---
title: "Mass Readings for January 22, 2028 (Saturday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/01/22/
description: "January 22, 2028: Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children, Year C, Cycle II, white. Mark 3:20-21. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Saturday, January 22, 2028*

On Saturday, January 22, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children (Cycle II); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is Mark 3:20-21.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

White

- **Celebration**: Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children
- **Season**: Ordinary Time · Week 2
- **Rank**: Weekday
- **Sunday cycle**: Year C
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: 2 Samuel 1:1-4, 11-12, 19, 23-27

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

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 80:2-3, 5-7

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 80 (79 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/79/)

### Alleluia: See Acts 16:14b

Read in the CPDV: [Acts 16](https://blessbible.app/bible/acts/16/)

### Gospel: Mark 3:20-21

- 20 And they went to a house, and the crowd gathered together again, so much so that they were not even able to eat bread.
- 21 And when his own had heard of it, they went out to take hold of him. For they said: “Because he has gone mad.”

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. Vincent of Saragossa](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-vincent-of-saragossa/)

Deacon and Martyr · Remembered on January 22

[Read about St. Vincent of Saragossa](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-vincent-of-saragossa/)

The day’s Mass is of the weekday (the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children).

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