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title: "Mass Readings for January 28, 2028: St. Thomas Aquinas"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/01/28/
description: "January 28, 2028: St. Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church, Year C, Cycle II, white. Mark 4:26-34. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

St. Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church · Memorial

# Mass Readings *for Friday, January 28, 2028*

On Friday, January 28, 2028, the Church in the United States celebrates the memorial of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church (Cycle II); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is Mark 4:26-34.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

White

- **Celebration**: St. Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church
- **Season**: Ordinary Time · Week 3
- **Rank**: Memorial
- **Sunday cycle**: Year C
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: 2 Samuel 11:1-4a, 5-10a, 13-17

Read in the CPDV: [2 Samuel 11](https://blessbible.app/bible/2-samuel/11/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 51:3-4, 5-6a, 6bcd-7, 10-11

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 51 (50 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/50/)

### Alleluia: Matthew 11:25

Read in the CPDV: [Matthew 11](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/11/)

### Gospel: Mark 4:26-34

- 26 And he said: “The kingdom of God is like this: it is as if a man were to cast seed on the land.
- 27 And he sleeps and he arises, night and day. And the seed germinates and grows, though he does not know it.
- 28 For the earth bears fruit readily: first the plant, then the ear, next the full grain in the ear.
- 29 And when the fruit has been produced, immediately he sends out the sickle, because the harvest has arrived.”
- 30 And he said: “To what should we compare the kingdom of God? Or to what parable should we compare it?
- 31 It is like a grain of mustard seed which, when it has been sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds which are in the earth.
- 32 And when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all the plants, and it produces great branches, so much so that the birds of the air are able to live under its shadow.”
- 33 And with many such parables he spoke the word to them, as much as they were able to hear.
- 34 But he did not speak to them without a parable. Yet separately, he explained all things to his disciples.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Mark 4](https://blessbible.app/bible/mark/4/)

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. Thomas Aquinas](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-thomas-aquinas/)

Priest and Doctor of the Church · Feast day January 28

Patron of students and universities

[Read about St. Thomas Aquinas](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-thomas-aquinas/)

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