On Friday, August 27, 2027, the Church in the United States celebrates the memorial of Saint Monica (Cycle I); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is Matthew 25:1-13.
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The liturgical day
Liturgical color
White
Celebration
St. Monica
Season
Ordinary Time · Week 21
Rank
Memorial
Sunday cycle
Year B
Weekday cycle
Cycle I
Mass readings US
First Reading1 Thessalonians 4:1-8
1Therefore, concerning other things, brothers, we ask and beg you, in the Lord Jesus, that, just as you have received from us the way in which you ought to walk and to please God, so also may you walk, in order that you may abound all the more.
2For you know what precepts I have given to you through the Lord Jesus.
3For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication,
4that each one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,
5not in passions of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God,
6and that no one should overwhelm or circumvent his brother in business. For the Lord is the vindicator of all these things, just as we have preached and testified to you.
7For God has not called us to impurity, but to sanctification.
8And so, whoever despises these teachings, does not despise man, but God, who has even provided his Holy Spirit within us.
1“Then the kingdom of heaven shall be like ten virgins, who, taking their lamps, went out to meet the groom and the bride.
2But five of them were foolish, and five were prudent.
3For the five foolish, having brought their lamps, did not take oil with them.
4Yet truly, the prudent ones brought the oil, in their containers, with the lamps.
5Since the bridegroom was delayed, they all fell asleep, and they were sleeping.
6But in the middle of the night, a cry went out: ‘Behold, the groom is arriving. Go out to meet him.’
7Then all those virgins rose up and trimmed their lamps.
8But the foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give to us from your oil, for our lamps are being extinguished.’
9The prudent responded by saying, ‘Lest perhaps there may not be enough for us and for you, it would be better for you to go to the vendors and buy some for yourselves.’
10But while they were going to buy it, the groom arrived. And those who were prepared entered with him to the wedding, and the door was closed.
11Yet truly, at the very end, the remaining virgins also arrived, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’
12But he responded by saying, ‘Amen I say to you, I do not know you.’
13And so you must be vigilant, because you do not know the day or the hour.
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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