First Reading Jonah 3:1-10
Read in the CPDV: Jonah 3
Wednesday of the First Week of Lent · Weekday
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.
Liturgical color
Violet
Read in the CPDV: Jonah 3
Read in the CPDV: Psalm 51 (50 in the Vulgate)
Read in the CPDV: Joel 2
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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