Readings for
August 7, 2027
Ordinary Weekday/ Optional Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary/ Sixtus II, Pope, Martyr, and Companions, Martyrs/ Cajetan, Priest
Cajetan, Priest
First Reading
Deuteronomy 6: 4-13
4Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone!
5Therefore, you shall love the LORD, your God, with your whole heart, and with your whole being, and with your whole strength.
6Take to heart these words which I command you today.
7Keep repeating them to your children. Recite them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up.
8Bind them on your arm as a sign and let them be as a pendant on your forehead.
9Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
10Fidelity in Prosperity. When the LORD, your God, brings you into the land which he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give you, a land with fine, large cities that you did not build,
11with houses full of goods of all sorts that you did not garner, with cisterns that you did not dig, with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant; and when, therefore, you eat and are satisfied,
12be careful not to forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that house of slavery.
13The LORD, your God, shall you fear; him shall you serve, and by his name shall you swear.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 18: 2-3a, 3c-4, 47 and 51
2He said: I - I love you, LORD, my strength,
3LORD, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer, My God, my rock of refuge, my shield, my saving horn, my stronghold!
4Praised be the LORD, I exclaim! I have been delivered from my enemies.
47VI - The LORD lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, my savior!
51You have given great victories to your king, and shown mercy to his anointed, to David and his posterity forever.
Alleluia
Second Timothy 1: 10
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Gospel
Matthew 17: 14-20
14When they came to the crowd a man approached, knelt down before him,
15and said, “Lord, have pity on my son, for he is a lunatic and suffers severely; often he falls into fire, and often into water.
16I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him.”
17Jesus said in reply, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you? Bring him here to me.”
18Jesus rebuked him and the demon came out of him, and from that hour the boy was cured.
19Then the disciples approached Jesus in private and said, “Why could we not drive it out?”
20He said to them, “Because of your little faith. Amen, I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”