Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday

Mass Readings for Wednesday, August 25, 2027

On Wednesday, August 25, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle I); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Matthew 23:27-32.

Updated October 20, 2026

Liturgical color

Green

Celebration: Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time
Season: Ordinary Time · Week 21
Rank: Weekday
Sunday cycle: Year B
Weekday cycle: Cycle I

Mass readings US

First Reading 1 Thessalonians 2:9-13

9For you remember, brothers, our hardship and weariness. We preached the Gospel of God among you, working night and day, so that we would not be burdensome to any of you.
10You are witnesses, as is God, of how holy and just and blameless we were with you who have believed.
11And you know the manner, with each one of you, like a father with his sons,
12in which we were pleading with you and consoling you, bearing witness, so that you would walk in a manner worthy of God, who has called you into his kingdom and glory.
13For this reason also, we give thanks to God without ceasing: because, when you had accepted from us the Word of the hearing of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but (as it truly is) as the Word of God, who is working in you who have believed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of 1 Thessalonians 2

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 139:7-8, 9-10, 11-12ab

Read in the CPDV: Psalm 139 (138 in the Vulgate)

Alleluia 1 John 2:5

Read in the CPDV: 1 John 2

Gospel Matthew 23:27-32

27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed sepulchers, which outwardly appear brilliant to men, yet truly, inside, they are filled with the bones of the dead and with all filth.
28So also, you certainly appear to men outwardly to be just. But inwardly you are filled with hypocrisy and iniquity.
29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites, who build the sepulchers of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just.
30And then you say, ‘If we had been there in the days of our fathers, we would not have joined with them in the blood of the prophets.’
31And so you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets.
32Complete, then, the measure of your fathers.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Matthew 23

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. Louis IX

King · Remembered on August 25

Patron of France and those in public office

Read about St. Louis IX

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