Mass Readings for Sunday, August 29, 2027

Gospel Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

• 1And the Pharisees and some of the scribes, arriving from Jerusalem, gathered together before him.

• 2And when they had seen certain ones from his disciples eating bread with common hands, that is, with unwashed hands, they disparaged them.

• 3For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat without repeatedly washing their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders.

• 4And when returning from the market, unless they wash, they do not eat. And there are many other things which have been handed down to them to observe: the washings of cups, and pitchers, and bronze containers, and beds.

• 5And so the Pharisees and the scribes questioned him: “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but they eat bread with common hands?”

• 6But in response, he said to them: “So well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, just as it has been written: ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

• 7And in vain do they worship me, teaching the doctrines and precepts of men.’

• 8For abandoning the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men, to the washing of pitchers and cups. And you do many other things similar to these.”

• Some verses are not read.

• 14And again, calling the crowd to him, he said to them: “Listen to me, all of you, and understand.

• 15There is nothing from outside a man which, by entering into him, is able to defile him. But the things which proceed from a man, these are what pollute a man.

• Some verses are not read.

• 21For from within, from the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

• 22thefts, avarice, wickedness, deceitfulness, homosexuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, self-exaltation, foolishness.

• 23All these evils proceed from within and pollute a man.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Mark 7