---
title: "Mass Readings for March 9, 2028 (Thursday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/03/09/
description: "March 9, 2028: Thursday of the First Week of Lent, Year C, Cycle II, violet. Psalm 138:1-2ab, 2cde-3, 7c-8; Matthew 7:7-12. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Thursday of the First Week of Lent · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Thursday, March 9, 2028*

On Thursday, March 9, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Thursday of the First Week of Lent (Cycle II); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Matthew 7:7-12.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Violet

- **Celebration**: Thursday 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: not available

This citation is missing from the calendar data Bless ships; your parish missal or missalette has it.

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 138:1-2ab, 2cde-3, 7c-8

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 138 (137 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/137/)

### Verse before the Gospel: Psalm 51:12a, 14a

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

### Gospel: Matthew 7:7-12

- 7 Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
- 8 For everyone who asks, receives; and whoever seeks, finds; and to anyone who knocks, it will be opened.
- 9 Or what man is there among you, who, if his son were to ask him for bread, would offer him a stone;
- 10 or if he were to ask him for a fish, would offer him a snake?
- 11 Therefore, if you, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your sons, how much more will your Father, who is in heaven, give good things to those who ask him?
- 12 Therefore, all things whatsoever that you wish that men would do to you, do so also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Matthew 7](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/7/)

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. Frances of Rome](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-frances-of-rome/)

Religious · Remembered on March 9

Patron of motorists

[Read about St. Frances of Rome](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-frances-of-rome/)

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

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