St. Bartholomew, Apostle · Feast

Mass Readings for Tuesday, August 24, 2027

On Tuesday, August 24, 2027, the Church in the United States celebrates the feast of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle; the liturgical color is red. The Gospel is John 1:45-51.

Updated October 20, 2026

Liturgical color

Red

Celebration: St. Bartholomew, Apostle
Season: Ordinary Time · Week 21
Rank: Feast
Sunday cycle: Year B
Weekday cycle: Cycle I

Mass readings US

First Reading Revelation 21:9b-14

9And one of the seven Angels, those holding the bowls filled with the seven last afflictions, approached and spoke with me, saying: “Come, and I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
10And he took me up in spirit to a great and high mountain. And he showed me the Holy City Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
11having the glory of God. And its light was like that of a precious stone, even like that of the jasper stone or like crystal.
12And it had a wall, great and high, having twelve gates. And at the gates were twelve Angels. And names were written upon them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel.
13On the East were three gates, and on the North were three gates, and on the South were three gates, and on the West were three gates.
14And the wall of the City had twelve foundations. And upon them were the twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.

Catholic Public Domain Version · part-verses shown as whole verses

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Revelation 21

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18

Read in the CPDV: Psalm 145 (144 in the Vulgate)

Alleluia John 1:49b

Read in the CPDV: John 1

Gospel John 1:45-51

45Philip found Nathanael, and he said to him, “We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the Law and the Prophets: Jesus, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth.”
46And Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good be from Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
47Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, and he said about him, “Behold, an Israelite in whom truly there is no deceit.”
48Nathanael said to him, “From where do you know me?” Jesus responded and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
49Nathanael answered him and said: “Rabbi, you are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel.”
50Jesus responded and said to him: “Because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree, you believe. Greater things than these, you will see.”
51And he said to him, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the Angels of God ascending and descending over the Son of man.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of John 1

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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