Tuesday, 5 January 2027
Tuesday after Epiphany
Readings for the universal ChurchGeneral Roman Calendar, used by Catholics worldwide
First Reading
7Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God. 8He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is charity. 9By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him. 10In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.
Responsorial Psalm
1A psalm on Solomon.
2Give to the king thy judgment, O God: and to the king's son thy justice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment.
3Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the hills justice.
4He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the children of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor.
7In his days shall justice spring up, and abundance of peace, till the moon be taken sway.
8And he shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
Gospel
34And Jesus going out saw a great multitude: and he had compassion on them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things. 35And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came to him, saying: This is a desert place, and the hour is now past: 36Send them away, that going into the next villages and towns, they may buy themselves meat to eat. 37And he answering said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said to him: Let us go and buy bread for two hundred pence, and we will give them to eat. 38And he saith to them: How many loaves have you? go and see. And when they knew, they say: Five, and two fishes. 39And he commanded them that they should make them all sit down by companies upon the green grass. 40And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties. 41And when he had taken the five loaves, and the two fishes: looking up to heaven, he blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave to his disciples to set before them: and the two fishes he divided among them all. 42And they all did eat, and had their fill. 43And they took up the leavings, twelve full baskets of fragments, and of the fishes. 44And they that did eat, were five thousand men.
Text: Douay-Rheims (public domain). Reading citations: cpbjr/catholic-readings-api (MIT license). The Lectionary text used at Mass in the United States is the NABRE, which you can read at USCCB.