---
title: "Mass Readings for July 23, 2027 (Friday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/07/23/
description: "July 23, 2027: Friday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Year B, Cycle I, green. Exodus 20:1-17; Psalm 19; Matthew 13:18-23. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Friday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Friday, July 23, 2027*

On Friday, July 23, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Friday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle I); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Matthew 13:18-23.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Green

- **Celebration**: Friday 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 20:1-17

Read in the CPDV: [Exodus 20](https://blessbible.app/bible/exodus/20/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 19:8, 9, 10, 11

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 19 (18 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/18/)

### Alleluia: See Luke 8:15

Read in the CPDV: [Luke 8](https://blessbible.app/bible/luke/8/)

### Gospel: Matthew 13:18-23

- 18 Listen, then, to the parable of the sower.
- 19 With anyone who hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, evil comes and carries away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received the seed by the side of the road.
- 20 Then whoever has received the seed upon a rocky place, this is one who hears the word and promptly accepts it with joy.
- 21 But he has no root in himself, so it is only for a time; then, when tribulation and persecution occur because of the word, he promptly stumbles.
- 22 And whoever has received the seed among thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the falseness of riches suffocate the word, and he is effectively without fruit.
- 23 Yet truly, whoever has received the seed into good soil, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, and so he bears fruit, and he produces: some a hundred fold, and another sixty fold, and another thirty fold.”

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. Bridget of Sweden](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bridget-of-sweden/)

Religious · Remembered on July 23

Patron of Sweden and Europe

[Read about St. Bridget of Sweden](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bridget-of-sweden/)

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

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