First Reading Sirach 5:1-8
Read in the CPDV: Sirach 5
Thursday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday
Mass Readings for Thursday, May 20, 2027
On Thursday, May 20, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Thursday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle I); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Mark 9:41-50.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Green
- Celebration
- Thursday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
- Season
- Ordinary Time · Week 7
- Rank
- Weekday
- Sunday cycle
- Year B
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle I
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 1:1-4, 6
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 1
Alleluia 1 Thessalonians 2:13
Read in the CPDV: 1 Thessalonians 2
Gospel Mark 9:41-50
40For whoever, in my name, will give you a cup of water to drink, because you belong to Christ: Amen I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.
41And whoever will have scandalized one of these little ones who believe in me: it would be better for him if a great millstone were placed around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.
42And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off: it is better for you to enter into life disabled, than having two hands to go into Hell, into the unquenchable fire,
- Some verses are not read.
44But if your foot causes you to sin, chop it off: it is better for you to enter into eternal life lame, than having two feet to be cast into the Hell of unquenchable fire,
- Some verses are not read.
46But if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out: it is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into the Hell of fire,
47where their worm does not die, and the fire is not extinguished.
48For all shall be salted with fire, and every victim shall be salted with salt.
49Salt is good: but if the salt has become bland, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace among yourselves.”
Catholic Public Domain Version · in the CPDV this is Mark 9:40–42, 44, 46–49
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Mark 9
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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