First Reading Judges 11:29-39a
Read in the CPDV: Judges 11
Thursday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday
Mass Readings for Thursday, August 19, 2027
On Thursday, August 19, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Thursday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle I); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Matthew 22:1-14.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Green
- Celebration
- Thursday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time
- Season
- Ordinary Time · Week 20
- Rank
- Weekday
- Sunday cycle
- Year B
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle I
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 40:5, 7-8a, 8b-9, 10
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 40 (39 in the Vulgate)
Alleluia Psalm 95:8
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 95 (94 in the Vulgate)
Gospel Matthew 22:1-14
1And responding, Jesus again spoke to them in parables, saying:
2“The kingdom of heaven is like a man who was king, who celebrated a wedding for his son.
3And he sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding. But they were not willing to come.
4Again, he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell the invited: Behold, I have prepared my meal. My bulls and fatlings have been killed, and all is ready. Come to the wedding.’
5But they ignored this and they went away: one to his country estate, and another to his business.
6Yet truly, the rest took hold of his servants and, having treated them with contempt, killed them.
7But when the king heard this, he was angry. And sending out his armies, he destroyed those murderers, and he burned their city.
8Then he said to his servants: ‘The wedding, indeed, has been prepared. But those who were invited were not worthy.
9Therefore, go out to the ways, and call whomever you will find to the wedding.’
10And his servants, departing into the ways, gathered all those whom they found, bad and good, and the wedding was filled with guests.
11Then the king entered to see the guests. And he saw a man there who was not clothed in a wedding garment.
12And he said to him, ‘Friend, how is it that you have entered here without having a wedding garment?’ But he was dumbstruck.
13Then the king said to the ministers: ‘Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
14For many are called, but few are chosen.’”
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Matthew 22
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
Priest · Remembered on August 19
The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Thursday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time).