---
title: "Mass Readings for March 11, 2028 (Saturday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/03/11/
description: "March 11, 2028: Saturday of the First Week of Lent, Year C, Cycle II, violet. Deuteronomy 26:16-19; Psalm 119; Matthew 5:43-48. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Saturday of the First Week of Lent · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Saturday, March 11, 2028*

On Saturday, March 11, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Saturday of the First Week of Lent (Cycle II); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Matthew 5:43-48.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Violet

- **Celebration**: Saturday 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: Deuteronomy 26:16-19

Read in the CPDV: [Deuteronomy 26](https://blessbible.app/bible/deuteronomy/26/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 119:1-2, 4-5, 7-8

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 119 (118 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/118/)

### Verse before the Gospel: 2 Corinthians 6:2b

Read in the CPDV: [2 Corinthians 6](https://blessbible.app/bible/2-corinthians/6/)

### Gospel: Matthew 5:43-48

- 43 You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and you shall have hatred for your enemy.’
- 44 But I say to you: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. And pray for those who persecute and slander you.
- 45 In this way, you shall be sons of your Father, who is in heaven. He causes his sun to rise upon the good and the bad, and he causes it to rain upon the just and the unjust.
- 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Do not even tax collectors behave this way?
- 47 And if you greet only your brothers, what more have you done? Do not even the pagans behave this way?
- 48 Therefore, be perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Matthew 5](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/5/)

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. Eulogius of Córdoba](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-eulogius-of-cordoba/)

Priest and Martyr · Remembered on March 11

[Read about St. Eulogius of Córdoba](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-eulogius-of-cordoba/)

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

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