---
title: "Mass Readings for March 2, 2028 (Thursday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/03/02/
description: "March 2, 2028: Thursday after Ash Wednesday, Year C, Cycle II, violet. Deuteronomy 30:15-20; Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6; Luke 9:22-25. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Thursday after Ash Wednesday · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Thursday, March 2, 2028*

On Thursday, March 2, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Thursday after Ash Wednesday (Cycle II); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Luke 9:22-25.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Violet

- **Celebration**: Thursday after Ash Wednesday
- **Season**: Lent
- **Rank**: Weekday
- **Sunday cycle**: Year C
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: Deuteronomy 30:15-20

Read in the CPDV: [Deuteronomy 30](https://blessbible.app/bible/deuteronomy/30/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6

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

### Verse before the Gospel: Matthew 4:17

Read in the CPDV: [Matthew 4](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/4/)

### Gospel: Luke 9:22-25

- 22 saying, “For the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the leaders of the priests and the scribes, and be killed, and on the third day rise again.”
- 23 Then he said to everyone: “If anyone is willing to come after me: let him deny himself, and take up his cross every day, and follow me.
- 24 For whoever will have saved his life, will lose it. Yet whoever will have lost his life for my sake, will save it.
- 25 For how does it benefit a man, if he were to gain the whole world, yet lose himself, or cause himself harm?

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Luke 9](https://blessbible.app/bible/luke/9/)

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. Agnes of Bohemia](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-agnes-of-bohemia/)

Virgin · Remembered on March 2

[Read about St. Agnes of Bohemia](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-agnes-of-bohemia/)

The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Thursday after Ash Wednesday).

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