Catholic Mass Readings for January 31 2027, Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

Catholic Mass Readings for January 31 2027, Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

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First Reading: Deuteronomy 18:15-20

Moses spoke to all the people, saying: ¹⁵“A prophet like me will the LORD, your God, raise up for you from among your own kin; to him you shall listen.

¹⁶This is exactly what you requested of the LORD, your God, at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let us not again hear the voice of the LORD, our God, nor see this great fire any more, lest we die.’

¹⁷And the LORD said to me, ‘This was well said. ¹⁸I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kin, and will put my words into his mouth; he shall tell them all that I command him.

¹⁹Whoever will not listen to my words which he speaks in my name, I myself will make him answer for it.²⁰But if a prophet presumes to speak in my name an oracle that I have not commanded him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, he shall die.’”

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 95:1-2, 6-7, 7-9

R. ⁽⁸⁾ If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

¹ Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD;

let us acclaim the rock of our salvation.

² Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;

let us joyfully sing psalms to him.

R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

⁶ Come, let us bow down in worship;

let us kneel before the LORD who made us.

^7ABC For he is our God,

and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides.

R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

^7D Oh, that today you would hear his voice:

⁸ “Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,

as in the day of Massah in the desert,

⁹ Where your fathers tempted me;

they tested me though they had seen my works.”

R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 7:32-35

Brothers and sisters: ³²I should like you to be free of anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

³³But a married man is anxious about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,³⁴and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is anxious about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in both body and spirit. A married woman, on the other hand, is anxious about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

⁵I am telling you this for your own benefit, not to impose a restraint upon you, but for the sake of propriety and adherence to the Lord without distraction.

Alleluia: Matthew 4:16

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

¹⁶The people who sit in darkness have seen a great light;

on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by death, light has arisen.

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel Reading for January 31 2027: Mark 1:21-28

²¹Then they came to Capernaum, and on the sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and taught. ²²The people were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes.

²³In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit; ²⁴he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—­the Holy One of God!” ²⁵Jesus rebuked him and said, “Quiet! Come out of him!”

²⁶The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry came out of him. ²⁷All were amazed and asked one another, “What is this? A new teaching with authority. He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him.” ²⁸His fame spread everywhere throughout the whole region of Galilee.

Tomorrow’s Catholic Mass Readings for February 1 2027, Monday of Fourth Week in Ordinary Time.