First Reading Exodus 20:1-17
Read in the CPDV: Exodus 20
Third Sunday of Lent
Mass Readings for Sunday, February 28, 2027
On Sunday, February 28, 2027, the Church in the United States celebrates the Third Sunday of Lent (Year B); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is John 2:13-25.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Violet
- Celebration
- Third Sunday of Lent
- Season
- Lent · Week 3
- Rank
- Sunday
- Sunday cycle
- Year B
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle I
Mass readings US
Year B readings
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 19:8, 9, 10, 11
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 19 (18 in the Vulgate)
Second Reading 1 Corinthians 1:22-25
22For the Jews ask for signs, and the Greeks seek wisdom.
23But we are preaching Christ crucified. Certainly, to the Jews, this is a scandal, and to the Gentiles, this is foolishness.
24But to those who have been called, Jews as well as Greeks, the Christ is the virtue of God and the wisdom of God.
25For what is foolishness to God is considered wise by men, and that which is weakness to God is considered strong by men.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of 1 Corinthians 1
Verse before the Gospel John 3:16
Read in the CPDV: John 3
Gospel John 2:13-25
13And the Passover of the Jews was near, and so Jesus ascended to Jerusalem.
14And he found, sitting in the temple, sellers of oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers.
15And when he had made something like a whip out of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, including the sheep and the oxen. And he poured out the brass coins of the moneychangers, and he overturned their tables.
16And to those who were selling doves, he said: “Take these things out of here, and do not make my Father’s house into a house of commerce.”
17And truly, his disciples were reminded that it is written: “Zeal for your house consumes me.”
18Then the Jews responded and said to him, “What sign can you show to us, that you may do these things?”
19Jesus responded and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
20Then the Jews said, “This temple has been built up over forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?”
21Yet he was speaking about the Temple of his body.
22Therefore, when he had resurrected from the dead, his disciples were reminded that he had said this, and they believed in the Scriptures and in the word that Jesus had spoken.
23Now while he was at Jerusalem during the Passover, on the day of the feast, many trusted in his name, seeing his signs that he was accomplishing.
24But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he himself had knowledge of all persons,
25and because he had no need of anyone to offer testimony about a man. For he knew what was within a man.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of John 2
Year A readings (may be used in any year)
First Reading Exodus 17:3-7
Read in the CPDV: Exodus 17
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 95 (94 in the Vulgate)
Second Reading Romans 5:1-2, 5-8
The text isn’t printed here: Bless can’t yet confirm that these verses line up exactly between the US Lectionary and the CPDV.
Read in the CPDV: Romans 5
Verse before the Gospel John 4:42, 15
Read in the CPDV: John 4
Gospel John 4:5-42
5Therefore, he went into a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the estate which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6And Jacob’s well was there. And so Jesus, being tired from the journey, was sitting in a certain way on the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7A woman of Samaria arrived to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me to drink.”
8For his disciples had gone into the city in order to buy food.
9And so, that Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, are requesting a drink from me, though I am a Samaritan woman?” For the Jews do not associate with the Samaritans.
10Jesus responded and said to her: “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give me to drink,’ perhaps you would have made a request of him, and he would have given you living water.”
11The woman said to him: “Lord, you do not have anything with which to draw water, and the well is deep. From where, then, do you have living water?
12Surely, you are not greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and who drank from it, with his sons and his cattle?”
13Jesus responded and said to her: “All who drink from this water will thirst again. But whoever shall drink from the water that I will give to him will not thirst for eternity.
14Instead, the water that I will give to him will become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life.”
15The woman said to him, “Lord, give me this water, so that I may not thirst and may not come here to draw water.”
16Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and return here.”
17The woman responded and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her: “You have spoken well, in saying, ‘I have no husband.’
18For you have had five husbands, but he whom you have now is not your husband. You have spoken this in truth.”
19The woman said to him: “Lord, I see that you are a Prophet.
20Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you say that Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”
21Jesus said to her: “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you shall worship the Father, neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem.
22You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know. For salvation is from the Jews.
23But the hour is coming, and it is now, when true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeks such persons who may worship him.
24God is Spirit. And so, those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”
25The woman said to him: “I know that the Messiah is coming (who is called the Christ). And then, when he will have arrived, he will announce everything to us.”
26Jesus said to her: “I am he, the one who is speaking with you.”
27And then his disciples arrived. And they wondered that he was speaking with the woman. Yet no one said: “What are you seeking?” or, “Why are you talking with her?”
28And so the woman left behind her water jar and went into the city. And she said to the men there:
29“Come and see a man who has told me all the things that I have done. Is he not the Christ?”
30Therefore, they went out of the city and came to him.
31Meanwhile, the disciples petitioned him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
32But he said to them, “I have food to eat which you do not know.”
33Therefore, the disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought him something to eat?”
34Jesus said to them: “My food is to do the will of the One who sent me, so that I may perfect his work.
35Do you not say, ‘There are still four months, and then the harvest arrives?’ Behold, I say to you: Lift up your eyes and look at the countryside; for it is already ripe for the harvest.
36For he who reaps, receives wages and gathers fruit unto eternal life, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
37For in this the word is true: that it is one who sows, and it is another who reaps.
38I have sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”
39Now many of the Samaritans from that city believed in him, because of the word of the woman who was offering testimony: “For he told me all the things that I have done.”
40Therefore, when the Samaritans had come to him, they petitioned him to lodge there. And he lodged there for two days.
41And many more believed in him, because of his own word.
42And they said to the woman: “Now we believe, not because of your speech, but because we ourselves have heard him, and so we know that he is truly the Savior of the world.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of John 4
Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar.
In US parishes the readings are proclaimed from the NABRE; the text shown here is the Catholic Public Domain Version.
Old Testament readings and the psalm are listed with a link to their chapter: the US Lectionary numbers some of their verses differently from the CPDV, so their text is not printed here. Psalm citations keep the Lectionary’s Hebrew numbering; the CPDV numbers the Psalms as the Vulgate does.
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