---
title: "Mass Readings for July 21, 2027 (Wednesday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/07/21/
description: "July 21, 2027: Wednesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Year B, Cycle I, green. Exodus 16:1-5, 9-15; Psalm 78; Matthew 13:1-9. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Wednesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Wednesday, July 21, 2027*

On Wednesday, July 21, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Wednesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle I); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Matthew 13:1-9.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Green

- **Celebration**: Wednesday 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 16:1-5, 9-15

Read in the CPDV: [Exodus 16](https://blessbible.app/bible/exodus/16/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 78:18-19, 23-24, 25-26, 27-28

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 78 (77 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/77/)

### Gospel: Matthew 13:1-9

- 1 In that day, Jesus, departing from the house, sat down beside the sea.
- 2 And such great crowds were gathered to him that he climbed into a boat and he sat down. And the entire multitude stood on the shore.
- 3 And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow seed.
- 4 And while he was sowing, some fell beside the road, and the birds of the air came and ate it.
- 5 Then others fell in a rocky place, where they did not have much soil. And they sprung up promptly, because they had no depth of soil.
- 6 But when the sun rose up, they were scorched, and because they had no roots, they withered.
- 7 Still others fell among thorns, and the thorns increased and suffocated them.
- 8 Yet some others fell upon good soil, and they produced fruit: some one hundred fold, some sixty fold, some thirty fold.
- 9 Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Matthew 13](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/13/)

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. Lawrence of Brindisi](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-lawrence-of-brindisi/)

Priest and Doctor of the Church · Remembered on July 21

[Read about St. Lawrence of Brindisi](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-lawrence-of-brindisi/)

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

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