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Saturday, 23 January 2027

Saturday of the 2nd week of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time · Green

Readings for the universal ChurchGeneral Roman Calendar, used by Catholics worldwide

First Reading

Hebrews 9:2-3, 11-14

2For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread, which is called the Holy Place. 3After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

11But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, 12nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption. 13For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh, 14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9

1Oh clap your hands, all you nations.

Shout to God with the voice of triumph!

2For the LORD Most High is awesome.

He is a great King over all the earth.

5God has gone up with a shout,

the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

6Sing praises to God! Sing praises!

Sing praises to our King! Sing praises!

7For God is the King of all the earth.

Sing praises with understanding.

8God reigns over the nations.

God sits on his holy throne.

Gospel

Mark 3:20-21

20The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. 21When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, “He is insane.”

Same readings worldwide and in the United States.

Text: World English Bible, Catholic Edition (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.