Wednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time · Weekday

Mass Readings for Wednesday, February 16, 2028

On Wednesday, February 16, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Wednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (Cycle II); the liturgical color is green. The Gospel is Mark 8:22-26.

Updated October 20, 2026

Liturgical color

Green

Celebration: Wednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
Season: Ordinary Time · Week 6
Rank: Weekday
Sunday cycle: Year C
Weekday cycle: Cycle II

Mass readings US

First Reading James 1:19-27

19You know this, my most beloved brothers. So let every man be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to anger.
20For the anger of man does not accomplish the justice of God.
21Because of this, having cast away all uncleanness and an abundance of malice, receive with meekness the newly-grafted Word, which is able to save your souls.
22So be doers of the Word, and not listeners only, deceiving yourselves.
23For if anyone is a listener of the Word, but not also a doer, he is comparable to a man gazing into a mirror upon the face that he was born with;
24and after considering himself, he went away and promptly forgot what he had seen.
25But he who gazes upon the perfect law of liberty, and who remains in it, is not a forgetful hearer, but instead a doer of the work. He shall be blessed in what he does.
26But if anyone considers himself to be religious, but he does not restrain his tongue, but instead seduces his own heart: such a one’s religion is vanity.
27This is religion, clean and undefiled before God the Father: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulations, and to keep yourself immaculate, apart from this age.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of James 1

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 15:2-3a, 3bc-4ab, 5

Read in the CPDV: Psalm 15 (14 in the Vulgate)

Alleluia Ephesians 1:17-18

Read in the CPDV: Ephesians 1

Gospel Mark 8:22-26

22And they went to Bethsaida. And they brought a blind man to him. And they petitioned him, so that he would touch him.
23And taking the blind man by the hand, he led him beyond the village. And putting spit on his eyes, laying his hands on him, he asked him if he could see anything.
24And looking up, he said, “I see men but they are like walking trees.”
25Next he placed his hands again over his eyes, and he began to see. And he was restored, so that he could see everything clearly.
26And he sent him to his house, saying, “Go into your own house, and if you enter into the town, tell no one.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Mark 8

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. Onesimus

Bishop and Martyr · Remembered on February 16

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