---
title: "Mass Readings for March 4, 2028 (Saturday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/03/04/
description: "March 4, 2028: Saturday after Ash Wednesday, Year C, Cycle II, violet. Isaiah 58:9b-14; Psalm 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6; Luke 5:27-32. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Saturday after Ash Wednesday · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Saturday, March 4, 2028*

On Saturday, March 4, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Saturday after Ash Wednesday (Cycle II); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Luke 5:27-32.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Violet

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

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: Isaiah 58:9b-14

Read in the CPDV: [Isaiah 58](https://blessbible.app/bible/isaiah/58/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 86 (85 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/85/)

### Verse before the Gospel: Ezekiel 33:11

Read in the CPDV: [Ezekiel 33](https://blessbible.app/bible/ezekiel/33/)

### Gospel: Luke 5:27-32

- 27 And after these things, he went out, and he saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the customs office. And he said to him, “Follow me.”
- 28 And leaving behind everything, rising up, he followed him.
- 29 And Levi made a great feast for him in his own house. And there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others, who were sitting at table with them.
- 30 But the Pharisees and scribes were murmuring, saying to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
- 31 And responding, Jesus said to them: “It is not those who are well who need a doctor, but those who have maladies.
- 32 I have not come to call the just, but sinners to repentance.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Luke 5](https://blessbible.app/bible/luke/5/)

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. Casimir](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-casimir/)

Prince · Remembered on March 4

Patron of Poland and Lithuania

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

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

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