--- title: "Mass Readings for August 22, 2027: 21st Sunday in OT · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/08/22/ description: "August 22, 2027: Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, green. Joshua 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b; John 6:60-69. Gospel in the CPDV." updated: 2026-10-20 --- 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. Updated October 20, 2026 ## 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) ### First Reading: Joshua 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b Read in the CPDV: [Joshua 24](https://blessbible.app/bible/joshua/24/) ### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 34:2-3, 16-17, 18-19, 20-21 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 34 (33 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/33/) ### Second Reading: Ephesians 5:21-32 or 5:2a, 25-32 - 21 Be subject to one another in the fear of Christ. - 22 Wives should be submissive to their husbands, as to the Lord. - 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the Church. He is the Savior of his body. - 24 Therefore, just as the Church is subject to Christ, so also should wives be subject to their husbands in all things. - 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her, - 26 so that he might sanctify her, washing her clean by water and the Word of life, - 27 so 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. - 28 So, too, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. - 29 For no man has ever hated his own flesh, but instead he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also does to the Church. - 30 For 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.” - 32 This 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](https://blessbible.app/bible/ephesians/5/) ### Alleluia: John 6:63c, 68c Read in the CPDV: [John 6](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/6/) ### Gospel: John 6:60-69 - 61 Therefore, many of his disciples, upon hearing this, said: “This saying is difficult,” and, “Who is able to listen to it?” - 62 But Jesus, knowing within himself that his disciples were murmuring about this, said to them: “Does this offend you? - 63 Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending to where he was before? - 64 It 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. - 65 But there are some among you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who were unbelieving and which one would betray him. - 66 And 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.” - 67 After this, many of his disciples went back, and they no longer walked with him. - 68 Therefore, Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?” - 69 Then Simon Peter answered him: “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. - 70 And 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](https://blessbible.app/bible/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. Spotted a wrong date, color or citation? [Report an error](https://blessbible.app/support/#report) and we’ll fix it in the app and here. ## Saint of the day [St. Symphorian](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-symphorian/) Martyr · Remembered on August 22 [Read about St. Symphorian](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-symphorian/) The day’s Mass celebrates the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. 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