---
title: "Mass Readings for August 20, 2027: St. Bernard · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/08/20/
description: "August 20, 2027: St. Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church, Year B, Cycle I, white. Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22; Matthew 22:34-40. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

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.

Updated October 20, 2026

## 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)

### First Reading: Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22

Read in the CPDV: [Ruth 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/ruth/1/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 146:5-6ab, 6c-7, 8-9a, 9bc-10

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 146 (145 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/145/)

### Alleluia: Psalm 25:4b, 5a

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 25 (24 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/24/)

### Gospel: Matthew 22:34-40

- 34 But the Pharisees, hearing that he had caused the Sadducees to be silent, came together as one.
- 35 And one of them, a doctor of the law, questioned him, to test him:
- 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
- 37 Jesus said to him: “‘You shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
- 38 This is the greatest and first commandment.
- 39 But the second is similar to it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
- 40 On these two commandments the entire law depends, and also the prophets.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Matthew 22](https://blessbible.app/bible/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

[St. Bernard of Clairvaux](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bernard-of-clairvaux/)

Abbot and Doctor of the Church · Feast day August 20

[Read about St. Bernard of Clairvaux](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bernard-of-clairvaux/)

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