---
title: "Mass Readings for March 24, 2028 (Friday) · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/03/24/
description: "March 24, 2028: Friday of the Third Week of Lent, Year C, Cycle II, violet. Hosea 14:2-10; Psalm 81; Mark 12:28-34. Gospel in the CPDV."
updated: 2026-10-20
---

Friday of the Third Week of Lent · Weekday

# Mass Readings *for Friday, March 24, 2028*

On Friday, March 24, 2028, the Church in the United States keeps Friday of the Third Week of Lent (Cycle II); the liturgical color is violet. The Gospel is Mark 12:28-34.

Updated October 20, 2026

## The liturgical day

Liturgical color

Violet

- **Celebration**: Friday of the Third Week of Lent
- **Season**: Lent · Week 3
- **Rank**: Weekday
- **Sunday cycle**: Year C
- **Weekday cycle**: Cycle II

## Mass readings (US)

### First Reading: Hosea 14:2-10

Read in the CPDV: [Hosea 14](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/14/)

### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 81:6c-8a, 8bc-9, 10-11ab, 14 and 17

Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 81 (80 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/80/)

### Verse before the Gospel: Matthew 4:17

Read in the CPDV: [Matthew 4](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/4/)

### Gospel: Mark 12:28-34

- 28 And one of the scribes, who had heard them arguing, drew near to him. And seeing that he had answered them well, he questioned him as to which was the first commandment of all.
- 29 And Jesus answered him: “For the first commandment of all is this: ‘Listen, O Israel. The Lord your God is one God.
- 30 And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart, and from your whole soul, and from your whole mind, and from your whole strength. This is the first commandment.’
- 31 But the second is similar to it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
- 32 And the scribe said to him: Well said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth that there is one God, and there is no other beside him;
- 33 and that he should be loved from the whole heart, and from the whole understanding, and from the whole soul, and from the whole strength. And to love one’s neighbor as one’s self is greater than all holocausts and sacrifices.”
- 34 And Jesus, seeing that he had responded wisely, said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And after that, no one dared to question him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Mark 12](https://blessbible.app/bible/mark/12/)

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. Oscar Romero](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-oscar-romero/)

Bishop and Martyr · Remembered on March 24

[Read about St. Oscar Romero](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-oscar-romero/)

The day’s Mass is of the weekday (Friday of the Third Week of Lent).

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