First Reading Joshua 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b
Read in the CPDV: Joshua 24
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings for Sunday, August 22, 2027
On Sunday, August 22, 2027, the Church in the United States celebrates the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is John 6:60-69.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Green
- Celebration
- Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Season
- Ordinary Time · Week 21
- Rank
- Sunday
- Sunday cycle
- Year B
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle I
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 34:2-3, 16-17, 18-19, 20-21
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 34 (33 in the Vulgate)
Second Reading Ephesians 5:21-32 or 5:2a, 25-32
21Be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.
22Wives should be submissive to their husbands, as to the Lord.
23For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the Church. He is the Savior of his body.
24Therefore, just as the Church is subject to Christ, so also should wives be subject to their husbands in all things.
25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her,
26so that he might sanctify her, washing her clean by water and the Word of life,
27so that he might offer her to himself as a glorious Church, not having any spot or wrinkle or any such thing, so that she would be holy and immaculate.
28So, too, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29For no man has ever hated his own flesh, but instead he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also does to the Church.
30For we are a part of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.
31“For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.”
32This is a great Sacrament. And I am speaking in Christ and in the Church.
Catholic Public Domain Version · Shown: the longer form, Ephesians 5:21-32
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Ephesians 5
Alleluia John 6:63c, 68c
Read in the CPDV: John 6
Gospel John 6:60-69
61Therefore, many of his disciples, upon hearing this, said: “This saying is difficult,” and, “Who is able to listen to it?”
62But Jesus, knowing within himself that his disciples were murmuring about this, said to them: “Does this offend you?
63Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending to where he was before?
64It is the Spirit who gives life. The flesh does not offer anything of benefit. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
65But there are some among you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who were unbelieving and which one would betray him.
66And so he said, “For this reason, I said to you that no one is able to come to me, unless it has been given to him by my Father.”
67After this, many of his disciples went back, and they no longer walked with him.
68Therefore, Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?”
69Then Simon Peter answered him: “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
70And we have believed, and we recognize that you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
Catholic Public Domain Version · in the CPDV this is John 6:61–70
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
Martyr · Remembered on August 22
The day’s Mass celebrates the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.