Tuesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday

Mass Readings for Tuesday, August 31, 2027

On Tuesday, August 31, 2027, the Church in the United States keeps Tuesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle I); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Luke 4:31-37.

Updated October 20, 2026

Liturgical color

Green

Celebration: Tuesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time
Season: Ordinary Time · Week 22
Rank: Weekday
Sunday cycle: Year B
Weekday cycle: Cycle I

Mass readings US

First Reading 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6, 9-11

1But concerning dates and times, brothers, you do not need us to write to you.
2For you yourselves thoroughly understand that the day of the Lord shall arrive much like a thief in the night.
3For when they will say, “Peace and security!” then destruction will suddenly overwhelm them, like the labor pains of a woman with child, and they will not escape.
4But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that you would be overtaken by that day as by a thief.
5For all of you are sons of light and sons of daytime; we are not of nighttime, nor of darkness.
6Therefore, let us not sleep, as the rest do. Instead, we should be vigilant and sober.
Some verses are not read.
9For God has not appointed us for wrath, but for the acquisition of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
10who died for us, so that, whether we watch, or whether we sleep, we may live in union with him.
11Because of this, console one another and build up one another, just as you are doing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of 1 Thessalonians 5

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 27:1, 4, 13-14

Read in the CPDV: Psalm 27 (26 in the Vulgate)

Alleluia Luke 7:16

Read in the CPDV: Luke 7

Gospel Luke 4:31-37

31And he descended to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And there he taught them on the Sabbaths.
32And they were astonished at his doctrine, for his word was spoken with authority.
33And in the synagogue, there was a man who had an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,
34saying: “Let us alone. What are we to you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God.”
35And Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent and depart from him.” And when the demon had thrown him into their midst, he departed from him, and he no longer harmed him.
36And fear fell over them all. And they discussed this among themselves, saying: “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they depart.”
37And his fame spread to every place in the region.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Luke 4

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

Sts. Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus

Disciples · Remembered on August 31

Read about Sts. Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus

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