--- title: "Mass Readings for August 29, 2027: 22nd Sunday in OT · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/08/29/ description: "August 29, 2027: Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, green. Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8; Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23. Gospel in the CPDV." updated: 2026-10-20 --- Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time # Mass Readings *for Sunday, August 29, 2027* On Sunday, August 29, 2027, the Church in the United States celebrates the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23. Updated October 20, 2026 ## The liturgical day Liturgical color Green - **Celebration**: Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - **Season**: Ordinary Time · Week 22 - **Rank**: Sunday - **Sunday cycle**: Year B - **Weekday cycle**: Cycle I ## Mass readings (US) ### First Reading: Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8 Read in the CPDV: [Deuteronomy 4](https://blessbible.app/bible/deuteronomy/4/) ### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 15:2-3, 3-4, 4-5 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 15 (14 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/14/) ### Second Reading: James 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27 - 17 Every excellent gift and every perfect gift is from above, descending from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor any shadow of alteration. - 18 For by his own will he produced us through the Word of truth, so that we might be a kind of beginning among his creatures. - 21 Because of this, having cast away all uncleanness and an abundance of malice, receive with meekness the newly-grafted Word, which is able to save your souls. - 22 So be doers of the Word, and not listeners only, deceiving yourselves. - 27 This is religion, clean and undefiled before God the Father: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulations, and to keep yourself immaculate, apart from this age. Catholic Public Domain Version · part-verses shown as whole verses Read in the CPDV: [The whole of James 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/james/1/) ### Alleluia: James 1:18 Read in the CPDV: [James 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/james/1/) ### Gospel: Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 - 1 And the Pharisees and some of the scribes, arriving from Jerusalem, gathered together before him. - 2 And when they had seen certain ones from his disciples eating bread with common hands, that is, with unwashed hands, they disparaged them. - 3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat without repeatedly washing their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders. - 4 And 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. - 5 And 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?” - 6 But 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. - 7 And in vain do they worship me, teaching the doctrines and precepts of men.’ - 8 For 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.” - 14 And again, calling the crowd to him, he said to them: “Listen to me, all of you, and understand. - 15 There 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. - 21 For from within, from the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, - 22 thefts, avarice, wickedness, deceitfulness, homosexuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, self-exaltation, foolishness. - 23 All these evils proceed from within and pollute a man.” Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Mark 7](https://blessbible.app/bible/mark/7/) 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? 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