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August 2026

The Beheading of John the Baptist

Current calendar

Saturday of the Twenty-First Week of Ordinary Time · Ordinary Time

  • The Beheading of John the Baptist
    Memorial

Readings Jer 1:17-19 · Ps 70, 1-2. 3-4a. 5-6ab. 15ab and 17 (R.: 6b) · Mk 6:17-29

The 1962 calendar

Saturday of the Thirteenth Week of Pentecost

In Decollatione S. Joannis Baptistæ

III. classis

Commemoratio ad Laudes tantum: S. Sabinæ Martyris

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