Skip to content

Mass Readings

Sunday, January 24, 2027

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, or Sunday of the Word of God

Sunday · Ordinary Time · Cycle B · Year I · Green

Reading I

Jon 3:1-5, 10

And the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time saying:

Arise, and go to Ninive, the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee.

And Jonah arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days' journey.

And Jonah began to enter into the city one day's journey: and he cried and said: Yet forty days and Ninive shall be destroyed.

And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.

And God saw their works, that they were turned from their evil way: and God had mercy with regard to the evil which he had said that he would do to them, and he did it not.

Responsorial Psalm

Ps 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9

Let all them be confounded that act unjust things without cause. Shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, and teach me thy paths.

Direct me in thy truth, and teach me; for thou art God my Saviour; and on thee have I waited all the day long.

Remember, O Lord, thy bowels of compassion; and thy mercies that are from the beginning of the world.

The sins of my youth and my ignorances do not remember. According to thy mercy remember thou me: for thy goodness' sake, O Lord.

The Lord is sweet and righteous: therefore he will give a law to sinners in the way.

He will guide the mild in judgment: he will teach the meek his ways.

Reading II

1 Cor 7:29-31

This therefore I say, brethren: The time is short. It remaineth, that they also who have wives be as if they had none:

And they that weep, as though they wept not: and they that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not: and they that buy as if they possessed not:

And they that use this world, as if they used it not. For the fashion of this world passeth away.

Gospel Acclamation

Mark 1:15

And saying: The time is accomplished and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the gospel:

Gospel

Mark 1:14-20

And after that John was delivered up, Jesus came in Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,

And saying: The time is accomplished and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the gospel:

And passing by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother, casting nets into the sea for they were fishermen.

And Jesus said to them: Come after me; and I will make you to become fishers of men.

And immediately leaving their nets, they followed him.

And going on from thence a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who also were mending their nets in the ship:

And forthwith he called them. And leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with his hired men, they followed him.

About These Readings

Scripture text from the Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision, 1899), which is in the public domain. The Mass readings follow the Lectionary for Mass approved for the dioceses of the United States.

The Douay-Rheims follows the Vulgate numbering, which in the Psalms, Sirach, and a few other books can differ by a chapter or a few verses from the numbering in the modern Lectionary. The text is the same passage.

Read them at the USCCB ↗