Saturday, 7 August 2027
Saint Sixtus II, Pope, and Companions, Martyrs/Saint Cajetan, Priest
Readings for the universal ChurchGeneral Roman Calendar, used by Catholics worldwide
First Reading
4Listen, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord. 5You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. 6And these words, which I instruct to you this day, shall be in your heart. 7And you shall explain them to your sons. And you shall meditate upon them sitting in your house, and walking on a journey, when lying down and when rising up. 8And you shall bind them like a sign on your hand, and they shall be placed and shall move between your eyes. 9And you shall write them at the threshold and on the doors of your house. 10And when the Lord your God will have led you into the land, about which he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and when he will have given to you great and excellent cities, which you did not build; 11houses full of goods, which you did not amass; cisterns, which you did not dig; vineyards and olive groves, which you did not plant; 12and when you will have eaten and been satisfied: 13take care diligently, lest you forget the Lord, who led you away from the land of Egypt, from the house of servitude. You shall fear the Lord your God, and you shall serve him alone, and you shall swear by his name.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 18:2-3a, 3bc-4, 47 and 51
2I will love you, O Lord my strength.
3The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my liberator. My God is my helper, and I hope in him: my protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.
4Praising, I will call upon the Lord. And I will be saved from my enemies.
47The Lord lives, and blessed is my God, and may the God of my salvation be exalted:
51magnifying the salvation of his king, and showing mercy to David, his Christ, and to his offspring, even for all time.
Gospel
14And when he had arrived at the multitude, a man approached him, falling to his knees before him, saying: “Lord, take pity on my son, for he is an epileptic, and he suffers harm. For he frequently falls into fire, and often also into water. 15And I brought him to your disciples, but they were not able to cure him.” 16Then Jesus responded by saying: “What an unbelieving and perverse generation! How long shall I be with you? How long shall I endure you? Bring him here to me.” 17And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour. 18Then the disciples approached Jesus privately and said, “Why were we unable to cast him out?” 19Jesus said to them: “Because of your unbelief. Amen I say to you, certainly, if you will have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it shall move. And nothing will be impossible for you. 20But this kind is not cast out, except through prayer and fasting.”
Same readings worldwide and in the United States.
Text: Catholic Public Domain Version (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.