---
title: "Mass Readings for January 20, 2028 (Thursday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/01/20/
description: "January 20, 2028: Thursday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year C, Cycle II, green. 1 Samuel 18:6-9; 19:1-7; Psalm 56; Mark 3:7-12. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Thursday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Thursday, January 20, 2028*

On Thursday, January 20, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Thursday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle II); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Mark 3:7-12.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Green

- **Celebration**: Thursday 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 18:6-9; 19:1-7

Read in the CPDV: [1 Samuel 18](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-samuel/18/) [1 Samuel 19](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-samuel/19/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 56:2-3, 9-10a, 10b-11, 12-13

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 56 (55 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/55/)

### Alleluia: 2 Timothy 1:10

Read in the CPDV: [2 Timothy 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/2-timothy/1/)

### Gospel: Mark 3:7-12

- 7 But Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea. And a great crowd followed him from Galilee and Judea,
- 8 and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea and across the Jordan. And those around Tyre and Sidon, upon hearing what he was doing, came to him in a great multitude.
- 9 And he told his disciples that a small boat would be useful to him, because of the crowd, lest they press upon him.
- 10 For he healed so many, that as many of them as had wounds would rush toward him in order to touch him.
- 11 And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell prostrate before him. And they cried out, saying,
- 12 “You are the Son of God.” And he strongly admonished them, lest they make him known.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Mark 3](https://blessbible.app/bible/mark/3/)

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. Sebastian](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-sebastian/)

Martyr · Remembered on January 20

Patron of athletes, soldiers, and archers

[Read about St. Sebastian](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-sebastian/)

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

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