27 May 2026 (Wednesday) | Wednesday of week 8 in Ordinary Time or Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop | Wednesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time | Ordinary Weekday/ Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop, Religious, Missionary

27 May 2026 (Wednesday)

Wednesday of week 8 in Ordinary Time or Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop.

Wednesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time.

Ordinary Weekday/ Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop, Religious, Missionary.

Readings from the Bible of the Roman Catholic Church:

First Reading: First Peter 1: 18-25
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20 ℟. 12a or: ℟. Alleluia.
Gospel acclamation: Alleluia: Mark 10: 45
Gospel: Mark 10: 32-45
Liturgical year 2026 (Cycle A/II)
Liturgical color: Green.

First Reading : 1 Peter 1:18‐25

(Reader) A reading from the first Letter of Saint Peter.

Remember, the ransom that was paid to free you from the useless way of life your ancestors handed down was not paid in anything corruptible, neither in silver nor gold, but in the precious blood of a lamb without spot or stain, namely Christ; who, though known since before the world was made, has been revealed only in our time, the end of the ages, for your sake. Through him you now have faith in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory for that very reason – so that you would have faith and hope in God.
  You have been obedient to the truth and purified your souls until you can love like brothers, in sincerity; let your love for each other be real and from the heart – your new birth was not from any mortal seed but from the everlasting word of the living and eternal God. All flesh is grass and its glory like the wild flower’s. The grass withers, the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains for ever. What is this word? It is the Good News that has been brought to you.

(Reader) The Word of the Lord.
(All) Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20 ℟. 12a or: ℟. Alleluia.

O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
or
Alleluia!
O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
  Zion, praise your God!
He has strengthened the bars of your gates
  he has blessed the children within you.
O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
or
Alleluia!
He established peace on your borders,
  he feeds you with finest wheat.
He sends out his word to the earth
  and swiftly runs his command.
O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
or
Alleluia!
He makes his word known to Jacob,
  to Israel his laws and decrees.
He has not dealt thus with other nations;
  he has not taught them his decrees.
O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
or
Alleluia!

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia: Mark 10: 45
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
45 The Son of Man came to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
5. Make your own the mind of Christ Jesus:6. Who, being in the form of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped. 7. But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are; and being in every way like a human being, 8. he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross.9. And for this God raised him high, and gave him the name which is above all other names; 10. so that all beings in the heavens, on earth and in the underworld, should bend the knee at the name of Jesus 11. and that every tongue should acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:5-11).

Gospel : Mark 10:32‐45

(Reader) A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark.
(All) Glory to you, O Lord.

The disciples were on the road, going up to Jerusalem; Jesus was walking on ahead of them; they were in a daze, and those who followed were apprehensive. Once more taking the Twelve aside he began to tell them what was going to happen to him: ‘Now we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man is about to be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the pagans, who will mock him and spit at him and scourge him and put him to death; and after three days he will rise again.’
  James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached him. ‘Master,’ they said to him ‘we want you to do us a favour.’ He said to them, ‘What is it you want me to do for you?’ They said to him, ‘Allow us to sit one at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory.’ ‘You do not know what you are asking’ Jesus said to them. ‘Can you drink the cup that I must drink, or be baptised with the baptism with which I must be baptised?’ They replied, ‘We can.’ Jesus said to them, ‘The cup that I must drink you shall drink, and with the baptism with which I must be baptised you shall be baptised, but as for seats at my right hand or my left, these are not mine to grant; they belong to those to whom they have been allotted.’
  When the other ten heard this they began to feel indignant with James and John, so Jesus called them to him and said to them, ‘You know that among the pagans their so‐called rulers lord it over them, and their great men make their authority felt. This is not to happen among you. No; anyone who wants to become great among you must be your servant, and anyone who wants to be first among you must be slave to all. For the Son of Man himself did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.’

(Reader) The Gospel of the Lord.
(All) Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

For our reflection today:

The words of the Popes.

Who is great, who is “first” for God? First of all Jesus looks at behaviour which “those who are supposed to rule over the Gentiles” risk assuming: to “lord it over them”. Jesus points out to the disciples a completely different conduct. “But it shall not be so among you”. His community follows another rule, another logic, another model: “Whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all”. The criterion of greatness and primacy according to God is not domination but service; diaconia is the fundamental law of the disciple and of the Christian community, and lets us glimpse something about “the lordship of God”. And Jesus also indicates the reference point: the Son of man who came to serve. In other words he sums up his mission in the category of service, not meant in a generic sense but in the concrete sense of the Cross, of the total gift of life as a “ransom”, as redemption for many, and he points it out as a condition of the “sequela” (Pope Benedict XVI, Homily in the Holy Mass on the Ordinary Public Concistory for the creation of new Cardinals, 20 November 2010) 

Jonathan Fabian Ginunggil,
Pelayan Atasan Tertinggi / Most High Servant,
Yesus, Maria, Yusuf Pelayanan Kasih / Jesus, Mary, Joseph Ministry of Love 
(Blessed and Saints and the Nine Choirs of Angels)

My vocation is Blessed and Saints.

"I am the most humble of all the Saints in Heaven" Mary, Mother of God."

"I am the handmaid of the Lord, said Mary ‘let what you have said be done to me."

Mother Mary is the most humble Saint in Heaven and she is also the Mother of God for us all
(Luke 1:38)