First Reading Deuteronomy 26:4-10
Read in the CPDV: Deuteronomy 26
First Sunday of Lent
Mass Readings for Sunday, March 5, 2028
On Sunday, March 5, 2028, the Church in the United States celebrates the First Sunday of Lent (Year C); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Luke 4:1-13.
The liturgical day
Liturgical color
Violet
- Celebration
- First Sunday of Lent
- Season
- Lent · Week 1
- Rank
- Sunday
- Sunday cycle
- Year C
- Weekday cycle
- Cycle II
Mass readings US
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 91:1-2, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 91 (90 in the Vulgate)
Second Reading Romans 10:8-13
8But what does Scripture say? “The word is near, in your mouth and in your heart.” This is the word of faith, which we are preaching.
9For if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and if you believe in your heart that God has raised him up from the dead, you shall be saved.
10For with the heart, we believe unto justice; but with the mouth, confession is unto salvation.
11For Scripture says: “All those who believe in him shall not be confounded.”
12For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek. For the same Lord is over all, richly in all who call upon him.
13For all those who have called upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Romans 10
Verse before the Gospel Matthew 4:4b
Read in the CPDV: Matthew 4
Gospel Luke 4:1-13
1And Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan. And he was urged by the Spirit into the wilderness
2for forty days, and he was tested by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days. And when they were completed, he was hungry.
3Then the devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, speak to this stone, so that it may be made into bread.”
4And Jesus answered him, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”
5And the devil led him onto a high mountain, and he showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,
6and he said to him: “To you, I will give all this power, and its glory. For they have been handed over to me, and I give them to whomever I wish.
7Therefore, if you will worship before me, all will be yours.”
8And in response, Jesus said to him: “It is written: ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him alone.’”
9And he brought him to Jerusalem, and he set him on the parapet of the temple, and he said to him: “If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here.
10For it is written that he has given his Angels charge over you, so that they may guard you,
11and so that they may take you into their hands, lest perhaps you may hurt your foot against a stone.”
12And in response, Jesus said to him, “It is said: ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”
13And when all the temptation was completed, the devil withdrew from him, until a time.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Read in the CPDV: The whole of Luke 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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