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Mass Readings

Wednesday, July 28, 2027

Wednesday of the seventeenth week of Ordinary Time

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

Reading I

Exod 34:29-35

And when Moses came down from the Mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony, and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord.

And Aaron and the children of Israel seeing the face of Moses horned, were afraid to come near.

And being called by him, they returned, both Aaron and the rulers of the congregation. And after that he spoke to them,

And all the children of Israel came to him: and he gave them in commandment all that he had heard of the Lord on Mount Sinai.

And having done speaking, he put a veil upon his face.

But when he went in to the Lord, and spoke with him, he took it away until he came forth, and then he spoke to the children of Israel all things that had been commanded him.

And they saw that the face of Moses when he came out was horned, but he covered his face again, if at any time he spoke to them.

Responsorial Psalm

Ps 99:5, 6, 7, 9

Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore his footstool, for it is holy.

Moses and Aaron among his priests: and Samuel among them that call upon his name. They called upon the Lord, and he heard them:

He spoke to them in the pillar of the cloud. They kept his testimonies, and the commandment which he gave them.

Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore at his holy mountain: for the Lord our God is holy.

Gospel Acclamation

John 15:15b

I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends. because all things, whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.

Gospel

Matt 13:44-46

The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field. Which a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant seeking good pearls.

Who when he had found one pearl of great price, went his way, and sold all that he had, and bought it.

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.

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