First Reading Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22
Read in the CPDV: Ruth 1
St. Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church · Memorial
Mass Readings for Friday, August 20, 2027
On Friday, August 20, 2027, the Church in the United States celebrates the memorial of Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church (Cycle I); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is Matthew 22:34-40.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
White
- Celebration
- St. Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church
- Season
- Ordinary Time · Week 20
- Rank
- Memorial
- Sunday cycle
- Year B
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle I
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 146:5-6ab, 6c-7, 8-9a, 9bc-10
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 146 (145 in the Vulgate)
Alleluia Psalm 25:4b, 5a
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 25 (24 in the Vulgate)
Gospel Matthew 22:34-40
34But the Pharisees, hearing that he had caused the Sadducees to be silent, came together as one.
35And one of them, a doctor of the law, questioned him, to test him:
36“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
37Jesus said to him: “‘You shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
38This is the greatest and first commandment.
39But the second is similar to it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
40On these two commandments the entire law depends, and also the prophets.”
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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Abbot and Doctor of the Church · Feast day August 20