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Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Mass Readings for Sunday, July 25, 2027

On Sunday, July 25, 2027, the Church in the United States celebrates the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is John 6:1-15.

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The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Green

Celebration
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Season
Ordinary Time · Week 17
Rank
Sunday
Sunday cycle
Year B
Weekday cycle
Cycle I

Mass readings US

First Reading 2 Kings 4:42-44

Read in the CPDV: 2 Kings 4

Second Reading Ephesians 4:1-6

  • 1And so, as a prisoner in the Lord, I beg you to walk in a manner worthy of the vocation to which you have been called:

  • 2with all humility and meekness, with patience, supporting one another in charity.

  • 3Be anxious to preserve the unity of the Spirit within the bonds of peace.

  • 4One body and one Spirit: to this you have been called by the one hope of your calling:

  • 5one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

  • 6one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Ephesians 4

Alleluia Luke 7:16

Read in the CPDV: Luke 7

Gospel John 6:1-15

  • 1After these things, Jesus traveled across the sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.

  • 2And a great multitude was following him, for they saw the signs that he was accomplishing toward those who were infirm.

  • 3Therefore, Jesus went onto a mountain, and he sat down there with his disciples.

  • 4Now the Passover, the feast day of the Jews, was near.

  • 5And so, when Jesus had lifted up his eyes and had seen that a very great multitude came to him, he said to Philip, “From where should we buy bread, so that these may eat?”

  • 6But he said this to test him. For he himself knew what he would do.

  • 7Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii of bread would not be sufficient for each of them to receive even a little.”

  • 8One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him:

  • 9“There is a certain boy here, who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are these among so many?”

  • 10Then Jesus said, “Have the men sit down to eat.” Now, there was much grass in that place. And so the men, in number about five thousand, sat down to eat.

  • 11Therefore, Jesus took the bread, and when he had given thanks, he distributed it to those who were sitting down to eat; similarly also, from the fish, as much as they wanted.

  • 12Then, when they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather the fragments that are left over, lest they be lost.”

  • 13And so they gathered, and they filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which were left over from those who had eaten.

  • 14Therefore, those men, when they had seen that Jesus had accomplished a sign, they said, “Truly, this one is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

  • 15And so, when he realized that they were going to come and take him away and make him king, Jesus fled back to the mountain, by himself alone.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of John 6

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. James

Apostle · Feast day July 25

Patron of Spain and pilgrims

Read about St. James

The day’s Mass celebrates the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

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