---
title: "Mass Readings for July 20, 2027 (Tuesday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/07/20/
description: "July 20, 2027: Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Year B, Cycle I, green. Exodus 14:21—15:1; Exodus 15; Matthew 12:46-50. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Tuesday, July 20, 2027*

On Tuesday, July 20, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle I); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Matthew 12:46-50.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Green

- **Celebration**: Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time
- **Season**: Ordinary Time · Week 16
- **Rank**: Weekday
- **Sunday cycle**: Year B
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle I

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: Exodus 14:21—15:1

Read in the CPDV: [Exodus 14](https://blessbible.app/bible/exodus/14/) [Exodus 15](https://blessbible.app/bible/exodus/15/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Exodus 15:8-9, 10 and 12, 17

Read in the CPDV: [Exodus 15](https://blessbible.app/bible/exodus/15/)

### Alleluia: John 14:23

Read in the CPDV: [John 14](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/14/)

### Gospel: Matthew 12:46-50

- 46 While he was still speaking to the crowds, behold, his mother and his brothers were standing outside, seeking to speak with him.
- 47 And someone said to him: “Behold, your mother and your brothers are standing outside, seeking you.”
- 48 But responding to the one speaking to him, he said, “Which one is my mother, and who are my brothers?”
- 49 And extending his hand to his disciples, he said: “Behold: my mother and my brothers.
- 50 For anyone who does the will of my Father, who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Matthew 12](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/12/)

Computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

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. Apollinaris of Ravenna](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-apollinaris-of-ravenna/)

Bishop and Martyr · Remembered on July 20

[Read about St. Apollinaris of Ravenna](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-apollinaris-of-ravenna/)

The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time).

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