • 16They are not of the world, just as I also am not of the world.

  • 17Sanctify them in truth. Your word is truth.

  • 18Just as you have sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

  • 19And it is for them that I sanctify myself, so that they, too, may be sanctified in truth.

Catholic Public Domain Version · part-verses shown as whole verses

Read in the CPDV: The whole of John 17

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. Pachomius

Abbot · Remembered on May 9

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The day’s Mass celebrates the Ascension of the Lord, in most US dioceses.

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