First Reading Exodus 16:2-4, 12-15
Read in the CPDV: Exodus 16
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings for Sunday, August 1, 2027
On Sunday, August 1, 2027, the Church in the United States celebrates the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is John 6:24-35.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Green
- Celebration
- Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Season
- Ordinary Time · Week 18
- Rank
- Sunday
- Sunday cycle
- Year B
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle I
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 78:3-4, 23-24, 25, 54
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 78 (77 in the Vulgate)
Second Reading Ephesians 4:17, 20-24
17And so, I say this, and I testify in the Lord: that from now on you should walk, not as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,
- Some verses are not read.
20But this is not what you have learned in Christ.
21For certainly, you have listened to him, and you have been instructed in him, according to the truth that is in Jesus:
22to set aside your earlier behavior, the former man, who was corrupted, by means of desire, unto error,
23and so be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
24and so put on the new man, who, in accord with God, is created in justice and in the holiness of truth.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Ephesians 4
Alleluia Matthew 4:4b
Read in the CPDV: Matthew 4
Gospel John 6:24-35
24Therefore, when the crowd had seen that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they climbed into the small boats, and they went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
25And when they had found him across the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”
26Jesus answered them and said: “Amen, amen, I say to you, you seek me, not because you have seen signs, but because you have eaten from the bread and were satisfied.
27Do not work for food that perishes, but for that which endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
28Therefore, they said to him, “What should we do, so that we may labor in the works of God?”
29Jesus responded and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he sent.”
30And so they said to him: “Then what sign will you do, so that we may see it and believe in you? What will you work?
31Our fathers ate manna in the desert, just as it has been written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
32Therefore, Jesus said to them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, Moses did not give you bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
33For the bread of God is he who descends from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34And so they said to him, “Lord, give us this bread always.”
35Then Jesus said to them: “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
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
Bishop and Doctor of the Church · Feast day August 1
The day’s Mass celebrates the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.