---
title: "Mass Readings for January 18, 2028 (Tuesday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/01/18/
description: "January 18, 2028: Tuesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time, Year C, Cycle II, green. 1 Samuel 16:1-13; Psalm 89; Mark 2:23-28. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Tuesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Tuesday, January 18, 2028*

On Tuesday, January 18, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Tuesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle II); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Mark 2:23-28.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Green

- **Celebration**: Tuesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time
- **Season**: Ordinary Time · Week 2
- **Rank**: Weekday
- **Sunday cycle**: Year C
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: 1 Samuel 16:1-13

Read in the CPDV: [1 Samuel 16](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-samuel/16/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 89:20, 21-22, 27-28

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 89 (88 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/88/)

### Alleluia: See Ephesians 1:17-18

Read in the CPDV: [Ephesians 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/ephesians/1/)

### Gospel: Mark 2:23-28

- 23 And again, while the Lord was walking through the ripe grain on the Sabbath, his disciples, as they advanced, began to separate the ears of grains.
- 24 But the Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbaths?”
- 25 And he said to them: “Have you never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, both he and those who were with him?
- 26 How he went into the house of God, under the high priest Abiathar, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful to eat, except for the priests, and how he gave it to those who were with him?”
- 27 And he said to them: “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
- 28 And so, the Son of man is Lord, even of the Sabbath.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Mark 2](https://blessbible.app/bible/mark/2/)

Computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

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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## Saint of the day

[St. Margaret of Hungary](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-margaret-of-hungary/)

Virgin · Remembered on January 18

[Read about St. Margaret of Hungary](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-margaret-of-hungary/)

The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Tuesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time).

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