--- title: "Mass Readings for March 19, 2028: Third Sunday of Lent" url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/03/19/ description: "March 19, 2028: Third Sunday of Lent, Year C, violet. Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15; Psalm 103; 1 Corinthians 10:1-6, 10-12; Luke 13:1-9. Gospel in the CPDV." updated: 2026-10-20 --- Third Sunday of Lent # Mass Readings *for Sunday, March 19, 2028* On Sunday, March 19, 2028, the Church in the United States celebrates the Third Sunday of Lent (Year C); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Luke 13:1-9. Updated October 20, 2026 ## The liturgical day Liturgical color Violet - **Celebration**: Third Sunday of Lent - **Season**: Lent · Week 3 - **Rank**: Sunday - **Sunday cycle**: Year C - **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II ## Mass readings (US) ### Year C readings #### First Reading: Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15 Read in the CPDV: [Exodus 3](https://blessbible.app/bible/exodus/3/) #### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 103:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8 and 11 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 103 (102 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/102/) #### Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 10:1-6, 10-12 - 1 For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and they all went across the sea. - 2 And in Moses, they all were baptized, in the cloud and in the sea. - 3 And they all ate of the same spiritual food. - 4 And they all drank of the same spiritual drink. And so, they all were drinking of the spiritual rock seeking to obtain them; and that rock was Christ. - 5 But with most of them, God was not well-pleased. For they were struck down in the desert. - 6 Now these things were done as an example for us, so that we might not desire evil things, just as they desired. - 10 And you should not murmur, as some of them murmured, and so they perished by the destroyer. - 11 Now all of these things happened to them as an example, and so they have been written for our correction, because the final age has fallen upon us. - 12 And so, whosoever considers himself to be standing, let him be careful not to fall. Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of 1 Corinthians 10](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-corinthians/10/) #### Verse before the Gospel: Matthew 4:17 Read in the CPDV: [Matthew 4](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/4/) #### Gospel: Luke 13:1-9 - 1 And there were present, at that very time, some who were reporting about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate mixed with their sacrifices. - 2 And responding, he said to them: “Do you think that these Galileans must have sinned more than all other Galileans, because they suffered so much? - 3 No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you will all perish similarly. - 4 And those eighteen upon whom the tower of Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they also were greater transgressors than all the men living in Jerusalem? - 5 No, I tell you. But if you do not repent, you will all perish similarly.” - 6 And he also told this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree, which was planted in his vineyard. And he came seeking fruit on it, but found none. - 7 Then he said to the cultivator of the vineyard: ‘Behold, for these three years I came seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I have found none. Therefore, cut it down. For why should it even occupy the land?’ - 8 But in response, he said to him: ‘Lord, let it be for this year also, during which time I will dig around it and add fertilizer. - 9 And, indeed, it should bear fruit. But if not, in the future, you shall cut it down.’” Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Luke 13](https://blessbible.app/bible/luke/13/) ### Year A readings (may be used in any year) #### First Reading: Exodus 17:3-7 Read in the CPDV: [Exodus 17](https://blessbible.app/bible/exodus/17/) #### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 95 (94 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/94/) #### Second Reading: Romans 5:1-2, 5-8 The text isn’t printed here: Bless can’t yet confirm that these verses line up exactly between the US Lectionary and the CPDV. Read in the CPDV: [Romans 5](https://blessbible.app/bible/romans/5/) #### Verse before the Gospel: John 4:42, 15 Read in the CPDV: [John 4](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/4/) #### Gospel: John 4:5-42 - 5 Therefore, he went into a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the estate which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. - 6 And Jacob’s well was there. And so Jesus, being tired from the journey, was sitting in a certain way on the well. It was about the sixth hour. - 7 A woman of Samaria arrived to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me to drink.” - 8 For his disciples had gone into the city in order to buy food. - 9 And so, that Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, are requesting a drink from me, though I am a Samaritan woman?” For the Jews do not associate with the Samaritans. - 10 Jesus responded and said to her: “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give me to drink,’ perhaps you would have made a request of him, and he would have given you living water.” - 11 The woman said to him: “Lord, you do not have anything with which to draw water, and the well is deep. From where, then, do you have living water? - 12 Surely, you are not greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and who drank from it, with his sons and his cattle?” - 13 Jesus responded and said to her: “All who drink from this water will thirst again. But whoever shall drink from the water that I will give to him will not thirst for eternity. - 14 Instead, the water that I will give to him will become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life.” - 15 The woman said to him, “Lord, give me this water, so that I may not thirst and may not come here to draw water.” - 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and return here.” - 17 The woman responded and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her: “You have spoken well, in saying, ‘I have no husband.’ - 18 For you have had five husbands, but he whom you have now is not your husband. You have spoken this in truth.” - 19 The woman said to him: “Lord, I see that you are a Prophet. - 20 Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you say that Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.” - 21 Jesus said to her: “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you shall worship the Father, neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem. - 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know. For salvation is from the Jews. - 23 But the hour is coming, and it is now, when true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeks such persons who may worship him. - 24 God is Spirit. And so, those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.” - 25 The woman said to him: “I know that the Messiah is coming (who is called the Christ). And then, when he will have arrived, he will announce everything to us.” - 26 Jesus said to her: “I am he, the one who is speaking with you.” - 27 And then his disciples arrived. And they wondered that he was speaking with the woman. Yet no one said: “What are you seeking?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” - 28 And so the woman left behind her water jar and went into the city. And she said to the men there: - 29 “Come and see a man who has told me all the things that I have done. Is he not the Christ?” - 30 Therefore, they went out of the city and came to him. - 31 Meanwhile, the disciples petitioned him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” - 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat which you do not know.” - 33 Therefore, the disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought him something to eat?” - 34 Jesus said to them: “My food is to do the will of the One who sent me, so that I may perfect his work. - 35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months, and then the harvest arrives?’ Behold, I say to you: Lift up your eyes and look at the countryside; for it is already ripe for the harvest. - 36 For he who reaps, receives wages and gathers fruit unto eternal life, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. - 37 For in this the word is true: that it is one who sows, and it is another who reaps. - 38 I have sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.” - 39 Now many of the Samaritans from that city believed in him, because of the word of the woman who was offering testimony: “For he told me all the things that I have done.” - 40 Therefore, when the Samaritans had come to him, they petitioned him to lodge there. And he lodged there for two days. - 41 And many more believed in him, because of his own word. - 42 And they said to the woman: “Now we believe, not because of your speech, but because we ourselves have heard him, and so we know that he is truly the Savior of the world.” Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of John 4](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/4/) 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. Spotted a wrong date, color or citation? [Report an error](https://blessbible.app/support/#report) and we’ll fix it in the app and here. ## Saint of the day [St. Joseph](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-joseph/) Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary · Feast day March 19 Patron of workers, fathers, and a happy death [Read about St. Joseph](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-joseph/) The day’s Mass celebrates the Third Sunday of Lent. 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