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Wednesday of the First Week of Lent · Weekday

Mass Readings for Wednesday, March 8, 2028

On Wednesday, March 8, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Wednesday of the First Week of Lent (Cycle II); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Luke 11:29-32.

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The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Violet

Celebration
Wednesday of the First Week of Lent
Season
Lent · Week 1
Rank
Weekday
Sunday cycle
Year C
Weekday cycle
Cycle II

Mass readings US

First Reading Jonah 3:1-10

Read in the CPDV: Jonah 3

Verse before the Gospel Joel 2:12-13

Read in the CPDV: Joel 2

Gospel Luke 11:29-32

  • 29Then, as the crowds were quickly gathering, he began to say: “This generation is a wicked generation: it seeks a sign. But no sign will be given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

  • 30For just as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of man be to this generation.

  • 31The queen of the South will rise up, at the judgment, with the men of this generation, and she will condemn them. For she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, more than Solomon is here.

  • 32The men of Nineveh will rise up, at the judgment, with this generation, and they will condemn it. For at the preaching of Jonah, they repented. And behold, more than Jonah is here.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: The whole of Luke 11

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. John of God

Religious · Remembered on March 8

Patron of hospitals, nurses, and booksellers

Read about St. John of God

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