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title: "Mass Readings for March 8, 2028 (Wednesday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/03/08/
description: "March 8, 2028: Wednesday of the First Week of Lent, Year C, Cycle II, violet. Jonah 3:1-10; Psalm 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19; Luke 11:29-32. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

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.

Updated October 20, 2026

## 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](https://blessbible.app/bible/jonah/3/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 51 (50 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/50/)

### Verse before the Gospel: Joel 2:12-13

Read in the CPDV: [Joel 2](https://blessbible.app/bible/joel/2/)

### Gospel: Luke 11:29-32

- 29 Then, 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.
- 30 For just as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of man be to this generation.
- 31 The 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.
- 32 The 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](https://blessbible.app/bible/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](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-of-god/)

Religious · Remembered on March 8

Patron of hospitals, nurses, and booksellers

[Read about St. John of God](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-of-god/)

The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Wednesday of the First Week of Lent).

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