DRAFT: Schedule for First Fridays of 2027

Version 0.3, Sep 28, 2026 (revision notes)

USCCB Calendar

Confessions at 5:30 p.m. before 6:30 p.m. First Friday masses. Stations of the Cross following First Friday mass during Lent.

The numbers following the ‘#’ are of the readings in the Lectionary.

2027: Year B/I.

Jan 1: #18, Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God. The Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord. Other musicians will be in charge? Gloria in excelsis, Credo.

Feb 5: #327, Memorial of Saint Agatha, Virgin and Martyr

Mar 5: #241, Friday of the Third Week of Lent

Apr 2: #265, Friday within the Octave of Easter. Gloria in excelsis. Sequence. No Credo.

May 7: #295, Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter

Jun 4: #171, Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Gloria in excelsis, Credo.

Jul 2: #381, Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Votive Mass of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Aug 6: #614, Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord Gloria in excelsis.

Sep 3: #435, Memorial Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church

Oct 1: #459, Memorial of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church

Nov 5: #489, Friday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. Votive Mass of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

2027: Year C/II.

Dec. 3: #179, Memorial Saint Francis Xavier, Priest

Notes

Whenever it is permitted, the First Friday evening mass will be a Votive Mass of the Most Sacred Heart. Votive masses are “in principle forbidden” on the day of an Obligatory Memorial [or Feast or Solemnity], during Advent before December 17, and during Easter season. They are permitted on weekdays in Ordinary Time, even on an Optional Memorial. (The Roman Missal, 3rd ed., p. 1326) All the Memorials occurring on First Fridays of 2027 are Obligatory.

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